I wanted to to make a PoC (Proof of Concept) to show genuinely good and original use of AI in gaming.
I found a gameplay loop that requires the user to understand what was meant by a generated image, and the main gameplay element is to argue something, to have real language-based interactions.
I think in some ways it is achieving some of the vision from the old interactive fiction games.
I understand the AI fatigue, as almost all of the proposed uses of AI in gaming are generally either random generation (in other words, procedural generation but worse) or 'better replies from NPC'. Neither solve any problem people really have. And probably more importantly, the other use is for mega-corporations to hire less competent programmers/artists.
Unfortunately being tied to the AI calls poses a lot of issues with distribution, which is annoying for what was supposed to be a glorified PoC. I'm still finishing the backend to comply with Steam's review (which does not really match their guidelines...)