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I'm a solo developer with 30 years of engineering experience. In those 30 years, many new tools have been invented to help developers, including IDEs, garbage collection, YouTube tutorials, asset stores, and, recently, generative & agentic AI tools. Wherever a tool helps me do more, better, and faster, I embrace it.AI has been used to varying degrees in almost every aspect of this game's development, including software engineering, art, translation, ideation, research, and promotion.

Coding assistans, Concept Art

- Soundtrack: Most of the in-game music consists of <>, utilizing AI tools for upscaling purposes such as mixing and mastering. A few specific tracks were generated using AI, but these were also extensively arranged and edited by a human before inclusion. - Artwork: Character and background assets were developed using Image-to-Image (i2i) technology based on the developers' initial drafts. All generated drafts underwent comprehensive manual retouching, modification, and final polishing using image editing software.

AI assisted tools were utilized during development to help generate and refine various assets and ideas. All content was reviewed, edited, and integrated by the developer to ensure consistency with the game's design and vision.

Due to a complete lack of musical talent, or anything resembling a budget, all music (excluding SFX) currently within the game was made using generative AI.

This game uses AI-generated translations for Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese localizations. Some text has been refined with AI assistance.

The store page and the hero portraits in the game use AI-generated content.

AI-assisted tools were used during development for store page content creation and early concept exploration of certain in-game items.

Some card images uses AI art as reference.

WizKitty uses generative AI-assisted artwork for some visual assets. These assets were creatively directed, curated, edited, and integrated by the developer to fit the game’s visual style. WizKitty does not use live generative AI during gameplay.

Some of the visual assets in Iron Ledger, including the game icon and splash/menu artwork, were created with the assistance of generative AI image tools. All AI-assisted assets were reviewed and curated by the developer. No AI-generated content is produced live during gameplay.

AI was used to generate voices for the characters in this game. AI was heavily used in the work of translating from English to other languages.