Good to know, but sad that it has to be said.
Ye i just saw a vid on ecco. Wishlisting fs
Ok, that was always allowed!
A new Ecco game?? Yess. Love the genesis versions
Thank goodness I was worried the French fever dream of ECCO would be ruined
Ok sure, but how much of the game will actually be generated by dolphins?
This will probably be just another example of HUMAN appropriation when plenty of dolphin developers are struggling to even find work in this industry. Maybe when dolphins are literally the subject matter of the game we could consider inclusivity in its development?
#dolphin_life #Phins_In_Gaming #NotMyEcco
In the original game I’m sure you had to be a dolphin to beat the first level
Look buddy, I don’t give a single fuck about your #EccoFascist bullshit.
#AdolfPhin #PhinLivesMatterToo #NotAllPhins #ReleaseTheEccosteinFiles
I knew that “No AI used” is going to become a huge selling point for many products. And I think this is just the start.
The reality is software engineers will use AI or will find themselves out of work as they won’t have the skills to get hired.
Customers may never know of AI is used as a tool in game creation but it will always be part of any software and development studio.
Using AI for music or design assets is totally different from using it for the code base and blanket statements don’t improve the situation
I disagree with your statement, unfortunately.
I made a post about thia exact thing a couple of weeks ago! I will give my money to people not using ai bullshit, and if theyre liars, they wont see a cent from me again. People need to stand up and have some damn principles about this.
I’m gonna have my kid add No AI used" to his lemonade stand sign. He’ll probably double his profits.
(so probably like $4).
That’s excellent. And as these mega corps watch consumers favor those products. Maybe, just maybe they’ll fucking implode. That’s just a fantasy I know.
Unfortunately they won’t. They are earning tons of money.
Earningburning. Fixed it for you.
OMG NEW ECCO GAME
Annunziata has been talking about a new game for decades. I’m sceptical he’ll produce a single pixel tout court.
I just want him to bring back SmallBall Baseball man
What about the code?
Written by an actual dolphin
What if I use DLSS to upscale and add frames?
Maybe the new Ecco game will be optimized well enough to not need or include DLSS and framegeneration. 🤷♂️
I need 800fps. One of my Steam games was 800+ fps on its HUD even though it was on a 60fps monitor. My GPU was going at 100%.
The game can run faster than the refresh rate; you just won’t be seeing more than 60 a second.
I paid for whole GPU.
DLAA then
Well it wouldn’t be a single pixel then, would it?
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AI is quite bad at pixel art in fact.
It understands things must look roughly made by squares, but it doesn’t understand what pixels are and their fixed grid.
To be fair, humans are also bad at it these days, judging by the amount of mixels.
even if it is exclusively trained on pixel art?
Yep. It will create something that at a glance looks like pixel art, then you zoom in and find anti-aliased rectangular pixels made out of three different shades of the main color, a weird line, and no clear grid.
If you use a pixel art export node in ComfyUI that won’t be a problem. There’s a whole guide about it here:
https://inzaniak.github.io/blog/articles/the-pixel-art-comfyui-workflow-guide.html
A whole song and dance to post-process a broken pixel art image into a fixed grid. I’d rather just have talent or pay a human being that will make art in the first place, thanks.
Note that there’s more than one model to do pixel art and there’s pixel art LoRAs that do a decent job. There’s loads of flexibility when generating this kind of thing.
Also, you can just tell it to generate a thousand over like 10 minutes and pick the best one and use that as a base to improve upon. AI is just a single tool in the workflow.
I also want to point out that not everyone can just pay someone. Don’t be paternalistic: If people want to use AI in their workflow for any reason that’s their concern. To angrily throw your hands in the air and say, “I’m not touching it because AI!” is like giving free money to the big publishers.
You’re setting a completely unnecessary high bar, “you must be this rich to ride.”
I’m not touching it because AI. Thanks.
The person above you is wrong, while a generalist model will struggle to make valid pixel art, either a specially trained model or one with elements to force a specific structure could make generative pixel art.
This seems like a valid example - https://pixel-art.ai/
They can base their pixel art off ai art, that resembles pixel art. Would still count as “no ai in the game” I guess.
I somehow read “not a single pixel will not be AI generated” at first. My brain just defaulted to that. I was confused by the replies for a minute straight.
I’m so fucking pumped for new Ecco games. I loved the original on Genesis and it’s about damn time we get some fresh stuff in the series.
Even better with this statement
Genesis music is of its own genre. So good
I hope they make an effort with the soundtrack. For me that was a big highlight on all games (specially Sega CD).
Undercaves song goes so hard
I wonder if the name Ecco has to do with John C. Lilly.
Not a single pixel. The code, however…
