The practice of doing things that are difficult and take time just because you can and want to directly oppose trends of crunch, taking shortcuts through generative AI, and seeing games as a profit-making machine. I’ve written previously about how Scarlet Deer Inn, a game that went viral in May for its gorgeous hand-embroidered animations, defies ideas of efficiency and cost-effectiveness in making games.
Every time I see a game made in a painstaking, almost unnecessarily time-consuming way, I feel a surge of respect. It’s thanks to this growing culture that my appreciation for hand-crafted games has grown exponentially. Related: One Of 2023's Best Games Is Also Its Ugliest It’s more of a money-making tool than anything, less focused on art for art’s sake and more on what value you can extract from the work. All so the development cycle costs less and to generate more revenue with more games a year.
The reason that people are excited to have artificially generated assets in their games is that they can spend less money paying real people with real talent, and they can get things done faster.
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