nocti

@n0ctiluc4.bsky.social

Pixel artist | no AI | pushing squares on a canvas until i die. 💜tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/n0ctiluc4

the thing about my rule of having to fill at least one sketchbook page before going to sleep every night is sometimes I'm really tired

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As someone who wants to keep releasing tiny indie games and would like for people to play them, this is upsetting. I wish I had started making games five years earlier. Kinda feels like I got to the party a bit too late.

If this happens (may well be happening already), most gamers will only ever hear about AAA games with enormous advertising budgets and the big hits that their favorite streamers and youtubers happen to mention. Nobody is going to bother browsing itch and steam to find tiny indie titles anymore.

My biggest fear regarding AI and indie game development is not that people will stop playing human-made games and start playing AI games (they won't), but that as slop floods marketplaces gamers will simply stop browsing them and stick to directly searching for the games they already know.