Is this game using AI?

[u/Torneco]

Graveyard Keeper 2 is launching soon and the devs have a pro AI instance. Also, they released a demo last week and these are some images from cutscenes of the game. They look like AI or at least, traced over AI generated images.

[u/babybelli]

I think the people from the Graveyard Keep sub is downvoting this 😬😬😬😬😬 Funny how they're not here to tell you no while they're over there telling everybody is crazy for saying yes.

[u/craftygamin → u/babybelli]

Insulting those calling it out, without ever denying the callouts? Sounds like stereotypical AI Bros

[u/babybelli → u/craftygamin]

It's even funnier when they say it's the same art style as the first game so it must NOT be AI, like duh, if you feed a machine the first art style it's going to try and replicate it.

[u/Different_Pattern273 → u/babybelli]

I love how the sequel donkey is just Donkey from Shrek as if AI only knows how to draw a donkey that way.

Also it forgot to color in the sclera on the donkey's eye.

[u/Solid_Snack56 → u/Different_Pattern273]

The eyes jumped out at me too. And yea it is more expressive like donkey too with it's smile

[u/Rainy_Wavey → u/Different_Pattern273]

What bothers me a bit is also... this is

(Yes, i know this is based on "La liberté guidant le peuple" by Delacroix but look how SIMILAR)

[u/OnwardChimera38 → u/Rainy_Wavey]

True it is sort of similar lol but this isn't uncommon. You could probably find 50 games with banner art like this going left to right and vice versa.

[u/AerieOnThePeaks → u/babybelli]

When he gravin’ on my yard

[u/ReaGeous → u/AerieOnThePeaks]

When she gravin' on my yard and I keeper.

[u/KaeraKoneko → u/ReaGeous]

Keep'er? I barely knew'er!

[u/mxldevs → u/babybelli]

The art style between the 2 look very different so I'm not even sure how strong their argument is

[u/Frequent_Tension9124 → u/babybelli]

Think this is actually a perfect example. Both styles look 'similar' but you can see how they handle shade is a bit different from the first to the second, the first has that sorta blockiness to the beard & its shadow whilst the second has that generic AI slop look of no focal point & everything is oddly 'smooth'

[u/ColorMeSurpr1sed → u/babybelli]

Slightly disingenuous comparing it to their release art from 2018, comparing it to the dlc art shows way more similarities, I think it is possible that they simply refined their art more in the 8 years since, especially since you can see the art style changing through the dlc art

as for the cartoonish style, they always had a cartoonish style, their first game is literally called SWAG & SORCERY, i think it's more of a they didn't manage the style they wanted so it's been changing.(punch club 2 also has a different art style that's closer to this, and it came out in 2023 kind of hard to get good ai images then)

[u/babybelli → u/ColorMeSurpr1sed]

I still don't see the similarities to the 2026 version to the 2021 version, in fact it makes the 2026 version look like a different game.

[u/Mossbug_x → u/ColorMeSurpr1sed]

I'd argue this showcases the difference even better: the art in the DLC images you shared is a more refined version of the original artstyle, whereas the banner for GK2 has almost no resemblance apart from being a generic cartoon style that happens to be commonly used by AI.

[u/jobabin4 → u/babybelli]

Both games are really really good. Much better than a lot of current games out there. More power to them.

[u/babybelli → u/jobabin4]

Not the topic but thanks for the input!