19 IGF jurors refuse to vote for any game using generative AI
The gist
Nineteen jurors for the 2027 Independent Games Festival will not vote for any game using generative AI.
The pledge follows House House's disclosure that its indie title Big Walk used LLMs.
How it unfolded
- Sep 13, 2026IGF submissions closed, with finalists to be announced in January 2027.
- Oct 23, 2026Based on archival snapshots of Big Walk's FAQ, a section confirming LLM use was added sometime after this date.
- Nov 9, 2026A group of jurors for the 2027 IGF awards issued a statement saying they will not vote for any game that has used generative AI in its development.
Key terms
- 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.
- LLMs
- A machine learning model trained on huge amounts of text to generate, summarize, translate, and analyze language.
Source: Wikipedia