Jet

@jetpackpaul.com

Your Fourth Favorite #Twitch Streamer! Business email: jetpackpaultwitch@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/jetpackpaul

Apparently this post struck a nerve... Just a reminder that Fading Echo Senior Producer Elise Marchouba said, "At my company, the motto for a while now has been ‘People won't be replaced by AI. People will be replaced by people using AI’." Yikes. 😳 #antiai #fadingecho #indiegames #gamedev

A message I received from one of Fading Echo's PR people followed by my response.
Jet@jetpackpaul.com · 3w ago

Heads up streamers against Generative AI... Fading Echo's Senior Producer has an interview stating their studio uses generative AI and calls it "inevitable" and that it can be used "ethically and correctly". 🤨 I was offered a code, but declined. #FadingEcho #twitch #antiai

The key art to the game Fading Echo

Thank you @edwyntiong.com for joining me for a live interview and talking to me about Detective Grimoire, The Mermaid Mask, voice acting, and wood chippers! For people who missed it, I'll be posting the vod and the interview separately on my youtube VOD back up channel. #indiegames #twitch

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Heads up streamers against Generative AI... Fading Echo's Senior Producer has an interview stating their studio uses generative AI and calls it "inevitable" and that it can be used "ethically and correctly". 🤨 I was offered a code, but declined. #FadingEcho #twitch #antiai

The key art to the game Fading EchoA quote made by Elise Marchouba, Senior Producer at Emeteria from the site EuroNews, "At my company, the motto for a while now has been ‘People won't be replaced by AI. People will be replaced by people using AI’. While that's a little tough to stomach, I do understand it. I don't want to be one of those people that stubbornly says ‘I'm not gonna do it because I don't like it’. I'm not going to oppose it because I don't understand it, but I'm not gonna love it because I'm being told to. I'm going to take a cautionary step back. I'm going to acknowledge that it's inevitable that this is going to be part of the future, but I will stand up for doing it ethically and correctly."

I received a code for an #indiegame playtest that seemed promising... Everything was fine until a Gen AI disclosure popped up AFTER I HIT NEW GAME‼️ This was not disclosed on its Steam page. The PR outlet didn't give me that info either. 😡 Gen AI ruining my #twitch stream plans for the day. 😤

So over on our (relatively new) SFB Games social channels, @shikaboom.bsky.social has been putting together some brilliant short form stuff showing off The Mermaid Mask in the runup to launch, well worth digging into if you're interested! Links in my pinned post

For Crazy Taxi World Tour, the team worked on expanding the world building and lore... But if you're using generative AI to make your game, why would I care at all about your world building or lore? If you can't be bothered to craft your game with care, I lose interest in caring about that world.

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The Mermaid Mask - our new mystery detective adventure game (and the follow-up to 2019's Tangle Tower) launches July 16 for PC, PS5, Switch and Switch 2

In 2025 I got to fly to Australia and for the first time hang out in person with my best friend, YV (y_v_1 on twitch). I doubt 2026 will be the year, but I hope whatever blessed year I get to hug YV again and stand on Australian beaches is counted down and rung in with haste. 🎆

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