So, before the start of LD51 there were a lot of discussion on how much AI generated art could be counted as art done by the developers/artists. We ended up using very little actual art, but I thought I would share how we used AI (specifically MidJourney) for our LD51 entry.

The above is a screenshot of our game. In this image, AI assisted in two ways. Most notably we used AI generated images for the level backgrounds. After getting the raw images, we used post-processing and Photoshop editing, to make the actual generated graphic less noticeable.

Here is the raw image that we used (MidJourney prompt: spaceship tilemap):

The other way we used AI was for our player character. You won't see it in the game, because the character was done with basic shapes in Photoshop, and the AI generated art was only used for inspiration.

Here is the raw image that we used for inspiration (MidJourney prompt: 2d robot mechanic spritesheet):

Here is our player character drawn with inspiration from the image above. Can you spot the one used as the basis of our player character?

Anyway, how did you use AI generated art in your games?

Oh, and please play and rate our puzzle game. Available as HTML5 (web).