I don't want to debate your concerns, but analog photography, which was the predominant form of taking still images for 100 years, relies on dangerous chemicals. Please look at the history of chemical manufacturers and their stewardship of the neighbourhoods they were located in.

Keep making games. Keep drawing art. Keep playing music. We never stopped putting paint on canvas, and we never stopped appreciating what a brush stroke means. Your games mean something.

And in the same way, there will always be a space for those who want to build an experience with or without these tools in a way that’s not immediate and requires effort to determine what the experience will be for others.

We’re already seeing a landscape where someone can pay to play an infinite stream of ideas at their whim. Let them. Someone who’s enticed by that world and wants to explore what it has to offer is free to do so.

Did photography transform how portraiture was approached and made? Absolutley! Do people still paint portraits? You bet. Tools will come, people will use them, and there will always be a space for those who make things “the old fashioned way”.

The ground is noticeably shaking in the homebrew scene. AI tools are not only shifting the possibilities but also how people approach the process of game making. It can be unsettling and down right scary. But here’s the thing…