Big Walk Review-Bombed for Using AI to Fix a 10-Line Unity Bug; 19 IGF Jurors Boycott
Eliv_nurotic · reddit · 2026-11-11
Indie game Big Walk (by House House) was found to have used an LLM to fix a Unity bug — amounting to roughly 10 lines of code. In response, 19 Independent Games Festival jurors declared they will refuse to vote for it, and the game's Steam page was flooded with negative reviews.
Screenshots show reviewers focusing on "undisclosed AI use": the studio reportedly didn't disclose it when submitting to IGF and only admitted it in an FAQ after the game gained traction, prompting refunds from players who consider any AI use a bright line. The controversy centers less on the trivial AI use than on disclosure timing and transparency.
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