Comment on Indie Arcade Gallery Shooter - Nova Swarm (Steam)
TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub 5 days ago
My, my, one day and -7? Sorry to share a cool little niche game I’ve got over thirty hours playing, instead of a screenshot of Dead Space or link to some random article that’s probably showing up everywhere.
How downright valueless of me.
linsenchip@piefed.zip 5 days ago
Maybe that’s because the thumbnail looks a bit AI-Generated which is not really popular here in the threadiverse. Also the game seems to use AI generated assets. But if that does not bother you and you enjoy the game, have fun :)
TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Yeah, I was posting with a screenshot, but I guess that gets replaced with whatever it pulls from the link, and as cute as that cover is bigger, makes sense it’s more prone to catching such knee-jerk reactions than seeing the actual game.
They probably used AI coding it, too, and as a programmer I can be glad a lone dev used their tools to create something they want/enjoy, in a niche no one touches, and at a price that’ll never make them any real money. This is a benefit of AI. The alternative is simply this game not existing. Thought people over here might be more amenable to such a micro-niche indie project. Ah well, so it goes.
psyq@piefed.social 3 days ago
I can’t speak for everyone who downvoted, but maybe allow me to share a viewpoint.
Some see the use of generative AI as simply stealing other people’s hard-earned craft and talent (for the generated art) and programming skills, without even so much as credit or visibility. Plus setting the planet on fire for it, using up precious non-renewable resources, draining aquifers, endangering jobs etc. while making billionaires richer and more powerful and taking away the means of production from the common folk. Who will have to pay the powerful for compute time because they’ve deskilled so much they can’t put together a gallery shooter game themselves anymore.
Not trying to troll or flame or anything, but what’s a good tool for some is all those bad things for others. That’s why any use of it gets such a negative reaction, especially in the fediverse.
TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub 2 days ago
I’m just glad when some bring good things to occasionally seep out of these obviously inevitable changes.