Developers on Itch.io now have a new requirement: they need to inform us if their games incorporate generative AI technology.
Leaf Corcoran, the founder of the platform, detailed this in a recent blog post. Game creators must disclose any use of generative AI and specify how it’s being implemented—whether it’s in graphics, sound, text, dialogue, or code.
When developers confirm the use of generative AI, the game receives a corresponding tag. Additional tags will indicate if AI is employed specifically for graphics, sound, text, dialogue, or code.
The updated quality guidelines on Itch.io describe generative AI as systems that craft new content—like text, images, and music—by learning from extensive datasets. This category includes models like ChatGPT for text and tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion for image generation, all of which generate outputs based on their training data.
Developers are encouraged to properly tag their projects if they use generative AI elements, using the AI Disclosure section found in the project’s edit page.
It’s important to note that projects utilizing standalone algorithms that don’t involve external large datasets aren’t required to use these generative AI tags. For instance, conventional game AI tasks—such as NPC pathfinding, enemy behavior patterns, procedural level generation, and dynamic difficulty adjustments or dynamic music—fall outside the generative AI category and don’t necessitate special tagging.
