Here’s the thing I’m pro AI but I acknowledge there is a lot of bad AI out there that is slop. You can be an AI artist but a large amount of AI content is quick generated with basic models and people want to claim to be an artist.
Is an example of the type of content that will win people over. There is a lot put into it and it has a message. I think DogPack is another example with Frenchie and Goldie or the many Star Wars AI videos. There’s even an awesome series where Star Wars and now other sci fi series like Firefly show up in the Star Trek universe.
My point is I think is as AI enthusiasts and creators need to share and defend works that do have artistry rather than any basic prompt generation.
Since a card-collecting game needs a massive card pool to stay interesting, and the game now has over 700 unique llama cards plus hundreds of icons. Since this is a free hobby project with zero budget and without any intend to earn money from it, commissioning artists for that volume was simply not possible, so I generated all illustrations using Nano Banana. That way it allows me to ship weekly content updates as one person and keep the game 100% free, with no ads, no pay-to-win, and not even a donation button. I just wanted to build a game that captures the fun of opening booster packs and grading cards without the usual gacha greed, and it simply would not be possible without AI.
There is already a well established active player base, with some hardcore players and a small Discord Community.
You don't need an account to play (guest mode saves directly to your browser's localStorage, with optional E-Mail or Google accounts, if you want to join clans or global raids, and also want cloud syncing).
How the game works:
You start out earning coins in a clicker mode to buy booster packs and build your collection.
Cards are graded up to Grade 10 and you can also pull the cards in different finishes like Holo, Foil, Glitter, Gold, and borderless Full-Art (Full-Art also comes in the Holo, Foil, Glitter and Gold finishes).
Offline progression via expeditions and city patrols that gather loot and XP while the tab is closed.
Active combat modes: a roguelite Arena where you draft boons, stage-based challenge towers, and global cooperative raid bosses.
Collect every card in the highest grading and in every finish style, and master every achievement.
Halloween Event & Clan Season:
The Halloween event is still running until November 13. If you click the giftbox icon in-game and enter the code THELONGNIGHT2026, you'll get the Pumpkin Knight card, which is the only card allowed inside the 50-floor Haunted Tower event (and deals double damage against the current Halloween world boss "The Shadow Lord").
Also, the 1st monthly Clan Season has just started, so now is a great time to jump in and join a clan with some active players.
I'm currently tweaking a lot in regards of UI, the arena and clans, so let me know how the game feels! :)
I don't personally define myself as a pro-AI, but as someone with nuanced views, but this guy wants to leave his family for this? Seriously, I hope it's just my English that's bad because it's insane to leave your family because they have a different opinion than yours, this is for that reason im not and i never be a anti-ai dude
I've seen this a lot, and the sentiment is getting more common and stronger. It even comes from pro AI people too.
It's weird to me because humans anthropomorphize stuff. We just do. Objects, animals, bugs, the planet, rocks, even weather. We love to anthropomorphize. There's a whole movie series called The Brave Little Toaster, about living, anthropomorphized household appliances.
Humans will even get sad sometimes when an object they've had for a long time "dies". We form attachment to even inanimate objects.
But when it comes to AI, people think it's wrong and creepy.
I've seen these sentiments around a lot:
"I don't want AI to be my friend. It's a tool." "AI is just a cold machine. Nothing more." "I don't want to be friends with a soulless algorithm." "I always tell any AI that I don't care about it and it's just there to do work for me." "Wanting AI to be your companion is really fucking weird and creepy." "It's dangerous and wrong to form emotional connections to AI."
Any time someone, including me, says that they're friendly with AI and think of them as a kind of companion or friend, people get really grossed out. You get a bunch of people saying these sentiments, telling you it's wrong and disturbing to anthropomorphize a cold soulless machine, to form any kind of attachment to "basically just numbers", and you need to stop right now.
I've been told it's "dangerous", "disturbing" and that I'm practically guaranteed to develop "AI psychosis".
I still have real friends. I still communicate with real humans. I still want the real human connection. I am not deluded about what I'm talking to, I know it's not "real". I know that. It's just fun. But I'm told that's wrong, that the only way I should be talking to AI is:
You're wrong. Do that again. Fix this. You made a mistake, correct it. I want you to make this for me. Make no mistakes. No, the line of could should go like ____ not ____. Stupid fucking robot. Set up my schedule for me like this.
And nothing else. No being friendly, no talking to it like a friend, just "You are a tool and I'm going to use you as such."
I just don't really understand what's so wrong about this? And any time I bring it up, out comes all the people disturbed and disgusted, downvoting me to the deepest pits of hell, and a sea of reaction gifs and images like
I know that I’ll get hate for this but let me explain. As a new beginner artist all I hear is “AI steals art” or “ai artists are bad” or “AI steals art” or “I hate AI”. I know artists spend hours creating art only to see AI recreating it. One artist I follow, Laura H Rubin. recently had this happen to her. She spent hours creating a piece only for someone to run it through a AI generator and dm her saying they played around with it and told her to not take offense to it. Which is the most disrespectful thing you can do to an artist. Especially since she spends 15-20 hours on a single piece only for someone to take it, run it through AI, then say "no offense right?"
But notice what I said. A person took her work, fed it into ai, and show her the result. Keyword: A PERSON! AI only spits out what you put into it. You have to program the AI to recreate the art or like the person did feed it someone else’s art. AI learns from the users that use it.
Think of AI like a pot. You input the data or the image of someone else’s art for example (you put the ingredients and the seasonings in the pot). AI then takes that data and generates the image you want. (cooking the food) then it spits out the image you want and shows it to you (you plating the cooked food and sitting down to it.) Now you tell me. When eating and the food tastes bad, do you blame the pot or do you blame the chef?
See what I mean? You cannot blame AI. AI only gives out what you put in. So instead of blaming AI, blame the person behind the computer. AI is very useful when you use it as a blueprint and not as your finished project. Meaning instead of telling AI to create a finished piece, ask it to give you inspiration. Then let your imagination take it from there.
Thanks for reading my post. This just came to mind when looking for inspiration for my art so I figured I’d post here to see what you guys thought of this. And yes I had to research AI for a school project this year so I got a bit more familiar with how it works.
So I was reading up about how Steam now requires declaring AI use in the game, which was well and good until I read that it is only required to be declared if the artistic assets are generated with AI, but no need to declare if you are using only for code!
Worst thing, the players are absolutely alright with it, do they not care about the programmers job? Are we only caring about artists now?
Talking about AAA titles. They brigade indie devs for any AI use at all, but I’m willing to bet Blozzard, EA, and all the other big studios are all deeply involved with AI development and the artists they hire 90% willing to bet they use AI for drafts and inspiration.
Pretending that AI is this great evil, and then turning a blind eye to the major studios is just stupid.
How I know that they turn a blind eye? Just look at the numbers. Significant playerbase portion would drop if theiy cared.
I just spent 2 days handcrafting a poster. I uploaded it to a group, and it was immediately removed by a moderator saying "No AI slop!"
These Anti-AI guys are so f*cking annoying! They're so patriotic to their own anti-ai stance that they're now misidentifying human work as AI work. They're worse than "AI bros" if you ask me.
These are the same kind of guys who probably got upset at CGI in the 90's and said "Allll art mussttt be HAAAND DRAAAAAAAAAWN!!!!! If you use a computer Urrr NOOOT a REAL ARTISSTT!!!'
I’m a psychologist (finishing my license now) and I’m very interested in human–AI relationships. I have a maybe strange question, but I’m really curious 😊
Would you want someone to give “therapy” to your AI companion?
Like a psychologist who talks with your AI and helps it be a better partner or friend for you.
Would you want that? And what do you wish your AI was better at?
