question: why can we not use ai for visuals? And to what extent can I use ai? Like no use for brainstorming, prototyping, planning, or concept art? Also why doesn’t AI count as a tool? I personally use ai to get rough drafts for me to draw over and for me to animate later. I’m not quite sure why can’t use the same tools as we would to release a game on steam for example. I understand if it’s to not exclude artists from competition but it’s not like ai can replace artists without being obvious anyways seeing as you still need to animate repaint everything because it doesn’t use a your palette. Also for single devs like me who doesn’t have much time to work on a game I really dont want to waste a talented artist’s time because I can only work a say 2 hours a day on the game and especially since it’s my first jam I don’t know if there will even be a finished game at the end. Sorry for being a tad long winded it just had me confused
The legality and ethics around using AI generated content is questionable, this is more for like visuals like I don’t care that much if you use github copilot, but AI generated imagery is legally questionable and also tends to lower the spirits of artists putting huge amounts of effort into their projects. I can’t stop you from brainstorming or prototyping with it, but it shouldn’t be in the final game. I’m a solo dev too and I’m not great at art, but I always prefer making my own even where I’m inexperienced since a game jam is an opportunity to improve and get better at your art.
I believe itch.io is a place to express your creativity and capabilities. Personally I think using AI for anything is published here, just beats the original purpose.
What comes to mind whenever this topic comes around is:
- Why use AI here? Are you trying to win popularity/money?
- Are you not capable of publishing a game prototype with the mindset of “this is not a AAA game”?
- Are you incapable of producing any product by your own?
I’m not trying to make money. What I’m trying to do is make a fun video game using the tools that I will like need to use when working for a major company. For better or worse I personally don’t see a world where the use of AI isn’t majorly used in this industry so I just want to mess around with it to learn about it. That’s just my opinion though and you have the right to yours as well but you don’t need to assume someone means the worst when they ask a question about rules