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1666: Amsterdam, made by a team including 'over a dozen talented and experienced artists', used AI images all through its reveal (aftermath.site)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Definitely agree that its the "oh, how did this happen?" that is hugely problematic.

They either knew they were rolling with AI assets, or they are so disorganized to not have known there were AI assets shipping. Either one offers players a good reason to think the game will be shit and/or misrepresented.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    It literally takes 10 seconds to come up with a strategy that can detect whether internal preview assets are in use. They don't bother because they are lazy.

    game_mode=alpha placeholder assets are allowed

    game_mode=beta placeholder assets are allowed, warning issues during build

    game_mode=production build fails for any remaining placeholder assets

    Even enterprise fucking Java has plugins that can accomplish the above with cascading resource lookups and support for build plugins, I don't see how a game engine or custom build could not do such a simple task.

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