Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
So Clair Obscur, the game that absolutely won game of the year, lost due to a technicality.
The generative AI use everyone is pearl clutching about would be textures. As in things that have been procedurally generated (you don’t actually care what they look like, they are just there to smooth out wrinkles) for years.
As someone who hates AI, this is just fucking stupid. Like, you are a virtue signaling luddite if you believe that this usage of AI tarnishes the rest of the fucking game.
kromem@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not even that. It was placeholder textures, only the “newspaper clippings” of which was forgotten to be removed from the final game and was fixed in an update shortly after launch.
None of it was ever intended to be used in the final product and was just there as lorum ipsum equivalent shit.
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maybe this will be a warning to other game companies not to use AI assets at all.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
If anything it’s probably incentive to lie about AI usage. They got more publicity for being snubbed than winning.