As someone with a game collection so large I won’t able to finish in two lifetimes, game art is important enough to make me decide for a game and not for another one.
It is so true that certain games do not reach wider audiences because their art style is not as skilled as in other projects.
I find AI art derivative, mediocre and dull.
It IS of surprising quality and at the same time incredibly boring.
And I feel this blob of grey will increase as it becomes standardized and more AI art games become the norm.
Corollary: If someone shows you a picture made by AI and tells you nothing but to rate it, you’ll probably just shrug.
As an oldtimer in the video game industry, you use placeholders when you start out. Free stuff. Boxes and spheres. Old assets from other games. Then when things come around, you get the artists on board.
Then doesn’t that kind of highlight the struggles that non-artistic game designers have faced? Potentially great game design overlooked because of poor art?
So can you see how AI art, which may not be the best but is certainly better than someone without artistic talent, might open doors that were previously closed?
An important aspect for making a game great is how all the pieces come together (from sound design to graphics to even mechanics) to form a cohesive whole. If someone was to use AI slop for an obvious aspect then how can I trust that they would have put any love and care into other aspects of the game? Especially when there are so many amazing games from small studios and independent game designers that don’t need to rely on AI slop.
We did talk about a solo dev using ai art when starting his game (and then replacing it with real art) not if big business will or are or should use ai art.
No, but it does empower solo indie creators to do something beyond that. Like a dude who’s a solo programmer can now make a reasonably okay looking game without dipping into “programmer art”.
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As someone with a game collection so large I won’t able to finish in two lifetimes, game art is important enough to make me decide for a game and not for another one.
It is so true that certain games do not reach wider audiences because their art style is not as skilled as in other projects.
I find AI art derivative, mediocre and dull. It IS of surprising quality and at the same time incredibly boring. And I feel this blob of grey will increase as it becomes standardized and more AI art games become the norm.
Corollary: If someone shows you a picture made by AI and tells you nothing but to rate it, you’ll probably just shrug.
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As an oldtimer in the video game industry, you use placeholders when you start out. Free stuff. Boxes and spheres. Old assets from other games. Then when things come around, you get the artists on board.
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Sounds quite useless to me to spend time on. At meast if you make a real game.
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Placeholders is even faster and lesser effort 🤷🏼♀️
Also, if your game isn’t fun without good looking graphics, then that’s a serious problem (IMO), and using placeholder assures that to some extent.
I mean… There are free and super cheap assets that can be used for temporary placement. Plus I’m not against someone using AI for their assets.
My point is, if someone’s gonna use two years or more of their lives for making a game, using AI art is going to go against them.
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An important aspect for making a game great is how all the pieces come together (from sound design to graphics to even mechanics) to form a cohesive whole. If someone was to use AI slop for an obvious aspect then how can I trust that they would have put any love and care into other aspects of the game? Especially when there are so many amazing games from small studios and independent game designers that don’t need to rely on AI slop.
Show me an example of even an okayish solo made game with ai “art”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLY38_vJ0hc
IF you play any AAA titles right now, you’re already playing games with AI art.
https://www.totallyhuman.io/blog/the-surprising-number-of-steam-games-that-use-genai
I didn’t know AAA games was made by only one person.
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Tell me you didn’t even check the links in good faith, while also telling me you would like to remain ignorant. Good job.
Tell me you didn’t read the thread about using AI as placeholders during development for solo developer games.
Shhh.
I think we are still waiting for those, and let’s see how much ai AAAA games will end up using. I expect it will be much less than the hype says.
We did talk about a solo dev using ai art when starting his game (and then replacing it with real art) not if big business will or are or should use ai art.
Source (Bluesky)
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai