Next Fest
Explorer

As a solo developer, I use AI selectively to support my workflow, not to replace creativity. For example, AI may be used to assist in generating or processing certain audio elements, which are then manually edited and curated before being included in the game. No 3D assets are AI-generated. AI is used purely as a tool to enhance development, and I aim to be transparent about its use.

Some content in this game was created with the assistance of generative AI tools. This includes parts of the intro cinematic, background music, and a small number of visual assets. All AI-assisted content has been reviewed, edited, and integrated by the developer to ensure quality and consistency with the overall game experience.

AI was used for multilingual localization work and during the prototyping and implementation of in-game systems. All AI-generated outputs were directly reviewed and modified by the developer before final integration.

The background music for the game was created using generative AI tools. However, all other game assets, including pixel art, sound effects, programming code, and narrative content, were created manually by the developer without the use of generative AI.

This game uses generative AI to create visual art assets (plants, scenery, animals, UI, etc.) during development. In-game, the cat companion's chat dialogue is generated in real time by a local AI model that runs entirely offline on the player's device; no player input is sent to any external service.

During the development of this game, generative AI tools were used as a supportive resource for technical and creative tasks. Specifically, AI was utilized to assist in structuring complex C# scripts and providing visual reference images for world-building and character design. This allowed me as a solo developer to streamline my technical workflow and focus more on the core gameplay, environmental puzzles, and the unique atmospheric feel of the project. Every piece of AI-assisted logic or visual concept has been manually reviewed, adapted, and implemented by me to ensure it fits perfectly within the game's overall design.

Some graphical assets, musical assets, localization, and portions of code were partially created with the assistance of generative AI programs and large language models (LLMs).

Some ingame icons were made with generative AI.Code, Research, Translations have all been assisted with AI tooling.

This game includes some content created with the assistance of generative AI tools, including limited portions of code and certain visual assets.All AI‑assisted content has been strictly reviewed, edited, and integrated by the developer to ensure quality, consistency and used only as supportive resources.

AI was used to assist with the localization (translation) of this game.

This game contains the following AI-generated or AI-assisted content:1. Two startup splash screen images were generated using AI (Doubao) and then manually modified.2. Store page descriptions in non-Chinese languages (English, Japanese, French, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese) were translated with the assistance of AI, followed by manual review.3. In-game texts in non-Chinese languages (English, Japanese, French, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese) were also translated with AI assistance and manually proofread.To the best of my knowledge, all other content — including core artwork (real-photo based), music (legally licensed from itch.io), original Chinese script, and source code — is either human-created or legally authorized.

Portions of in-game art assets were initially generated with generative AI, followed by extensive manual hand-drawn revision, restructuring and detailed painting by the developer. Game text and localization drafts were AI-assisted then fully proofread and revised manually. All background music and sound effects are licensed free commercial assets downloaded from authorized resource websites; no generative AI was used for audio production. Source code was written with coding assistant tools.