It's been a hell of an award season for the year's most talked about RPG, but two of its accolades just got knocked off the scorecard. The Indie Game Awards, which awarded Sandfall Interactive with Game of the Year and Best Debut Game on Dec 18, posted a video to Bluesky yesterday explaining that the game is retroactively disqualified for its use of generative AI in development.
"We have a hard stance against gen AI in videogames, it's something we talk about throughout the year when discussing any potential nominees," Mike Towndrow of the IGA nomination committee said in the video. "On the day of the premiere, Sandfall Interactive did, in fact, confirm that gen AI was used in the making of Expedition 33." He continues that, previously, the studio had agreed "that no gen AI was used in the making of the game when it was submitted to us for consideration."
