After a bad year, Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 ends on a somewhat sour note when we learn that Sandfall Entertainment used generative artificial intelligence during the development of the massive RPG. Director Guillaume Brioche explained how the team used the technology.
“Everything in the game is human-made,” he tells YouTuber Sushi. “When AI first came out in 2022, we had already started working on the game. It was just a new instrument, we tried it and we didn't like it at all, it didn't feel right. We originally used it as a placeholder for missing textures, but removed it once we found it.”
“It’s very difficult to predict what the future will look like,” he says, “but everything will be made by the people of us.”
These comments come as the discovery of artificial intelligence in Sandfall's development has put a damper on the team's achievements. Two awards were presented, including Game of the Year, from the Indie Game Awards. took it back due to the awards body's strict AI ban policy, and the report that the game used any generative technology was met with a degree of disappointment.
Some cynicism comes from the fact that several major games this year, including both Battlefield 6 And Call of Duty: Black Ops 7have been criticized for using obvious AI resources in various forms. So far, the only thing these tools are useful for is getting negative reviews.
