LOS ANGELES, Dec 21 \u2014 The Indie Game Awards has revoked Clair Obscur: Expedition 33\u2019s Game of the Year and Debut Game honors after discovering the title originally shipped with generative\u2011AI art assets, despite earlier assurances from its developer that no such tools were used.<\/p>\n
The RPG from Sandfall Interactive and publisher Kepler Interactive won both categories on Thursday, but the organisation announced yesterday that the awards were being rescinded.<\/p>\n
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According to its FAQ, Sandfall representatives had affirmed during submission that no generative AI was involved in the game\u2019s development.<\/p>\n
However, on the day of the awards premiere, the studio confirmed that AI\u2011generated textures had been included at launch before being replaced in a patch five days later.<\/p>\n
The initial use of AI assets\u2014despite their removal\u2014was sufficient to disqualify the game under the event\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n
Polygon reports that Sandfall had previously acknowledged limited AI use in interviews earlier this year, including comments from creative director Fran\u00e7ois Meurisse, who said the team used \u201csome AI, but not much\u201d during production.<\/p>\n
Players had spotted suspected AI textures shortly after release, though the issue did not generate widespread backlash compared to other recent controversies involving AI\u2011generated game art.<\/p>\n
The Indie Game Awards will now pass the revoked honors to the next\u2011highest\u2011ranked titles: We\u2019re Closed for Debut Game and Blue Prince for Game of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, Dec 21 \u2014 The Indie Game Awards has revoked Clair Obscur: Expedition 33\u2019s Game of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83994,111365,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-195958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-clair-obscur","tag-debut-game","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}