Angry Birds itself was sufficiently fresh and well made so people liked it.

But it wasn’t really original in a true sense.

One of the most appreciated games in nerd culture currently is the new Baldur’s Gate. It’s extremely well made, but not really original.

Factorio or The Witness would be games that are both original and have been made with great technical and artistic care. But how many of these are made in comparison to genre games and mashups?

I don’t think these tools are necessarily a hindrance to create good games. Tools are just tools.

The question is not about a game’s freshness. The question is wether procedural generators such as chatgpt can generate something truly new or is limited to its plagiarised parameters - which seems to be the case.

> Angry Birds itself was sufficiently fresh and well made so people liked it.

'Crush The Castle' was an earlier Flash game with the same mechanics as Angry Birds. Angry Birds just gave it appealing characters and visuals.

+1 for this especially for anything other than CRUD or an already exciting game like Angry Birds where the first GitHub searches will return several results