So he used AI, Whoopty-Do. He isn't selling the game, It's free to play. All you anti-AI peeps scream about it at indie devs, but go out and support all the major Devs doing the same thing, but actually charging for the game. In another 10 years most everything in games will be AI generated, it's just the way it goes. Get over your three -spirit penguin self.
Hello. I understand where you are coming from, but I will remain true to my principle: using A.I. saves time and money, but it lacks the soul of a human. If we lived in a world where art (including music, movies, video games etc.) was generated by a machine, we would be exposed to the same recycled content with a slightly different "skin". Real human art innovates and revolves around real human experience and emotions we can relate to. That being said, I am not entirely against A.I., just that some in some areas it doesn't make sense to use it...
It's a video game, not a work of art. It's meant to entertain you, not enlighten you. The very basis of your "principle" is flawed. Some of you people are out here living in your own little fantasy worlds, thinking everyone else need to do the maximum amount of effort and sacrifice just to make you happy. If an indie dev can't afford something and uses AI for it, then so be it. It's for the dev to gain some coding experience to be able make better games in the future, not to waste massive amounts of money and time just to make a very small group of people happy.
First of all, there's an AI-generated tag, for people like you who WANT to delve into slop like this. Second, that's what I would say if 99.99% of devs who use AI slop, indie or otherwise, refuse to acknowledge it, this guy included. Third, I know people like you want nothing more than an endless conveyor belt of literal clanker shit to slurp up, but some of us out here actually have a sense of quality control. And last, but certainly not least, no; AI slop will not take over the world. Model collapse, aka clanker inbreeding, should be more than enough to collapse most AI models. If that doesn't do it, then the lawsuits from copyright titans (ie. Disney) will, and if THAT doesn't do it, then the massive amounts of waste on our energy grid and water supply will. Even if none of that manages to slow down AI production, the microsecond the AI bubble in the U.S. pops, development of clankers in the western world will mostly collapse, and the only ones who'll be left in the AI race will be Russia and China. Considering how both of those countries are likely going to economically collapse in the next 2 decades, their stake in the AI race will cease as well, assuming that the presence of ChatGPT in the U.S. military doesn't hallucinate its way into becoming a diet-AM and nuking us all in the meantime.
Annnd the conspiracy theorist nutjob has arrived. He completely acknowledged it. It's not an AI coded game, He just used some AI art. People like you have been screaming for decades about Russia and China's economy, yet nothing has happened nor will it. The US's economy is just as bad as theirs's right now, and since they're the big 3 in the world, I guess everyone is doing just fine. AI in the military is not going to lead to us all getting nuked. Take your tin foil hat off, and learn to enjoy life more. From cars, to computers, from cell phones to robots. Every time a new technology emerges, there's always people like you to cry and scream about how it'll destroy us all, yet eventually it becomes a normal part of our daily lives. Lay off the drugs, put the foil away, and get some help.
Sorry buddy, but virtually everything I said beforehand is at least somewhat verified. Unfortunately, Grok is not available on itch.io, so you can't go running with your clanker-only dick in between your legs in the hopes that an AI can do basic research for you. Model Collapse is very much a real thing and people have reported a noticeable decrease in quality with certain models, most notably ChatGPT-5. Several lawsuits have already been launched by large corporations against AI companies, most notably the one Disney and Universal jointly filed against Midjourney. AI models are already consuming massive amounts of electricity, with most of the additional power plants being made to accommodate them being fossil fuel based, as well as massive amounts of water, with plans in the works by major AI companies to massively expand their operations. While numbers vary somewhat, most reliable sources state that significant amounts of U.S. GDP growth is dependent on AI slop not being slop. Meanwhile, the Russo-Ukrainian war is taking a significant toll on the Russian economy, and they just losing territory and various strategic points, and China's severe drop in fertility rates following the one-child policy of 1979 is absolutely coming back to bite them. Besides that, I have no idea what you define as "fine", but the cost of living being as bad as it is in the U.S., and it being significantly worse for most people in China, it absolutely isn't fine by reasonable standards. Anyways, as much as I'd want to advocate for the development of AI models, the fact that 99% of their current use cases are nothing more than for mind-numbing, soul-draining, pants-shitting, internet-killing, mass-propagandizing slop is nothing short of infuriating. Also, for fuck's sake. Cars, computers, and cell phones didn't require the entirety of human knowledge and creativity be stolen en-masse in order to be developed, nor were they only successful by being propped up with trillions of dollars of venture capital, nor did they have to have a legion of chronically-online losers defending them in order to justify their usefulness for society. Seriously, if AI slop was actually a boon for society, then arguments like this wouldn't even be happening. The amount of people pushing back against cars were relatively small, and horses as a transportation method were mostly phased out within decades. The amount of people pushing back against computers and cellphones (modern or otherwise) were even smaller, and their alternatives were phased out even quicker. The first chatbot was developed in 1966, and was developed to do little more than parrot whatever the end-user decided to talk about. Over 5 decades later, and LLM's, the grandchildren of chatbots, are basically the same thing, but on a much greater scale. Given all the time in the world relative to the speed of progression in the tech space, and yet the best we can get from the clanker space is a barely functioning OS and a couple of almost competent slop generators. Take your bullshit "AI is like computer guys, just get used to it" argument, and shove it right up your technically-illiterate dung hole.
Since my English is terrible, I hope you can understand that I’m using AI translation.
The game is fresh and fun, but there are also many disappointing aspects. There doesn’t seem to be any real management, resource control, or strategic element in the gameplay. I can earn money to buy Joker cards, but their duration is extremely short and they don’t feel very meaningful. In other words, they aren’t essential at all (I can simply wait a little longer instead). Because of this, money itself also becomes unnecessary.
So what is left in the game?
All I do is assign the workers given at each stage and passively watch the process play out.
Since the game is tagged with “management”, I wish it would lean more heavily into that aspect. For example, earning money could allow me to permanently upgrade worker efficiency, and level scaling could increase the difficulty of later stages, emphasizing the importance of upgrades. This would naturally create a need for money, and adding bonus stages for additional income would make the gameplay more engaging.
Overall, the current version feels lacking in purpose, which I find unfortunate.
This was a little confusing at first but I quickly figured it out: you generate the shovel dude who is typically used to hire jackhammer dude, and jackhammer dude is used to hire whatever other unit, which then works the job! There was a lot of work done to mix that up, and it was hilarious you even hire denizens of hell to work for you 🤣🤣🤣
I also like how the different machines are used in different levels, like a driller does no good when excavating lava!
I do wish the money was more useful: I didn't have enough early on to buy jokers and after a few missions I could easily buy all of the jokers, which didn't do much to help anyway. Maybe buying some permanent unlocks or something? But then I worry I'd buy the wrong ones and screw everything up 😅
But I understand that making SO many levels, setting all the art up, and all the AI and stuff is massively time consuming 😮 Nicely done, I really like idle/incremental games and I really liked this one too :D
It's so weird how they bully you for using AI art, but then also dislike your comment in which you state that you would redo it with other art. No way to please haters.
The art you are using is fine and the game is a good start. Don't get discouraged by haters.
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This game is AI generated garbage.
Game is in "No AI" category but uses AI.
AI slop.
Lovely game, very fun
Nothing personal, but you used AI to make the cover image, and that made me not want to try the game. I hope you can understand.
So he used AI, Whoopty-Do. He isn't selling the game, It's free to play. All you anti-AI peeps scream about it at indie devs, but go out and support all the major Devs doing the same thing, but actually charging for the game. In another 10 years most everything in games will be AI generated, it's just the way it goes. Get over your three -spirit penguin self.
Hello. I understand where you are coming from, but I will remain true to my principle: using A.I. saves time and money, but it lacks the soul of a human. If we lived in a world where art (including music, movies, video games etc.) was generated by a machine, we would be exposed to the same recycled content with a slightly different "skin". Real human art innovates and revolves around real human experience and emotions we can relate to. That being said, I am not entirely against A.I., just that some in some areas it doesn't make sense to use it...
It's a video game, not a work of art. It's meant to entertain you, not enlighten you. The very basis of your "principle" is flawed. Some of you people are out here living in your own little fantasy worlds, thinking everyone else need to do the maximum amount of effort and sacrifice just to make you happy. If an indie dev can't afford something and uses AI for it, then so be it. It's for the dev to gain some coding experience to be able make better games in the future, not to waste massive amounts of money and time just to make a very small group of people happy.
First of all, there's an AI-generated tag, for people like you who WANT to delve into slop like this. Second, that's what I would say if 99.99% of devs who use AI slop, indie or otherwise, refuse to acknowledge it, this guy included. Third, I know people like you want nothing more than an endless conveyor belt of literal clanker shit to slurp up, but some of us out here actually have a sense of quality control. And last, but certainly not least, no; AI slop will not take over the world. Model collapse, aka clanker inbreeding, should be more than enough to collapse most AI models. If that doesn't do it, then the lawsuits from copyright titans (ie. Disney) will, and if THAT doesn't do it, then the massive amounts of waste on our energy grid and water supply will. Even if none of that manages to slow down AI production, the microsecond the AI bubble in the U.S. pops, development of clankers in the western world will mostly collapse, and the only ones who'll be left in the AI race will be Russia and China. Considering how both of those countries are likely going to economically collapse in the next 2 decades, their stake in the AI race will cease as well, assuming that the presence of ChatGPT in the U.S. military doesn't hallucinate its way into becoming a diet-AM and nuking us all in the meantime.
Annnd the conspiracy theorist nutjob has arrived. He completely acknowledged it. It's not an AI coded game, He just used some AI art. People like you have been screaming for decades about Russia and China's economy, yet nothing has happened nor will it. The US's economy is just as bad as theirs's right now, and since they're the big 3 in the world, I guess everyone is doing just fine. AI in the military is not going to lead to us all getting nuked. Take your tin foil hat off, and learn to enjoy life more. From cars, to computers, from cell phones to robots. Every time a new technology emerges, there's always people like you to cry and scream about how it'll destroy us all, yet eventually it becomes a normal part of our daily lives. Lay off the drugs, put the foil away, and get some help.
Sorry buddy, but virtually everything I said beforehand is at least somewhat verified. Unfortunately, Grok is not available on itch.io, so you can't go running with your clanker-only dick in between your legs in the hopes that an AI can do basic research for you. Model Collapse is very much a real thing and people have reported a noticeable decrease in quality with certain models, most notably ChatGPT-5. Several lawsuits have already been launched by large corporations against AI companies, most notably the one Disney and Universal jointly filed against Midjourney. AI models are already consuming massive amounts of electricity, with most of the additional power plants being made to accommodate them being fossil fuel based, as well as massive amounts of water, with plans in the works by major AI companies to massively expand their operations. While numbers vary somewhat, most reliable sources state that significant amounts of U.S. GDP growth is dependent on AI slop not being slop. Meanwhile, the Russo-Ukrainian war is taking a significant toll on the Russian economy, and they just losing territory and various strategic points, and China's severe drop in fertility rates following the one-child policy of 1979 is absolutely coming back to bite them. Besides that, I have no idea what you define as "fine", but the cost of living being as bad as it is in the U.S., and it being significantly worse for most people in China, it absolutely isn't fine by reasonable standards. Anyways, as much as I'd want to advocate for the development of AI models, the fact that 99% of their current use cases are nothing more than for mind-numbing, soul-draining, pants-shitting, internet-killing, mass-propagandizing slop is nothing short of infuriating. Also, for fuck's sake. Cars, computers, and cell phones didn't require the entirety of human knowledge and creativity be stolen en-masse in order to be developed, nor were they only successful by being propped up with trillions of dollars of venture capital, nor did they have to have a legion of chronically-online losers defending them in order to justify their usefulness for society. Seriously, if AI slop was actually a boon for society, then arguments like this wouldn't even be happening. The amount of people pushing back against cars were relatively small, and horses as a transportation method were mostly phased out within decades. The amount of people pushing back against computers and cellphones (modern or otherwise) were even smaller, and their alternatives were phased out even quicker. The first chatbot was developed in 1966, and was developed to do little more than parrot whatever the end-user decided to talk about. Over 5 decades later, and LLM's, the grandchildren of chatbots, are basically the same thing, but on a much greater scale. Given all the time in the world relative to the speed of progression in the tech space, and yet the best we can get from the clanker space is a barely functioning OS and a couple of almost competent slop generators. Take your bullshit "AI is like computer guys, just get used to it" argument, and shove it right up your technically-illiterate dung hole.
Since my English is terrible, I hope you can understand that I’m using AI translation.
The game is fresh and fun, but there are also many disappointing aspects. There doesn’t seem to be any real management, resource control, or strategic element in the gameplay. I can earn money to buy Joker cards, but their duration is extremely short and they don’t feel very meaningful. In other words, they aren’t essential at all (I can simply wait a little longer instead). Because of this, money itself also becomes unnecessary.
So what is left in the game? All I do is assign the workers given at each stage and passively watch the process play out.
Since the game is tagged with “management”, I wish it would lean more heavily into that aspect. For example, earning money could allow me to permanently upgrade worker efficiency, and level scaling could increase the difficulty of later stages, emphasizing the importance of upgrades. This would naturally create a need for money, and adding bonus stages for additional income would make the gameplay more engaging.
Overall, the current version feels lacking in purpose, which I find unfortunate.
Thank you for the feedback — it really helps me understand which direction I could take the game in.
I made this game for a jam, and honestly, I didn’t expect so many people to play it.
seems like a fun game
loved it, great game ;)
i got 70 thousand X on level 4....
Disgusting AI slop.
This was a little confusing at first but I quickly figured it out: you generate the shovel dude who is typically used to hire jackhammer dude, and jackhammer dude is used to hire whatever other unit, which then works the job! There was a lot of work done to mix that up, and it was hilarious you even hire denizens of hell to work for you 🤣🤣🤣
I also like how the different machines are used in different levels, like a driller does no good when excavating lava!
I do wish the money was more useful: I didn't have enough early on to buy jokers and after a few missions I could easily buy all of the jokers, which didn't do much to help anyway. Maybe buying some permanent unlocks or something? But then I worry I'd buy the wrong ones and screw everything up 😅
But I understand that making SO many levels, setting all the art up, and all the AI and stuff is massively time consuming 😮 Nicely done, I really like idle/incremental games and I really liked this one too :D
- ✨Beth
I don't even understand what's going on, but the cover image is nice
Nice graphics, even though there are some errors. I like the mission based gameplay and allocating workers to spawn new units.
I wish the game would not pause during the Set Workers screens.
AI slop invading itchio 💔
Thank you for the feedback.
Unfortunately, I can't draw the art myself, but for the jam, I wanted to express my idea.
If I decide to release the game, I will either redo the art myself or find an artist.
It's so weird how they bully you for using AI art, but then also dislike your comment in which you state that you would redo it with other art. No way to please haters.
The art you are using is fine and the game is a good start. Don't get discouraged by haters.