We've added our Policy on AI Refusal to the Fiction Factory Games website, detailing how we work to avoid usage of LLM AI in our art: https://fictionfactorygames.com/ai.html
Included is a short statement about discontinuing future use of Ren'Py due to the team's ongoing enthusiastic embrace of LLM coding.
Update: apparently the RenPy engine has been using AI generated code for an indeterminate amount of time already. I don't know what the cutoff is. Every single project now has AI code.
I don't know what this means for our games moving forward. Our current project may be the last one with RenPy.
Hopefully it'll be reversed. I'm just one lone game dev, I can't influence things much.
I don't care if it's speeding up development, or they're avoiding "vibe coding" by studying the output, or that it's "just code, not art." None of that matters. It still breaks any "100% AI-free" promises an individual game dev could make, me included, if we use any version of RenPy beyond 8.5.2.
Some folks have asked about RenPy switching to AI coding. Here's what I know.
In a March Patreon-only update, the dev announced using LLMs for coding "mundane grunt work" moving forward. So the last version of RenPy with no AI code in it is 8.5.2, available here: https://www.renpy.org/release/8.5.2
After noting my protest of this involuntary AI inclusion I cancelled my Patreon support of RenPy. Since then I have been unable to read any backer-only updates, so I've not heard of any changes to this plan.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@FictionFactoryGames/116708660440193345
🎥 Day 7 - An Interview with Stefan Gagne (Game Developer, Author) - cutiespectives by Jasmin Page
Listening to this was such a delight. I love @Twoflower's games and writing, and the one hour interview went by so quickly. Jasmin and Stefan talk about his writing, @FictionFactoryGames, disability, resistance and of course, the queer community.
I don't want to spoil much more and invite you all to listen to this interview yourselves. The topics discussed can't all be condensed into one simple post.
My personal favourites by Fiction Factory Games are The Shadow Over Cyberspace and Arcade Spirits.
This interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_MXiuWUZhM
Website: https://www.fictionfactorygames.com/
My favourite FFG game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2982530/The_Shadow_Over_Cyberspace/
It is time. Raise the banners! Draw your blades! For it is GAY WRATH MONTH!
...what? Pride? Hrmm. Less exciting. Can we have a little wrath anyway? It feels appropriate.
Anyway, go play our very queer games some of which are totally free okay thanks https://www.fictionfactorygames.com
Radgryd
