At the end of the day, this is just an award. It’s not up to the award giver to define and micromanage what a “safe and acceptable, or appropriate amount of gen AI” can be used in the dev process.

When competing against other titles that haven’t, regardless of how it was used, an award show is going to draw a very hard line.

I’m sure they didn’t have to go the route of using gen AI, but they chose it, and did not disclose it.

Every now and then, I yearn for something a bit silly and light and I’ll pop it on for half an hour. I haven’t fully replayed it more than twice though haha.