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etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Meh - sounds like they saved some money by not going heavy into custom assets.

Seems like for a first pass at an indie game you should use asset packs and/or Gen AI. If the game has legs - you make another pass with a bigger investment into it.

Obviously if you enjoy the asset/model/whatever aspect then delve deeper into it.

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peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah, I don’t know how I feel about celebraing an indie dev deleting their game while the biggest games such as arc raiders succeed despite overt ai use that actually displaces voice actors at the company.

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- HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The developer gives a pretty decent reason for the deletion, imo:
  
  "I have realized the AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment," Rakuel wrote. "Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit[s] no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people," he continued.
  
  There's nothing he can do about Arc Raider's success, but taking ownership of what he did, I gotta say, respect.
  
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  - LwL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I would never judge anyone for using AI to fill in the parts they need to realize their project vision that they otherwise simpy couldn’t (without putting in a lot more effort into a thing they probably don’t really enjoy), but doing this is still a statement and pretty cool to do.
    
    Not that I’ll ever be motivated enough to actually finish a project, but I’ve thought about the art aspect of making a game, and eventually figured if I’d need to commission more than I can afford, I’d be morally fine with genAI if the game is either free or I use a large portion of profits (if there are any lol) to hire artists to gradually replace the art.
    
    Though I also refuse to give a single cent to all the companies profiting off this so any image gen I’ll ever do will be local on my pc (or for free on some service, I guess).
    
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    HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I don't think you deserve this many down votes for this take, but I'll provide a counterpoint. Not being able to afford a real artist is not as large a barrier as you think.
    
    Balatro's music was created by Spanish musician Luis Clemente, known online as LouisF, after developer LocalThunk hired them on Fiverr in 2023.
    
    https://balatrowiki.org/w/Music
    
    And here it is being played at the Game Awards.
    
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