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The draft of the logo was generated with Dall-E and then edited by me. I also plan to use PixelLab to help generating some alternating tilesets and nyamon creatures and NPC; also surely edited by me to ensure consistency.

AI-generated art was used in the creation process for some of the backgrounds, icons, sprites, and characters.

Some item ICONS, card ICONS and characters were designed with AI-assisted. The scenes were designed with AI-assisted.

Some of the beauty shots of our heroes have been enhanced using AI. Also, some of the UI and cutscene elements have been created using AI.

AI was used for the game's store page design and marketing materials.

A limited number of talent icons have been created using AI generation.

The game uses AI generated art for dragons, items, perks, landscapes and creatures. Map, UI elements, battle effects and steam capsule are made by human beings.

I am using AI for the NPC and narrator voice. Also some NPC portraits, and a few other 2D elements. Also some of the store assets like the box art.

Along with traditional art the game makes use of art assets generated by AI based algorithms. The campaign voice is generated by a licensed AI tool. All AI assets are commercially licensed.

Unsung Ballads uses AI pre-rendered images (via Leonardo.AI) as elements for its marketing material, some backgrounds, and some story illustrations.

- Store page images

As a solo developer, I use AI to brainstorm drafts for some of the 2D assets, which I then edit by hand. These will be replaced with hand-drawn assets by release.

The background of the capsule image on the store page was drawn by an artist, but then stylized using AI.

Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days used an early version of MidJourney exclusively to generate character portraits.

Some AI generated 2d art (in events and menu)

In the initial creation of illustrations for the maps, neural networks were used, followed by refinement by the artist.

Localisation Text for certain language options in the game were generated using the shear power of AI models to produce, no doubt, horrible/humourous/confusing results. This is Temporary!, with updates coming in the future, If anyone wishes to provide translations/corrections, please do get in contact :)

Card Survival: Tropical Island used an early version of MidJourney exclusively to generate character portraits.

Pre-rendered AI generated images may be used for card art.

Capsule art generated by AI.

Parts of the trading cards artwork and profile backgrounds artwork were helped or enhanced by artificial intelligence.

For ideation and references only.

Community items were generated using artificial intelligence.

Community items were generated using artificial intelligence.

Remastered and restyled versions of card images

Quick note: The capsule art is AI-generated as a temporary placeholder, but I’m already working with an artist to replace and upgrade it with final artwork.

This game includes translations created with the assistance of AI and edited for quality.

Card illustration: Created by editing AI-generated images.

Some of our artwork is generated via an AI and then re-rendered by our artist.

Usage of AI-Generated and Assisted Illustrations in Shadow Empire Post-release Illustration Creation Process The developers use Midjourney and Nano Banana to generate high-resolution illustrations for new functionality added post-release, particularly for Vidcom and Stratagem artwork. These images are often post-processed by hand, as well as enhanced using tools like Magnific, Topaz Labs, or other upscaling and refinement software. AI in Post-release Portrait Art Portraits: A base image is generated using Midjourney with a generic prompt such as “portrait of young woman, military.” Smaller parts (eyes, nose, mouth, hair, etc.) are overlaid using DALL·E to create variations. Aging effects are achieved by rendering an older skin texture with partial transparency over the younger base face. The older the character, the more opaque the overlay becomes. (Note: Eyes and lips often retain a youthful appearance.) This effect is gradually applied using a limited number of sprite layers, allowing nuanced visual transitions. AI-Generated Art in Post-release Game Content The game includes AI-generated and AI-assisted illustrations for Vidcoms and Stratagems. All such AI-generated art is pre-generated — no generative AI tools are called or used in real-time by the game itself. The intention is to provide players with an option to toggle between the original and updated AI-enhanced graphics via preferences. (Note: This is an aim and may not yet apply to all content.)

Some steam community/marketing content

1. We used ChatGPT-4 to make some custom javascript plugins. 2. Used ChatGPT-4/DALL-E3 to generate some of the faces of NPC's, also some icons for the system menu.

No generative AI is used to write content or produce any kind of imagery or assets for the game. For localization, we hire professional translators with AI tools to reduce the workload. Final translations include both machine-translated text that's been human-reviewed and directly human-translated text (e.g. "The megacorps created Cyber Knights as the first quantum-secure data couriers").

We are a small indie team and as our game includes close to 200 characters you can interact with, we have used Midjourney to produce their portraits for the Early Access release of the game. Depending on feedback we may revisit this at a later stage.

Some of the backgrounds are created using AI and manual refinement.