House House says an LLM helped fix a Big Walk bug
Original title: Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
Nineteen IGF jurors say they will not vote for any game that uses generative AI after the disclosure.
House House said LLMs were used sparingly late in Big Walk development to work through a Unity bug that produced infinite-length shadows. The studio said the chatbot suggestion was heavily modified into about 10 lines, well under 0.1% of the code, and was disclosed to the Independent Games Festival because Valve does not require chatbot-use disclosure. Nineteen of more than 50 IGF jurors signed a statement declining to vote for any game using generative AI and urged a ban on AI-generated work.
Unconfirmed: A social media user claims the Unity bug was fixable without an LLM; that claim is unverified.
- The signed statement came from 19 members of a jury of more than 50.
- House House said LLM use was well under 0.1% of Big Walk’s code.
- The bug involved infinite-length shadows in the Unity engine.
- Valve’s form covers AI-generated content, not chatbot efficiency gains.
- Indie Game Awards previously rescinded Clair Obscur awards over AI textures.
- Organizations
- House HouseIndependent Games FestivalValve
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Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Indie Game Festival judges.
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