Next Fest
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Some pre-rendered pixel-art assets in this game (portraits, characters, venue and event illustrations, facility and retirement scenes, and store artwork) were initially created with generative-AI tools, then selected, cropped, composited, edited and integrated by the developer. All such content depicts fictional people, fictional organizations and fictional places. The game does not generate any AI content during play and never connects to an AI service.

I use AI for translating.

A few small things like code organization & small images.

Some marketing artwork (capsules, key art) and some in-game illustrations were created with the help of generative AI tools and then hand-edited by the developers. All gameplay code, game design and writing are human-made.

Artificial intelligence was used only to assist with the code. The entire art style was created and drawn entirely by hand.

Tiny Knight and the Corrupted Crystal uses AI-generated music. All background music tracks were created with Suno, then edited, and mixed by the developer before being placed in the game.

The narrative and interface text in this game - dialogue, tutorial guidance, in-game descriptions, and localization into all supported languages (Russian, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese) - was generated with the assistance of generative AI (a large language model), based on the developer's original game concept, design, and creative direction. No other content in this game - music, sound, or gameplay - is AI-generated.

Game art assets are created using AI tools.

Some of this game's visual assets (key art, character and hero illustrations, narration video plates) were created with generative image tools. All gameplay systems, code and game design are human-made. The game contains no live AI-generated content: everything was generated during development and reviewed before inclusion.

The visual art, music, sound effects, pilot voice lines and written text in Starhand were created using generative AI tools — Recraft for illustration, Suno for music, and ElevenLabs for voice and sound effects — and were then selected, edited and assembled by the developer. All of it is generated ahead of time and ships as fixed assets: the game does not generate any content while you play, and it does not connect to any AI service at runtime.

We are team of two with a design and development background. We have a combined decades experience shipping production-quality code and art. We use AI along with our other tools, like Blender, Substance, Gaea etc. to help us build our vision. We use AI in the early stage of concept development, prototyping assets, and coding assistance. The music is played by hand using real instruments. All screen captures are 100% in-game with no alterations.

AI tools were used to assist with editing the game’s promotional videos and creating a small portion of its art assets.