Water Margin: Rise of the Outlaws

Generative AI tools were used during development. Every AI output was hand-selected and edited by the developer before it went into the game: - Art: character portraits, title and interface art, maps, battlefield backgrounds and props, the source art for battlefield unit sprites, technique icons and ink-effect textures, story scene backdrops and full-screen backgrounds, base/camp backgrounds and the key art were generated with AI image tools, then hand-selected and edited (cropping, color grading, cleaning up garbled text and fake seals, touch-ups) before use. Unit walking and attack animations are generated procedurally from a bone rig. - Music: some background music was generated locally with the open-source AI music model ACE-Step 1.5, then selected, edited, mixed and looped by hand. - Text: story and dialogue were drafted with the help of AI writing tools and revised and finalized by the developer; the story is adapted from the classic Chinese novel Water Margin. English, Japanese and Korean translations were first drafted by AI, then reviewed and revised by hand. No content is generated by AI while the game is running. Sound effects come from CC0 public-domain libraries and were edited and layered by hand. Fonts are not AI-generated.