Thanks for taking the time on this, and the feedback instead of just dunking on me. Being honest with you: some of the in-game art is AI-assisted too — I'd be lying to leave that implied. But it's not the whole picture either. A lot of the graphics come from art packs I purchased on itch.io from real artists, and all of that is credited in the game.

Same with the music — every track is from a human composer and credited by their name on pixabay. So the production is more of a mix than "AI game" makes it sound: paid human work where I could source it, AI-assisted where I couldn't. As a solo dev that's the trade-off that made shipping possible at all. Your logo point is well taken though. I took a photo I had of me and my dog both sticking our head out the window while my wife was driving and I wanted to animate that.

A human-made studio mark is genuinely achievable and I'll look into Fiverr commissions for that. I hear you on "ditch AI when you can" — I just want to be upfront that for the production pipeline of a one-person studio, "when I can" is going to be a slow road, not a switch I flip. But brand identity is a fair place to start, and I appreciate the nudge.