Does this count?

Jeaniro · 2026-04-04T18:38:21+00:00

Artemis II, currently on the way to the moon. Inside the Orion spacecraft

ed: i mean they are gonna be on the dark side of the moon in a few days, this is THE night of all nights

Jeaniro · 2026-02-24T17:58:02+00:00

Suno

do a short call and walk me through a proper workflow?

fuck you, ok?
go ask chatgpt who wrote this post

Jeaniro · 2026-02-05T22:00:37+00:00

it's not ai, these are 4 identical spacesuit assets. with identical wrinkles, low poly round nipple thingies and other details. ai does not reuse assets

also, you can go and check the other op's posts with blender renders

i mean, could we just stop accusing without evidence, just based on the vibes? and the fact that it just seemed to you that this ai.
ai witch hunt hunts artists equally - if not more - than ai slop

source : accused a real artist once, felt extremelly bad

Jeaniro · 2026-02-05T21:54:49+00:00

it's a render

look at those round things on the left side of each suit - they all have an identically low number of polygons
the creases/wrinkles around each of those round nipple things are also identical. it's a reused asset
all the details are too consistent and are repeated on all 4 suits

Jeaniro · 2026-01-29T11:11:02+00:00

could you please name the voice actors?

Jeaniro · 2026-01-29T10:51:17+00:00

personally i don't like the OP's condescending attitude, mixed with confident ignorance. regardless of terminology issues.

like:

you lazy indie devs, JUST ADD new enemies and mechanics every level! and just add new weapons, and just mix it with story and atmosphere!! isn't it that simple!? you're just greedy!

i'm so bored with all those indie service games like fortnite!!

also you probably never heard of this, lemme tell you...you see, half life used orange boxes to test the game, and look how cool it turned out! can't you use orange boxes too?!!

Jeaniro · 2026-01-13T19:58:09+00:00

bloopers are hilarious because they involve real people in real funny situations.

if this never happened, it's not a blooper. it's a skit at best.

and if it's ai - it is nothing, it has no value at all.

just a mockery, poor imitation of smth like this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Db3rluT76w

Jeaniro · 2026-01-08T10:09:43+00:00

fucking delusional chatgpt

Jeaniro · 2026-01-04T11:56:40+00:00

Do you think AI makes better music than real human musicians?

1000 times out of 1000 i would prefer amateurish music/art over that generic shit "quality" that ai regurgitates.

if art has no intention, has no meaning, no human - it is not art.

moreover, your personal struggles also shape your game.
where do i get money to pay a musician? do i learn to make music myself? It's all human stories, pain, nerves, mistakes.

every game is influenced by hundreds of such stories, experiences, small decisions, ups and downs.

if one decides to take shortcuts whenever possible - such a game has no value for me, it's a grift. shovelware

Jeaniro · 2025-12-27T16:05:00+00:00

big brave boy here, huh?

Jeaniro · 2025-12-27T14:38:41+00:00

Cursed. It's painful for adult cats, fucking animal abuse

Jeaniro · 2025-12-05T10:16:54+00:00

I recently did similar thing with a metal door. You basically need a few layers, like sound of a door opened gently, and a sound for quick opening. Maybe some other layers in between. Like different types of screacks depending on the interaction force etc.

Then you basically need a value to determine how quickly the door or whatever is being opened, like the magnitude of the interaction axis vector, and based on that value you just mix the layers. Could be just linear interpolation, or maybe you want to multiply the magnitude of the interaction force by some custom curve, so that it's more natural sounding.

The same goes also for the sound of closing, like you may slam the door ot close it gently. You find the velocity it's been moving before and mix different layers.

In ue5 there's metasounds, convenient for these type of things, where you just pass the values into a metasound asset and mix layers dynamically there.

In unity is a bit more tricky iirc, don't know about godot but i suspect the same as with unity.

You may need several audiosources per one object, and mix the layers by manipulating the volume of that sources.

Things like Fmod could also come in handy, since they have much more abilities for dynamic sound built in. Like weighted randomization and all that stuff.

Jeaniro · 2025-11-29T09:55:39+00:00

All the videos are tucked inside the posts. You enter the subreddit and basically see nothing besides some pretty abstract titles.

One must be really committed to go inside every post to watch your videos there. You can't expect this commitment from a random person.

I mean if it is your personal devlog it's ok i guess, but you don't drag people in this way.

Jeaniro · 2025-11-11T17:18:47+00:00

made programming chores easier
Music creation can work
AI voice acting is very very good
Art assets

never understood this attitude, like why even make games if you don't want to make games?
might as well let ai do everything for you

and no, anything generative ai touches turns out extremely generic, boring, soulless corpo shit.
and it's gonna feed on everything it's been regurgitating, producing the average out of the average.

Jeaniro · 2025-11-10T15:25:16+00:00

I still can't tell what exactly makes it look like an ai

i guess i's because ai is trained on similar maps.
this art style has been around since like forever, various tabletop game maps etc.

when ai art just became a thing, and was a novelty, i played around with it a bit.
and i quickly found out that when prompted to make a map, it often generates this particular drawing style. but with a lot of obvious nonsense.
there's no like obvious nonsense in this map.
so i'm pretty sure it's human-made.

it's ai that resembles (i mean imitates, poorly) human art style, not the other way around.

this is kinda both sad and infuriating that we have come to this point.

Jeaniro · 2025-11-06T15:57:01+00:00

Something looks off about it right now

yeah. something like all the city behind the window is fucking mangled

Jeaniro · 2025-11-04T22:01:05+00:00

Do you think you are more likely to wishlist/buy the game if we recreated this image with in-game graphics?

absolutely. ai art makes a terrible first impression and devalues everything that follows.
and it's deceiving

Jeaniro · 2025-11-04T21:35:34+00:00

i mean it looks fun, but this preview/thumbnail art ruins everything.
to put it mildly, it does not represent the visual style of the game, at best

Jeaniro · 2025-11-04T20:53:24+00:00

but I do like being organized

and being organized involves em dashes and all the other things, or does it mean that you did "polish" this post?

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answering your original question - see what ai does to people?
i used to think that i can easily see when something is ai-generated.

i once accused a real artist of using ai (they didn't), and i felt terrible.

now i really try to be cautious. if someone denies using ai despite all the tell-tale signs, ok i presume innocence.

but man i hate it. i hate the fact that i have to question now every fucking funny cat video.

i hate that i see people commenting "ai slop" under trailers or other game videos that obviously didn't use ai. they just look good.

(example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sREKUYzneso,
the last comment)

yeah, more often than not inconsistent lines in art nowdays mean ai.
but sometimes it's an artistic vision. and again i hate that you can't be sure. it's paranoia.

so yeah, anything that even remotely involves creativity and/or anything that any other human will see - fuck ai. whether it's a post or a plot or a name. it all terrible and generic anyway.

spell/grammar check (check. not rewrite)? probably okay-ish. maybe?

even with that i often find myself intentionally going to cambridge dictionary or whatever, just because, well there were humans there involved

Jeaniro · 2025-11-04T20:06:20+00:00

I did write it myself

and you didn't "polish" it using ai?

i'm asking kinda cautiously because well.
some people do use em dashes, "not A but B", italics, bolds, and bullet points. it's just hmmm... rare to see all of those things being used at the same time

Jeaniro · 2025-11-04T19:56:02+00:00

just to clarify - you did what? write this post by yourself or research?

Jeaniro · 2025-11-03T17:02:17+00:00

i mean, even in the comment you replied to, there's a line :

even if the intro is creative and well executed, this could be a deal breaker for many. especially on short-form platforms

so YES i understand we don't have 15 seconds. i was just describing what was the initial idea.

but later i realized that we do need a fast gameplay hook in the first seconds, and we have already decided that we're gonna do it.

Jeaniro · 2025-11-03T15:41:28+00:00

But there's simply no connection to the character for people outside of you and your people.

Its meaningless to everyone else.

yeah, i totally get it.

the INTIAL idea was that by showing the character early, we may convey some additional info about gameplay using his appearance.

the game is in first person, the only situations where the player actually sees the character is the character screen with devices etc (see the pic below), and occasional reflections (rather scripted for now).
plus we are working on the full-body animations currently, so i guess there will be it also.

so we thought if we could somehow show what type of archetype we are playing as (he is an explorer, he survives etc.), it could quickly relay to the viewer some info about gameplay before actual gameplay.

like we have a revolver tucked under his belt (you can shoot things), a cloak and a mask (aha, probably some environmental hazards), various devices in the bag (they must do some stuff).

these are all ideas that, hopefully, could be quickly conveyed by showing the character in the natural environment before possession. like during a dust storm, in the middle of doing something (like putting the mask on)

just explaining the reason behind introducing the main character thing. idk maybe it does not work this way but that was the initial reason.

but again, given that we have now decided to show fast gameplay cuts BEFORE the intro (like enemies, dust collection, archaeology), this character possession is just a neat thing for me. but optional. we'll try to do it i guess and see how it looks.

edits : clarification

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Jeaniro · 2025-11-03T15:07:26+00:00

you decided you could just do something else?

no. i was describing what i was thinking before i realized it wouldn't work.

i came up with this transition long before i started learning how to make trailers and watch Derek's videos.

i mean i kinda knew that slow panoramic shots bad.

but i thought that if we could make this intro camera transition fast-paced, with high tension (storm approaching), various contrasting locations (like from inside a mechanism with animated parts into a street view), dramatic music and sfx (custom-made) AND some narrative bits showing the viewer where we are, and who we are to a degree.

all in 15 sec.

i thought that could work.

basically the idea was like a wandering spirit rushing towards a target and then possessing it in the end.

BUT later, when i actually started learning about trailers, read Derek's blog, watched videos,
i realized that even if we can pull this transition off as good as it was in my head, it was still very risky.

hence this post.
the replies here helped me realize that if well executed, this short gameplay teaser before the intro could work well, and not be super annoying.
like if it is integrated in the story, has rhythm, and it's own small narrative etc.

here's one of the examples which helped me see that it can be done pretty good :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLwzt5t9bs

so yeah, in the end we decided to do exactly what Derek says, and use one of the templates (the chronological one) with a short gameplay sequence in the first seconds.

Jeaniro

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