Gallium Studios

Gallium Studios is an independent game development studio based in Berkeley, California, co-founded in 2015 by Will Wright and Lauren Elliott. Its work centers on creator-oriented simulation experiences that use artificial intelligence, personal memories and player creativity to shape interactive worlds. Wright's earlier work includes SimCity, The Sims and Spore, while Elliott co-created Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?.

The studio combines game design with behavioral agent engineering, memory mapping and procedural world generation. Its development capabilities include interactive concept prototyping, gameplay systems, user-generated content tools, graph database design and distributed mobile application architecture. These disciplines support its focus on personalized simulations and AI-driven characters rather than conventional scripted experiences.

Memory-driven simulation

The studio's flagship project was originally announced as Proxi at GDC in 2018. Players recount personal memories and represent them through three-dimensional dioramas assembled from memory objects. AI systems map relationships between those memories to model aspects of the player's subconscious and create an autonomous conversational avatar known as a Proxi.

The official studio website now presents MyMems: your life in rePlay!, powered by Proxi — The Identity Engine, with a target release window in 2027. This work continues the studio's exploration of how personal experience can become the foundation for simulation gameplay, emergent social worlds and virtual self-expression.

Project development

Gallium Studios explored blockchain-based player asset ownership through Forte during 2021–2022. By late 2023, it had shifted away from blockchain and NFTs to concentrate on core gameplay, on-device AI behavioral modeling and data privacy. This change places the emphasis on the simulation itself and the personal information used to build it.

Alongside its memory simulation work, the studio collaborated with Gala Games on VoxVerse, contributing to the design of an interactive voxel metaverse. Both projects are described in the supplied research as being in development.