The AI assets were only patched out at day 5 because fans noticed them.. The devs likely rolled it into that patch because of the fans catching it in the live game.

The issue at hand, as the article above goes into, is that the devs said that they used no AI at all in developement, which is a condition of the award. They did however, as these assets and the devs themselves comfirmed in various interviews. They lied to the Indie game awards and violated its conditions.

Revoking the award seems like a pretty reasonable response on the IGA’s part when the dev explicitly lied to you to win an award.