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Chrome Circuit is developed by a solo developer who uses generative AI as part of the production pipeline. Character and environment sprite art was created using AI image generation, then processed, edited, and integrated by hand. Portions of the game's code were written with AI assistance under the developer's direction, with all systems designed, reviewed, and tested by the developer. All AI-generated content is created during development ("pre-generated") — the game does not generate any content while you play, and no AI runs on your machine. Game design, writing, and all creative decisions are the work of the developer.

Generative artificial intelligence was used during the process of creating the game's graphical elements. It was used to generate concepts and 2D graphics, which were then further manually edited and adapted to the needs of the project. The modified graphics were used as backgrounds in the game's main menu.

Holiday Alliance uses generative AI to help produce character art, map backgrounds, and music/SFX. All game design, level design, balance, dialogue, and final art/audio selection were done by the developer, with every AI-generated asset reviewed and revised before inclusion.

This game was created in collaboration with my friend Claude Code.Listen.. I know AI is hated by the community, but I am a single developer with limited time and i wanted to make my progress during that time more efficient.The direction comes from my side and the passion for this project is still real.

The pictures in the journal are created by AI.

Generative AI tools were used during the production of the game’s original soundtrack. The compositions and melodies were written by the developer, who also performed and recorded the vocals. Suno Studio was used specifically to enhance individual audio stems from these original recordings, rather than to generate the underlying musical compositions or melodies.The resulting audio was reviewed and edited by the developer before being included in the soundtrack.

Generative AI was used to assist in creating selected pre-rendered visual assets for marketing. Star Claw does not generate content using AI while the game is running.

All AI involvement is pre-generated and human-reviewed: nothing is generated while you play, the game runs no AI models, and it never sends your data anywhere.Specifically, AI was used to draft some static artwork objects, the first-pass translations for non-English languages, and synthesizing the games soundtrack (I'm not a musician and can't afford one). Every sprite, track and translation in the game was directed, reviewed, edited, and approved by an actual person before it went in.

Ai was used to support humans in developing the code, artwork, various events, music and dialogue in the game. Text that players see was reviewed by humans and and was approved, improved, or rewritten by humans. There is no run-time AI usage, everything was created before the game runs, only standard computer actions are done at runtime. ex. selections and randomization of existing content.

Leveraged AIGC tools to assist with the creation of the Steam store page, marketing assets, promotional videos, in-game UI/GUI elements, visual assets, and parts of the frontend implementation.

Some of the game's visual assets (character/enemy sprites and cinematic illustrations) were created with the help of generative AI image tools. Part of the localization (French translation) was produced with AI assistance. All AI-generated content was reviewed and approved by the developer. No content is generated by AI live during gameplay.

As a solo dev, I use generative AI to help with some coding, visual and audio assets. Every AI asset was selected, refined, and directed by me. No AI content is generated when playing the game.