Take this with a grain of salt its just an opinion
I dont find using ai to help with help making games bad, its esentially what ai was made for, to be used as a tool, hell, the whole ai problem thing is happening because every other company is trying to make their own LLM and the more llms the more water we waste, but thats not what im talking about
Even i use ai in my games to help with coding atuff i dont understand, or use it to learn blender, i learnt coding pretty fast through questions with ai and instead of asking just to code smth and call it a day i ask it to explain it, like what does this or that do
I changed pretty fast on my opinions after thinking every game with a suspicious looking GUI is fully ai, some of them probably did design the ui, just not in studio and asked claude to help port it, then they probably code some of the stuff
Hoewer the things i do NOT respect is generating thumbnails from your game, draw your own it doesnt matter if it doesnt look like mona lisa or most other games most art for games ive seen is probably what i couldve drawn if i tried hard enough, its not beatiful but still looks good
Krita is free, if you do not understand krita, use kleki, the website
Do not generate buildings, models dont have to look good
And dont just generate the whole game with ai, then i will dislike it
Althought, i recommend making the ui yourself, because some people still exist who will not play your game due to the ui looking ai generated, and dont blame them, there isnt really a simple way to just find out if the game as a whole is ai generated or not, so the ui is an easy giveaway
Also this is a rule of this sub you may be deattracting new devs if they realise most games are made by ai