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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards (www.xda-developers.com)
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Clair Obscur won multiple awards but used generative AI art as placeholders during production.

The Indie Game Awards revoked Clair Obscur’s Debut and Game of the Year after the AI disclosure.

IGAs reassigned the awards (Blue Prince, Sorry We’re Closed) and reignited debate on gen-AI use.

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[+] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I heard being a video game developer is easy and fun. Just dicking around all day, never dealing with deadlines, not having to pay a staff $200000 dollars a week with investors down your throat.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    If you're working within such constraints you're not an indie developer and thus not eligible for indie game awards anyway.

    Regardless of that, prompting for AI textures is more work than just popping on a placeholder asset anyway. You're not saving time, particularly not if you don't have a good way to manage what is and isn't placeholder thus have to hunt down all the AI generated placeholders before you hit production.

    It's a waste of time.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes you are. Just small scale. Unless you're working solo and not taking a pay cut development costs are huge. It's amazing how you people will also just inject your own opinion on usefulness. I guess you're just a better artist than everyone on the team. You should start your own studio, you seem to have every skill you need and have mastered the efficient dev process.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Yes, I do speak from the stance of a professional developer. In what fantasy world are you residing in where a small-scale indie studio has the ability to burn nearly $10 million a year on staff alone?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Because games are about the feels. And having crudely drawn dicks doesn’t exactly make QA work easy.

    Also there’s lighting, reflections etc that need that shit to be close to real.

    For the same reason movies use stand-ins to adjust lights and not a can of beans, which would be more fun

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    And having crudely drawn dicks doesn’t exactly make QA work easy.

    This is just simply not true. First, dicks are an HR issue, and second, the sentiment being expressed here is ridiculous. You do not need near-finished assets to test things out.

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