
Earlier this month, Junghun Lee – CEO of Nexon, the parent company behind current live-service shooter du jour Arc Raiders – made waves in the game development community with a straightforward statement. « It’s important to assume that every game company is now using AI, » he explained. Indie developers were quick to loudly and vociferously call bullshit. « It’s just not true, » Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou, cofounder of Röki and Mythwrecked developer Polygon Treehouse, tells The Verge.
As similar reactions poured in over social media, many developers shared that avoiding generative AI was not only a matter of personal pride, but also a matter of prof …