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We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
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The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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Our debut game, Eternal Strands is on sale again for the Steam Winter Sale. Explore a ruined magical city full of constructs, climb everything, including huge creatures, and combine magical abilities in physics-based combat. Fully voiced, light romances. Enjoy
store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...
Save 70% on Eternal Strands on Steam
A next-generation action experience where the elements obey you, the terrain bends to your will, and every victory is entirely your own.
store.steampowered.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Our debut game, Eternal Strands is on sale again for the Steam Winter Sale. Explore a ruined magical city full of constructs, climb everything, including huge creatures, and combine magical abilities in physics-based combat. Fully voiced, light romances. Enjoy
store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...
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I'm on discourse cooldown after participating the other day, so I'm gonna take a short break till my resources recharge.
Pay your Writers to do their work. Pay your Artists to do their work. Pay your Designers to do their work. Pay your Programmers to do their work. Pay your QA to do their work.
Pay your Writers to do their work. Pay your Artists to do their work. Pay your Designers to do their work. Pay your Programmers to do their work. Pay your QA to do their work.
December 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm on discourse cooldown after participating the other day, so I'm gonna take a short break till my resources recharge.
Pay your Writers to do their work. Pay your Artists to do their work. Pay your Designers to do their work. Pay your Programmers to do their work. Pay your QA to do their work.
Pay your Writers to do their work. Pay your Artists to do their work. Pay your Designers to do their work. Pay your Programmers to do their work. Pay your QA to do their work.
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Don’t let CEOs quibble over how much they’re pushing for AI. Regurgitative AI is a plagiaristic poison, to use any amount of it is to use it too much.
They want the concessions, because concessions can creep. Zero tolerance is the only way to say no to it.
They want the concessions, because concessions can creep. Zero tolerance is the only way to say no to it.
December 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Don’t let CEOs quibble over how much they’re pushing for AI. Regurgitative AI is a plagiaristic poison, to use any amount of it is to use it too much.
They want the concessions, because concessions can creep. Zero tolerance is the only way to say no to it.
They want the concessions, because concessions can creep. Zero tolerance is the only way to say no to it.
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@venstre.dk ved vi, hvor vi har, når det gælder at udrydde ALT i #DKnatur, som vores #landbrug ikke kan lide OG beskytte industriel #svineproduktion BIG TIME. Sammen med partifællen #AsgerChristensen holder #ErlingBonnesen sig ikke tilbage om #ulv ved at kombinere syg populisme med manipuleret AI 🤡
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
@venstre.dk ved vi, hvor vi har, når det gælder at udrydde ALT i #DKnatur, som vores #landbrug ikke kan lide OG beskytte industriel #svineproduktion BIG TIME. Sammen med partifællen #AsgerChristensen holder #ErlingBonnesen sig ikke tilbage om #ulv ved at kombinere syg populisme med manipuleret AI 🤡
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Re: Larian using ai for jobs nobody wants to do: there is no part of art that nobody wants to do. But that goes triple for anything in the concept stage. That's the stage where you draw cool shit. That's the stage where it doesn't have to make sense yet.
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Re: Larian using ai for jobs nobody wants to do: there is no part of art that nobody wants to do. But that goes triple for anything in the concept stage. That's the stage where you draw cool shit. That's the stage where it doesn't have to make sense yet.
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Sending strength to every Larian employee who hates AI and has to sit through the discourse of another dipshit slop-pilled CEO's comments
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Sending strength to every Larian employee who hates AI and has to sit through the discourse of another dipshit slop-pilled CEO's comments
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I keep talking to people who are very anti AI who admit they're fine with it being used ' to brainstorm/ generate ideas', I have to explain very clearly why that's just a terrible idea as generating assets.
People genuinely don't know what concept art is/what concept artists do!
People genuinely don't know what concept art is/what concept artists do!
it's all bad but it's disgusting to imply that using genAI for concept art is comparable to placeholder text
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I keep talking to people who are very anti AI who admit they're fine with it being used ' to brainstorm/ generate ideas', I have to explain very clearly why that's just a terrible idea as generating assets.
People genuinely don't know what concept art is/what concept artists do!
People genuinely don't know what concept art is/what concept artists do!
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The process is the fun part. Throwing shit at the wall with your colleagues is where the growth happens. The journey of distilling many ideas and iterations into something tightly focused and beautiful is what I enjoy. The frustrations are part of the growth.
AI strips you of that.
AI strips you of that.
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The process is the fun part. Throwing shit at the wall with your colleagues is where the growth happens. The journey of distilling many ideas and iterations into something tightly focused and beautiful is what I enjoy. The frustrations are part of the growth.
AI strips you of that.
AI strips you of that.
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consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
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This isn't to cut development time, this is to cut development costs, and instead to compensate by hiring more creatives for your team, you use gen AI. Very uncool, Larian.
Creatives are hurting in every industry. Be the force that fight for creatives, not against them.
Creatives are hurting in every industry. Be the force that fight for creatives, not against them.
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This isn't to cut development time, this is to cut development costs, and instead to compensate by hiring more creatives for your team, you use gen AI. Very uncool, Larian.
Creatives are hurting in every industry. Be the force that fight for creatives, not against them.
Creatives are hurting in every industry. Be the force that fight for creatives, not against them.
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Everyone who uses AI for content gen tries to justify it with increasingly bizarre mitigations from "we're only using it to prototype", "we're only using it to iterate", "we're only using it to fill in some gaps", "we're barely even using it", "hey it still took us all night", "it's not even good"
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Everyone who uses AI for content gen tries to justify it with increasingly bizarre mitigations from "we're only using it to prototype", "we're only using it to iterate", "we're only using it to fill in some gaps", "we're barely even using it", "hey it still took us all night", "it's not even good"
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the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting
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One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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Endnu engang kører både EU-parlamentariker Asger Christensen fra @venstre.dk og @tvmidtvest.dk løs med nyt faktaresistent nonsens om #ulv i #DKnatur. Og både de faktaresistente venner fra #DKpol og vælgere uden den mest basale viden om vores natur, rider med ud over prærisen i kommentarspor, der..
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Endnu engang kører både EU-parlamentariker Asger Christensen fra @venstre.dk og @tvmidtvest.dk løs med nyt faktaresistent nonsens om #ulv i #DKnatur. Og både de faktaresistente venner fra #DKpol og vælgere uden den mest basale viden om vores natur, rider med ud over prærisen i kommentarspor, der..
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Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
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Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
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Sign the Petition
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
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November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Igen lægger @tvmidtvest.dk brænde på bålet om #ulv i #DKnatur. En #jæger tog en video fra sit skydetårn og får taletid. CITAT: "Hvis de 10 sammen kommer ind på en kvægmark for eksempel, så kan de jo splitte alting ad," vurderer jægeren. Som jæger, bliver jeg træt af faktaresistente jægervurderinger😬
Bo fangede 10 ulve på samme videoklip: - Nu bliver det lige voldsomt nok
Læs mere her
www.tvmidtvest.dk
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Igen lægger @tvmidtvest.dk brænde på bålet om #ulv i #DKnatur. En #jæger tog en video fra sit skydetårn og får taletid. CITAT: "Hvis de 10 sammen kommer ind på en kvægmark for eksempel, så kan de jo splitte alting ad," vurderer jægeren. Som jæger, bliver jeg træt af faktaresistente jægervurderinger😬
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getting harder to argue that the establishment democrats actually care about winning and accomplishing things, isn't it. in the sense of defeating the republicans and enacting the policies they run on, anyway
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
getting harder to argue that the establishment democrats actually care about winning and accomplishing things, isn't it. in the sense of defeating the republicans and enacting the policies they run on, anyway