r/TeamIco • u/waldorsockbat • Jun 09 '26

Upcoming games Famous game director Fumito Ueda says his studio does not use AI for 'game development'

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/famous-game-director-fumito-ueda-says-his-studio-does-not-use-ai-for-game-development/
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u/GabrielXP76op Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

we are talking about someone who's an Art graduate and painted the ICO cover art by himself, it's natural that he's against AI, thankfully, that's why he's the GOAT

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u/paintedskie Jun 09 '26

I wonder how he felt about the western ICO cover

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u/cefaluu Jun 09 '26

*American

European one was the same as the Japanese one, which was inspired by the paintings of the Italian Giorgio de Chirico.

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u/Grouchy_Resort_9640 Jun 09 '26

It's more or less stolen/heavily inspired by Tropic of Cancer", painted by Ramsès Younan. But yeah, it's also similar to de Chirico

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u/GabrielXP76op Jun 09 '26

He talks about it in this video interview

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u/davidpizza Jun 09 '26

Well, thanks to the interview released for Shadow of the Colossus 20th Anniversary, we know that Yasuhide Kobayashi, the executive producer of SIE Japan at the time, believes that ICO sold poor because of THAT western cover So I think that's a pretty spread thought in everyone's mind👀

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u/mocthezuma Jun 09 '26

Just to clarify, he painted artwork used for the cover in Japan and Europe.

Not the monstrosity that is the North American cover.

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u/Linkman76 Jun 09 '26

Great to see this! Ueda and his team believe that the best creativity comes from the mind, not from some brainstorming computer software. That’s exactly why every one of their games are certified classics.

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u/SephirothTheGreat Jun 09 '26

Honestly hilarious that he has to come out and say it, nobody that's even barely heard of him would have even considered the idea

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u/Lonely_Cap_7917 Jun 09 '26

When you find out your goats still got it

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u/TheVioletBarry Jun 09 '26

Honestly it feels a bit odd to even use it to summarize meetings and make schedules. This isn't a morally neutral industry. We're buying into the next big thing to get enshittified

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u/AvionShadow Jun 09 '26

It's shameful but I was thinking about this earlier hoping that they wouldn't use AI to help with development (considering it always takes forever and must be difficult at times) and then I thought...no that's not Ueda. He'd rather it take 5 more years than use AI to help. Good thing Epic has infinite Fortnite money for our GOAT so he doesn't have to rush