Big Walk developer discloses AI use
The gist
Australian studio House House said LLMs helped with well under 0.1% of Big Walk's code.
The disclosure follows IGF jurors refusing to vote for any game using generative AI.
How it unfolded
- Aug 4, 2026Big Walk launched on Nintendo Switch 2, PC and PS5, published by Panic at $19.99 / £15.99.
- Sep 13, 2026IGF submissions closed, with Big Walk among the submitted games.
- Nov 10, 2026House House told Aftermath that LLMs were used "sparingly" in the final stretch for technical challenges and bugs, estimating well under 0.1% of the game's code was involved.
Key terms
- IGF
- An annual festival at the Game Developers Conference that promotes independent video game developers and innovation.
- LLMs
- A machine learning model trained on huge amounts of text to generate, summarize, translate, and analyze language.
- generative AI
- Subfield of AI that uses models to create new text, images, audio, video or code from prompts.
Source: Wikipedia