you are an angel for posting these photos! im gonna cry imagining if little me knew i would get to see name on a gameboy screen.
and yes, all of the photos used were AI-generated. then manually edited (color reduction, brightness/contrast) and indexed in Aseprite to the best of my abilities within the timeframe. i found it to be less tedious to source the images than using human photography, being able to generate them in a polaroid style and in a close enough aspect ratio i didn't need to worry about framing and cropping much. it was a really fun tool to use.