It is 3am. You have eleven prototype folders on your drive. Every one of them runs. Every one was built in an afternoon. And not one of them is fun. That is the real state of AI-assisted game development right now. It is not that the tools do not work. They work extraordinarily well. The problem is that they solved a task that was never the hard part, and in solving it they buried the part that was.
This course is built on a single sentence, and you will hear it in every section:
AI collapsed the cost of the artifact. It did not collapse the cost of the decision. Artifacts are things that exist: a script, a level, a loot table, a build. Those used to cost you days and are now close to free. Decisions are claims about what is true: this game is about pressure, not power; death should cost time, never progress. Decisions cost exactly what they always did, because the price is paid in judgement and playtest hours, and neither of those got cheaper.
When one input to your process gets ten times cheaper and the other does not move at all, every habit you built around the old ratio is now mispriced. This course is a systematic re-pricing.
