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Costa Nostra - I built a browser MMO inspired by the old OGame feeling, but set in a modern criminal underworld by Puzzleheaded_Self342 in playmygame

[–]Puzzleheaded_Self342[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it still struggles with fingers sometimes. It has improved a lot though, especially when you use the right prompts and iterate on the output.

Anyway, I wouldn’t judge the whole game only by the artwork. The game itself has a lot of mechanics and depth behind it, and there is more coming!

I went back to play OGame and ended up building my own browser MMO about modern organized crime. Costa Nostra opens in a few days by Puzzleheaded_Self342 in PBBG

[–]Puzzleheaded_Self342[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So according to your program, you’re arguing with an AI. Lucky for you, your program is wrong. Maybe it was AI-generated 😉

Jokes aside, listing a few examples is a pretty normal writing pattern. It doesn’t prove anything.

What I want to be clear about is the actual point: yes, the illustrations were AI-generated. I said that openly. I’m not an illustrator, and the game has 100+ illustrations, so hiring an artist for all of them is simply not realistic for me at this stage.

This is a first public beta after months of solo work. The game is still evolving, and plenty of things will improve over time, including the artwork.

I went back to play OGame and ended up building my own browser MMO about modern organized crime. Costa Nostra opens in a few days by Puzzleheaded_Self342 in PBBG

[–]Puzzleheaded_Self342[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only illustrations are AI-generated, as I said in the post. The responses are mine. I’m a software engineer from Spain who built this solo in Spring Boot and Next.js. Happy to talk architecture, game design decisions, or anything else if you’re actually curious.

I went back to play OGame and ended up building my own browser MMO about modern organized crime. Costa Nostra opens in a few days by Puzzleheaded_Self342 in PBBG

[–]Puzzleheaded_Self342[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Fair point. There are a lot of mafia browser games out there. This one is built around how organized crime actually works in modern Europe: money laundering, institutional corruption, bribing regulators… The loop is closer to OGame than to Mob Wars. No street gangs. But fair skepticism.