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Big Walk’s AI Usage Was Tiny, But Its Disclosure Has Sparked A Bigger Debate

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Big Walk’s AI Usage Was Tiny, But Its Disclosure Has Sparked A Bigger Debate

Big Walk developer House House has confirmed that it used AI during the "final stretch" of its development. The studio recently updated its FAQs page to confirm its use of the tech, with the news coming after 19 Independent Games Festival jurors announced they'll decline to vote for "any game that uses generative AI in any capacity" during the 2027 awards show.

House House hasn't confirmed if its admittance was connected to the IGF--the IGF hasn't named any games either--and the studio said to Aftermath that it estimates "that well under 0.1% of Big Walk’s code" was built with AI. "We have some concern that voluntary disclosures like this might contribute to the normalization of this technology, or its treatment as 'inevitable.' We support the work of those who are trying to limit the harm generative AI is doing to videogames and our world, and apologize that Big Walk’s LLM usage may not meet their standards," House House said. The developer also mentioned that AI was used as a last resort for solving technical issues, as even an engineer at Unity--the engine that Big Walk was developed in--believed that one of their problems wasn't possible to solve.

There's a lot to unpack here, starting with why House House didn't disclose the use of AI for Big Walk. The game is hosted on platforms like Steam, where studios can voluntarily disclose AI usage when it comes to generated code (however, it is mandatory to disclose if a game has AI-generated assets), but House House says it only did so after the topic became a matter of public interest.


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