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Indie game Big Walk review-bombed after revealing AI used to fix 10-line Unity bug

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Developer House House confirmed it used AI to fix a roughly 10-line Unity bug in Big Walk after a paid Unity engineer failed to solve it, prompting review bombing and 19 IGF jurors refusing to vote for the game.

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-11-11 17:37 · Ars Technica AI
    Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
  2. 2026-11-11 12:40 · Techmeme
    Game developer House House confirms using AI during Big Walk's final development, sparking an intense debate among Independent Games Festival judges and jurors
  3. 2026-11-10 18:27 · r/artificial
    Video game Big Walk gets review bombed for using AI to fix a bug in Unity, accounting for 10 lines of code. 19 Independent Games Festival jurors declared they will refuse to vote for it due to AI use

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