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Little Drone TuTuTu is a top-down twin-stick roguelite shooter. Pilot a heavily armed drone through a hostile research facility, blast waves of security bots and bosses, and stack weapons and augments until the whole screen light…
AI Assisted CodingAI Assisted Localization
Code, Localization
Grab your friends, pick your class, and raid dungeons in this lighthearted co-op fantasy RPG, where chaotic spells and hilariously bad ragdoll deaths keep the realm unpredictable.
Some voice lines and store capsule art were made with generative AI during development.
Marketing Assets, Voiceover
Become a trader, a hero, a legend...even a god. In Death & Taxes you can pursue anything...but only two things are certain.
Some assets use AI to generated game models, textures and animations. All AI generated art has been created from concepts made by real contributing artists.
2D Images, 3D Models, Animation
A first-person supernatural horror inspired by the legends of Bhangarh Fort. Explore India’s most haunted place, uncover your brother’s disappearance, and survive the ancient curse that still haunts the ruins.
AI is utilized solely for design references and inspiration. All final in-game assets are manually created.
Ideation
Contrabandism Simulator is a dark, atmospheric trading simulation set in a harbor that comes alive at night. Buy, sell, negotiate, take risks, and survive each night—alone...
Artificial intelligence was used to generate some of the visuals displayed on the Steam store page.
Marketing Assets
Lucky Sip is a restaurant simulation game with roguelike elements. Players choose suitable menus and target customers, and with a bit of luck, they can defeat the landlady who keeps raising the rent.
Some animations are created with AI assistance
Animation
Be the architect and the audience of a living, breathing fantasy world. Generate vast procedural maps, paint your empires, and watch as autonomous AI nations wage war, forge alliances, and build deep economies. Intervene as an ac…
AI was used to generate art pieces for the Steam Store Page as placeholder. As the developing continues and feedback from the community comes, those placeholders will be changed to real art done by real persons.
Marketing Assets
A farmland cartoon style top-down shooting game, which is easy for players to relax and de-stress. You will explore freely, shoot through levels, and enjoy a casual, therapeutic, and exhilarating experience.
When creating this game, our team utilized the support from Trippo AI for modeling, and Doubao for concept artist. We finally created the whole level design by UE5.
3D Models, 2D Images, Level/World Design
A neo-noir adventure set in October 1983, as the influence of the criminal gang "Cipher" grows in the city. They are involved in the distribution of illegal substances and causing mass disappearances. A plot-driven retro action f…
AI is used to create the graffiti textures in the game, which are found on buildings in the streets and sometimes indoors.
2D Images
Dice Ark — A roguelike board game where dice decide your fate. Allocate your hand into attack, defense, and crystal raids. Compete for total wealth. When gold turns red, Sin blooms — three turns later, you become a Demon. Six cla…
This game uses generative AI in parts of the development process. Claude was used for programming assistance, ChatGPT Images for creating and refining some visual assets, and Suno for producing some music.All AI-assisted content was reviewed, selected, and modified as necessary by the developer before being included in the game.The game does not generate content or code with AI during gameplay and does not connect to external AI services.
2D Images, Code, Music
After a stressful day, grab your camera and hit the road. In Lumenal, you photograph animals and lovely moments, from forests full of birdsong to glaciers under the northern lights. Go solo or bring three friends, and fill your b…
Lumenal is made by one person. I worked with an AI coding assistant, which wrote the code that generates some of the game's assets. Translations were also done with AI assistance. I directed, reviewed and edited everything, and the game design is my own. No AI image, 3D model or music generators were used.
2D Images, 3D Models, Music, Localization, Marketing Assets
Cubic Color Confusion is a grid-based puzzle game where every move reshapes the board. Manipulate the environment and guide your cubes through ever more intricate puzzles to recover valuable artefacts from the ruins of a lost civ…
AI-assisted tools were used during development, primarily for programming assistance, localization help and the creation of a small number of visual assets.The only AI-generated assets included in the final game are:The C³ neon logoDecorative metal plate and wiring elements used in the main menu
Code, Localization, 2D Images, Marketing Assets, UI Elements