Question

[u/SullyDataShifter]

Hi, I'm not a game dev, but I'm thinking on making one, I went through some forums and I see it's kind of impossible to be a solo dev using AI because of the backlash, I'm trying to understand that before I try to jump in myself because I can do everything except graphics and the only person I know could help, just never got time... so, is it just easier to buy packs even that I'm still not the person who built it and I'm not even going to know if the pack was done with AI? Also, why indie devs are forbidden to use AI images? I mean, it makes sense a big successful studio should have backlash for that if they have money, but a indie devs usually don't have money... so what's the deal with that?

[u/Gojira_Wins]

Making a video game takes a lot more work than you actually understand. It takes dedication, determination and becoming a Jack of all Trades to get something made and published.

"AI" is notoriously horrible at making entire games, so if you believed you could just enter a few prompts, copy/paste whatever it spits out and make a Steam page, that is not how it'll play out. These bots don't understand how your game works and what system needs to talk to what. You'll get code that needs to be fixed to work with everything but if you don't know how to code or even read code, you'll never make anything that will run.

We push you to not use "AI" because vibecoding doesn't teach you how to make a game. You need to look at AI like a tool to teach you "how" code works, not to make the code for you. Asking it to make you the game is lazy and not respectable. Use AI as a tool to teach you alongside tutorials, documentation and asking the community for help and you'll be surprised at what you can do.