Does anyone here uses non-ai generated assets?
I know that aigamedev spans from "I used AI to write the code" to "I've completely vibecoded a game and every single asset is AI generated, even the idea I asked the AI to think for myself", but I wonder how commom is to use an good, quality, curated asset, free or bought from any store front (like itch.io) for the prototypes.
Also, since assets pack are somewhat limited, it can be a fun activity to think of an idea that could use all, of not most, the assets of that pack.
I've been playing around building short faming games using (really) cheap assets from Itch.io. Even free ones are not very far off (although severely limited in options).
Or even using assets from The Spriters Resoruce, this way you could try to rewrite games like Zelda, Mario, Contra or Metroid using that assets. (I've tinkered using Final Fantasy 1 Assets myself, but didn't got very far tho).
So, any of you has been using them?