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Independent Games Festival jurors have refused to evaluate Big Walk, a game from the studio behind Untitled Goose Game, because it uses AI-generated elements. This has effectively left the title unable to compete for awards at the festival.
The Independent Games Festival this year required every entrant to declare any AI use, a stricter standard than Steam's player-facing disclosure rule. This led many indie developers to disclose AI use for the first time, with the game Big Walk becoming the focus of controversy after its developers said LLMs were used for less than 0.1% of its code to fix late-production errors. A judge for the festival described the resulting forum debate, which grew to roughly 150 comments, as unusually heated even by IGF standards.