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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