Rest assured, there is plenty of AI being used, but the game devs know better than to talk about it.

Creating a game, even when you have capable team of 2-3 members, its very very broad objective. You have to be master of so many things. During the vibe coding jam, there were so many games build by AI, but none of them were any good, AI was making three.js games mostly and it was placing objects so stupidly that the term ASS (artificial stupidity sourced) code is a term on discord indie scene. For eg, in a car came it was placing objects on the road.

You can see https://geminimakesrally.vercel.app/ and judge for yourself. Its terrible and its funny for now. It uses the latest Gemini 3 Pro model from December. Can you sell this game? Maybe on mobile if you want to add to the slop store more, I personally dont want to post slop games like this. Removed it from my itch too as soon as we completed the

And before you say its me being shit at vibecoding, yes fair, but I am fairly competitive in non game vibecoding: https://plonkedin.vercel.app/ (made in couple mins)

Reminds me of the web3 wave a few years back, lots of people trying to make games with no actual understanding of what makes games fun and popular, not just profitable. The tech isn't the bottleneck, the taste is. Same applies to AI art

He wouldn't be creating a game if it wasn't for Claude Code, so there's that.

I'm sorry that I can't find the source anymore.

The other thing is that games are getting more complex and audience is demanding. Even if you can use AI for your solo project the bar is higher than 10 years ago.

2) The indie community is hostile towards AI. Expedition 33 was disqualified for barely any AI use. Even things like brainstorming titles or generating textures will get you exiled.

3) Nano banana tier AI doesn't seem consistent enough to do assets properly. You need to remove the backgrounds. You need to wrestle it into following instructions. It does save time and you can do things like draw 5 guns and have it generate 4 more in the same style, but that's not much better than Diablo 2 recoloring units.

4) While not outright hostile, most people below 20 recognize AI art with a glance. Capsule and ads are immediately indicative of the game being AI slop even if it's not. If you have something AI-looking in the screenshots, people simply move on to the next game.

5) While Elevenlabs produces some impressive sounding audio, they're still not at a voice actor tier. They're only good enough for scaffolding and trigger uncanny valley.

So most games made by AI are just tutorial rehashes as that all the LLMs have to generate off.