Having now sold over a million copies in two weeks, it's safe to say that Far Far West is a bona fide hit.
It's an excellent addition to the extraction shooter/FPS genre that brings the genre to the Old West, offering a nice change of pace from the futuristic, post-apocalyptic settings we normally see.
With all the praise the game has seen, we've been hearing more and more from the people behind it. That includes Brian Foote, the CEO of publisher Fireshine Games, who recently spoke with GamesIndustry.biz. Naturally, the topic of AI came up, and Foote gave a very honest answer.
Foote further clarified that the publisher will allow some generative AI tools to assist development in certain places.
"If AI means code completion or means using Copilot in Word, that's an entirely different set of scenarios," he said before adding that it's "very hard" for any developer to say they're not utilizing AI in some way. "In terms of core game creation, that is not something that we think players are interested in at this point in time, and not something that we think is healthy for the development community. As it stands, it's something that we...
