July Update 2024
Added 2024-07-27 03:24:40 +0000 UTCHey everyone, sorry for the past few months. I think I needed a bit of a hiatus to take care of family and such. Looking to go back into the full swing of things albeit working around the kids so progress will be slow.
One of the things I've been testing the past couple of months is the use of AI art and music. I was impressed with some of the art I was able to come up with as well as the music that could be generated to fit various rpg themes. That said, I'm strongly considering the use of AI art and music in the game.
Before you mention it, I'm well aware of AI art and the controversy around it. The main reason I'm mostly wanting to go that direction is that is sort of has motivated me to want to work on the game since I can create assets and see what people think. That said I'd like to continue forward by creating enemy characters and quest giver busts to help flush out the game and give the world a more "pregnant" feel. One thing AI art can't do however is hyperpregnancy or at least it does it terribly. I'll continue to work with my current artists on characters but probably going forward I'll look to commission characters that fit more hyperpregnancy themes. I'll also share some examples of some characters I created to give you all a feel of what they would look like.
As for the game itself, special thanks to otronombre in the community who has been working on it in the background in my hiatus to continue to translate the game and well as a few more fixes.
Comments
Thanks for the feedback! Any major characters in the game will be done by artists as I feel like attention to detail is important. Things that the AI can't do as mentioned is hyperpregnancy and progressive stages. Even doing a non preg to preg is somewhat difficult as there will be some changes to the character. With this in mind, I feel like fleshing out some side characters that never get voted on as well as trying to give quest givers a bust image to make them feel a bit more important would help. Also I'd like to look to update icons as well as some world sprites too. Outside of art, music is really helpful since I've been using stock music but really, really didn't like the EULA's attached to them. I'll keep the current music in game, it just would help with newer areas and such. As for the generated characters, they were not designed specifically for seeds but I do appreciate the feedback. I'll see what I can do to make them less AI and look more natural to the game setting.
preggopixels
2024-07-27 13:38:00 +0000 UTCI understand the appeal of using AI art to fill in areas of the game that feel lacking. I agree the game needs an art pass to unify the art style and cover some places that have been overlooked. But I think you should be asking the artists you have been working with up till now how they feel about it. Those of us that play your games and support you on Patrion are not the most impacted by this. Saying your still going to be paying artists because AI can’t do hyperpregnancy seems like you justifying AI use to yourself. If you still want to use AI or AI assisted tools for art, consider using it for things your artists can’t do at all, such as idol animations or morphing smoothly between pregnancy stages. As for the five examples shown in your other post, the first (villager?) and third (farm girl) could slot into Seeds fairly seamlessly and unless told, I don’t think anyone would notice. The second (priestess) has a miss proportioned body giving her a chibi feel, this is deviates further from the main art style of the game and I don’t think fits. The fourth example (knight) looks good and could fit. Maybe I’m being overly critical but it seems like her armor was made for her to be that pregnant in it. She is not popping out of it like other characters have like Tiamat, or presumably Blake when they are suddenly pregnant due to the effects of a seed. Maybe you could come up with an in-game reason for that, I’m sure you could think of something. Lastly the fifth example (waitress?) shows to many signs of being AI generated, her breast on the left is sticking out past her top, she only has three fingers on her left hand, and why is her right leg covered but her left is clearly not?
Turbonoch
2024-07-27 11:56:48 +0000 UTC
