"Clair Obscur stripped of awards over AI use."
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"Indie Game Awards" (NOT "The Game Awards") then proceeded to disqualify another game because it had ties to a company they don't like.
NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST. Let them burn in insignificance, if they're going to be that petty.
Keep in mind, they took their insignificant award from Expedition 33 and gave it to Blue Prince, another indie game that also admitting to using AI.
Not only are they not worth listening to, they're also more inept than we gave them credit for. And that bar was already incredibly low.
I don’t like it. AI is cheaper and could be a huge boon to Indy games.
It would probably be an even bigger boon to jeet scams. Steam's crapware problem is bad enough without Sundar using AI to make the malware he swiped from his chink buddy look like a presentable game on the storefront.
Unfortunately, whether games qualify for awards or not doesn't affect the situation you described.
I'm just addressing the larger point of AI being a net positive to the industry. I've yet to see it be good for anything but entertainment, but I suppose it may have some hope of replacing artists and voice actors if decent enough models become reasonably accessible to the average indie developer. There's no "if" or "may" when it comes to jeet scams. They're already using AI for that purpose in other contexts.
And yet they're not targeting the shovelware with this.
If I ever make a game, I am going to do my level best to never hire a voice actor. After all of their crowing "Learn to Code" when all the industries of my state shut down, I want nothing more for them than for them to be eating out of dumpsters and living in cardboard boxes for the rest of their lives.
Walk up to them, push them away and say "Sorry, the dumpster salvage rights are already provided exclusively to the possums, racoons and crows under the Joint Animal Friendship Treaty. Leave now before I call security."
Was it explicitly stated in the nomination criteria that the use of generative AI would disqualify entry, or is this just a political move because the 'creative class' is in open revolt against it?
On a placeholder texture. That slipped through QA. That was replaced with the correct texture 5 days after release.
Why is the "inidie" sphere made of such insufferable faggots?
This is retarded. I'm not a huge fan of AI, but I'm also not one of the fanatical haters. If the game was good enough to win awards, and no one even knew there was any AI used...eh? Whatever?
The only rationale I can think of, outside of the obvious liberal virtue signaling, is the "plagiarism" angle; where AI gets its information from somewhere, meaning other people's work. It's still just kind of how things go, though. Mainly, it seems like butthurt "artists" and the like whining, though.
And AI lowers various barriers to entry, meaning more people can create games. That seems like a win. We'll get some trash games, but some good games we wouldn't have gotten too.
AI mostly generates slop that theoretically I should disdain, but it makes all of the people I hate frothing mad, so I'm willing to pretend to like it just for that.
AI music has been better than EVERYTHING that has come out in the last decade (from what little of it I've listened to).
The AI blues and country renditions of popular songs blows any modern music out of the water.
it makes people who produce even worse slop frothing mad. its an improvement no matter how you look at it.
if you always do the opposite of what your enemy superficially appears to want then he ends up controlling you anyway.
it's also not an indie game by any retarded stretch of the imagination
Wasn't the "indie game awards" that bunch of libtards with a bunch of diversity categories?
These things usually are but I can't speak for this specific award.
Opposition to AI for game assets (or in general) is purely red vs blue political, none of the people who shriek and wail about it are actually expressing an opinion deeper than "we hate right wingers".
There's also a healthy dose of "dey took err jerbs!!!"
It's different because foreigners actually did steal good jobs from normal people, while generative AI just circumvents the existing tranny/furry art cartel that would be charging hundreds of dollars to draw revolting fetish art or ugly garbage.
I used AI once to try and generate a couple of my characters for the fun of it. I saw some details I liked in the generations and incorporated them the next time I refined their designs. Would I be excommunicated for using AI concept art in the creation process?
Yes, you should’ve paid a talentless tranny to make that concept art for you.
This is where 99% of the screaming about AI comes from, either trannies or their allies who are enraged that you can just generate a character for free in 5 seconds instead of trying to throw $200 at them to get a much uglier and worse version and failing because they're having a "mental health crisis".
A mental health crisis that prevents them from working for six months, and they still try to keep the money.
Nailed it.
It also allows technical types who are more engineering focused (think John Carmack) to allow AI to do a lot of the artistic heavy lifting for them. This should -- theoretically -- help bridge the workflow for guys who know their way around a great coding library but have little in the way of artistic skills.
Having AI generate 2D sprite sheets, animation cells, or character templates can greatly increase the speed of development of some games.
It's an inevitability, despite what the Rainbow Reich would lead people to believe. Hilariously the news is now spreading that Expedition 33 was made for less than 10 million, and it looks, runs, and plays better than all of the AAA slop released this year.
As smaller teams make use of generative pipelines to speed up production, there is going to be a massive divide in the quantity of quality titles coming from small studios making proper use of AI. The only ones who will be left doing things the "old way" are those spending Concord-levels of product budgets on faggot-filled slop for a modern audience that doesn't exist.
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These stupid "awards" are just narcissistic self-aggrandizing events. They are not awarded on merit but on identity. Absolute woke feminist trash.