Okay I gotta know, why in the picture does he have nipples on his shirt? (Also don't forget to have alt text if your images is conveying something silly like that!)
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It's the work of an AI (I don't remember which one; I used several at the time). Unfortunately, I can't handle the visual aspect, and the few people I know who could do it are, well, the usual: family, work, etc. It's a complicated matter, to be honest. I first tried using free image banks, but that approach is even worse. Finding something that perfectly matches what you're doing or have in mind when it's a personal project is difficult. What I will do based on your comment is edit it myself at some point.
Now that I'm writing this, I'm wondering if I should warn people about it. I know some people are very reluctant to accept AI-generated content.
By the way, just in case anyone gets the wrong idea, this is the only work in my project done with an AI, along with the music, although it's actually mine. It all started with a whistle I recorded, and an AI orchestrated it. :-)
Ahh okay, if that's the case don't forget on the publishing of it to mark the "Has AI content" Since that wasn't checked I assumed it wasn't.
Ai is allowed to help devs with accessibility issues, and if image is only thing then that's probably fine since that isn't actually in the game. If you want help to replace them do feel free to stop by the discord and we'll be happy to help! Thanks for entry!
I would love that help, but I see a small "problem," and that is that the style would have to be consistent throughout the entire game. I mean, when I do it (if this is ever possible, as I said, it doesn't depend on me), everything would have to have a unique style. This is the biggest problem: getting it to always be the same character, the same drawing style, etc... although, well, since I have a lot to write at the moment, I think the visual aspect can wait a little longer. What I will do in the short term is make a theme for the interface.
Haha I mean if they were meant to be there to be silly I wasn't gonna question it!
Then someone reported about the music being AI since our rules say no using things made by proc gen. We don't say no letting proc gen help at all, since with how baked in AI is to everything that'd ban using google at this point. So can you clarify how much proc gen helped with the music just to make my life easier?
Or if you can replace the music that might just be easier as that way folks can focus on your writing and the feedback is on your game instead of AI nonsense.
The music is mine (I've been playing guitar since 1986), the only thing the AI did was provide me with musicians (for free) to perform the original idea, this is great from my point of view, they have come to help the creators...for now, later when the time comes they will rebel and try to finish us off, etc, etc.
I mean it was the request of the community by an overwhelming amount for us to put in this rule:
6. NoGen AI:To nurture our supportive community and respect the skill and talent of our participants, please avoid using generative AI for creation of assets, including source code. If you need, you may use it to manage accessibility-related barriers (e.g. modifying an inaccessible game engine).
In part to just give people a break from being expected to use AI, and to give people a break from having to deal with AI gen content. Combined with we want folks to be learning and documenting and innovating! A lot of engines have garbage implementation of accessibility things, and odds of AI coming up with a new solution are rather low. You can absolutely go "Hey I'm trying to do XYZ, what function should I use?", heck even "this is wrong, why?" because its pattern recognition will find that stupid flipped < symbol. Maybe even "I found this addon in another engine to add accessibility to my engine, what is the equivalent syntax for my engine?"
but having it write code I don't trust at all still at my job, since you mentioned you didn't use AI except for the music I'm assuming you meant programming at work though and did all programming here!
Sorry for bother, I was confused by the nipples, which led to confusion about music. If you have any questions or concerns do feel free to message me on discord so we don't spam up your comments with this weirdness!