About the Pictures
The concept images on this site were made with AI. They're stand-ins until we can afford an artist, and the games themselves won't be built on them.
Something worth saying plainly: the concept images on this site, from the world art to the picture at the top of last week’s dispatch, were made with AI.
The reason is unglamorous. We’re a small studio paying its own way, and an artist is a hire we can’t make yet. The alternative was a site of grey rectangles with captions describing what would be there. We tried that. It read like a gallery the morning after a burglary.
So the concept images are stand-ins. Each one was chosen to fit the world it sits in, after a fair few that didn’t, but a stand-in is still a stand-in. They’ll be replaced when we can pay someone properly to do it, and that’s a matter of when, not whether.
The games are a different matter. The art and music in them will be made and defined by people. We use AI where it saves time, for rough prototypes and some of the back-end work, as the studio page says, but what you see and hear when you play will be human made. When an artist joins, the hiring section will say so first, and this log a close second.
Until then, the pictures are on probation.
One last thing, unrelated: the logo on the homepage doesn’t like being rushed. Try it five times.