So, for a few smaller games in the past (including tomorrow's Dinos Shakespeare 2 DLC), we have used AI backgrounds. We had both in-house discussions about it, as well as extensively made sure that the singular artist we used for said games was being ethical in what she fed her AI.
Scarecrows came out, and at the time, we assumed the generated art was made using the same level of care (as their prior art that we used from the same artist was painted), and while we have no reason to believe otherwise and do not wish to slander said artist, we will be working to attain new background art for Scarecrows. This might look like a combination of new and existing art or it might be new art altogether. Regardless, it will not happen overnight.
We will not be using AI art of any kind in any future games. We apologize to both our fellow developers as well as our customers for any ill will gained via our actions.
It is Halloween once more, and seasonal stores have begun popping up all over!
Manage your team, make sure Halloween is the best it can be for ever customer (except the mean ones), and generally spread holiday fear and excitement! Besides the usual crop of employees, there are a few new ones, with new and interesting stories to tell!
Hoping to make this year the best yet, utilize new training techniques to help your fellow employees navigate through many different retail-related hurdles and help many different customers of varying annoyance level. Pick and choose what promotions to deploy, who to do what, and generally do whatever it takes to try to turn a profit.
Wait, do I hear..... jingle bells? Is that.... a seasonal Christmas store on the second level of the mall? What are the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future doing here? This is all wrong! It's not even September yet!
This, of course, means war.
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Manage your team
Manage your store while also either sabotaging or helping the Christmas store
Uncover a plot to destroy the holidays as you know it! A capitalist plot!