I Let AI Design All My Game Assets

Can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to generate 2D game art?

After struggling to create quality 2D art for a small space shooter project in Godot 4, I take my chances with Artistic ALgorithm or AAL 9000 (DALL-E 2) to help me create some quick 2D game art to plug into my game.

Will AAL 9000 put game artists out of a job and help me develop an awesome game with no artistic help on my part?

**All game assets were actually created with DALL-E 2 by OpenAI and Midjourney.

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Godot is a 2D and 3D engine initially released in 2014 and is currently awaiting a stable 4.0 release with additional features.

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[stayathomedev]

Let me know what you think about using AI generated art in game development? Useful? Ethically grey? Waste of time?

I was honestly pretty impressed with what the AI was able to come up with! Game-ready? Not sure but I think it has some utility for game devs.

Thanks for watching!

[thechaxxe]

DUDE ! I absolutely love your videos, they’re so much more than game dev logs, your personality shines through them.

[piousthepious]

Btw your video quality is great, I’ve been loving your videos. This is just a topic I’m particularly interested in especially since I’m in law school with a game dev hobby

[pingpongvillageboy]

Is physics also included or should we programme it?

[alexsilva]

Fantastic! It needs a million views! This video is incredibly produced! Thank you so much!

[metal-matze]

That was great! I had the same idea letting an AI made sprites/art for me since I am not good at it.

[piousthepious]

My thoughts:
Useful - Sure but there’s issues with utility especially since there may be a lack of distinctive style.
Ethically grey - Perhaps depending on the amount of work you put in to make it your own. Especially what kind of images are fed into it. If it’s fed 1000s of real artists works, it’s essentially taking elements of those artists and appropriating parts depending on the prompts, devaluing the work of the existing artists unless you put enough input to make it distinctive like a photobash. Also if you fed it your own art, effectively you’re generating new art out of your own input, making it more your own.

There’s also legal questions in the air, who owns the copyright. I feel like making game art with AI imagery might put your own game at risk of being freely appropriated, as copyright ownership issues is in the air at the moment. Since you’re not really doing creative work (unless you conduct a photobash process like I said), if you’re inputting word prompts, you’re doing something more akin to putting a request for an artwork by another artist and not necessarily making a work yourself, and it’s been held that AI can’t hold copyright ownership, has to be a human.

Just my 0.02$

[mysterious_monolith_]

Ahh this video was hilarious! I don't believe it! Make a full series! Hahahah

[Chevifier]

4:40 Its asserting dominance!! Kill it! Kill it while you still have the chance!!😂

[lucasdesouza]

What a fun and educational video. Thank you for sharing!

[KLLRHGTCH]

A IA querendo um sindicato foi de lascar

[hotworlds]

You should do tutorials on how you produce these cinema quality videos so fast lol

[warpzone]

I love how he pretends it doesn't take hours and hours of re-rolling to actually get useable results with AI. Also, he glosses over the fact that animation is literally impossible because you never get the same character twice, even with identical prompts.

[sebaspi]

Haha loved the gag, unionized ai will be a pain in nuts lol

[lorenzozapaton]

This is the future, thanks. Programmers will get free from the shackles of artists!

[hotworlds]

My feelings on the AI art question is; People are getting very worried about it, but I don't think it's going to change things very much. Ultimately, until it actually achieves sentience, AI is always going to create things based on an aggregate of what already exists, so it's always going to be very generic without a very specific creative vision and extra manual work from the user. At worst I think it'll make it harder to sell medium quality asset packs. I don't think it will ever be a replacement for human creativity, because without human creativity to give it material to base things on, it will never progress beyond what is popular at this very moment. Much of what we consider "good art" comes from it being unique, and unique is the exact opposite of what AI image generation does. People have always been able to go find free assets or pay very small amounts for generic stuff, and the good AI image gen software also costs money so I don't think it's actually going to dilute that market. From what I've seen I don't think any of the AI art is really that much better than asset packs. I don't buy the "it will get better" argument because there isn't a metric for how 'creative' something is. The best artists give their clients what they DIDN'T KNOW they wanted and that is antithetical to what AI does.

But it's revolutionary for making memes tho 🤣

[brucelee]

idk I tried generating a side view of my character and it kept giving me 3 quarter or isometric views 🙄 Also if you have a particular design you want it doesnt always generate what you want even though you try to be as specific as possible

[ArtGuglielmo]

Liking the channel so far, just have to correct your pronunciation….. it’s “Gah-Dough”, as in WAITING FOR GODOT

[fancyline]

I did some digging, you cannot publish your games on steam if you are using AI art because of the IP related things. I was planning to use AI art to speed up the process but...

[jrdoughty]

I love the idea of AI as a tool, especially for prototyping... but the morally grey part is what stops me from wanting to ever ship with it. The models have so far been unethically sourced, and there's no regulation coming to force them to become more ethical.

I'd like there to be a future where this tooling is able to bring something to the industry, but as it is now its just not ethical, particularly for profit.