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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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[–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

So you would call Half Life 2 and Alyx indie games? But any game published by Devolver Digital like Loop Hero or Gato Roboto aren't indie despite having tiny budgets and tiny teams?

That's kind of a ridiculous definition. It makes way more sense to include criterias like team size and budget, however vague they are.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    But that is then something else you compare to. Indie refers to be indipendent from publisher when developing the game. At some point at the end of the development, the game has to be published, but that's not what indie means. And major first party store holder are excluded from this for obvious reasons. But if you want, then count Valve indipendent. That's not our discussion here.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Indie games aren't made in a vacuum then shipped off to publishers. Publishers help with playtesting, QA, translating, certification, and in many cases even marketing in the middle of development. Even by your definition it's not as clear cut as you think.

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