Topology is immensely useful to describe reality.
kogasa
joined 2 years ago
Can't be repeating, but there could be some sort of non-repeating pattern as far as we know
I'm reading these wrong and it makes you sound like you have a speech impediment. So who's laughing now
You could use it as a dressing rather than a dip. Like sriracha or tabasco, but not spicy.
A placeholder isn't what they're working on either. It's a placeholder for something someone else is working on but hasn't completed yet.
It was a placeholder texture that was always intended to be replaced by actual art made by a human. It was overlooked accidentally and promptly replaced. So no, it isn't a very different thing. It was never supposed to be part of the game or even a significant part of its development.
A stance that is perfectly relatable in 2025, but not as much when Expedition 33 was in early development.
Teto
Why not? If the tools weren't available, they'd have used stock art or something super basic and crappy looking, which would've been just as good as a placeholder. But the tools were available.
In 2025 it makes sense for companies to have policies against using generative AI tools even for stuff like this because of the systemic effects of normalized use. But in 2022, it wouldn't have been a thing. Nobody would have thought twice about it. Just a neat new thing that does the job.
The only takeaway is that the Indie Game Awards' rule is overly restrictive. Woops, one of your contracted artists used a GenAI model to generate a music playlist to set the mood while he was working on your game, you're disqualified and the fact that you didn't come forward with this information immediately makes you a liar. Obviously absurd. If they're going to take a strong anti-AI stance, it should be more realistic. At some point, maybe even already, every single competitor should be disqualified but isn't aware or forthcoming about it, so what's the rule actually doing except rewarding dishonesty?
"the truth" being that a few generated placeholder textures were accidentally left in and promptly replaced? crazy
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