Statement on AI
Will to Power Games is not an AI game company. Will to Power Games does make use of AI sparingly for certain aspects of our development process, and that will be explained here. To those who despise AI with every cell in their body, I understand you're probably having a hard time with every company in the world looking for a way to squeeze AI into their products, from web browsers to dish soap.
Our use of AI has three levels. The first is where it is not used at all. The second is where it is used to assist traditional development, and the last is where it is used to perform tasks with a minimum of human effort (there is always some human effort).
Level 1: No AI
Otan and the fantasy characters within it are creations of Robyn Blaber and his employees or affiliates. Some of the Will to Power characters have histories that date back to the late 1970s. Every character, creature, faction, spell, and power was dreamed up with human dreams long before AI was even commercially available.
Our Products: No AI During Play
Will to Power Games is dedicated to making games to be played by groups of people. We provide technological assistance for both players and GMs. This assistance is provided in the form of pre-selected lists, curated by a human curator or random generators, again from curated lists. At no point will an AI direct a player or GM at any point in the use of our products.
Level 2: AI Assist
It would be improbable for a single developer to create a product to compete with the HUGE companies now famous for their TTRPG products and software. As a developer with 30 years of experience, I consider myself to be up to the task, but to perform the work of ten developers, some of the software development has had AI assistance. None of this software affects game play, but rather how the information gets from our database, to the web server, to the player's or GM's browser.
As a writer, I also confess to using Grammarly. I have a love/hate relationship with it as this very document features a dozen yellow underlined sentences that it would like to rephrase ITS own words. I do not allow it. It can correct my typos and add in the Oxford commas that it loves more than life, but it is not allowed to rephrase entire sentences. If my writing sounds AI-inspired, it is because that is how I sound. I have a higher education and a very concise way of speaking... almost made for this job.
Level 3: Mostly AI
Our images and music are mostly AI. I am an artistic person; I can draw, play guitar, and create cosplay costumes, but I cannot produce anywhere near the art that would be required for a game with such a large scope. At first release, we estimate that our flagship game will have over 20,000 images. At the rate I produce art, that's a 1700-year project. To hire a team of artists, some 20 million would have to be spent, though that figure could vary significantly (upward) depending on quality.
