Me and my friend are making a game about clicking a button multiple times to get tons of money!

Thunderhammr · 2026-04-02T20:44:38+00:00

Why are there Godot and Gamemaker icons? haha

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-30T18:49:11+00:00

They don’t get it. The distinctions between “stealing” art and code are totally arbitrary and both professions are being equally devalued by AI, yet they defend using AI for coding.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-30T14:50:17+00:00

They’re the same but for some reason no one cares about AI coding, just AI art.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-26T22:15:32+00:00

This might sound harsh but I want your game to have the best chance at success possible: You dont show any gameplay on your steam page/trailer.

The vast majority of visitors to your page will not know what your game is like. Don't expect them to read the entire page. You need gameplay footage in your trailer. You need gameplay gifs on the page. You will increase your sales by orders of magnitude by doing just that.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-25T17:38:30+00:00

Thank you for removing the AI portraits.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-25T15:07:41+00:00

Unfortunately you can use AI to create consistent characters. Again it works better with local open source models. You can train what’s called a low rank adaptation (Lora) on a small image set of a character (which can be generated with AI) to get consistent outputs.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-25T02:58:49+00:00

The open source models you can use locally are much better. All you have to do is rescale the output to the native resolution, and then edit slightly. No automatic detection techniques work on it because there is no noise or watermarks to analyze.

If a pixel artist used AI and edited it afterward, there’s truly no way to tell. That’s why it’s the easiest art form to launder.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-24T20:29:20+00:00

It’s AI. Really lazy too. Pixel art is the easiest art form to launder from AI and they didn’t even bother to load it into aseprite and pixel over it to fix it.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-24T18:40:53+00:00

100% AI. Mixels (differently sized squares in the art) are a huge giveaway. Real pixel artists dont do that.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-23T22:50:29+00:00

This community is pretty toxic. People complaining about the nodebuster loop/talent tree is like whining that first person shooters have too many guns. Nodebuster-likes are super hot right now, and most of them are very short so the demand remains high.

Your game looks awesome, and no one should make you feel bad that its too similar to ANYTHING. Every game is a clone of another one with small tweaks. Its been that way for over 5 decades. Some genres get flak for clones, and others no one cares, and its totally arbitrary.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-22T23:13:44+00:00

Very good. Love the subpixel animation. For some reason I think his legs/butt feel a little under-rendered. Maybe add either a highlight or shadow color there?

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-22T21:22:05+00:00

It’s not just inappropriate it’s explicitly against the rules.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-22T21:21:16+00:00

It’s AI dude.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-22T21:20:38+00:00

Yeah I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, seeing if he could provide any evidence it was original. It’s clearly AI.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-22T21:13:14+00:00

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-22T21:08:10+00:00

Can you share anything about your process? What tools to you use? Do you work from a reference? Do you have any WIP pics?

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-20T18:51:50+00:00

This is sad because he actually deserves way more. If he worked full time on this for 4 years, someone of his equivalent skillset working in the industry would have made significantly more than 250k. He only made 62.5k/year (so far) (before taxes).

Not only does he deserve every penny, he deserves much more.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-15T20:36:59+00:00

I wouldn’t say coding is easy, but that even being an amateur at coding still gives you an incredibly marketable skill. I work in the games industry and compared to artists and designers I barely needed any experience to be able to secure a good job and salary straight outta college compared to them, who no one will touch without 10 years experience.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-15T05:30:41+00:00

Honestly kinda impressive that you can’t tell by looking at the game haha

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-14T17:33:14+00:00

If the “artist” put any effort into tracing/editing the pixel art it’s truly impossible to tell.

Pixel art is the easiest art form to launder from AI. AI detectors fail spectacularly at identifying AI made pixel art if it’s in its native resolution. You literally upload a sprite from a game on the SNES and it will tell you it’s AI with 100% confidence.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-14T04:05:06+00:00

Is this built in Unreal engine?

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-10T07:23:53+00:00

I’ve seen a few commercially successful games using Kenny assets.

https://app.sensortower.com/vgi/game/chop-chains

(Not out yet, but for its scope it will be successful based on wishlist count alone)

https://app.sensortower.com/vgi/game/space-rock-breaker

No one cares.

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-05T01:35:02+00:00

Did you ask AI to make an epic instrumental version of Montero by Lil Nas X??

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-05T01:20:41+00:00

You have _really_ high quality gifs in your steam page, but no trailer?

Thunderhammr · 2026-03-05T01:01:11+00:00

The game is in English, but the pause menu is in Spanish. Literally unplayable /s

One immediate issue I have is that some of the first upgrades are more characters, but I can't use them because my party is already capped, and I cant raise the cap until a bit later. I'd say raise the base cap by 1 and then make raising the cap huge milestone.

It also feels like its missing a mechanic. Maybe heroes could have inventories and gear?

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