GodvillePicture ThisGood news, everyone! Just as usual.
*Godville Content Picturizer*
Did you hear about image generation neural networks that create amazing pictures from a simple text prompt?
Here in Godville we have a lot of text and not so many pictures. So a few months ago we hooked up a neural network for creating Godville-related art, named it "Picturizer":https://godvillegame.com/picturize and gave early access to some gods.
It went really well, so today we can finally open Picturizer for a broader audience — namely, all gods with "Ideabox IQ":https://godvillegame.com/forums/show_topic/1601 >= 10 (image generation takes a lot of processing power, so we can't make it available for everyone, at least not for now). For those who are curious, but can't access it yet — here is "how it looks like":https://godvillegame.com/images/picturizer.jpg.
To sweeten up the experiment we will reward the best pictures with "gratitude points":https://godvillegame.com/pantheon/show/gratitude. (If you already used Picturizer and _submitted_ images, check it again to see if anything was approved — we've rewarded dozens of pics.) The approval will happen _every week_ for at least the end of this year.
You can find "the Picturizer link":https://godvillegame.com/picturize in the Ideabox monster's section. Feel free to discuss it and its art "here":https://godvillegame.com/forums/show_topic/4776.
*Guild Council Reactions*
The internal "guild chat":https://wiki.godvillegame.com/Guilds#Communication is a nice aspect of any talkative guild. Now it could also be colorful, because you can finally add reactions to Guild Council messages. You know, these colorful thingies like 👍, 🔥 and 😡 that some people really like for some reason.
To use this feature be sure that you've updated the Godville app ("Android":https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.godvillegame.android, "iOS":https://apps.apple.com/app/id353421868) to the latest version released today.
*Winter is Coming*
By the way, winter is just a day away. That means heroes can expect three things.
Firstly, more frequent "fishing":https://wiki.godvillegame.com/Fishing — in winter fish nibble even without a bait. Secondly, icebergs in "seas":https://wiki.godvillegame.com/Sailing colored thingies they’re just like reefs, but save your supplies while the ark is on it. Thirdly, Christmas presents are getting closer... but let's keep that one till the next announcement. 2022-11-29T19:47:08ZKeleios<p>Thanks Devs! Love how you keep making updates and changes and listen to us.</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:53:15 +0000Coddin<p>Thanks Devs! Love that you’re keeping things fresh constantly. Exactly why I’ve played this game just one month shy of 12 years!</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:53:47 +0000Recliner<p>Thanks! Great game addition once again.</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:59:55 +0000Therunespectre<p>Awesome! I love the picturizer and am looking forward to the holiday event :) 🎁 <br />
Hoping to tackle a few snowmen and open some pressies.</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:15:26 +0000Augnoramous<p>YAAAAAAAY</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:15:51 +0000Godonetwothree<p>Awesome thank you so much!</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:31:52 +0000Hairplug4men<p>Happy Winter to you developers!</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:48:30 +0000Hyt4yhu<p>Thanks for the update devs!</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:55:57 +0000Smada456<p>When I try to add a reaction on desktop and then send another message the reaction vanishes; they also vanish when I close the chat.</p>
<p>Are reactions a mobile only feature?</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:09:50 +0000Vessna<p>So what about the copyrights of the used pictures? Because I do am against using art that doesn’t belong to you</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:37:47 +0000Te Fiti<p>I’m not sure the Ideabox IQ is the best line of who can use it. A lot of us never get Ideabox IQ points no matter what we do. If image generation takes a lot of processing power, why not give it to those who have already given money? Say, one image for every five charges bought, or every ten charges bought, or something like that. That feels a lot more fair.</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:05:24 +0000Goddy B<p>That sounds really cool, looking forward to testing it out.</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:06:09 +0000Liftedplane<p>Oh, cool… Locked behind needing to get IQ points.</p>
<p>I don’t think I have even one, not because I haven’t tried but because in a zpg where people are ruthless about ideas it’s nearly impossible without gaming the system.</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:05:26 +0000Coolbp5<p>Thank you devs!</p>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:51:27 +0000Turrin Toorinbarr<p>Thank you developers!:. You rock!</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:17:20 +0000Thirteenth Flower<p>Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh this is like the 32th best day of my life</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:58:01 +0000Ruvy<p>booooo on the image generation. AI ‘art’ generators have repositories of images stolen without knowledge or permission from the original artists, and then it does a hack job of shoving those images together in a weak facsimile of a real, human artist’s hard work. Deviantart and Artstation creators were never informed their art would be scraped for this until it had already done so and it was much too late to stop it or take it back.</p>
<p>Don’t promote this crap. I love this game and its simplicity, its earnesty, and wholesomeness, and stolen art repositories are none of that. Please don’t throw your lot in with this generated art theft garbage. You have loads of true artists who play that can be hired to make actual art for the game, either as individual commissions from players or as actual contract work for the game itself. You don’t need AI generation. If you can pay to use the resources and software the tool requires, you can pay a real human artist.</p>
<p>‘but it looks cool’ is not a good enough excuse for promoting the abuse of real people who put actual work into building artistic skills, only to have this software absorb it all without asking them, and regurgitate it back out as a mangled, soulless mockery of them.</p>
<p>just gross. sorry, this ain’t it.</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:15:15 +0000Drag0nslayerx<p>I preferred this as a text based game. I appreciated the images in the wiki, but text base is what gives this game charm. Also pretty silly locking something behind having idea box IQ seeing how insanely impossible it is to gain those no matter how many ideas you submit. May need to rethink this update IMO.</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:47:56 +0000Hershey Almighty<p>Just 3 emojis this time: 😲 🔥 👏</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:49:34 +0000Jimbob65<p>👍😁🎵, I say! Pleased hieroglyphs to you, and thanks for the continued entertainment.</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 03:40:56 +0000Orgm<p>Ice floats are here again. This will save a lot of unneeded punishments.</p>
<p>Thanks for the great update as usual.</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:50:59 +0000Solenopsis<p>Oh thank you!</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:19:04 +0000Kai The Trickster<p>I would love this new content but I dont have an IQ points despite my have a bunch of submissions just sitting there, maybe devote more resources or time to the submissions?</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:51:54 +0000Haona<p>Using the recent developments in image creation by ai fot this game is a wonderful idea and it fits godville very well. Keep up the good work devs :)</p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:02:26 +0000Brinjal<p>For anyone interested in the picturizer but without enough IQ points, know that an accepted idea or quest ending gets you 7 points, so two ideas are enough to get you access!</p>
<p>You will have to be patient though, because the devs get a LOT of ideas and they’re not a big team. Expect to wait several months for your ideas to be judged. (Though in my experience, quest endings are usually quicker)</p>
<p>You also get 1 IQ point for a grammar correction.</p>
<p>If you want to get into ideaboxing, check out my guide – <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1w4BOl9Za2RcElGZkdsUVNjNjQ/view?usp=drivesdk&resourcekey=0-x7C0OnIIbLNGwhO76LN6Bw">Help! The ideabox <strong>sucks!</strong></a> <sub>(<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=15dYUauXPA_NItfOxWUhtjz_J29QapWKNf3eZE7RlmMA">mobile friendly version</a>)</sub></p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:08:51 +0000Sophie The Woo<p>Thanks so much devs!!!</p>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:57:13 +0000DestielOTP<p>It would be nice if you used actual artists to create art for your game instead of using AI, which pulls data from images that already exist on the Internet. Give that job to living artists and support them instead.</p>
<p>I’m disappointed by this news. This game doesn’t need this.</p>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 05:57:33 +0000Elantien<p>Thanks for the update.</p>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:16:29 +0000King Cheese Tenth<p>Nice</p>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:41:31 +0000Avatar Of Dimensions<p>Thanks for your hardwork</p>Sat, 10 Dec 2022 01:39:14 +0000