Beneath Solmere includes pre-generated content created with the assistance of generative AI tools. This includes six music tracks created with Google Gemini/Lyria, AI-assisted localization for nine non-English languages, and AI-generated artwork used in Steam Store marketing materials. No generative AI is used during gameplay.
Generative AI is used to assist with the translation and localization of in-game text and Steam store page content from the original Japanese into other supported languages.
Graphics (sprites, logo, artwork) were generated with Google Gemini API models,
then curated, edited, and integrated by the developer.
Music and sound effects were generated locally with ACE-Step 1.5, directed,
curated, and post-processed by the developer.
No AI runs during gameplay.
We used Claude (Anthropic) during development for the following:
- Writing the store page description
- Assisting with the translation of in-game text
- Generating some simple in-game objects
SIDE OUT was built with AI-assisted development tools. No artwork, audio, text or other content in the game is generated by AI. All visuals are drawn procedurally in code, and all store text is written by hand.
This game uses generative AI as a production tool. Character, enemy, boss, UI, and background art were created with image-generation models and then assembled, keyed, and edited by the team. Background music and in-game voice and narration (including Classical Latin lines in Purgatory) were also generated with AI and curated for the game.
Gameplay, design, writing, and programming are human-authored. The game does not generate new text, images, or audio while you play. Some store and marketing images were produced with the same tools.
We are team of two with a design and development background. We have a combined decades experience shipping production-quality code and art. We use AI along with our other tools, like Blender, Substance, etc. to help us build our vision. We use AI in the early stage of concept development and prototyping, coding assistance, but everything that makes it in-game is hand-crafted and authored by us. The music is played by hand real instruments. All screen captures are 100% in-game with no alterations.
Este jogo foi desenvolvido por um único criador com o auxílio de Inteligência Artificial (IA) no processo de programação e na criação de alguns efeitos sonoros e áudios.
Todas as artes, imagens, sprites e frames dentro do jogo foram criados inteiramente à mão, sem qualquer uso de IA.
We used AI tools in two places during development, and in neither of them to replace creative work.
Our French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Korean localisations are made using AI. We also used AI assistance while writing and restructuring parts of our codebase.
Everything players see and hear — art, animation, sound, music, game design and all original writing — was made by people.
There is usage of generative AI in two places and everything it produced has been reviewed. The soundtrack was created with the assistance of AI, and some of the writing was drafted with an AI assistant and then edited afterwards: card, UI and help text, the Simplified Chinese translation, and the store page and marketing copy. Nothing else is model output — the logo, the app icon and every visual in the game are drawn by the game's own code from geometry in the source, and the sound effects are synthesized as you play.
AI-enabled tools were used during development to assist with asset creation. Some visual and audio assets in the finished game incorporate AI-assisted or AI-generated source material. For more information, visit https://jetgrave.com/ai-use/
Generative AI is used in this game for tasks such as music generation. As an indie game and a small software development studio, we simply do not have the budget to license a large number of well-known and popular songs. Unfortunately, nothing comes for free – so AI is used as an alternative.
AI is also used for tasks such as integrating graphics, music and beat analysis, and translating content. AI can complete time-consuming tasks within minutes that would otherwise take a human several hours.
No jobs are being replaced or put at risk through the use of AI in this project. This “crazy game” was still made with lots of love by humans. An AI probably would not have come up with a game idea like this anyway.
And because it fits the topic far too well: purely on principle, this disclosure text was of course also written with the help of AI.
Generative AI tools were used during development to assist with the localization of some in-game text and the creation of certain visual assets. All AI-assisted content was reviewed and edited by the developer before being included in the game.
Generative AI was used to help write portions of this game's text content, and parts of this store page. All game code, visuals, music, and sound design were created directly by the developer without generative AI. AI was used to help debug and troubleshoot code.
Artificial Intelligence Usage Notice:
We have used some generative models to prototype new ideas, and some of them have been made into production. However, AI-generated content is no more than 1% of the total game assets and arts.
Some sprites started as AI-generated references before being rebuilt in the game's palette and resolution. All English writing is my own; the other nine languages are machine translated. No AI runs in the game itself. Nothing is generated while you play, and it never connects to an AI service.
This game's music was created with the assistance of generative AI. The interface and Enemy Guide text were also translated into multiple languages with AI assistance, alongside human review. No AI-generated artwork or gameplay code ships in the final game.
All 2D artwork in this game (characters, monsters, environments, icons) and the store/marketing images were pre-generated using AI image tools, then curated, edited, and integrated by the developer. Music was pre-generated with AI music tools; sound effects were pre-generated locally with an open-source AI audio model. Localization into some languages was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by the developer. The game does not generate any content with AI at runtime — all AI-generated content is pre-rendered and ships as fixed assets.
We use generative AI for text only: writing this store page and translating the game's in-game text into the supported languages. Everything else, including all art, animation and audio, is made by hand, and no content is generated while you play.
A small number of textures in this game were generated with the assistance of AI tools. These are placeholders intended to be replaced with hand-made assets in future updates. As for the rest of the assets, they were hand made using 3D modelling and texturing software.
The game is primarily developed using Houdini, VEX and Godot. Generative AI assists with concept/reference artwork, initial 3D asset generation, and programming. Assets are further processed, optimized, rigged and animated in Houdini before integration into the game.
Generative AI was used to create selected store and library artwork, music, and sound-effect source material. The outputs were curated and edited by the developer before inclusion. No generative AI runs during gameplay, and players cannot generate AI content.
Generative AI was used for programming assistance and to create some BGM. The generated music was edited and remastered by the developer. All visual assets were created manually without generative AI. No live-generated AI is used during gameplay.
During development we used generative AI tools to create the some of this game's assets. This includes 2D art and audios. All AI-generated assets were produced during development, reviewed by us, and ship as fixed files in the build. Some were hand-edited, recoloured, composited or retimed afterwards. Game code, design, writing and dialogue are authored by us.
Our work incorporates commissioned artwork, licensed and publicly available assets, and AI-generated content. Regardless of the source materials used, the final product is the creative expression of our development team.
Certain visual assets incorporated into the final product were subject to a multi-stage development, revision, and production process involving, at intermediate stages of asset preparation, generative AI-assisted material, together with subsequent developer-directed editing, alteration, reconstruction, and final implementation.
Pixel art assets (characters, monsters, bosses, projectiles, spirits, tiles) were created with PixelLab, an AI pixel-art tool, and then edited by hand to fit the game. No AI is used at runtime. All code, game design, sound effects and music are human-authored (audio is synthesized in code).
All artwork (characters, monsters, environments, visual effects) and much of the game's code were created with generative AI tools. No content is AI-generated while the game runs.
Some title and UI illustration assets were created with image generation tools during development, then selected and implemented by the developer. Audio is procedurally synthesized in-engine and is not generative-AI music. The game does not generate AI content at runtime.
Beneath Solmere includes pre-generated content created with the assistance of generative AI tools. This includes six music tracks created with Google Gemini/Lyria, AI-assisted localization for nine non-English languages, and AI-generated artwork used in Steam Store marketing materials. No generative AI is used during gameplay.
Generative AI is used to assist with the translation and localization of in-game text and Steam store page content from the original Japanese into other supported languages.
Graphics (sprites, logo, artwork) were generated with Google Gemini API models,
then curated, edited, and integrated by the developer.
Music and sound effects were generated locally with ACE-Step 1.5, directed,
curated, and post-processed by the developer.
No AI runs during gameplay.
We used Claude (Anthropic) during development for the following:
- Writing the store page description
- Assisting with the translation of in-game text
- Generating some simple in-game objects
SIDE OUT was built with AI-assisted development tools. No artwork, audio, text or other content in the game is generated by AI. All visuals are drawn procedurally in code, and all store text is written by hand.
This game uses generative AI as a production tool. Character, enemy, boss, UI, and background art were created with image-generation models and then assembled, keyed, and edited by the team. Background music and in-game voice and narration (including Classical Latin lines in Purgatory) were also generated with AI and curated for the game.
Gameplay, design, writing, and programming are human-authored. The game does not generate new text, images, or audio while you play. Some store and marketing images were produced with the same tools.
We are team of two with a design and development background. We have a combined decades experience shipping production-quality code and art. We use AI along with our other tools, like Blender, Substance, etc. to help us build our vision. We use AI in the early stage of concept development and prototyping, coding assistance, but everything that makes it in-game is hand-crafted and authored by us. The music is played by hand real instruments. All screen captures are 100% in-game with no alterations.
Este jogo foi desenvolvido por um único criador com o auxílio de Inteligência Artificial (IA) no processo de programação e na criação de alguns efeitos sonoros e áudios.
Todas as artes, imagens, sprites e frames dentro do jogo foram criados inteiramente à mão, sem qualquer uso de IA.
We used AI tools in two places during development, and in neither of them to replace creative work.
Our French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Korean localisations are made using AI. We also used AI assistance while writing and restructuring parts of our codebase.
Everything players see and hear — art, animation, sound, music, game design and all original writing — was made by people.
There is usage of generative AI in two places and everything it produced has been reviewed. The soundtrack was created with the assistance of AI, and some of the writing was drafted with an AI assistant and then edited afterwards: card, UI and help text, the Simplified Chinese translation, and the store page and marketing copy. Nothing else is model output — the logo, the app icon and every visual in the game are drawn by the game's own code from geometry in the source, and the sound effects are synthesized as you play.
AI-enabled tools were used during development to assist with asset creation. Some visual and audio assets in the finished game incorporate AI-assisted or AI-generated source material. For more information, visit https://jetgrave.com/ai-use/
Generative AI is used in this game for tasks such as music generation. As an indie game and a small software development studio, we simply do not have the budget to license a large number of well-known and popular songs. Unfortunately, nothing comes for free – so AI is used as an alternative.
AI is also used for tasks such as integrating graphics, music and beat analysis, and translating content. AI can complete time-consuming tasks within minutes that would otherwise take a human several hours.
No jobs are being replaced or put at risk through the use of AI in this project. This “crazy game” was still made with lots of love by humans. An AI probably would not have come up with a game idea like this anyway.
And because it fits the topic far too well: purely on principle, this disclosure text was of course also written with the help of AI.
Generative AI tools were used during development to assist with the localization of some in-game text and the creation of certain visual assets. All AI-assisted content was reviewed and edited by the developer before being included in the game.
Generative AI was used to help write portions of this game's text content, and parts of this store page. All game code, visuals, music, and sound design were created directly by the developer without generative AI. AI was used to help debug and troubleshoot code.
Artificial Intelligence Usage Notice:
We have used some generative models to prototype new ideas, and some of them have been made into production. However, AI-generated content is no more than 1% of the total game assets and arts.
Some sprites started as AI-generated references before being rebuilt in the game's palette and resolution. All English writing is my own; the other nine languages are machine translated. No AI runs in the game itself. Nothing is generated while you play, and it never connects to an AI service.
This game's music was created with the assistance of generative AI. The interface and Enemy Guide text were also translated into multiple languages with AI assistance, alongside human review. No AI-generated artwork or gameplay code ships in the final game.
All 2D artwork in this game (characters, monsters, environments, icons) and the store/marketing images were pre-generated using AI image tools, then curated, edited, and integrated by the developer. Music was pre-generated with AI music tools; sound effects were pre-generated locally with an open-source AI audio model. Localization into some languages was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by the developer. The game does not generate any content with AI at runtime — all AI-generated content is pre-rendered and ships as fixed assets.
We use generative AI for text only: writing this store page and translating the game's in-game text into the supported languages. Everything else, including all art, animation and audio, is made by hand, and no content is generated while you play.
A small number of textures in this game were generated with the assistance of AI tools. These are placeholders intended to be replaced with hand-made assets in future updates. As for the rest of the assets, they were hand made using 3D modelling and texturing software.
The game is primarily developed using Houdini, VEX and Godot. Generative AI assists with concept/reference artwork, initial 3D asset generation, and programming. Assets are further processed, optimized, rigged and animated in Houdini before integration into the game.
Generative AI was used to create selected store and library artwork, music, and sound-effect source material. The outputs were curated and edited by the developer before inclusion. No generative AI runs during gameplay, and players cannot generate AI content.
Generative AI was used for programming assistance and to create some BGM. The generated music was edited and remastered by the developer. All visual assets were created manually without generative AI. No live-generated AI is used during gameplay.
During development we used generative AI tools to create the some of this game's assets. This includes 2D art and audios. All AI-generated assets were produced during development, reviewed by us, and ship as fixed files in the build. Some were hand-edited, recoloured, composited or retimed afterwards. Game code, design, writing and dialogue are authored by us.
Our work incorporates commissioned artwork, licensed and publicly available assets, and AI-generated content. Regardless of the source materials used, the final product is the creative expression of our development team.
Certain visual assets incorporated into the final product were subject to a multi-stage development, revision, and production process involving, at intermediate stages of asset preparation, generative AI-assisted material, together with subsequent developer-directed editing, alteration, reconstruction, and final implementation.
Pixel art assets (characters, monsters, bosses, projectiles, spirits, tiles) were created with PixelLab, an AI pixel-art tool, and then edited by hand to fit the game. No AI is used at runtime. All code, game design, sound effects and music are human-authored (audio is synthesized in code).
All artwork (characters, monsters, environments, visual effects) and much of the game's code were created with generative AI tools. No content is AI-generated while the game runs.
Some title and UI illustration assets were created with image generation tools during development, then selected and implemented by the developer. Audio is procedurally synthesized in-engine and is not generative-AI music. The game does not generate AI content at runtime.