While Sandfall Interactive can continue to ride high after winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards, they are also losing another in its place.
The Indie Game Awards have announced they have pulled their Game of the Year and Debut Game awards for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after the company admitted to use generative AI.
The awards said in a video statement:
“As you know, we have a hard stance against gen AI in video games. It’s something we talk about throughout the year when discussing any potential nominees.
On the day of the premiere, Sandfall Interactive did in fact confirm that gen AI was used in the making of Expedition 33. Despite agreeing that no gen AI was used in the making of the game when it was submitted to us for consideration, unfortunately, that’s not the case.
That clearly goes against the regulations we have in place and disqualifies it from nomination. So with that, the IGA’s nomination committee is officially retracting Debut Game and Game of the Year from Sandfall Interactive. Each award will now go to the next highest-ranked game in its respective category.”
Their Game of the Year award will now go to Blue Prince while Debut Game is Sorry We’re Closed.
