Meet Catly: the bizarre "AI slop" cat game that snuck into The Game Awards

[Kane99]

Source - https://www.yahoo.com/tech/meet-catly-bizarre-ai-slop-160000234.html

If you guys watched the Game Awards a few days ago, you probably saw the trailer for some new open world RPG featuring cats called Catly. I didn't pay much attention to the trailer when the game awards first aired, but after re-watching the trailer, it looks pretty suspicious. There's claim the developers were responsible for games that never saw the life of day, or didn't last long. It's also being alleged that one of the developers on the game, previously worked on a blockchain/cryptocurrency/NFT game called "Alien Meow" which looks pretty similar to Catly. 

Their steam page also seems suspicious, like made with AI: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2987350/Catly/. You can also read what curators are saying on the game so far here: https://store.steampowered.com/curators/curatorsreviewing/?appid=2987350 It's pretty

Check out the trailer below to form your own opinion. Do you think this was all made with generative AI?

 

[Shagger]

Yeah, this is AI generated visuals.  There are subtle inconsistences with colour boundaries and shading that just don't look right.  For example, no competent human artist would have so much pink and purple on both the character models (the focus for the eye) and all over the backgrounds.  That happend because the "developers" specified those colours and likely negated to specify thier use or add more colours. Even the game description on Steam reads like a checkbox for an AI filter.  Don't get me wrong, it looks pretty.  Very pretty.  I was especially impressed with the fur effects and animations, but it's also complelty shameless.

[killamch89]

The color grade is off and some of the animations definitely look like the work of AI. But that's what the industry will come to be in the future - more games built with AI. If you thought most games look alike now, in five years, we'll be wondering why the same game is being featured for the whole award show only to realize it was different games...

[Scorpion]

I agree; Catly raises a lot of red flags. The suspicious development history and AI-like visuals make me cautious about this game.