This is the statement that I am talking about .
I know how much work it takes to make a game, I have been working on my game for the last 8.5 months. The problem is that it is difficult to tell the difference between AI assisted, and AI made, and I assumed the latter.
I would definitely play, but I can't download games.
i did not realize there was a box for describing it more fully, but if you read the comments on this very thread you will see i think it's irrelevant
if someone is blind enough to judge based on that then no amount of words matter;
on this very thread i typed about 1000 words explaining far more than can fit in the box, and someone is insisting (so very loudly) YOU'RE LYInG I USED AI DETECTION TOOL NONE OF THE IMAGES WERE HAND EDITED ALL ARE MADE BY AI
meanwhile: 100% of the images he references were hand edited by me in their entirety. with that said, ty for pointing out the box, i will consider updating it
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i added this into the box
i created this game by hand 16 years ago; now i use ai to help me with the refactor (from hotseat -> online play)
i also used ai to generate improved sprites from what i had before, but this required generating hundreds to thousands of images for each individual sprite before choosing one that looked good (and remained clear resized to 64x64 pixels). i hand positioned, animated, colored for effects, etc all in gimp. i will use ai when it gets better to improve their animations, but right now using ai for that takes about as much work as doing it by hand =/
i also linked to the steam store on that page i hadn't realized i could (steam doesn't allow the opposite, linking to itch!)
thx again for pointing this out to me :)
edit: you said you would play but can't download games, i am curious why if you want to answer? not even on steam?
it's on steam too if it's a security thing and you don't trust itch, but whatever the reason, if it changes, i hope you will download and play.
i would very much enjoy showing the game to you =)
it is exceedingly uncommon for man to be humble enough to admit his mistakes; you have shown me a big soul in doing so
it's on steam too if it's a security thing and you don't trust itch, but whatever the reason, if it changes, i hope you will download and play.
It is not a security thing.
I don't get why people think you put in no effort, that is extreme.
I see only a few AI assets.
and someone is insisting (so very loudly YOU'RE LYInG I USED AI DETECTION TOOL NONE OF THE IMAGES WERE HAND EDITED ALL ARE MADE BY AI
They think the single color sand and water is AI too?
This can't be AI, I can literally see the digital art that was used.
it's not single color sand there are little bits of grass in it, i drew a big square and use code to chop it up into little pieces
but it's a sandy background with little bits of grass i drew, and also yes you are showing some of the old assests still existing purely drawn by hand, but again, even the ones created by ai i had to do SO MUCH WORK to get them and to resize/animate them in gimp for the idle attack abilitiy 1-4 move and death animations
the water is not pure blue, but has an overlay also that i drew in gimp, it's subtle but it's there
it's easier to see in game animating, and even more when you have a move radius active highlighted over the water, or an ability or attack radius open
itch won't even let me respond now it said my response had to be approved after i have been being INCESSANTLY TROLLED by the other person posting here; if you read it i think your mind will boggle, i know mine is
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you also coder genious are missing what i am saying, but i appreciate you unlike kosmo works the moron troll trying to understand
there are not only "a few ai assets" as i have been saying over and over, 100% of the sprites almost (maybe 95%) i replaced with ai's help
and as i keep saying, that has no bearing/relevance on the amount of work
as i keep saying, i had to generate 100s or 1000s in some cases for each ONE of currently 140+ units in the game, to find ONE image that i liked that would also survive my hand edit in gimp to 64x64, and then i animated all of them by hand in gimp for move/attack/idle/ability 1-4, and death
many of the assets you showed are from before my ai improvements; others are still in game like the crews which i hand drew 100%
and asking if the page 1 of image selection is ai means nothing; how can it even be a measure of anything? it's a composite of a background and a ton of units not an image that is the menu in game. for what it's worth i'll tell you where it all came from, the background is free use i downloaded from some site royalty free blue sky. the wood grain is picture of a piece of wood from 16 years ago edited in gimp to the slight transparency (and it turns blue on blue's turn)
this is such a moronic argument, and i hope you can begin to understand a bit why this entire conversation is asinine
you cannot judge if the selection screen is "ai" generated because it is a composite of many units
when you mouse over them they animate, again for what it's worth, i created all those animations in gimp, with a few exceptions (very few) having been improved by ai (again, at GREAT LENGTH, with MUCH WORK) so much work in fact that as i said elsewhere it's almost as much work as doing it by hand, so the very few that i did use ai to improve after my gimp edits are exclusive for now; i won't use ai to improve them further until a year or more passes and it becomes more capable
this is draining and taxing on my soul beyond words i have to express
if you were the only one i was responding to it would have been ok; i could have explained it all patiently and easily,
but "kozmo works" has trolled me so badly so ignorantly so incessantly my soul is in turmoil
and i have no release other than God, so i will pray to Him now for help
that YOU understand, talking about "work" and trying to classify if this is "ai" or not,
is like just classifying all food as the same thing, saying "it's food so it's the same"
so a hot dog is the same as a steak is the same as a meal prepared by a chef over many hours, it's NOT TRUE
the AMOUNT OF WORK i put in this game is this;
i work all day, everyday on it, all day everyday, all day, everyday, for years in fact if you add it all up, 3-4 years of all day everyday
since i began using ai ONE YEAR AGO my workload has decreased none.
you said you're making a game and i don't mean to belittle you, but this is not a single player game
this is an online game of unmatched complexity;
hav ing to argue with a MORON like "kosmo works" about ai disclosure that i ALREADY MADE
having to say the same thing OVER and OVER 100 times i cannot explain how aggravating this is
hear it clearly, i am NOT STUPID
i coded thsi game BY HAND 16 years ago
i work on it ALL DAY. EVERYDAY. you should realize then this idea of that i use ai to help me means something is easy is WRONG.
DEAD WRONG. i work on this ALL DAY, EVERYDAY, that is how much work it takes. ALL DAY EVERYDAY i work on this, EVERYDAY, ALL DAY, regardless if ai is used. that is like saying someone is taking the "easy way" by using an IDE instead of notepad.
and for the record, i essentially coded thsi entire game in notepad; i used an ide but essentially no features of it except for ease of compiling
i basically hand coded this game in notepad 16 years ago
i use ai to help me with the refactor from hotseat -> online play
i use ai to improve the graphics over what i had in place 15-16 years ago
but it is NOT EASY, each unit requires an IMMENSE amount of work
i HAND EDITED EVERY SINGLE ONE in gimp, and hand edited the animations
even if i ask ai to help with that now, it will take me many hours to get just ONE unit right, and even then the ai still can't do it
which is why i said it's actually about as easy as doing it by hand in gimp, so i'll wait until ai is s marter
but i disclosed all of this, i openly posted about it, i never hid ANYTHING
this has now eaten HOURS and HOURS of my day, and patience, and my wrists hurt, and i desperately want to return to making my game, but i know, as soon i hit post and scroll
there will be "Kosmo Works" again, after telling me "i used ai and 100% of your images were made by ai no human touched them"
and so i say "you're wrong i edited 100% of them in gimp to resize to 64x64, and create the animations and colorizations for skills and the gravestones for death or sometimes i chop up the unit and have it fall down to pieces as it dies it depends"
i say the same thing OVER and OVER an dOVER so he pivotes to then posting images of the ai originals i TOLD HIM HOW TO FIND, saying "SEE ITS AI" " I FOUND THIS ITS AI LOOK" ignoring that he claimed 100% of my images had not been edited by a human and were pure ai (100% a lie. no ai told him this; he just made it up)
then instead of EVER admitting he is wrong he trolled me so badly and so long my SOUL is VOMITING
and when i click post there he will be again say :"LOOK SEE ITS AI ITS AI" showing the ai originals i told him where to find
saying "i found this" ignoring his original statements i CANT KEEP DOING THIS
there is no point to ANY OF IT i made all the disclosure up front i hid NOTHING FROM ANYONE AT ANYTIME i posted the LINK to the image generator i used in the comments for this game on the main page MONTHS AGO
i hid nothing i lied about NOTHING i CANNOT BELIEVE humans such as him exist, the lake of fire exists with good reason
