Skip to main content

On Sale: GamesAssetsToolsTabletopComics
Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
(2 edits) (+2)

as an indie game dev who's still currently learning the godot engine, i sometimes use gen ai like chatgpt to fix bugs in some parts of my own handwritten code when i myself can't see the problem and/or the solution, which can be a great learning tool btw. i do agree that using gen ai for most of anything in a game is just flat out wrong ( ai "art" especially ),  but gen ai can be helpful in very specific situations, like needing some specific mechanic that you don't got a clue how to make yourself, and asking gen ai to help a bit instead of scouring the internet for hours trying to find some unhelpful tutorial or somewhat similar code. but making games with 10% or more of gen ai is nearly impossible, gen ai isn't nearly good enough to be able to make a functioning game without heavy modification. and btw, indie game devs have been "borrowing" others code for years before gen ai even existed, so good luck finding much indie games that don't contain stolen code ( well, at least any small indie games, i'm not saying it's impossible tho ).now, my personal opinion on gen ai is it should die in a hole and never come back, but it can still be useful in certain situations. p.s. don't mean to sound mean or condescending here, just replying to this comment with some knowledge and opinions from my own mushed up brain.

(+10)

Yeah, this is going to hurt you more than it will help.  Like for me, just admitting to using chatgpt of all things to fix bugs has had me write off any game you will ever touch as not being worth it.  Even without the ethical issues of gen AI being plagiarism machines, they aren't reliable.  Chatgpt is going to fix things that don't need fixing, find problems that don't exist, etc. because it's not a real thinking thing.  It's predictive text.  It's trying to guess at what *should* be there without understanding the context or function of things around it.  I do hope you reconsider and find a way to do the bug testing yourself, genai is just poison to any project that uses it, ethically, functionally, and publicity wise as well.