stACKROPOLIS
A downloadable game for Windows
This game was made for HEJ (November 2025). From the available themes I used Organising Game.
This is a game that uses image stacking to achieve a pseudo 3D effect. The game is about copying the right side elements on the left side, on the exact place an in the exact form.
You're the new apprentice of Chiselius, a renowned architect and mason. As practice, copy some buildings and formations. You will be rewarded with golden stars, if you do good.
CONTROLS:
Mouse (and keyboard if you want to rotate the room)
WHEEL UP - DOWN: rotate the room (or A-D or ARROW LEFT - RIGHT)
LEFT CLICK: place a stone wall on a grid, or chisel any piece to some other smaller piece, or destroy a floor tile
RIGHT CLICK: replace any piece to a similar, but different looking version
TIP: take note of the value of 'To match', as it shows, how many pieces you still have to match with the other side. If it goes up, it's certain, you put down a piece to the wrong place...
DISCLAIMER: I used Suno.com to make music from the lyrics I wrote for the title song.
CREDITS:
Design, Code, GFX, Lyrics: László 'Coyote' Eszik
Music: Suno.com (tile song), PotionAudio (in-game)
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followed cuz search and destroy was sweet. unfollowing cuz ai usage. Make a crappy song yourself or ask someone else or license a real human to do it, Most ppl do not want to consume pure ai gen content whatsoever. the song sounds bad too so its pointless
Hey. The only ai thing in the game is the song, and only the music part. I am no musician, but the lyrics was written by me. It's a dumb song, and I do recognize that ai is not capable to spit out anything consistent, it's clanky at best. I do not plan on using ai as content generation for my games in the future, at least not as ai spits it out. I thought the song was funny still, as I wrote the lyrics to fit the game, so yes, I used it. The game is for free, not even "pay what you want" is turned on (as on any projects I uploaded on itch), so this should not be a big of a problem. People use ai, even to generate full games, not that I am fond of that. I also avoid full ai stuff, though I have to admit it is developing like crazy. We should find its rightful place in making video games too, but should not be used as it is. This game is a jam game, made in a short time, it wasn't against the jam rules as far as I know, and it's not even a big part of the game itself.
I hope this answers your concerns regarding "pure ai gen content" with this game.
I understand that it was only the music and that it is a free game. But philosophically, I will never want to spend time consuming anything that nobody thought worth spending time to make. I don't agree it needs to find a place in game development. You can use AI tools sure, such as using ai to check for bugs. But generative AI? No. It will always and forever have zero place in any artistic realm, it is built on stolen labor and I will avoid it at all costs.
If you're making the argument that "if you can't beat them, join them". The way you beat them is by being vocally opposed to it. And from what I can see, that has become the majority opinion.
You have the right consuming or not consuming anything at you leisure. We are just people and we can have different opinions. I never claimed to join them, but it is a piece of technology that should be known even if not used extensively, or at all. I have met different opinions regarding ai usage in game / indie dev and they range from zero to close to 100%. In my opinion, it could have some place in it, but not too much. Again, just different opinions.
Now, please put yourself in my shoes. I don't get too much attention with my games. And now I get a little, it's about one ai song. You nor anybody else will not convince me that me experimenting with incorporating an ai song in my game is that bad of a thing, so I should be condemned. If you want to make a difference, you should comment on forums where there are people to convince. Though I do appreciate that we are civil about it, I've seen worse "talks" about this matter. :) Have a nice day, I hope you had fun with my games until this came around.
well to be clear, I shared around seek and destroy, made posts about it, I really enjoyed it. I was trying to give you attention. In this case, I am not going around publicly shaming you or drawing attention, I was just giving MY opinion. And it is one I feel extremely passionate about for very concrete moral reasons. I was just telling you that I cannot support any dev that uses it, period. It is immoral to me.
You're putting an emotional spin on it, when did I say "you are condemned"? I just said I cannot follow you. Same way I will not listen to musicians, watch movies, etc that use ai. There's plenty that don't and I want to support human artistic output. simple as that. And especially if you can't even fathom why I would feel that way, then we just don't see eye to eye so why would I continue to look out for more ai-infused games?
I've seen a number of devs use ai, got lots of backlash, understood the argument and why people are upset, and then retracted the assets. That's totally cool ,we all make mistakes. But thats not your reaction, you stand on it, so you do you. I just am not interested.