I’ve been experimenting with AI tools lately and I’m really curious how others here are using them in their workflows. For example, I’ve tried using AI for small content drafts, brainstorming app features, and even improving my gaming-related projects.
One thing I noticed is that AI can save a lot of time, but it still needs a strong creative direction to shine.
So I’d love to hear from you:
Are you mostly using AI for work or for personal hobbies?
Have you found any unique ways to integrate it into creative projects (like music, games, or app development)?
At first, I used GPT-o1 to fix the in-game purchase extension in my puzzle game: it took almost a month, but in the end it solved the problem.
Then I used it for small JS scripts like calculating stats, detecting complex patterns in puzzle games between adjacent pieces, shuffling cards… and I don’t even know JavaScript! I even made several extensions that are very useful for me.
Now I’m making a new version of Yarn entirely in JS. I defined the project in GPT, then started creating the individual JS files (almost thirty of them), but each time I had to copy and paste into GPT and it would forget the rest… so I connected GDevelop to Cursor, and now I can handle huge projects… without opening GD!
My editor works better every day! I have to follow every step (hours of work) but the result is amazing.
I use AI to help brainstorm dialogue options for characters and clean up grammar in my in-game text. Also handy for rewriting event descriptions to sound more natural or fun.
I mainly use AI at work to speed up programming when there’s an urgent requirement in a language I’m less familiar with, or to polish and improve texts (like emails) so they’re clearer and easier to understand (like I have done with this paragraph )
But I’m also working on a project with the aim of having it all AI generated. I have the idea/concept and have been asking ChatGPT to write the various components for it using Python. It’s made quite a few mistakes to date, so I’m not fearful of losing my programming job to AI just yet. But I analyse and try to learn from what it does correctly.
I find AI extremely useful to help me get started when I learn something new (not necessarily game dev or programming but anything in general) and to ask for further information, explanation and context when needed. Often books and online courses tend to leave out important details thinking it helps to understand better and not to be confused by certain concepts, but it often creates gaps and confusion. I like to use AI to fill the gaps I need to know and otherwise could require weeks and months to discover on my own through practice.
I also find AI extremely useful to create designs to be used only as inspiration and source of ideas but I never use AI generated content or design directly in my projects. Only use it as inspirations to create my own version of it.
When I use AI in projects, I mostly use it to get ideas or to bug fix problems. I haven’t been using it as much recently, since I have found the GDevelop forum to be way more helpful and accurate when solving problems.
Most bots aren’t too accurate with GD. They often give you recommendations using features that don’t exist. I usually ask for code in Javascript. It’s just formatted so much nicer.
I use bots a lot for formulas for like trajectory or speed and asking for Javascript gives me the formula in a way that I can read instead of something with a lot of symbols that I have no clue as to what they mean.
I’ve played with quite a few of them through work or just curiosity & have found the following use cases the most useful for me:
using in-painting to help make my own artwork seamless so I can use it as fabric patterns
at work editing images for non-technical purposes (ie, if it’s not anything that needs to be accurate, we can either edit or create, most recent example a plain sand background for adding text on)
tweaking video where we don’t have the option of more takes (eg, fixing eyeline in a couple seconds, fixing a mistake that the person being filmed wanted us to fix)
making extremely generic bg music for intro’s so our teachers aren’t being pinged for copyright bc they didn’t read the usage rights of that thing they totally downloaded from a “free” site and the other alternative is I pay my own money for the licence which I am no longer in any position to do bc thats expensive & while I love our teachers Not That Much
asking it to describe graphs/tables so I can do more descriptive ALT text in a hurry, when I need to hundred of these in a day - it’s either use AI or the alt text reads “ask your teacher” bc I am ONE person this has helped immensely tbh and it’s so far been 99% perfect and the one time it wasn’t I was able to make my own note bc I had more time
asking it for a “typical” response if I need to know what the most ‘generic’ response to a situation might be - useful for coming up with scenarios where that is specifically avoided so ppl have to think outside the box for answers. Kinda hard to explain but imagine if you want a case study but don’t want 50 of the same response, so you ask the AI for a response & then tweak the case study so that response isn’t applicable now or ask for more clarification about certain aspects that the “generic” response missed.
Sometimes I ask it for a set of instructions for software I’m not familiar with if I can’t find anything useful online - success really variable on this one, really dependent on the current state of the software. It has directed me to some useful resources once or twice though.
I’ve played around with image-gen just as curiosity, find it was FAR more interesting back when it sucked bc at least it had something that wasn’t more vacant airbrushed waifu.
video gen might be useful if we can use it to extend b-roll where we don’t have enough, or help fix takes that need a tweak (like interviews where the talent can’t stop picking their damned nose) but currently not much use for me as it’s too expensive for not much video
goofing off at work asking it to run D&D sessions with me and then trying to break it - kinda bad at it tbh, it doesn’t “yes and” like a human which is a bit boring.
I’m looking forward to trying more “real” software with dedicated AI assistants where those assistants are specifically trained to do Very Specific things and do them well, rather than currently where they try to do everything and frankly the experience is somewhat frustratingly inconsistent.
I play around with creating AI images. It’s amazing how much better AI has gotten. Not only much quicker but the text is better and it generates fewer extra limbs. My uses are currently just for entertainment. My current choice is the Meta AI app.
I would be hesitant to use AI generated images in any serious game though because AI images aren’t protected like regular hand drawn or computer assisted images. A lot of countries won’t grant you any protection. That means someone could reuse your images as is for any purpose without permission or payment.
I don’t know if there’s been any updates but I recall a story about someone who made a comic or anime/manga. The AI images weren’t protected although the story might have been. I recall the person saying that they worked really hard to get the right prompt plus they did some post-processing to clean it up and I assume to tweak parts. It didn’t matter to the judge.
I dont use clankers. I feel way better when i do everything on my own. And if i get confused, i go to this forum. And i know there is a possibility that the people answering my questions used ai anyway, but it still feels better when an actual person explains someting instead of a clanker
FR. AI just feels gross. using AI just takes away most if not all effort in almost anything, leading to the final product not as satisfying. I dont mind people using AI for repetative tasks like copy and pasting code or trying to learn something, BUT i do feel disgusted anytime i see AI Generated “art” or AI Generated images. Im not sure why GDevelop prides itself with its AI Features. They kinda suck lol. AI sucks.
it does suck too use it too much, AI is like a calculator if u think about , use it only when u need to, but when kids find out about AI, they use it for everything, then how will people use books? nobody will research things without the help from ai in the future.
thats why i said im fine with certain aspects of AI, but when somebody is trying to use AI slop for stuff that normally takes brainpower and creativity, it lowk bothers me. AI is slop and in my opinion will forever be slop.
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