Call it AI slop. Call the visuals trash, the gameplay terrible, or say it’s a copy of Cuphead or MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. You’re allowed to dislike what I’m making. But you don’t get to decide what it means to me.
For the past four months, I’ve been building this game, doing 60% of the work myself, with AI helping me create my own engine layer on top of Godot and bring the world to life. I’m open about the tools I use. I have nothing to hide.
The character at the heart of this game is someone I used to draw as a kid. For years, that’s all he could be: a drawing and an idea I couldn’t afford to make real. The animation and artwork costs were simply beyond my reach.
Now I can finally make that game. I can watch a character from my childhood move, explore, and exist in a world I imagined. And I’m having a damn blast doing it.
Criticize the game. Tell me what looks bad, what plays badly, what needs work. I can take that. But attacking me for using the tools that made this possible won’t make me ashamed of it.
I’m not making this to get rich. I’m making it because I’ve wanted to for most of my life.
You don’t have to play it. You don’t have to like it. I’m still going to make it.
30% AI. 70% me. 100% ignored.
This is my game, Solitaire: Kingdom in Chains.
It took me 3 months to build. Not 6 hours and a magic prompt.
I worked with Photoshop, Cubase, Filmora, Claude Code, and Codex. I designed, edited, tested, fixed, rebuilt, and polished until I had something I was proud to release.
But apparently, none of that matters anymore.
Because the moment Steam puts that little AI disclosure on your game, some people have already decided it's garbage without even looking at it.
Three months of work? Irrelevant.
The actual gameplay? Irrelevant.
Whether the game is good or bad? Also irrelevant.
AI was involved. Case closed.
I'm not asking anyone to buy my game out of sympathy. Hell, I'm not even asking you to like it.
I'm asking you to judge the damn game, not the tools used to make it.
Because if using AI means your work automatically has no value, then we've stopped judging creativity and started policing toolboxes.
Here's the gameplay. Judge it for yourself.
https://t.co/jrVICfHTiY