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A pixel-art incremental game where your mouse cursor attacks automatically! Slaughter slimes to earn gold and collect ores such as copper, iron, and gold. Unlock a variety of skills, weapons, relics, and coins, then sweep away ho…
AI-assisted tools were used only to help create some sound assets. All audio was carefully reviewed and approved by the developer before being included in the game.
Sound Effects
At this encounter, journey's begun. Tarot. Two worlds: apocalypse & WWII Nanyang. Love, loss, stolen fate. Choice forges destiny.
Some art assets in this game were created with the assistance of AI tools. All AI-generated content was pre-generated during development, and the game does not include any real-time AI-generated content during gameplay.
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Build a competitive mech on your stat sheet. Draft dice, shop the hangar, chase sponsorships, and win on Circuit Points. Four-player dice placement strategy.
Helped create base assets from generative AI.Base assets are then edited, remixed, reworked or replaced to increase dev speed.
2D Images
Roll dice into poker hands in this roguelike deckbuilder. Forge every die yourself and stack chips × mult until the Queen's own scorekeeper gives up counting. A cruel, twisted Wonderland under the Cheshire Cat's watchful grin — o…
Some artwork and visual assets in this game were created with the assistance of generative AI tools during development.No AI content is generated during gameplay.
2D Images
Enter the world of Corporate Survival Horror and join a twisted Startup Simulator as the Head of Tech at Void Inc. Plan your day, survive frantic technical minigames, manage unstable staff and infrastructure, and try to reach the…
Some game assets used AI assisted coding and tools to help generate and refine them, localisation was done with the help of AI translation.
Code, Localization
Build the most successful video game store in town! Develop your own games, stock your shelves with the latest hits, and grow your small shop into the ultimate gaming empire with employees, an esports team, loot boxes, and much m…
Some of the graphics and illustrations used in the game were created with the help of generative AI and have been reviewed and edited by the developers. Generative AI is not used during gameplay.
2D Images
Slack off right on your desktop with your ultimate otter buds! Combing the beach for 200+ unique oddities, play the market like a pro, and rip open ticket packs to explore everything from the deep blue sea to the starry cosmos. C…
Generative AI is used solely to assist with localization and translation work. The game does not use AI-generated art, audio, or real-time in-game content.
Localization
No one tells you why. You are the villain: sweep a kingdom crowd by crowd for coins, blood and souls. Every weapon must be taken off the boss who carries it. Dark fantasy idle action. The game explains itself exactly once — at th…
Pre-generated only. AI assisted with code, localization, and some art editing during development. No live AI content in the shipped game.
Code, Localization, 2D Images
The Jiashen Cataclysm: the empire falls. A motley crew of those with nowhere left to go forms a southward exodus. Turn-based battles, camp management, permadeath—through the blizzards of the late Ming, bring them alive to the sou…
Generative AI was used during development to assist with some pre-generated visual artwork. The development team reviewed and curated the AI-assisted artwork before including it in the game. No generative AI content is created during gameplay, and no player data or input is sent to an AI service.
2D Images
World Resetter is a CRPG featuring real-time strategy controls and ARPG loot mechanics. Command a squad of up to 5 unique characters as you explore a vast world and interact with dynamic NPCs. Defeat powerful foes, craft deep att…
Generative AI tools were used to assist in the creation of some 2D visual assets and artwork (including character illustrations and background art). All generated assets have been reviewed and refined to fit the game's pixel art style and quality standards.
2D Images
In the first worlds the infected just walk at you. In the fourth they start shooting back. An action survivor across 10 worlds: pick your hero, upgrade your weapons on the fly and hold off ever denser hordes all the way to the al…
Generative AI helped with the 2D illustrations, some sound effects and the first pass of the translations. Nothing else, and nothing while you play.
2D Images, Sound Effects, Localization
Drop pieces, flip tiles, light up the whole board. A cozy, tactile logic puzzle where every placement flips the cells it covers. Settle in for 81 handcrafted puzzles across 9 gentle-to-tricky worlds, share one daily board with th…
AI has been used during the development of Blokkit to accelerate the process of writing code, creating some assets for the store page, and for writing translations into 7 different languages,
Code, Marketing Assets, Localization