The dev has openly said they were originally AI generated. But I believe the new ones are hand edited by an Itch user named stalnoyhui who had posted some edits similar to this a few days ago on the main page's comments board if you go look. He had offered to edit the photos saying "I can hand edit these for you to look like this."
That’s right, I’ve often times explained the process of generating the photos with AI and overpainting them. I’ve also marked this game on itch.io as using GenerativeAI for Graphics.
I’m only deleting spam comments like “ai shit”. All other dialogs and questions are welcome.
I’m currently getting support from multiple people on this project. Some great minds that have helped me with migrating to a new model and also created some assets. You’ll see much more of that in future updates.