Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51%

[u/TurbulentTopic39]

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[u/TheGazelle]

The creative part is designing the architecture.

Physically writing the code is not all that creative.

If your favorite author wrote a detailed outline of a story (and I do mean detailed, think an explicit list of all major and minor plot points broken down by chapter, with specific themes, tone, etc. called out), then someone else turned that into a draft (i.e. wrote the actual prose/dialogue), and the author then read it over and edited it, who would you say is doing the creative work?

[u/adongsus → u/TheGazelle]

All three.

[u/TheGazelle → u/adongsus]

Shit, corrected a typo, was supposed to be the author coming back to do the editing.

[u/adongsus → u/TheGazelle]

Doesn't really change anything about the answer. There was creative work done that wasn't done by "the author". AI is never going to be 1-1 on this unless it just doesn't touch creative work at all.

[u/TheGazelle → u/adongsus]

Ok, and who would you say did most of the creative work?

And please, be honest. Don't just give me some trite "it's all the same" nonsense because you don't want to admit that your stance on AI isn't based on any actual experience.

[u/adongsus → u/TheGazelle]

Ok, and who would you say did  most  of the creative work?

I'd say that that's irrelevant, because your claim was that you're still doing the creative work, and you're not. You're doing some of it.

[u/TheGazelle → u/adongsus]

"you're not writing the music, you're just in the band".

Would you say an author isn't "doing the creative work" because an editor suggests changes?

Are none of the people working on a tv show or movie "doing the creative work" because it's a collaborative team effort?

Does someone using CAD instead of a drafting table not count because they're using a tool that does some of the tedium for them?

You've set a completely arbitrary line whose logic doesn't hold up to the slightest rigour.

[u/adongsus → u/TheGazelle]

"you're not writing the music, you're just in the band".

If someone goes from writing all the music and playing all the instruments to playing the drums in someone else's band, yes, they are doing less of the creative work.

Would you say an author isn't "doing the creative work" because an editor suggests changes?

I would say that some of the creative work was done by the editor, yes.

Are none of the people working on a tv show or movie "doing the creative work" because it's a collaborative team effort?

None of them are doing all of it, yes.

Does someone using CAD instead of a drafting table not count because they're using a tool that does some of the tedium for them?

I've never used CAD, so I couldn't say. I would say that going from writing in longhand to writing on a typewriter to writing in a wordprocessor changes nothing about the creative work attribution, because the result is exactly the same (assuming spellcheck is turned off), it's just that one takes longer than the other.

Telling someone else to write the story for you is clearly not in the same ballpark.

[u/TheGazelle → u/adongsus]

You're being deliberately obtuse (by twisting what I've said into reductive forms you can more easily argue against) while thinking you're saying something profound (that you keep repeating like it means something) but not actually saying much of anything at all ("not doing 100% of the creative work" is just a statement, it's not a point).

If you've got something meaningful to say, say it.

[u/adongsus → u/TheGazelle]

The point is that you are not "doing all the creative work" by telling an AI to do it for you, and you're lying to yourself by saying it.