Where do games disclose AI use?

Generation of pictures.

Some game illustrations

In our game, AI is a powerful ally that has significantly increased our productivity. It helps us create new scenarios, which are then refined by our art team, allowing us to offer an expanded variety of playable environments for players. Additionally, we plan to integrate AI-generated dialogues to dub the game into multiple languages. This dubbing process would be impossible for our small studio without AI support. With this approach, we aim to make our game accessible to a global audience and provide a localized and authentic gaming experience in different languages. In summary, AI plays a crucial role in our development process, enabling our small studio to achieve great feats and provide players with a rich and immersive experience.

Art and Music was generated by AI. Please note that we want to respect artists. No artist name or artist art have been used as reference for prompting. And the art used is very generic and doesn't not infringe any IP.

We use AI tools to help us improve our audio voices, and some texts. No content is generated solely using AI.

Some translations, voicelines, and assets were made using generative AI. All carefully inspected by the developer. This is used to speed up the development, and is being slowly replaced with artists authored assets. No generative AI is used during gameplay.

Part of graphics generated by AI.

- Store page images

Our game's library images (except for the logo with the words "Investormania"), images on the in-game loading screen, in-game avatars are generated with artificial intelligence.

As a solo dev, I use Midjourney to fill in some gaps including upgrade and achievement icons.

Some background and character art extended and enhanced using Photoshop generative fill. Some audio help narration done using an in-house cloned voice for clarity. Some audio narration done using professionally licensed cloned voice.

This game includes some AI-assisted visual assets and synthetic voice generation for the in-game robot advisor.

Full screen pictures where made using AI during the EA / prototype of the game, we are in the process of replacing them all with our artists. Everything else is handmade.

Critias Empire uses images of public domain 18th and 19th century classical oil on canvas paintings, but since there are only a limited number of these, AI generated images are used where no appropriate historical public domain image can be found. This includes backgrounds, illustrations for buildings, features, disasters, maps and characters, plus live ops, events and marketing material. The images are generated using paid subscription to Midjourney. Crystalline Green Ltd. owns the copyright on the generated images. We are a small independent studio with limited budget, but we appreciate not everyone is comfortable with use of AI generated images in commercial games, so we understand if you would prefer not to play our game. Feel free to contact us if you have further questions or concerns.

Generative AI has been used for no other purpose than to provide background imagery for store artwork and marketing.

Some textures in the game are pre-rendered using AI; No live-generate content during gameplay

The game features a small local language model used to generate dynamic storylines and events based on character traits and relationships. Generative AI is also used to assist in the creation of various 2D textures, marketing materials, portraits and UI elements.

We want to emphasize that both human-art and AI-generated content are used in the event illustrations. At the time of writing this (pre-beta), some of the illustrations in the game are still early experiments and, as such, treated as placeholders. As artists, we fully understand that AI-generated imagery is a controversial topic at the moment. We felt that by using generated art, in addition to our own art, we could create a much more vivid and immersive experience for the player. We are fully open to discussing this further and elaborating on our approach.

We have used an AI voice over for the tutorial and other voice prompts where its is anticipated we will need to quickly change the voice during Early Access due to player feedback.

Some icons and background images are currently prototyped with AI but will be replaced in the future if the budget allows it.

We use the IA to create 10 small portrait for the monster that you encounter into the campaign mode.

My game uses AI quite frequently. Every logo you see is a product of the collaboration between a human and an AI. Every song you hear is a product of human-AI collaboration. Every player report card uses AI generated text modularly pieced together from smaller chunks. The match commentator is using an AI generated voice. This is a modern game that uses modern technology to its full potential.

Some visual and written elements—such as portraits, item icons, and quest text—were created or enhanced with the help of AI tools. These were based on original hand-drawn assets and carefully refined to match the game's overall style. The majority of in-game visuals remain fully handcrafted.

AI-generated images are used for the backgrounds of the Story Event Phases.

We employ generative AI technologies during the creation of some assets. Typically this involves the ideation of content and visual reference material. These elements represent a minor component of the overall development. AI has been used to generate voices for an AI antagonist and a player advisor.

Community items were generated using artificial intelligence.

Some artworks have been made with the help of the Midjourney AI tool.

This game used AI to help quickly iterate through designs for some UI elements using our own artwork as a baseline. AI is also used to help translate the game; and is used for the AlienGPT custom species system using player inputs.

Use of AI-generated for some backgrounds

- Part of the original texts in the briefing were spellchecked, reviewed and slightly improved using AI text tools. Original texts written by the Team. Original research and writing was human-made.

We utilize AI-assisted tools to create some of the 2D artwork assets used within the game’s narrative sections. All generated art has been reviewed and refined by our development team to ensure quality and consistency with the game's world.

Chat GPT is used to search for programming solutions and to generate names. AI is used to translate to other languages than English. The paintings are prepared with a mixed canvas of AI images, 3D models, photos, textures and other paintings. And is then manually painted over, together with some filters and effects. Generated audio melodies, voices and sound filters for game events are used.

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.)

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