I’m making a game called **Berry and Malli**, and one of the biggest parts of the project for me has been figuring out how to use AI as a **production tool**, rather than having AI make the game for me.  
I’m doing the actual design work—gameplay systems, world design, mechanics, art direction, balance, etc.—and using tools like Codex to help me build the pipeline I need to create it. For example, I bought modular environment assets, then used AI to help me build a terrain-construction tool around them. When I needed roads, I had it help me make a road painter. When I run into repetitive production problems, I try to build a tool that lets *me* solve them faster.  
The game itself is a foraging/action RPG inspired by my wife and my dog. Malli is a wolfkin who can sniff out materials and distinguish safe herbs and mushrooms from poisonous lookalikes. In sniff mode, the right stick controls Berry so she can gather what he finds. Berry can forage by herself too, but she can’t always tell the difference between safe and poisonous ingredients.  
Berry is the inventor of the pair. She turns what you forage into traps, constructs, harvesting tools, potions, elixirs, and brews. In the clip, she makes a **Feral Brew**, which temporarily heightens her senses enough to smell almost as well as Malli.  
My hope is to eventually make the game profitable and use part of what it earns to support **animal welfare**.  
I’d genuinely love feedback—especially from people experimenting with AI-assisted game development or workflows where AI helps build the tools while the developer remains in control of the creative decisions. :)

**TL;DR:** I’m building *Berry and Malli* myself, while using AI primarily to create coding and production tools that help me implement my ideas faster—not to generate the game for me. The goal is a fun foraging/action RPG that can hopefully also help support animal welfare.

First post… just wanted to show off some progress