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Sorry if I was too abrasive. As I said in the conclusion of my post, "I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings, and won't hold [using AI] against the creator. I just think its dishonest for the creator to say they created everything." I don't know you, so I have no reason to believe you're not a great human being, and I didn't mean any offense to you. I mostly posted to reply to tamires.tssilva65's question on what was AI generated, from what I could tell. I also thought using generative AI, especially not disclosing its use, was against the spirit of the jam. I do respect you for owning that there was generative AI use. 

Here is the jam rule that seems a little undecided on whether AI is permitted or not by the use of the word "please": "• Games must be entirely made during the jam's duration, and usage of small premade assets must be disclosed and appropriately credited when submitting your game (there will be a question for it). Please don't use AI." Which I interpreted to mean generative AI is not permitted, but stated politely. I don't support the idea that prompting a generative AI is the same as creating something "by hand" in terms of intent or effort. That's why I thought it was disingenuous not disclosing that generative AI was used.

It's hard for me to give feedback on a game that I suspect is mostly AI generated. Is the point of a critique to give feedback on something you've made, or how well an AI model performed at generating something? I don't think it's the latter, at least not in the context of this game jam.  At the very least, the bright vibrant colors looked good, and I like the quirky style of the models. Mixing pigs with every day objects like a toilet was interesting.

I like game jams because I like to solve problems under weird constraints. I don't think any of my jam games are particularly engaging for the players, but I was happy enough with the 10 minute experience I crafted for this jam, and think its worthwhile to play it once. I made a dumb little toy, but it has my finger prints all over it, and I'm proud of that. I've used generative AI before and decided it's not for me for a multitude of reasons. I'm curious what your experience was like using it for this jam. What was the hardest or most interesting problem you faced in making your game?

The most difficult part was implementing the animations in the 3D models, making sure the animations didn't look strange on the character. I'm working on a local multiplayer version of the game, and it's a lot of fun; it even has character selection. When I have a stable version, I'll post it here.