u/Straight_Age8562

Hi! I'm building a Tower Defense game with RTS elements.

You can move your units around, give them orders, and reposition them during combat.

During each run, you receive upgrade cards that can add effects such as Electric, Poison, Ice, etc. These upgrades are stackable, so you can combine effects like Electric + Poison on the same unit.

After each run, you can improve your units, purchase upgrades, and create builds.

There's also a Combinator system where you can create your own items. You can select or remove individual properties and keep only the effects you care about, allowing you to build items specifically around your strategy.

The game has roguelite progression, with new enemies gradually introduced as you survive more days.

The main gameplay loop is:

Defend → Buy upgrades/items/units → Customize your build → Defend

You can play actively and control your units like an RTS, or play it more like an idle game. Later progression also unlocks a dedicated AFK mode designed for idle play.

I've just released a demo, so feel free to give it a try:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3760000/Shrine_Protectors_Demo

Thanks for checking it out!

https://i.redd.it/vbjmjoabj8kh1.gif

Generative AI lets you render ideas, compositions, rough drawings, references, or combinations of them into images.

You can work from pure text, text + references, sketches, or combinations of them depending on how much control you want.

You can re-render parts of an image, change the style, adjust the composition, or move between pencil, 3D, illustration, photorealism, etc.

People can dislike the aesthetics of the result. That’s completely fine. Not all CGI renders look good either, some are better than others.

But whether you like the output is a separate question from the basic function of the tool, it lets you turn ideas and instructions into images.

I really like that metaphor, that using AI is like making pizza. I have made many pizzas over the years, and I think it stands. It is not “ordering”, it is like the baking process: making the dough, the sauce, placing the topping, and finally baking it in the oven (AI).

Here is a quick thing I did this morning, where you can see the dough and sauce being made, the baking, and the topping placement.

I recently shared how I use AI, but it was just a bunch of in-between images, so I decided to record the whole process.

This took very, very long, so long that I don't even know if I like it anymore :D

Just posting this to show different methods of AI usage.

The issue with this piece was that I didn't even know how it was supposed to look, so I tried a bunch of things and iterated until I got something that looked fine. The main problem was that fisheye camera-angle close-up and getting the perspective right.

This is always how I do things. Some said in my previous posts that my original drawing did not look like the image, and yes, that is the point :D That start is only like a very, very basic, rough, general idea, and I work on it until I'm satisfied.

It is 19 hours of footage, so it really flies by in 3 minutes, but hey, this is Reddit, even 3 minutes is a very long video :D

I'm trying to shed some light on how I use AI in creating images. Most people assume that since I use AI, everything is one prompt and done, so I'm trying to share how I use it. Most of it is not prompts, but rather manual edits + specifics.

I know many people will still call this AI slop, but whatever. For years, I've been getting these visual representations in my head and concepts, and I was never able to make them visible. It is like a curse, and I have to exorcise the image out of my head into some visible render, and AI finally allows me to do it.

Could it be better? - yes
Would it be cooler if I could draw it from scratch? - yes
Do I like drawing that much? - no
Am I satisfied with the result? - yes

The thing that pisses me off is that if you use an ounce of AI, you did not create it, but the result is nuanced. Like my space viking, the result is part human and part machine.

I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

Thanks for listening to my rant

Kling AI + manual editing.

The idea was arcade machine is tearing cosmic sky as fabric/curtain (fabric of reality)

This is the 3rd day of my promotion through Meta ads on Instagram. So far, it seems to be performing very well, and I’m pleased with the results.

These results cost about $73 and generated 479 conversions.

I'm promoting 2 tracks from my album, but I have concept album and people are saving multiple tracks when they arrive. Seems that concept album works great for this.

I just wanted to share data with you, since it is exciting for me.

Cheers!