House House's AI use in Big Walk
The gist
House House said LLMs were used sparingly on Big Walk, touching well under 0.1 percent of its code.
The disclosure follows IGF jurors refusing to vote for any game using generative AI.
How it unfolded
- Sep 13, 2026The IGF submission period ended; Big Walk was among the games submitted.
- Nov 9, 2026House House confirmed it used AI during the final stretch of Big Walk's development and recently updated its FAQs page.
- Nov 10, 2026House House issued a statement to Aftermath disclosing generative AI use in Big Walk, saying LLMs were used sparingly to work through difficult technical challenges and bugs.
Key terms
- LLMs
- A machine learning model trained on huge amounts of text to generate, summarize, translate, and analyze language.
- IGF
- An annual festival at the Game Developers Conference that promotes independent video game developers and innovation.
- generative AI
- Subfield of AI that uses models to create new text, images, audio, video or code from prompts.
Source: Wikipedia