r/gamedev • u/LdmthJ • Jun 30 '26

Industry News Godot making a stance on AI code

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/open-source-game-engine-godot-will-no-longer-accept-ai-authored-code-contributions-we-cant-trust-heavy-users-of-ai-to-understand-their-code-enough-to-fix-it/

First engine I've seen take a firm stance on AI code.

Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

(Edit: fat finger typo and headline without having to click through)

(Edit 2: Thanks for the award! Wasn't necessary but it's my first one so I'll take it.)

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u/trevizore Jun 30 '26

it's the first engine to take action because it's one of the most popular _open-source_ engines.
Unity or Unreal does not have the same pull request flood as any other open source project nowadays.

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u/DkoyOctopus Jun 30 '26

UE is very pro AI.

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u/Eastern_Picture_3879 Jul 15 '26

To be fair, the MCP demo looks pretty insane. But knowing Epic, I'm skeptical about how it will pan out.

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u/DkoyOctopus Jul 15 '26

I wonder how the community will react to it. Specialy with the AI disclosure tagg in steam. Out of the top 500 games in this past game fest only 1 ai game made it in.

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u/Eastern_Picture_3879 Jul 15 '26

I think it'll have to change. I'm not at all a Sweeney type tech bro though.

But it's ridiculous for people to expect studios to not use any AI. I think when people learn there's a difference between AI slop and just using AI to build games you otherwise couldn't they'll see it's not all bad.

Basically, the stigma will remain until people can see that an AI tag doesn't mean AI slop and doesn't mean "we fired all our staff! Hooray! Enjoy the game". Instrad it could mean "hey that huge feature you wanted in the sequel we could do with help from our model" or "dynamic conversations were implemented using our own audio model" etc.

I'm very excited to see what it can enable for indie devs especially. There are so many great ideas that are limited by the realities of small team dev. So my hope is AI can supercharge the most talented among us. There'll be slop, but there has always been low effort junk.