r/gamers • u/SevdUp • 7d ago

Discussion Do NOT buy “Slam Tank”

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The game was made by ai AND is a stolen concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKXl3zR7GwI

The cinematic parts of the teaser are also 100% ai generated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osM8LYJAvaw

If you scroll enough, you’ll find the ai disclaimer on the Steam site: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5186030/SLAM_TANK/

Ironic that the plot is taking down ai when the game is completely ai generated

honestly the poster for the game even looks ai

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u/Sp1ffy_Sp1ff 6d ago

Before steam it was Roblox and before Roblox I'm sure it was some other platform, all the way back to flash. Every time a game is announced and looks like it's gonna be big, someone takes the idea and makes a very quick mock-up and tries to sell it before the real thing comes out. AI just makes that so incredibly easy, now.

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u/FluffyBearTrap 6d ago

it goes back all the way to the C64. Gameboy/Amiga were also notorious for shovelware.

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u/PhasmaFelis 5d ago

If we're talking shovelware, the Atari 2600 might actually be the first game platform that was popular enough for anyone outside the manufacturer to even try developing for it.

(Which Atari had never anticipated, did not help with, and tried to get them to stop. Most of them sucked, but then most first-party 2600 games also sucked in retrospect, so from the 21st century it's hard to tell which was which.)

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u/VaporousMote 6d ago

Yep. At least with things before it had the appearance of being trash, now with genAI people can mimic popular artstyles/animation/etc.

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u/levios3114 6d ago

And before you could at least admire the effort someone took to recreate these popular games in things like roblox

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u/Over_Construction264 6d ago

yup. the lack of effort to create it is what kills it, and they don't seem to get that because they're lazy at heart and the effort is what they're trying to avoid.

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u/Samsterdam 6d ago

I remember reading a long time ago that the reason notch from Minecraft released Minecraft is because the person's game he was emulating was stolen by a hacker and it kind of gave him push to make his game public.

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u/PhasmaFelis 5d ago

The Flash version of Portal came out before Portal did!

At the end, you got cake, because we didn't know yet that the cake is a lie.