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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by oneeyedpigeon on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:32AM (#46343488)
I agree that this holds in theory, but in practice? All the overhyping of AI I've heard from the gaming sector has come from the big studios, not indies. And, as you point out, Clair Obscur isn't the 'most indie' of indies anyway.
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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by theshrike79 on Sunday December 21, 2025 @07:09AM (#46344233)
Maybe the small studios just use it as a tool and don’t need to hype it to make it look good for stock holder interests.
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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by PunchyHamster on Sunday December 21, 2025 @09:09AM (#46344966)
That's what semi-recent whining about Larian saying they use AI was about. They just use it to cut some of the boring work and iterate over some ideas, once the idea is in stone actual artist does it.

I don't see the problem because it isn't cutting more artists out of the loop, if anything they get more of the meaningful work

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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by theshrike79 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @02:31AM (#46363223)
The best quote I've heard about this is: "Replace tasks not jobs".

Use AI to automate the boring shit so you can focus on the stuff that matters.

That throwaway texture that's on one model in the tutorial doesn't need days of focused work, so have the AI whip something up. Now your artist has two extra days for key art that's more visible.

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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by Mkengin on Sunday December 21, 2025 @08:25AM (#46344670)
It doesn't have to be hyped to be used, for example today I found these two building their passion project using GenAI, which would otherwise maybe not possible, who knows: https://reddit.com/comments/1prqfsu
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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by JKCalhoun on Sunday December 21, 2025 @08:28AM (#46344694)
Who is hyping the technology doesn't seem to be too relevant. Big studios have a bigger megaphone and, as another has pointed out, possibly even a financial motivation for shouting it from the rooftops for their investors to hear.
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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by armchairhacker on Sunday December 21, 2025 @02:44PM (#46347684)
Maybe next year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297348

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