It’s IMO pretty clear that the purpose of the rule is to rule out AI slop and games that cheapened on artists and replaced them by genAI.
Expeditin is neither. It feels like an (succesful) AI stunt by a lesser known award show not many people knew about.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m hard pressed to name a nominee that wasn’t made with love. And it seems weird to insist a game as lauded as E33 needs another awards show genuflection to reaffirm it’s status.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s a fair point, Skong was made by like 3 people and it’s probably one of the best games of all time.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 7 months ago
what the hell is skong
Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Skongsong, Silkskong - Skong.
Mikina@programming.dev 7 months ago
While there’s no doubt that they have technically break the rules, just the fact that they afaik patched the few textures before this controversy (as far as I know, it’s possible that it was a reaction to this?), this simply sounds like a (very succesful) PR attempt by Indie Game Awards.
There’s no doubt that Clair Obscire isn’t a AI slop that cheapened on artists or art with GenAI, whis is the spirit of the rules IGA has. If you don’t take the rules literaly, they deserve the award. And that’s IMO important.
I’ve never heard about IGA before this, so it worked to draw attention to them.
I’m very OK with having rules in place to reject work where you replaced artists with AI. But this is not the case.
Nelots@piefed.zip 7 months ago
Depends on why they’re so anti-AI. AI slop replacing artists isn’t the only harm it causes.