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Smilegate Hope Studio Starts AI Game Creation Workshop for Seongnam Youth

AI NewsWave | Oct 20, 2026, 11:45 KST | Based on 5 Korean news reports

Key points

Smilegate Hope Studio is launching "Our Neighborhood Player," an AI creation workshop for Seongnam youth, together with the Seongnam Arts and Culture Foundation. Digital Today and iNews24 reported that this was announced on Oct. 20.

According to Inven, youth and young mentors will form teams and make games using AI for six weeks starting Nov. 6. Participants go through a process of finding material in everyday spaces and completing the narrative and art, among other things.

Digital Today reported that the workshop will include 20 teenagers from the after-school academy at the Jeongja Youth Center of the Seongnam Youth and Young Adult Foundation, along with software and AI majors, among others. Betanews introduced the program as one designed so that young people can build future skills with AI and a creative environment can spread within the region.

Kukmin Ilbo reported that young mentors took part in the workshop orientation held at the Seongnam Arts and Culture Foundation on the 16th.

Sources (in Korean)

Compiled by AI NewsWave from facts confirmed across the Korean reports above. Translated from the Korean version.