You're in charge of the energy core powering the entire city. Every ten seconds, some new set of controls will be unlocked. Keep the thing going for as long as possible!

All the art assets for this game were generated using the Stable Diffusion art-generation AI. I wanted to see how easy it'd be to use machine-learning art generation to actually make a game. And I wanted to avoid the obvious approach of making a card game and using AI to create card art, or the other obvious approach of making a visual novel with AI-generated character art. I wanted to see how far I could stretch things.

Turns out Stable Diffusion is surprisingly good at creating concept art for user interfaces, but much less good at generating either precise details for UI controls, or more similar things once you've seen one UI concept you like the look of. I think I probably spent more time tinkering with prompts and photoshopping things into shape than I would have done if I'd just made it myself... but I'm much happier with the end result, especially that big energy-core painting!

This game was made in 48 hours, but I'm entering it into the Jam rather than the Compo to sidestep the question of "does that really count as making all the art yourself".