Reposting this fascinating interview with the developers of Palworld. Their starting budget was $10,000.

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I have not played Palworld but I love that it has exposed the greed and capitalist rot of the company that makes Pokemon. Seriously, the "old guard" video game giants like GameFreak, Valve, etc. are putting out lazy content and sucking up billions from micro-transactions, lazy retreads, and subscriptions. It's just funny to see capitalists be bad at capitalism.

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- I've seen the AI claim several times, but I've not seen someone backing up the claim. Do you have a source?
- I’ve seen real artists get caught up in AI witch-hunts so many times now I’ve lost count.
  Not much is more demoralizing than a twitter horde calling your legitimately made art fake.
  More of a general principle than Palworld specific though.
- Okay but is Coromon actually good or am I gonna feel ripped off like I did with Nexomon?
I like parts of this story. I think it's funny and great that this ragtag group of Japanese misfit game dev amateurs stumbled onto a huge hit by cobbling together a bunch of game design ideas from different popular games from the past decade and sprinkling Pokemon on top of them. This hacked together Frankenstein of a meme game has probably outsold FFXVI by now

Apparently the CEO couldn't get hired by big Japanese studios, then found out Steam would let anyone sell games on there
I also like that their character designer is some high school dropout who they found working at a 7/11 near their office
On the other hand, from the CEO's NFT and AI tweets and his own admission that he's more interested in chasing trends than innovative, boundary-pushing game design he kind of seems like an opportunistic rise and grind dipshit
- There's no proof of ai generation being used in palworld itself
  Also the timeline for that doesn't line up. AI generated art was absolute dogshit at the point in the dev cycle where it could have been used, and by the time it reached the "maybe make some concept art to be reimagined as a 3d model" level they'd have to have been in the final stretch towards making it playable. Even now, "AI art" for a 3d game is theoretically using it to upscale, clean up, and detail a rough sketch, something that's only been done in proof-of-concept things AFAIK.
  They did seemingly just straight up rip pokemon 3d models and then change them up in blender though which is extremely funny and literally stealing directly from Nintendo is laudable in almost any circumstance, but they are probably going to get completely fucked in the courts over it, lmao.
Their ceo said they spent 6.75million on palworld.
This story ain't it
Real cool kids are playing Shin Megami Tensei and their monster collecting games. Comon guys, as communists we must all support games about killing god
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