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Tangential but reminds me of the backlash Clair Obscur got after they had AI assets in their early development.

People seem tired of the anti AI witch hunts and accusations after the recent Larian and Clair Obscur debacles.

Both clair obscur and Baldur's Gate 3 (goty 2025 & 2023) were in gog since the beginning (bg3 already since its beta).

And, as you point out, Clair Obscur isn't the 'most indie' of indies anyway.

See for example Clair Obscur here which clearly has the UE5 caracter hair.

To push the metaphor further, would put your whole money at trade in an obscur online bank that was created just a few time ago?

It makes obscur or verbose JS patterns really easy to use.

In the game Clair Obscur sun plus moon equals twilight.

The Clair Obscur used generative AI in their game.

Clair Obscur has enough publicity already and rightly so.

Stuff like the Indie Awards disqualifying Clair Obscur not on merit but on this teeny tiny usage of AI just sits wrong with a lot of people, me included.

In particular if Clair Obscur embodies the opposite of AI slop for me, incredible world building and story, not generated, but created by people with a vision and passion.

The images clair obscur generated hardly "eludes definition while asking questions about what it means to be human.".

From the submitted article: > "When it was submitted for consideration, representatives of Sandfall Interactive agreed that no gen AI was used in the development of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

>>Good games, but not innovative Calling outer wilds or Clair Obscur "not innovative" just tells me you haven't played these games from start to finish, and I don't mean any offence saying this.

Recently, there was an outrage when "Claire Obscur: Expedition 33" grabbed record-breaking amount of game awards (deservingly so, it's an excellent game) and somehow it surfaced that some minor development placeholder assets (which devs forgot to replace with actual ones due to QA oversight) were AI generated.

Dishonored 2, Clair Obscur) as long as the game responds instantaneously.

I downloaded Steam and immediately jumped into my saves from BG3, Cyberpunk, Claire Obscur, and more, like nothing happened.

Or do we wanna pretend the leap from Doom to Crysis is the same as the leap from the Witcher 3 to Clair Obscur?