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Wow. I am actually *angry*.

Was 100% of this (including the posting) done by an AI?

Your asset looks nothing like your preview. 

Your "assets" look like someone else's assets but then a grid was drawn on them. It's the kind of stuff that gets made when you tell an AI how video game art is used, and then it kinda almost understands it.


If this was a first pass, I'd think, "OK. Well...they're new." But you have a "development log" and stuff, as though this was not just a first-pass from asking an AI to make it. And then, when you looked at the unusable raster file, you said "Yeah I'm posting that."

Like...what is even the point of putting this out there? Do you think we can't tell what art needs to go into a project? 


I am surrounded by artists in my real life. I care about artists getting good feedback. But I am also used to artists that struggle to make their own art. And this doesn't even look like a struggle to tell the AI to make your art. 

If you have art in you that you want to get out there, fine. Do that. Don't let a comment like this bother you.

But I am not getting that vibe. I am seeing what feels like Chinese AI content flooding, and that there's not even a person behind this to get offended.

Let me know if so. I'll take this comment down or edit it or something. But I don't think any humans were involved in this post.

Hey jerryjrowe — I appreciate the blunt honesty, seriously.

You're right that AI tools were involved in parts of this project — I won't pretend otherwise. I'm an indie dev learning the craft, and I leaned on AI assistance for the blog copy and some of the visual work. That's on me to be transparent about.

But the feedback about the assets not matching the preview is the one that stings most, because it's valid. The tile grid doesn't render cleanly at the preview resolution and I should have caught that before publishing. I'm going to fix the preview images and clean up the asset files.

I'm not flooding content — there's one human behind this account, trying to ship something useful while still learning. The dev log was my attempt to document that process, even if the execution wasn't there yet.

I apologize for my inexperienced work, and I am posting free content until I get it right!

No need to take the comment down. It's fair criticism and I'd rather address it than hide it.