Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

• warm@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How have we all forgotten that games were made perfectly fine for decades without AI? Better games even.

  I'd rather give an award to a "worse" game that didnt use AI, than to a game that did.

  Devs can lie, but the truth always comes out eventually.

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  • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “the truth” being that a few generated placeholder textures were accidentally left in and promptly replaced? crazy

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why didnt they just buy placeholder textures?

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A willingness to play with Sauron’s One Ring is a signal that they’re not all that bothered about playing with Sauron’s One Ring.

      Did you know that most domestic abuse cases don’t actually start with some guy beating his future wife on their first date? That kind of behavior builds up over time.

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      • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        A stance that is perfectly relatable in 2025, but not as much when Expedition 33 was in early development.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Then most just won’t go on the Game Awards, and devs will go on using Cursor or whatever they feel comfortable with in their IDE setup.

    I’m all against AI slop, but you’re setting an unreasonably absolute standard. It’s like saying “I will never use any game that was developed in proximity to any closed source software.” That is possible, technically, but most people aren’t gonna do that. It’s basically impossible on a larger team. Give them some slack with the requirement; it’s okay to develop on Windows or on Steam, just open the game’s source.

    Similarly, let devs use basic tools. Ban slop from the end product.

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cool, dont accept awards then. Its not the be all and end all.

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Games were made by a single person not sleeping for a week.

    But people expect more now and one person can’t do it fueled just by passion. The other people want to get paid now, not when the game is released.

    Limiting the tools people can use to make games is ableist, elitist and just stupid.

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    • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Theyre not limiting their tools, they’re limiting some awards they could win when they created real art.

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No no. The rules didn’t say “art” it was ALL AI use for the whole duration of the project. Planning, emails, research everything.

        Not a single drop of AI is allowed.

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