Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away over AI use

Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by PunchyHamster on Sunday December 21, 2025 @09:05AM (#46344928)

> Whatever placeholder you use is part of your development process, whether it ships or not. Saying they used none when they did is not cool and rightfully makes one wonder what other uses they may be hiding (or “forgetting”). Especially when apparently they only clarified it when it was too late.

If it was malicious they wouldn't say a word. They probably interpreted the rule as "nothing in shipped game is AI" (which is reasonable interpreteation IMO), they implemented policy to replace any asset made by AI and just missed some texture.

Also the term was pretty vague, like, is using automatic lipsync forbidden ? That's pretty much generative AI, just the result is not picture but a sequence of movements.

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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by queenkjuul on Sunday December 21, 2025 @12:12PM (#46346313)

Malicious or not, they didn't follow the rules, and admitted as much. So why is it a problem they lose the award?

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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by latexr on Sunday December 21, 2025 @03:53PM (#46348311)

> If it was malicious they wouldn't say a word.

They didn’t have a choice, it was obvious it was AI. They might still have other places where they used it but it’s harder to notice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344279

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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by halJordan on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:49PM (#46358129)

You're only saying that because it's a witch-hunt. These sorts of oversights are routinely made and forgiven daily at all levels of society. Citi regularly sends millions of dollars to wrong accounts and then says "my bad, give it back" and no one bats an eye.

But some ai gen'd placeholders beak through and suddenly we're all about punishing an oversight?

That's the definition of a witch hunt, and it's past time we admit it.

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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by davidjytang on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:50PM (#46358891)

> That's the definition of a witch hunt

You gave examples of a witch hunt. Not definition.

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Re:Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away o... by gamblor956 on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:30PM (#46362137)

It's literally not the definition of a witch hunt. They weren't hunting for AI use in E33 or other nominees. Sandfall was stripped of the award because it admitted to using AI after the fact, despite pledging that no AI tools had been used *at any point of the development process.

Sandfall opened themselves up to this when they accepted the nomination knowing the rules for this particular award prohibited AI use of any kind.

Note that there is also now a discussion about how much AI was used to design the enemies as well, given the rather bizarre appearances of many of them enemies in the latter portions of the game.

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