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Used AI on preexisting artwork made by myself (ICONS) to speed up DEV by replacing frames faster than manual edit each button

The illustrations in this game (Battle Card art, faction emblems, Commander portraits and board imagery) were generated with Midjourney, working from the designer's own concept art and art direction. Each image was then selected, tone-matched to the card stock, fitted and composited into the game's frames.Card names, card text and the written rules were drafted with the assistance of a large language model, working from the designer's original hand-written rules and card designs, then edited and finalized by hand. The music and sound effects were generated with Suno. Voice recordings were performed by the creator.The game itself is a person's work: the rules, the mechanics, the economy and the balance decisions were designed by hand over many revisions, with AI used as a collaborator rather than an author. The physical board game came first.No content is generated by AI while you play. The computer opponents are conventional rule-based code, not a generative model.

"We used AI tools to assist in generating concept art and store capsule assets for the game."

All background music used in this game are pre-generated offline AI audio assets sourced from Pixabay (static files only, no real-time generation). All materials fully comply with Pixabay’s free commercial use license with no copyright infringement issues. Full download records of these assets are retained, and there is no mandatory requirement to disclose specific AI generation tools.Localized texts and tutorial content of the game are created with the assistance of AI tools. All AI-generated content has been reviewed for compliance.

A minority (around 5%) of the game's assets involve the use of generative artificial intelligence.

Our team uses AI tools to assist in the development of some in-game content, including code and a small number of character travel images. All AI-assisted content is reviewed and refined by our development team before being included in the game.

Blast Arena does not use AI to generate gameplay, code, or real-time content. Artificial intelligence was only used during development to help create certain promotional and marketing assets, such as concept art and store visuals. All in-game content and player experiences are fully handcrafted and not AI-generated.

This game uses pre-generated visual assets, including images and cinematic sequences created with external tools. These assets are used for environmental storytelling and menu presentation, and do not involve real-time AI generation.

We don’t particularly like using AI.Unfortunately, we are a small indie studio made of programmers and designers who are currently somewhere between “making a game” and “having existential crises”.So, for now, we use AI to help us with some parts of our daily work and to bring some of our music, ideas, and inspirations to life.But don’t worry, we haven’t handed over the steering wheel to the robots just yet.Our project, its identity, and its originality are still created and directed by us. AI is simply one of the tools helping us survive the development process while our budget is busy pretending it doesn’t exist.As soon as we have the resources to replace AI with our own human made work, we absolutely intend to do so.Until then, we’re just a bunch of indie developers trying to make something cool before our refrigerators become purely decorative objects.

Some images, icons, voices, and text are generated by AI.

The game has AI rendered pictures for the NPC characters.

The final visual presentation is entirely hand-crafted by our art team. AI tools are only used during early concept stages to support ideation, while all final assets are created manually by artists.