Any chance the AI choice can be added to the filters? Otherwise with thousands of entries it will be impossible to find the kind-of games that you might want to rate.
That's a great idea! Here's what we've added to the submission form this year:
Hopefully this gives everyone a better idea of how each game was made. itch.io has some support for filtering on this; here's what it should look like when it comes time to rate...
I was wondering about this too because it becomes difficult to define. AI is very helpful at the start for structuring the project, allow you to focus on the meat of the game logics, what % would that assist count? essentially advanced boilerplate. Also researching prerequisites going through documentation for you, answering individual element implementation question with code output, debugging, and generating edge case tests for you that you will prompt/plan out but still AI generated none the less. How much of these are permitted and technically non-infringing in a developer's natural creative input for the game.
want to piggybag on this - your distinction is spot on and I would differentiate:
- the craftsman (all code handwritten and proud of it)
- the time crunched hobby dev (loves to code, architects the game, but lets the AI fill some cumbersome details) <- me, btw
- the game designer (has good ideas for great games but lacks the coding skills and thus heavily relies on AI)
Furthermore I would query this for assets as well. Which would give the reviewers an indication on how to evaluate the effort in a 2-dimensional AI space. So everyone could make his own rules/informeed decisions on whether it's a game they are considering reviewing or not.
has good ideas for great games but lacks the coding skills and thus heavily relies on AI
How about someone who has lots of coding skills but sees no point doing things by hand anymore?
