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That A is missing two Ls after it.

Was absolutely interested in trying this game out but after finding out they used ai in its development I will never touch this game or any game from them that uses Ai in its development ever

I hate it here

lol

B-BETRAYAL

Maybe, probably, yeah I can never find a firm answer on whether there's royalties, that matters a lot. Either way it's an objectively bad idea while this shit's totally unregulated so I'm in agreement lol, but it is fundamentally different from E33. basically TTS (Arc Raiders) vs genAI (E33)

Consent just means its in the contract, it doesnt mean they like it, but they had to to get paid. Doesn't make it better because as its unregulated theres nothing to really protect them from scummy contracts.

Anything that uses AI is using stolen content, because even if they feed content they paid for into the model, it was built using stolen content in the first place. The industry has said repeatedly that actually paying for training data would bankrupt them.

Still bad, still AI, fuck 'em.

There's a mistake in the article : The Debut Game award recipient is called "Sorry We're Closed" and not "We're Closed"

I would like to think that they were forced to use it by meddling managers

No one reads the actual articles, just the headline

your onsite comment section has really gone to shit, damn.

There's a simple solution for not shipping with place holders, something that's been done for years before the slop to make sure it doesn't happen...

All me homies hate the AI

Serves them right, I hope use of AI remains an automatic disqualification

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If you read the article you'd know that the dev lied to the the people running the show about using GenAI, and then the dev brought it up the day of the award show Your comment is just assuming the worst on the part of the event team, when the dev is at fault

I feel sorry for the genuine talent at Sandfall who were unaware of this crap happening under their noses and are now associated with this. Sure it’s easy to point blame at Sandfall, but I personally point equal blame to the techbros for poisoning the industry with this crap.

very satisfying!

They said as much like 6 months back, not a blurb back then. They win the awards, humiliate the AAAs out there, suddenly there are stories everywhere and 'they were hiding it' all fueled by these suck-up sites. It's only a conspiracy, if they aren't out to get you.

Proof that people will complain about anything.

Can we have, like, ONE DAY without a company using AI.

even as placeholder?

This is about generative AI.

Look, I agree that using AI as shorthand for Gen AI is a big issue but the article uses gen AI in the title. Context clues are your friend in this instance. I think most video game players understand the difference so I'm not even sure what your point is

No, its called AI but they rely on simple code. You dont know what youre talking about.

Congratulations for buying in to the tech Bros obfuscation as to what exactly AI is. The complex code that determines NPC function in a game is not the AI that is currently being pushed. They are two completely different beasts.

Brain smooth like grape.

Good they deserve to lose all of them

This is why using ai for “placeholder” assets is so terrible. This is why using neon green textures that say “REPLACE ME” and lorem ipsum text is infinitely more practical.

Not gonna die on this hill but I see you

Disappointed I bought this game.

Also: www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/a-f...

Still, the award has a no gen"AI" during development rule, they submitted the game despite having used gen"AI" during development. Irregardless of justified criticism of the awards and their BTS, rescinding the awards is in line with the rules and Sandfall deliberately lied about it beforehand.

It’s like the oscars that mean nothing lol

The game awards are not affected. The INDIE game awards were the one which got the balls to do the right thing.

Would that make E33 first ever game to have its awards taken away like this? (Gen AI or otherwise) If so, then that’s is going to damage Sandfall’s reputation in the long run.

Don't worry, I think we can absolutely trust the company that shipped a game with uncited AI textures when they say they got rid of all of the AI textures

Not surprising since they left one AI Gen slop assists and they patch it out after launch 💀

Just say your brain is atrophying damn

Good. AI sucks.

what, exactly, do you think the purpose of calling something 'indie' is?

So if Ea paid one guy to make a small cheap game that would be an indie title?

It's true that they happened to have *a lot of money*, because of how successful Hollow Knight was, but that's a very different thing from a game produced by a corporation with investment having a budget

There shouldn't be a "best indie game", it's usually used to create two levels that allow them to nominate less "indie" games to the big awards. Just like what the Oscar do to animated movies.