Midnight Shifts with Femboy

It's not that deep

You clearly don't know what Sora was, because it's gone now. It was for making video clips, not RenPy Gooner games. Sora is one of the AI tools I can say for certain was NOT responsible for anything in this game. This game is made up of text, code and images. It's like a slightly fancier version of a PowerPoint presentation when you break it all down. So, they could have used an LLM to generate the text and help with the code, and used one of a number of image generation tools.

These gooner games are notoriously buggy and fizzle out before it's ever finished. There's games like Eternum and Desert Stalker that are the pinnacle of this game genre--but they're still dog shit next to even some of the worst indie games. The big difference is that the writing in those were good, which is insanely rare because usually English is their 3rd language, they can't debug code to save their lives, and they don't have the time, energy or desire to ever finish them.

Go look at all the games on here, and if you look at even the top rated games, they're still an incomplete mess. You can trash talk AI all you want, but it's actually made this sort of content so much better. There were thousands of bad gooner games for every decent one, and this simply elevated the overall quality to something cromulent, instead of just shit. People can put whatever amount of effort they want into these things, but I'm pretty happy with improvements AI has made to these games.

It's not like the people making these can afford to hire artists, animators, writers and developers to make these things. Even if they had the money to, would anyone want to work on a game like this with other people on a team that have to make decisions? If I was coding up one of these, I know I wouldn't want to get other people involved. The only reason I haven't is because I'm lazy, but it used to be my laziness AND lack of ability to create the artwork.