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Excommunicated devs making games with AI

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Re: Excommunicated devs making games with AI

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Well as long as they keep labelling it as AI so I can avoid buying it, we’re all good.

If you buy a game and can't tell it's made with AI, isn't that just as good?

Let me know if you ever find out!

Re: Excommunicated devs making games with AI

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Totally! I'm sick of not being able to see what tools they use. In fact, I feel that we should also start tagging devs that use an IDE instead of properly coding games in notepad.

Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand

I'd accept punch cards.

Re: Excommunicated devs making games with AI

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>I mean all the major hurdles of making a game aren't really helped much by AI... I have been using Claude Code to develop a game in unreal engine. It is fricking amazing. Its like hiring someone with 10 years experience to work for you. I am really impressed by how it know game patterns. >It definitely doesn't get anything visual right really. Sometimes it struggles to things things right visually, other times it na…

Did you mean gpt-image-1.5? (the Gemini models are Imagen or NB)

yes, we are using gpt-image-1.5

Re: Excommunicated devs making games with AI

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I am excited about game dev with AI, but the games you posted are kind of a joke. My kids made similar games with Claude code in js. Was hoping to see some serious indie games, but these looked pretty terri-bad. Is anyone building the next SimCity, Civilization, etc.?

There is a civilization ai game funded by ycombinator
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