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Posted by anigbrowl 12/21/2025

Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use(www.thegamer.com)
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matty22 12/21/2025|
“Whoops! We forgot to disclose that we ripped off thousands of other artists when we made our game. But don’t worry, it was only for placeholder stuff!”
avaer 12/21/2025||
We should probably strip the Indie Game Awards of their awards show because the accountant used ChatGPT.

If they want to ban AI from their show that is their perogative, but considering that every nominee probably used AI somewhere (I'd bet money on this), this feels like blatantly dishonest posturing.

wolvesechoes 12/21/2025||
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pfdietz 12/21/2025||
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jagoff 12/21/2025||
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jfernandezr 12/21/2025||
After the huge impact on the PC gaming community, it's logical to despise AI and ban it from any awards. First cryptocurrencies pumped huge price raises on GPUs, then prices won't return to normal due to AI and now it's impacting RAM prices.

Next year a lot of families will struggle to buy a needed computer for their kids' school due to some multibillion techs going all-in.

foxheadman 12/21/2025||
I play games on cheap hardware. I would like awards to focus on the quality of the game, rather than how they were made.

Awards that focus on quality is too desired to not be a thing.

I expect generative AI to become a competitive advantage taken up by the vast majority.

lostmsu 12/21/2025||
Compute demand likely improved today's availability and performance of hardware.
smusamashah 12/21/2025||
This is a bit ironic in a way that video games in particular have been using "AI" since the beginning.
Devasta 12/21/2025||
Excellent news.

A blanket ban is the way to go on this, people trying to muddy the waters professing they just have nuanced opinions know what they are doing... it's only a horse armour pack, it doesn't affect gameplay, you don't have to use it, you won't notice if it's not there...

spankibalt 12/21/2025|
Correct decision. Skidmarks were detected to be present and it wasn't sabotage or somesuch. That means no award as skidmarks are considered so unprofessional at that particular award that, at this point, there's a rule against them.