Beloved indie dev "couldn't make" its first game today thanks to AI

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.

Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. says the studio and publisher's first game, An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs, "couldn't be made today" thanks to how generative AI has taken over the internet and complicated the process of using stock images in media projects.

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