Post #1666070

recently we learned that an early version of factorio had a building whose texture was just a box with text saying something like "endgame building" and like that works! if youre making a prototype you're in fact allowed to do something like this we keep thinking of this when we see gpt:s being used to make textures there was a factorio mod that was like "if you dont want me to keep using the ai generated asset send me a better one to use instead" and the ai generated one was like a stop sign crossed circle and a clock symbol and like that's not hard to draw! a circle, a line, another circle with lines inside squishcraft and the other games by that dev have textures that are like. noticeably not done by a professional texture artist. and the games still have fascinatingly spatial mechanics that keep interested players playing you really dont need to use ai for temporary assets and if someone does do that we're disinclined to using their thing no matter how it looks. because we generally dont wanna use something that was specifically made through unethical means