I have made a couple of games with AI. My kid was in hospital, I couldn’t sleep. I had a couple of massive projects running that I absolutely could not hold focus on, and so I knocked up a reimagining of an old Amiga game called ECO, and a RPG shooter that has a few nods to Dragon Heroes: Shooter RPG. Had a few people play it and they think I should sell it, but I’m very aware it’s just two more data points in a sea of “slop”. Does it matter they were made with love? They were therapeutic and got me through a rough time? Does it matter that they were both games I missed, not because they were good exactly, but their mechanisms were different and not well covered by modern games, so I tweaked and I poked and I can’t draw for shit or compose so I let the AI do that. So, no matter how much I care, they are worthless in the eyes of a lot of folks here - I can code a bit, I absolutely couldn’t have done these without AI. I’m not going to sell them - but if you think me resurrecting long dead concepts with the shit bits taken out to bring a smile to me and my kids is some crime against joy, and identical to massive studios that put profits before the enjoyment of the very people they are supposed to serve - you can fuck right off. I will take a shitty, cobbled together indie concept riddled with AI and heart over some of the most (hand made), cynical profiteering shit that the AAAs were pumping out a couple of years ago, and will continue to pump out but with AI added.

The thing that reflects on the gaming industry is the big guys keep forgetting about the game.