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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards (www.xda-developers.com)
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Clair Obscur won multiple awards but used generative AI art as placeholders during production.

The Indie Game Awards revoked Clair Obscur’s Debut and Game of the Year after the AI disclosure.

IGAs reassigned the awards (Blue Prince, Sorry We’re Closed) and reignited debate on gen-AI use.

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[–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Which means Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and GTA 6 are indie titles, while the majority of the indie game award nominees and winners are not because they have 3rd party publishers.

Well defined indeed.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Are you trolling? How is GTA 6 an indie title? Rockstar is under Take2 publisher. Same for Witcher 3, which is published by CD Projekt. The developers are CD Projekt Red, two different things. And Baldurs Gate 3 is an indie title.

    You should randomly put popular game titles into the mix, without explaining your point. Whats your point again?

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    GTA 6 is developed and being published by Rockstar Games. BG3 was developed and published by Larian. If you want to be that strict about the difference between CD project and CD project Red, we can ignore it for now.

    Blue Prince was developed by Dogubomb and published by Raw Fury. It has a 3rd party publisher, therefore it's not indie by your very clear definition, no?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Take 2 owns Rockstar. GTA 6 is not an indie title. BG3 is developed and published by Larian Studios. BG3 is an indie title. CD Projekt is the publisher. CD Projekt Red is the developer, there is nothing strict about it, they just have similar names.

    I think you confuse with developed without publisher and releasing the game to the public. It's like saying Steam is the publisher, after the game got released on Steam.

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