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True, if you ask Stable Diffusion or whatever for a "pixel art" image it will give you something horrible, because its mainly trained on normal images. However it's fairly easy these days to customise AI models. Check this out for example https://civitai.com/models/380187/faithful-32px-seamless-blocks - this website hosts lots of AI models fine-tuned by the community for particular styles/image types. It wouldn't be hard to make one of these for 32x32 characters, you just need to get a fairly large dataset of them (unfortunately probably without having the proper rights to use them).

(the AI's output is actually still 512x512 or whatever so you get pixels of different sizes and stuff - as you can see in the preview for this asset - but it's easy to fix, you just scale back down to 32x32)

Oh my god, I think you're right! I'm glad you mentioned it because I totally missed it - I've seen AI assets before but it's normally obvious!

This many-faced blob guy, though he is kinda cute, is proof - check out the different sizes of the eye pixels. That's because it's actually a 512x512 (or whatever) image, which is then downscaled to 32x32 for the actual asset (but for some reason they put the original in the preview).

Personally I'm not that against this, I just wish they'd disclose when they're using AI. I suspect the premium website they're promoting is also full of AI content, which would explain the huge quantity.

lovely stuff

eggdog! can it be true!

tealess

Nice very polished

cool aesthetic

Satisfying

Love the running animation sound

Lovely stuff :)

Nice game! Tough at the start but by the time you've maxed out cooldown speed, it gets pretty easy :)

Good stuff very satisfying

Hey thanks:) I agree - would have liked to insert a few more levels in the middle 

Aw thanks :) yeah I was expecting a lot of puzzle games too!

Nice take on the theme :)

Thank you :)

Thank you :) I agree it gets hard way too fast

Nice hahaha you can also spam space ;)

Haha thanks, I agree.. we didn't have enough time to balance it so the difficulty spike is a bit much (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿) loved ur game btw!

Haha shh don't tell anyone, I'm pretty sure you can live forever like that.. thanks tho :)

Haha love the ending

Got score 120 after many attempts

Really nice concept and execution, I think it would make a great mobile game :) Penalising movement in a game where you have to run away is cool. Love the endless feel to the map and the art style

Wow difficult. The rotations work v well :)

v cool atmosphere graphics (*￣3￣)╭

Really nice looking game! The powerups are cool.

I couldn't work out if the shotgun lasts a fixed number of shots or a fixed amount of time?

Satisfying mechanic and I like the death particles 👌

Love the retro aesthetic :)

Mochi has committed homicide

Well executed, I got 77 score and am now moving to the countryside

Nice, game mechanic is pretty satisfying 

Who would've known fishing was so profitable

This game transported me to the backrooms. 5/5

Great aesthetic. Got to 430 score by sticking to the edges

Nice concept! I got 9 secs :)

Really nice looking game, love the art style particles. Would be cool to add harder enemies / a boss or something!

V cool! Hope you fix the wave 4 bug and add some harder enemies - it's a great start

Oh haha, fair enough... I've just played the game too many times

haha ok thanks, should've figured that one out :)

Hey nice background art. I couldn't tell from the links in the credits, but it looks just slightly... AI generated to me? Have you checked out stable diffusion e.g. https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream? I think it would be a super useful tool for making a game like this! (just describe your background and get AI to produce the result)

Nice puzzle! I couldn't understand why it wouldn't let me place the 4th element in certain positions sometimes though :O