Making a game takes many types of artistry, and no game can be fully completed without at least five different types of creative input.
You need:
Planning, Concepts, Scripting, Writing, World building, Programming, UI-conceptualization and utilization, Art and asset direction, Visual artistry (digital or manual) and so much more to complete a game experience that people will enjoy.
While there are obviously those out there that can do many of these things to perfection (or at least half decently), most normal human beings have strengths and weaknesses. I myself think I am pretty good at world building, a decent writer and planner, and I can do decent styling or UI for games. I have made games in about 8 different game engines (not all linked to the fetish community) and have helped many others get off the ground by providing my services in what I know for free to those who have needed or wanted it.
I can however not for the life of me draw anything but simple sketches unless it’s of something like an oak cabinet or a dog house. Visual art is, and will probably always be, my Achilles heel. For the projects I have released on this site where the love for the fetish community and providing an experience I would enjoy myself has usually come first I’ve chosen to use AI to provide the parts I can’t supply my projects with myself (images). That still means however that I have provided all the other aspects to these games entirely on my own time and with my own skill. Doesn’t that at least deserve a little recognition?
I have played a lot of the games on here. Never think I played one where every part of the game was amazing. Usually you get a two out of three ratio of good to bad. Pick two: Writing, Art and Gameplay. You usually don’t get a game where all three feels perfect, and that is certainly also true about my own output as well.
I fully agree the use of AI should be tagged. I also fully agree it is each person’s choice if they want to play a game that uses AI or not. However: using the logic of “all AI bad” to put down all the other work a single dev puts into releasing something for us to enjoy, is the kind of thing I see hurting the community in the long run. Sooner or later the ideas and creativity new members lacking a certain skill do have will be stifled, and the output of games will start to die. We all take those first waddling steps before running, and AI is a tool that can be used to prevent a complete nosedive in that situation. Remember that a lot of the guys making games on here are like me: a guy with normal life commitments besides grinding on their latest hobby project and that really just love to make their own little universes for people to play in.
No: that does not mean having AI do all the development for you is ok, but maybe having it help with the one thing you can’t quite do is ok sometimes if it lets you and others enjoy something that otherwise wouldn’t have existed.
Now: let us unclench our collected anuses (ani?) just enough our rage-boners die down a bit. Art doesn’t have to be deathly serious, or of the highest quality, all the time. Some people just prefer a good burger to a full steak dinner, and I’ve certainly enjoyed a lot of B and C flicks way more than the big AAA titles in my lifetime. Let’s boot up a few slightly dodgy .exe files, load a mod or play a few badly scripted renpy games we found on this forum and lets just enjoy ourselves. After all: Isn’t that what this site is supposed to be all about?
-WeirdoBeardo89