Beloved Party Game Gets Review
Kotaku • • technology
Key Points:
- Party Animals, a casual physics-based party game released in 2023, faced backlash after its developers announced a $75,000 AI-generated content video contest requiring AI to be the core creative tool.
- The contest rules mandated original AI-generated works, despite controversy over generative AI models being trained on unlicensed art, which many see as plagiarism.
- The announcement sparked widespread player outrage, leading to a significant drop in the game's Steam rating and many players vowing to stop supporting the game and its developers.
- In response to the backlash, the developers apologized, canceled the contest, and launched a community vote to decide whether to cancel, remove AI from the contest, or keep AI with a separate art category, with canceling currently favored.
- The incident highlights ongoing tensions in the gaming community over AI-generated content and concerns about its impact on creativity and intellectual property.