Consuming vs producing AI

[Draconis (Daniel Stelzer)]

@inventor200

I’d like to counter with how mainstream game studios are starting to understand that they’ve shot themselves in the foot a bit by trying to make stuff as visually detailed and complex as possible, because the important game elements get lost in all of it, and level designers have to actively fight back against this by reducing detail and make things more clear, so the player can identify the key elements around them.

This isn’t the place for my rant about how the reason mainstream studios are pushing photorealistic graphics as the only measure of “quality” is because photorealism is something that can only be achieved with tons and tons of person-hours and thus something that the big studios can achieve by crunching their artists and devs and indie studios fundamentally cannot.

But just know it’s there. Lurking. In the background.