Re:Indie Game Development with AI
by lofaszvanitt on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:22AM
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Everyone is using AI in the gaming industry. What you gonna do now?
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Not everyone, quit with the doomer propaganda.
There is in the indie scene a large group of people and studios that refuse to adopt it, and proudly advertise this fact. In fact it might turn out to be the very thing that separates ‘indie’ from everything else. And as a player of indie games, I actively steer away from games who have been created through AI assistance, as far as it is possible to tell.
Re:Indie Game Development with AI
by lofaszvanitt on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:55AM
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And there is no way to verify it in any way.
It doesn't really matter because in practice, the people who use AI seem to be the type not afraid to admit it, and the people who don't use AI hate it personally so they are usually honest about it. Unlike commercial advertising, there really isn't a great benefit to lying about AI use.
[citation needed]
Re:Indie Game Development with AI
by lofaszvanitt on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:56AM
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Common sense. Except maybe most of the graphical artists, but coders, with common engines like UE? Surely.
Re:Indie Game Development with AI
by fallingbananna on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:47AM
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Stop playing games. Just like I stopped reading AI generated blogs.
Although that won't happen. There will always be some people passionate to create amazing and fun experiences.
Play older games until there is a robust community to identiy human-made art. Enough of those old games to last a lifetime if society doesn't stop eating its own tail before then.
Play more old games. Classic games. I've been playing a lot of old Nintendo games through and emulator and there's a genuine quality to them not in the slop we see today.
We've created so many cool things in the past that there's plenty of things to enjoy now that weren't tainted with AI.