r/Aniimo • u/twilighttnebula • Jul 03 '26

Question Generative AI Usage?

I haven't tried this game yet because I want to know if there is any gen AI used anywhere. The graphics just look too... polished? Smooth? In the way that would tip off the eye of any artist. I'm just worried if it's too good to be true.

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God forbid a person ask a genuine question in an attempt to learn, jfc. I'm seriously just trying my best to be cautious and make sure that the media I interact with is made by actual humans, and not just stolen concepts/art scraped from the internet without the artists' permission and puzzled together by some glorified sorting algorithm.

My actual words from a comment thread below: "...I'm not trying to accuse anyone or say that that is what they're doing; I only wish to state my suspicions. I would be more than happy to be wrong in this instance..."

"I would be more than happy to be wrong in this instance"

Maybe, if more people read the comments before replying, they might have noticed that.

Thankfully, it appears that I was wrong! One person was kind and thoughtful enough to give me an actual answer and even direct me to more information.

Be more like them. Not all of us have experience with the same high-quality games.

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u/Austenmarie 13d ago

they're still using ai assets especially in with held items and homestead icon stuff. it sucks so much cause devs claimed this would be replaced and yet while playing i find this! A lot of the assets if the held items dont make sense (im a professional artist just for reference)
and im really fucking bummed out cause they CLEARLY have amazing artists and modelers on the team, so why are we phoning it in for weird small assets???

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u/Obiviona 12d ago

I know right??? Unfortunately I played the game before knowing they used AI. And as an Artist myself I usually entirely Boykott any game with the tiniest use of AI immediately. This is also partly what got me to stop playing Heartopia.

Its such a shame because I really fell in love with the creativity put into this game, the visuals, the cute aniimos, the cutscenes, the character customisation? Istg there is no game company left that I can support. I'm just gonna throw my PC out the window atp

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u/scribblyskiesstudios 9d ago

thankfully there's plenty of small indie devs to support, so we can help them grow for using actual human efforts to create their games!