do you think there's any tag I can search for on itch.io and not get genAI pornography
not that I'm complaining (well I'm complaining about one of those two things) I'm just curious
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there was a skyrim mod that would occasionally spawn a corpse named something like "fuck the script broke again"
oh wait no it was something like "I'm going to fucking die" and then the mod would sometimes fail to clean up the corpse it spawned for some reason
is plants vs zombies even a tower defense game
I feel like there are some pretty vital differences but I don't know if its genre has a name other than "plants vs zombies-like"
looking through the itch.io "Popular" and "New & Popular" lists with no filters and so far the games I've looked at and gone "this looks like slop" have all been Unity-based and also had every box checked in itch.io's "which parts of your game are slop" thing
there was one game in there that didn't list an engine or whether it used genAI but it linked to a bunch of other games that were both Unity and genAI slop so I'm not gonna bother
there's one in here that appears to be an undertale porn game, but in the sense that someone went "what if toby fox made a porn game instead of one about child murder" rather than "what if I took the characters from this game with primarily child characters and put them in my visual novel"
I'm not huge on bullet hell so I'm gonna pass but it's at least good to see literally any reference to undertale on there that doesn't feel incredibly gross
one that had extremely "Unity genAI slop" energy from a distance but upon closer inspection is definitely hand-drawn and is made on RPGMaker
more than one RPGMaker game that doesn't seem to use the RPGMaker part of RPGMaker in any of its screenshots
there's one named "Lewdspace 2.0" that appears to be genAI slop but it's not a genAI slop game. there doesn't seem to be any game-like qualities to it. even a program you open to look at a gallery of genAI slop images would be more game-like.
https://lazy-rat-games.itch.io/furry-island
you're telling me this game with this description on the store contains no genAI slop?
and the solo developer just happens to be fluent enough in 15 different languages to fully translate the version 0.1 game?
and all of their other games do say that they're genAI slop?
I mean I wouldn't play it even if it wasn't genAI slop because it's basically a co-op game about having sex with racist caricatures of indigenous people
but like
if you're going to make racist genAI slop at least be honest about it
oh wow I thought this game was misusing the itch.io tag "traps" to be a slur but apparently it just means the slur for all of the games that use it
here's a game specifically designed for people who see those genAI restaurant menus where the entire thing looks like it's made of melting leather and think "I want to eat at this restaurant"
hello developer
this does not make your genAI slop fake pixel art game more appealing
I think the solution is simple
make two separate game lists
one for genAI and one for actual games people made on purpose
and you have to select which list you want via some kind of annoying-to-change account setting
and if you put your game in the wrong list on purpose you get banned
because people are like "it's impossible to tell whether something is genAI slop" and yet I only got one guess wrong out of a hundred games and that guess was corrected by me viewing the full-sized image I had previously seen the thumbnail of, not from me seeing any kind of declaration from the author
there's an even easier solution and that's "don't allow genAI slop on your website for indie games people spend a decade putting their heart and soul into"
@efi cheating slightly because I don't want to scroll much but
Top Games tagged AI Assisted and Board Game (62 results)
I opened the itch.io popular games list and the first three games listed are currently: