How it was made: Imperium is made by a solo developer, Daniel of Petroff Games. In the launch post on Steam, he wrote that Claude, Anthropic's AI model, "writes the code under my design and direction," that the art and music were made with AI tools, and that the translations are AI-made. The same post thanks collaborators for design and interface work, the original ruleset and AI behavior, writing, and testing. The game's AI disclosure on Steam gives more detail: Midjourney and ChatGPT generated the visual art, from planet surfaces and ships to interface and store images, which was then edited and composited by hand in Photoshop, including with Photoshop's own AI tools. Suno made the music and ElevenLabs the sound effects. The disclosure also says the rival empires run on traditional algorithmic AI, not generative AI.
Imperium costs $24.99, with 10% off until November 16. It ships in English, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, plus a beta Brazilian Portuguese translation, and includes built-in modding tools. Details here come from the developer's Steam page, posts and website.
