Edit: the creators have kindly agreed to remove all art using gen-AI, so the game is now requalified. Thank you for going to the effort!
Hi Ben, Jay and Rich,
Thank you for submitting to the Havoc Engine jam.
We noticed that your game uses some AI-generated art. The jam's rules don't allow AI-generated art to be submitted.
Unfortunately, as the game stands we will have to disqualify it for this jam. This is a real shame because your game is both very impressive and obviously a work of love, and the game's artist can obviously make fantastic art without the use of generative AI.
Our general stance is that we literally always prefer to see an imperfect human-made sketch to a shiny AI-generated image. Generative AI is a labour issue; our stance against it as a company is a strategic one, to fight against the ways it's increasingly used to devalue the work of writers and artists in our industry. One of the books we're currently publishing, Grossi Orchi Gay, was initially illustrated with AI by its author and is now illustrated with his extremely charming biro doodles, and it's about twice as characterful.
If you would like to remain in the jam, we would ask that you remove all AI-generated art from the submitted game. We're aware it's a hard thing to do on a deadline - if it's not something you're interested in doing, no hard feelings on our end, we just won't keep it in the jam.
Kind regards,
Jim