# Big Walk Devs Issue Statement Over AI Usage

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/big-walk-devs-issue-statement-over-ai-usage/
- Published: 2026-11-10T08:55:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T09:38:34+00:00
- Original publisher: Nintendo Life
- Original article: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/11/big-walk-devs-issue-statement-over-ai-usage
- Topics: AI, Technology

## Key points

- House House disclosed limited chatbot use during Big Walk’s final development.
- The studio says well under 0.1% of the code was connected to it.
- The disclosure followed scrutiny of AI use in IGF entries.

## Summary

House House has disclosed that it used large language model chatbots sparingly to help solve technical problems during the final stretch of developing Big Walk. The disclosure, made public after the studio submitted it with the game’s entry for next year’s IGF Awards, comes amid a statement by some IGF jurors that they will not vote for games using generative AI.

The studio estimates that well under 0.1% of the game’s code was connected to this use, and says AI was not used elsewhere in development. One chatbot suggested a possible fix for a Unity rendering issue that made the game run 50% slower for about 20 seconds at sunrise and sunset; House House extensively modified the suggestion, which amounted to about 10 lines of code. The team said the use was not an endorsement of AI, apologised to those whose standards it may not meet, and called its lack of an internal AI policy a failure.

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