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Reference material for questions that deserve more than disappearing Discord messages. Start with the practical guide paths if you have a build, rights, or feedback question. Every article works like a wiki: spot something wrong or out of date, report it from the page, and good corrections get you credited on the article. Pages with fast-moving facts carry the date they were last checked.
Make it think
Install Ollama, pull a small local model, and wire one self-contained HTML file to its API to get a character talking back to you, no account, no cloud.
Finite state machines, behavior trees, and utility AI cover most shipped game AI. Here is how each one works, when to use it, and where it breaks down.
The production tradeoffs for LLM-driven NPC dialogue: local vs cloud costs, keeping NPCs in character, and the four failure modes that block a ship.
The budget mindset for shipping AI in games: frame time vs request latency, quantization tradeoffs, on-device memory limits, and cloud cost math.
Make it look and sound
Style blocks, seeds, reference-image conditioning, and LoRA training for 2D game art, explained plainly with an honest read on when each earns its setup cost.
Text-to-3D generation produces a blockout, not a shippable mesh. The real pipeline: inspect, retopologize, re-UV, texture, rig, import at a consistent scale.
AI audio for games: full tracks versus loopable stems, why layered short SFX generations beat one-shot prompts, and the hard consent line on voice cloning.
Ship it safely
A field guide to AI game assets: copyright by jurisdiction, why players bounce off careless AI art, a pipeline for visual coherence, and rights-clear sources.
How to read AI tool terms as a game developer: what commercial use means, who owns generated output, training-data clauses, red flags, and a pre-ship checklist.
What Steam, itch.io, Epic, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, and mobile stores require you to declare about AI-generated content in your game, checked August 2026.
A checked comparison of Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX licenses for indie game developers: what ships commercially and what does not.
What travels off the device when an NPC calls a cloud AI API, what you must disclose, how to cut what you send, and where age and region rules apply.
Show your work
How to format a showcase forum post so it renders correctly on the site: thread title, screenshot rules, description length, and what happens automatically.
How jams work here: enter by posting in the submissions forum with the jam's tag, vote by emoji reaction, and see winners on the podium at /jams/.
How the community's feedback loop works: name a specific moment, explain the effect it had, and leave a builder with a useful next question to test.
Every slash command, every background system, and how Discord activity becomes curated site content — the full map of how it all connects together.