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Have a suggestion? Didn't like something? Really want a particular feature? Just wanna chat and maybe show your support? This thread is for that exactly.

Hey! Thank you for stopping by and taking a peep at my little project. So, before we get into it, a few (rather important) disclaimers:

• I am not a game developer nor am I someone who knows how to code. I do not claim to belong to either of these groups because that would be incredibly disrespectful to the people who have spent years learning the craft.
• This game was made entirely with the help of coding agents and LLMs. I have tried my best to avoid using image generative models and attempted to rely on procedural generation instead. However, I do understand that general LLM models and coding agents have likely also been trained on art that did not belong to them and the ideas that they come up with are very likely influenced by it.
• I have used AI for the non-procedurally generated music (Present in the Coast). There was a specific vibe I was looking for and I eventually decided that it was able to come somewhat close to what I was looking for. I have used reference images from Pinterest for inspiration and as a mood board too. Some of the images from pinterest were AI generated.  

There is a very honest and fair (and probably correct) argument to be made against the use of AI in game development, and more specifically, the way I have gone about using it. I know this may seem like an odd thing to say after all the disclaimers I made, but I agree with you. I must also fully confess that I find LLMs and AI-adjacent tools incredibly cool. I was somewhat young when the internet started making its way into mainstream popularity and I remember being fascinated by it too, by how social media came along, how forums transformed and how everything changed. For me, this feels like the second coming of the internet, except I'm a lot older and get to recognize the changes its bringing about on a far deeper level, both the good and bad. I say all this to perhaps convey that, this game represents my journey into learning about both game development and how LLMs can be used, rather than just trying to put something out because I can. I've learned so much about game dev, which represents like 0.01% of actual usable knowledge, and I really did have a lot of fun doing this. I also now have so much more empathy for poorly optimised games. I spent so long trying to get this to run smoothly, and it honestly was such a pain and such a joy to do it. LODs, occlusion culling, lighting, HOW MUCH MATH IS THERE, draw calls, why 16.67ms is such a frustrating number, texels, caches, WHY DOOM ETERNAL IS LITERAL MAGIK, why megatextures are pretty freaking cool, all of this (half) knowledge was because I got to mess around with an LLM and build this for a friend.  

Look, I'm not trying to convince you what I am doing is okay, nor I'm I trying to tell you that LLMs are amazing and you shouldn't be upset. I have no right to police how you feel about something, nor do I really have any moral ground to really stand on. I'm just trying to let you know that this isn't trying to be "AI Slop". I do understand if you want to call it that, and I really can't stop you either. This is something I've found really cool, I've been enjoying the process and the learning that's happening and I hope you won't mind too much.

Thank you for taking the time to read this,
J.

As you play, if you come across any glitches, bugs or find performance isn't the best despite having the hardware to run the game, please let me know! Add as much detail as possible. Here are a list of questions to help with that:

• What kind of issue did you face?
• What you were doing when it happened?
• How consistently/often does it happen?
• what settings you were using? 
• Can you reproduce it reliably?
• If you are able to fix it, what do you do? (e.g. Refresh the browser, Exit to title screen etc.)
• What are your system specifications? 
• What browser were you using?
• Did you have any extensions enabled?

Thank you for your help!