AI pixel art.

[GarnetCrowAX]

I just bought the game, and fired it up. during the story intro I noticed the art seemed strange. I restarted the game and took a really hard look at those backgrounds in the intro.

The more I looked at them the less sense they made. They just don't make physical sense.

I am fairly certain it's all AI "artwork".

The disclosure on the store page says AI was used as an assistant, but everything finished by hand. I am not so sure this is the case.

[Bascael]

dont know why ppl always complaining bout stuff like that same story as always if game is good who cares ? enjoy it or ditch it brother i get your point dont get me wrong but its just a game

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by GarnetCrowAX:

I just bought the game, and fired it up. during the story intro I noticed the art seemed strange. I restarted the game and took a really hard look at those backgrounds in the intro.

The more I looked at them the less sense they made. They just don't make physical sense.

I am fairly certain it's all AI "artwork".

The disclosure on the store page says AI was used as an assistant, but everything finished by hand. I am not so sure this is the case.

The sprites appear to be created from the sprite template and/or using assets created by Jason Perry of Finalbossblues.

Jason posted several packs of free graphics and some templates to be used, many with no strings attached. Then he also sells sprite packs and then may accept commissions for patrons.

Couldn't say about the other things / haven't seen them yet.

[Skoll]

just cause you don't like something does not make it AI do some research before you talk next time. I hate seeing this these days people just yap without doing any research. There are few and far between ai sprite models and tweeking it to get it looking half decent would take more time than just drawing the stuff yourself and it would not look as good as what is in this game. These sort of posts remind me of children who call bland food spicy no real concept of what spicy is but they know they don't have to finish the plate if the food is "spicy" so they end up using it every time they don't like a food.

[DPA. Capitan Salchicha de Pollo]

As the description says, I used AI to help me but I finished everything myself. I'm a solo developer with no budget and an office job, so I used AI to translate texts and help me with some images, (mainly the photoshop tool to fill in some elements) but if you're thinking I asked a generative AI to "make me some pixel art loading screens" that's not the case. And yes, I did buy some sprites.

[Gearhart]

Dev your game is fun don't worry about some random ass hat your a solo dev and if using ai to assist you gets your product out then so be it. It's not like your a huge AAA developer and trying to cut costs to make money by taking jobs away from people.

[Cipher]

There's literally a message on the game's page telling you that AI was used in the making of the game as Steam requires devs to disclosed if AI is being used in the games. Although that should make Call of Duty ineligible to continue to be on Steam given the blatant AI slop they've been passing off over the pass couple of months that they've been getting called out on by the community.

[Even in your multiplayer!]

Literally was going to buy this before I saw the AI disclaimer.

[Nil]

Originally posted by GarnetCrowAX:

I just bought the game, and fired it up. during the story intro I noticed the art seemed strange. I restarted the game and took a really hard look at those backgrounds in the intro.

The more I looked at them the less sense they made. They just don't make physical sense.

I am fairly certain it's all AI "artwork".

The disclosure on the store page says AI was used as an assistant, but everything finished by hand. I am not so sure this is the case.

If the game is good, who cares.

[asapa]

Originally posted by DPA. Capitan Salchicha de Pollo:

As the description says, I used AI to help me but I finished everything myself. I'm a solo developer with no budget and an office job, so I used AI to translate texts and help me with some images, (mainly the photoshop tool to fill in some elements) but if you're thinking I asked a generative AI to "make me some pixel art loading screens" that's not the case. And yes, I did buy some sprites.

Screw the haters, I'm willing to say that this game is better than POE2 hands down as-is currently.

Took me 200+ hours of trying to give POE2 a chance(reached atlas end game, tried different classes), then finally realizing its just not a good game.

I don't need to spend 200+ hours on this game to see if it's worth playing or a "good" game. It's just a solid fun ARPG and you can tell that it has a game developer who CARES and is PASSIONATE about their work.

Any amount of time I've spent on this game has been a better experience than POE 2.


Thank you!

[󠀡]

Originally posted by Even in your multiplayer!:

Literally was going to buy this before I saw the AI disclaimer.

Ok? the game is really good. You're missing out but no one is gonna care you didnt bu ythe game.

[Master Zone]

Bro, its a solo Dev... Why treat this the same as a 500 man team?

[Adenrius]

I see no problem with a solo developer using AI personally, as long there is no drop in quality.

[Tydorius]

Originally posted by DPA. Capitan Salchicha de Pollo:

As the description says, I used AI to help me but I finished everything myself. I'm a solo developer with no budget and an office job, so I used AI to translate texts and help me with some images, (mainly the photoshop tool to fill in some elements) but if you're thinking I asked a generative AI to "make me some pixel art loading screens" that's not the case. And yes, I did buy some sprites.

I'm fine with the use of AI by solo devs, but stating that AI wasn't used for image generation seems false. Unless you bought these - In which case you need to get your money back because whoever sold them to you blatantly used AI.

While some images are possibly human-made, the image used for the intro screen "In the heart of this society ... everything behind." has the signs of AI generation. It's not the weird Luddite speculation you see on the anti-ai subreddits, it's legitimate "This was done by AI and not a human" -

The objects and their placement are nonsensical
* Couch with its back against the fireplace
* Dozens of randomly-sized lanterns
* More fireplaces embedded into the wall - I think I count seven as well as several photos/paintings of fireplaces

There is no consistency in style
* the vanishing points for the object on the left and right are completely misaligned
* The styles of each support along the ceiling are off and use a different set of vanishing points
* There's some weird stuff in the walls, the fireplace in the center-left seems to fade into a wall with other paintings, etc.

Either way, I bought the game and I'm playing it. I just want the dev to know if they bought those sprites they bought AI art instead of human-made art.

[TypicalTom]

I get that if you're a non-artist solo dev AI image generation can be quite tempting. But I would rather look at your poorly drawn, heartfelt scribbles than effortless AI slop.
I'm sorry, I just can't get past it.

[Mahuloq]

Ai slop needs to stay away from games. What started as Horse Armor has now morphed into the MTX hellscape we have today. 10 years from now when games are produced with nothing but AI and a human production manager and the entire soul of art is sucked away because of efficiency and cutting corners you will wonder how we got there.

Its crazy that with all of our advancements in production all the cost/time savings just seem to get shuffled off.

Sorry Dev, dont be part of the slide towards total AI art replacement.