This is too bad... I am in the same situation. Not everyone needs to know everything and even if we did, we can't do everything by ourselves. What is the difference between an AI and a helper or a friend? After all, we want to make a game and we use an assistant to help us make a game... I am developing a game by myself. Is using AI forbidden in all GameJams?
Thousands of games have been made by people alone before. Solo devs work hard even on their weakest skills to make games.
This is a jam for beginners. You LEARN. You MAKE MISTAKES. You IMPROVE. The skills you’ll learn by making things by yourself will carry over to your next projects, that is the point.
By letting an AI do it for you, you’re missing the goddamn point.
Look at the submissions in this jam. Dozens of games made by first-time devs. Are they perfect? Are they the best thing since sliced bread? Maybe not. But someone put hours of work into learning how to make a fucking game.
‘What’s the difference between a friend helping’ - you’re exchanging ideas and learning together. You’re bonding. Spending quality time together doing something you both enjoy, creating memories. That is the difference. That is something genAI will never be able to replace - the human aspect, the fact that we’re social beings who thrive in the presence of our loved ones.
Do better.
for me the main issue is that i hate coding and never even want to start wasting my life on learning it, and all my games gonna rely on AI code because of that, and its not because im lazy or something, i gladly learn some other things like painting or 3d modeling, that is intresting to me, and writing scripts by myself is not one of that things, i just want to make games and only do parts of process that i like and have patience to learn, and not sit everyday looking at this mess that is code for me
thinking that something sucks means you're lazy, ok but that means that im lazy only in coding, i like everything else in game development and love doing it, i think soccer sucks too but i like to exercise in general, so how does this work? i don't think I'm lazy in general but maybe you're right if not liking to do something that bores you is lazy, but then only lazy in this activity
'i think soccer sucks too but i like to exercise in general, so how does this work?'
By your godawful defensive analogy, you make something in literally any other medium than a coding-based one
Seriously, don't pigeonhole yourself into one medium if you hate one of the most central aspects of creating something in that medium. You're a soccer hater complaining about playing while standing in the middle of the soccer field when you could be doing literally anything else