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After Hue is a charming puzzle platformer starring an adorable chameleon on a grand adventure! Shift colors, phase through obstacles, and unravel the mysteries hidden within every hue!
AI was only used to translate the Steam store page
Localization
A single-player action RPG about a goblin serving the Demon King. Scout the next party at night, steal their gear, and prepare poisons and traps. By day, defend your lair and loot the heroes you defeat.
Generative AI was used to create portions of the promotional trailer. The game itself does not contain AI-generated 3D assets; its 3D assets are commercially licensed assets.
Video
A dystopian management game where you act as an energy dispatcher in a collapsing regime. Allocate power, make tough decisions, and balance stability, government pressure, and citizen survival in a dark retro-futuristic world.
This is a solo-developed project created with limited time and resources. Some assets (such as visuals or audio) were partially generated or assisted using AI tools to make development feasible.All such content has been manually reviewed and adjusted to fit the game's atmosphere and design.
2D Images, Music, Sound Effects
Guard the Sect Eye or lose everything. Build immortal towers to defend against demon hordes. Explore dangerous realms, slay beasts, and upgrade your defenses in this unique cultivation tower defense game.
Some promotional images and video materials for this game were created with the assistance of generative AI. All content has been reviewed and modified by human editors.
Marketing Assets, Video
Tale Sweeper blends incremental progression with light loot mechanics. Hack and slash monsters, complete quests, and gather gold and materials. Use your loot to upgrade a massive skill tree, craft powerful weapons, and buy potion…
The in-game graphics, music, and some sound effects are AI-generated and post-processed by humans.
2D Images, Music, Sound Effects
A retro-terminal detective game. Crack cases, analyze evidence, unmask a conspiracy. Step into the chair of an FDI forensic data analyst. Case Analyst is an investigative OS-sim where you crack cases from a retro CRT terminal -- …
The development of this game made use of AI-generated content. Specifically, some of the in-game images, video sequences and character voice-over were created with the help of generative AI tools. All AI-generated assets were reviewed, curated and edited by the development team before inclusion in the final product
2D Images, Voiceover, Video
A cozy pixel-art life sim inspired by traditional Chinese medicine. Grow medicinal herbs, examine symptoms, read the pulse, diagnose patterns, craft remedies, and care for a village through four seasons and the twenty-four solar …
Some in-game and promotional art began as AI-generated concepts or drafts. These images were converted into pixel art or composited with in-game sprites, then reviewed, hand-edited, and finished by the developer; no unedited AI-generated image is shipped as final art.AI writing tools also assisted with drafting and revising portions of the game’s text and English localization based on the author’s original story, content, and direction. All released text was reviewed, edited, and approved by the developer.Generative AI was not used to create the game’s audio, and the game contains no live or runtime AI generation.
2D Images, Writing, Localization
Survivors-like meets deep ARPG Loot. Fight endless hordes across deadly floors, then roll, gamble, and upgrade gear across 10 tiers of modifiers and powerful Uniques to forge a game-breaking build. One life. Permadeath. Infinite …
Loot Survivors is made by one person.I use Ai mostly as an optimization tool. A survivors-like runs hundreds of enemies, spells and loot objects at once, and Ai helps me with the optimization work that keeps that stable - pooling, batching, profiling, refactoring. Ai also helped me with concept art and UI images and text.
2D Images, UI Elements, Code, Ideation, Writing
A solo rogue-lite combining deckbuilding and board tactics. Build a deck and play cards governed by movement and combat rules. Seize Magic Ore, manage resources, and face relentless foes. Lead allies across four territories, chal…
Some Assets were created with AI assistance.
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A dark fantasy deckbuilder duel. You are held together by the souls you've absorbed — and every card you play costs you another one. Sacrifice from your hand, channel it through your weapon, and bring your opponent down. Designed…
Character and environment art and animations are AI-generated as a starting point (PixelLab, ComfyUI), then reworked, corrected and integrated by hand by the solo developer. The same applies to store page and marketing artwork. All AI-assisted content is pre-generated and finalized before shipping — no content is generated at runtime on the player's machine.
2D Images, Marketing Assets, Animation
A blind pig, a mute pig, and a deaf pig. A BOMB about to explode! BOMBACON! is a chaotic 3-player co-op bomb defusal game that tests your friendships in the most absurd way. Grab your radios, set up your communication chain, and …
Some of the images on our store page were created by artificial intelligence and edits were made on the images.
Marketing Assets
KIT Three Kingdoms: Heroes at War is a strategy game about unifying China. Choose a faction in the AD 189 sandbox, govern cities, manage armies and supplies, then command formations, tactics, sieges and duels in real time. No Ear…
Some pre-generated visual assets and localization text were created with the assistance of generative AI and were reviewed and edited by the developer. The game does not generate AI content during gameplay.
2D Images, Localization