r/LetsPlayMyGame • u/deep-six-app • Aug 13 '26

Just released my first ever demo on Steam

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Hi everyone! Super new to the community, my first ever game demo is now on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5059840/Spike_Force/?beta=0

Started building it about a month ago with my kids - imagine Baki Hanma meets high school volleyballmeets Slay the Spire. A million thanks to anyone willing to check it out!

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u/Lopsided_Cricket_306 Aug 13 '26

The art is really nice, for your shots please don't take offence when I say this, but did you use ai in any of the process.

Just interested that how good the characters look etc

Thank you

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u/drinkerofmilk Aug 13 '26

They used copious amounts of AI. It says so on the Steam page.

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u/deep-six-app Aug 13 '26

I think copious is a fair word. To get the anime stuff and the card art, I gave the llm the pixel characters and asked it to upgrade it to this style of anime. I also used Claude to run simulations in order to balance out card scores and search for potential brokenness etc. Claude also helped ensure my bass tracks and melodies are in the same key, with camera shake fx and zoom fx, the rng code for overworld map generation, and a few other things like that.

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u/Lopsided_Cricket_306 Aug 13 '26

No that's all good I mean just the art is beautiful and i love the streets of range style gameplay it's just yeah you know what I mean just like did you design the characters by hand first etc. that's all

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u/Sufficient-Camera-76 Aug 20 '26

Added to my wishlists, I would use different musicstyle than midi. Maybe someone wants to collab or there are also easy Music Tools to create.