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And here I was, wondering why your screenshots looked nothing like the game I just tried. The new "art" looks bad. There is nothing to sugercoat. It is same as you see in all those shovelware AI adult games. Yawn.

You might want to reconsider that change. If you did it to make the game look better, it failed. Tbh, with the new screenshots I probably would not even have tried the game. And I am not even an AI hater. It just looks bland and boring. People do not go looking for games because they have AI art, but some avoid them because of it. You have actual game play, AI art does not enhance your game, it degrades it. 

At first I thought, after playing the game and looking at the 2d art again, aha, the dev is replacing the placeholder AI pics with real art...

The card game has some interesting mechanics. Plays too slow. Needs a speedup setting. It is like playing Monster Train on normal speed. Card animations look only nice for five minutes. Some of those upgrades are actually bad and you cannot refuse them. Like discard instead of expend. I cannot say I fully grasped the expend mechanic. But when I discard my 7 cost card, I do not get the 7 points to fuel the two mimics with the maso to one shot most enemies. Same with the upgrade to have a card cost 0. That is not really helping. The current game mechanics punish you for playing cards, so you only ever play your best cards. Also, too much text clicking. And your door mechanic and those chests and whatnot could use some tooltips to explain what is going on.

Thanks for this honest feedback, it is a wake up call.

We are a smaller team than when we started, and the push for AI was to be able to continue with the project having lost really talented artists. The results don’t compare and the overall quality has suffered.

Our next step has to be a serious look at how to go back to real artwork given important constraints of time and resources.

Having no longer access to more artwork from the same source would be a reason to change the art. I was just lamenting because it read like you did it for other reasons.

I look at lots of nsfw games and comments and the impression I got was, that AI is not really popular. It is tolerated, not something to brag about. Pixel art would be a counterexample. People highlight it and advertise with it.

And the timing was just too weird. I downloaded a version with AI art, while the screenshots were still the old ones. And after playing a bit, I checked back with the page and wondered why I never got to the part with the screenshots. When I reloaded the page, you had changed the screenshots and made this devlog.