Big Walk developer House House has sparked a brand-new generative AI debate after revealing that it utilised LLMs "sparingly" during the final stretch of the game's development.

The revelation came in the hours following a statement from a handful of jurors participating in the Independent Games Festival awards. In the statement, it called out the "significant increase in the number of submitted games developed with generative AI tools," adding that it had "set off some fairly intense discussion and disagreement across the judge and jury pools."

The statement specifically called out AI-generated code, saying it was "not an exception," adding: "Programming is a creative discipline whose labour deserves the same respect we extend to any part of making a game.…