Unless there is an exceptionally good reason for not doing it, art placeholders should always look like placeholders.
The goofier, the better. 😁
#Blasphemous
The goofier, the better. 😁
#Blasphemous
March 23, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Unless there is an exceptionally good reason for not doing it, art placeholders should always look like placeholders.
The goofier, the better. 😁
#Blasphemous
The goofier, the better. 😁
#Blasphemous
Hey! This is what placeholders actually look like!
We're so done with genAi that I tried to find the oldest and crustiest text-to-speech generator for our dialogue place-holders lol #indiedev
May 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Hey! This is what placeholders actually look like!
Working on this animation now! It's still early and the heads are placeholders, but I think I got something going ✏️
September 22, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Working on this animation now! It's still early and the heads are placeholders, but I think I got something going ✏️
Embrace your shitty MS Paint skills and stop using AI for your placeholders.
October 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Embrace your shitty MS Paint skills and stop using AI for your placeholders.
4. Bluesky didn't have a logo until December 2023. Before the butterfly 🦋, here are some of the placeholders we used...
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
4. Bluesky didn't have a logo until December 2023. Before the butterfly 🦋, here are some of the placeholders we used...
Repeat after me- placeholders should be obviously placeholders
If they can be missed and left in by mistake, they aren't placeholders. Its the same reason you don't yoink other peoples' copyrighted work off the web as placeholders! But they knew. It was probably an exec's order to use it somewhere
If they can be missed and left in by mistake, they aren't placeholders. Its the same reason you don't yoink other peoples' copyrighted work off the web as placeholders! But they knew. It was probably an exec's order to use it somewhere
March 22, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Repeat after me- placeholders should be obviously placeholders
If they can be missed and left in by mistake, they aren't placeholders. Its the same reason you don't yoink other peoples' copyrighted work off the web as placeholders! But they knew. It was probably an exec's order to use it somewhere
If they can be missed and left in by mistake, they aren't placeholders. Its the same reason you don't yoink other peoples' copyrighted work off the web as placeholders! But they knew. It was probably an exec's order to use it somewhere
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
Always make sure your placeholders are obvious.
July 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Always make sure your placeholders are obvious.
these r my placeholders for now
July 14, 2026 at 2:59 AM
these r my placeholders for now
People using shitty AI-generated art for their placeholders, meanwhile this has been our APC for quite a while now.
December 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
People using shitty AI-generated art for their placeholders, meanwhile this has been our APC for quite a while now.
I should start collecting all the "oopsy woopsy we've 'accidentally' shipped with AI placeholders!" png posts.
June 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
I should start collecting all the "oopsy woopsy we've 'accidentally' shipped with AI placeholders!" png posts.
This shit is exactly why placeholders are commonly pink/black checkerboxes with PLACEHOLDER in giant text on it so that shit doesn't get missed and go to fucking retail
Ubisoft admits AI-generated loading screen "slipped through" into final build of Anno 117: Pax Romana
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-admi...
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-admi...
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This shit is exactly why placeholders are commonly pink/black checkerboxes with PLACEHOLDER in giant text on it so that shit doesn't get missed and go to fucking retail
hanging some placeholders here.
November 14, 2024 at 1:44 AM
hanging some placeholders here.
The sketch I gave to the artist -> The art the artist gave to me.
Gen AI is never needed for concept art / placeholders
Gen AI is never needed for concept art / placeholders
May 26, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The sketch I gave to the artist -> The art the artist gave to me.
Gen AI is never needed for concept art / placeholders
Gen AI is never needed for concept art / placeholders
Sandfall used genAI for placeholders that were in the game when it released, even if its ''just placeholders'' they STILL used AI.
June 28, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Sandfall used genAI for placeholders that were in the game when it released, even if its ''just placeholders'' they STILL used AI.
The 2026 horror point-and-click adventure game Endacopia contains unused, seemingly deliberately clashing Mario pixel art assets (often jokingly called the "So Retro" art style) in its files. These were likely used as placeholders during development.
September 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
The 2026 horror point-and-click adventure game Endacopia contains unused, seemingly deliberately clashing Mario pixel art assets (often jokingly called the "So Retro" art style) in its files. These were likely used as placeholders during development.
placeholders should be so bad you can't miss them or so adequate it wouldn't matter if they shipped. terrible or legally unusable assets which blend in are liability and sign of negligence
also these placeholders rule
also these placeholders rule
you should make placeholder graphics look incredibly shitty!! making a game is a long and complicated process and if you use ai to make placeholders that look finished at a glance you'll probably forget some of it, and then people will scour your whole game and you'll look like a fraud.
December 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
placeholders should be so bad you can't miss them or so adequate it wouldn't matter if they shipped. terrible or legally unusable assets which blend in are liability and sign of negligence
also these placeholders rule
also these placeholders rule
And this is what a placeholder asset looks like.
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
And this is what a placeholder asset looks like.
You do not need AI to protoype anything in video games.
You do not need AI for placeholders in video games.
This is a flat lie.
You do not need AI for placeholders in video games.
This is a flat lie.
March 26, 2026 at 11:13 PM
You do not need AI to protoype anything in video games.
You do not need AI for placeholders in video games.
This is a flat lie.
You do not need AI for placeholders in video games.
This is a flat lie.