The digital card game Champions of Otherworldly Magic uses the designs of an AI artist for its cards. The developers justify the high salary by claiming that no one is on the artist’s level.
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What kind of game is this? The digital card game Champions of Otherworldly Magic, which calls itself the “first true digital TCG” on its official page, uses cards featuring different monster designs. Players can purchase individual packs for around 3 euros to receive 10 random champions. To increase the chance of obtaining rare cards, the creators of Champions of Otherworldly Magic ask for payment.
Players decide which of the monsters they want to choose as the hero for their deck. The hero then determines which element the deck possesses. Each hero has different abilities and advantages that make each deck unique.
What players should know: The heroes are NFTs that can also be sold for cryptocurrency. Moreover, all designs are 100% AI-generated. The pay for the associated artist is likely astronomical.
A digital card game without NFTs is Hearthstone:
AI artist of the TCG receives a horrendous amount as salary
Why does the AI artist receive such a high salary? On X, the account of the card game explains that the cards are 100% created by an AI artist. Behind the artist is a real person who uses AI tools to design the monsters.
Since he can create images astronomically faster than a large team of artists by using AI, he earns about 13,200 euros for 10 hours of work. In 6 months, he has designed over 1,000 images for the game. His drawings reportedly have no mistakes such as extra fingers that AI can sometimes generate when creating images:
His art is 100% AI-generated, yet it has no extra fingers, no generic designs, no mistakes… It features consistent developments, skins, alternative art styles – literally no one is at his level. We don’t care how he does it, we just care that the end user enjoys our game.
The 10 hours may just be a meme, but it emphasizes that the artist likely didn’t take much time. In total, the 13,200 euros were supposedly paid out per month, and the artist would have spent hundreds of hours per month on it.
And what about regular artists? Illustrators who create their artworks by hand have the chance to become the assistant of the AI artist. However, the assistant job is much worse paid: here, only around 4,400 to 8,880 euros per month is expected.
As the development team clarifies in the comments, the artist is the most talented in his field. He puts in more effort than any traditional artist they have seen so far.
In addition to images created with the help of AI, NFTs are also a controversial topic in the gaming community. Games that use NFTs can close suddenly, just like other titles. What then happens to the invested money is explained by MeinMMO with an example: Players invest over 260,000 euros in NFT game that is now closing – What happens to the money?
