#project spellstruck

[candlelightgames]

We’re thrilled to announce PROJECT SPELLSTRUCK, a next-generation narrative game that captures the ultimate magic school experience✨

[vivalgi]

This post is primarily meant for all the doubters, naysayers and people in denial who ganged up against me when I first declared my suspicions that wannabe Malfoy revealed on @candlelightgames' Instagram post might be AI generated.

I will point out some of the most obvious signs of AI usage after the break but first I want to quote Owen Wilson: "Wow!" Usually half the AI image detectors fail to do their job, but never before have I seen such a unanimous decision - all 7 out of 7 online tools that I managed to find are saying that the Project Spellstruck's first character art is most likely AI:

Now, onto the analysis. People are still expecting clearly visible errors from generated images, such as irregular amount of fingers or something going through another object, but AI has come a long way and it's becoming harder to point out obvious signs without focusing hard. It's even able to create a vague resemblance of symmetry and repeating elements. AI generated art isn't often published "straight out of the oven" either. Artists-prompters make the AI do a lot of inpainting and add their own little touch-ups until the images are more or less presentable. A character has 16 fingers? Just mark the problematic area you want to be regenerated, maybe even make a rough sketch over it and then have the program do its job again. Even Bardick's design evolution, CL has demonstrated, looks very similar to the typical AI-assisted workflow I just described:

It's hard to put into words what makes art feel and look AI, but don't worry, doubters, I can also point out some strange elements that strongly hint at this character art being largely made by AI.

Below is the highest quality image I could get, so you can come back to it and zoom in if you want to see the clean version without my scribbles:

The coat's lapels

In the corner of the left lapel there's this triangular piece:

Whatever it's meant to be, it's a single solid object and not nearly as incoherent as what's happening on the opposite side:

The triangular shape seems to be made up of 3 disconnected sticks and the ends of the golden protruding lines that flow into that corner, become intrusions, although they don't line up very well either. Try to explain what the artist was attempting to do here. It's a very clear example of AI making up some fuzzy incoherent details. No need to find any further evidence really, but let's move on.

Occasional double vision effect around the edge of the golden hem, creating parallel running lines (a typical thing I've noticed image generators tend to do):

The pants and belt

That wobbly dotted line is the edge of his pants:

I've also traced the lines of the belt buckle, so you can see exactly how much it makes sense upon closer look. Not a lot, right? Also, the prong melts into the buckle, doesn't even go through the belt's hole and there's more fuzzy scribble around it.

Shadows

The shirt's collar creates shadows to both sides of it:

The lighting source seems to be behind the guy as the corner of the collar is further from the viewer than the shadow it casts:

Some other shadows are suspicious as well but not so obviously bad to confidently demonstrate them.

This is not an attempt to turn anyone against AI, but merely an analysis to show the most obvious signs that this dude was probably more or less generated by AI. If you like this kind of artificial art and are fine with Candlelight or any other studio/artist using it, then I won't stop you from enjoying it. If you have a hard time recognizing AI art then I truly envy you, ignorance is bliss as the saying goes. However, please don't come to proudly demonstrate your ignorance and argue with me or even worse, try to make fun of me because you think I'm wrong in saying that this character art was generated with AI. As I've now proven, it most likely is. It's too early to turn into an overprotective fangirl over a project we still know barely anything about.

[farizrz]

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[masked-alien-lesbian]

One of the LIs in Project Spellstruck of Candlelight Games

[somerandomjewelleryonthefloor]

Just found out about candlelight games a few mins ago thanks to seeing @/hssprimefan's Pinned post.

I'm excited about the project they're making, like hello? A FANTASY WORLD WITH A SCHOOL? AND YOUR CHARACTER IS RELATED TO A PERSON WHO WAS A HORRIBLE PERSO AND YOU ENROLL INTO A SCHOOL FOUNDED BY YOUR HORRIBLE RELATIVES RIVAL??? AND YOU HAVE YOUR OWN RIVAL YOU CAN POSSIBLY ROMANCE???? ANDDDDDD ITS CONCEPT ART IS BEAUTIFUL????????? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP!!!!!

I feel weird tho. Since I'm still on choices. But then again Episode sucks and PB isn't doing literally war crimes (tho AI art and AI usage is fucking abhorrent), and I can't give up HSS or TRR away.

Can't wait for when they reveal the artstyle of their game! It'll be incredibly fun!!!!!

I'm gonna make an au of HSS x (*insert Project Spellstruck actual game name here*), and you're gonna endure it, and you're all gonna love it.

[the-unconquered-queen]

YOU, CHOICES PLAYER

Are you looking forward to the upcoming projects by Candlelight Games? Do you want a space to share updates about the studio and eventually discuss the games they release?

If so, come join a community to do exactly that! Never fall behind on news and share the hype around Project Spellstruck and more! Gnaw a little bit on the bars of your enclosure in anticipation! Go a little bit feral maybe! Come be simply too seated, the community is public and open to everyone 💕

[gmsrrn98]

GEMMIFFERR'S MASTERLIST

Unlike one of my favorite MCs (Aera, I'm biased), I'm not as organized but here I am organizing my masterlist just so I can look back at my previous works and reference them.

These works are organized by worlds, stories, and creations. As of right now, I have only written fanfics and completed papercrafts for Choices but will definitely be branching out in the near future, and I'm sure I'll create more stuff once Candlelight's Project Spellstruck comes out.

Feel free to message if you want. Just please be respectful. I will not be answering anything that is rude, disrespectful, and bigoted.

I first started playing Choices back when they had three books being released. I joined the Choices tumblr fandom mid-2018 and I still remember the days when the playchoices tag was trending. If you're a fellow 2018-19 Choices tumblr blog, let's talk lol.

Below, you will find:

My MC and OC profiles

Fanfics

Papercrafts

The Freshman Series

Aera Amorette Chen (Tag: #MC: Aera Chen)

Character Profile Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs) Character In Development Aera's works Aera at Horror Mafia's shows Aera wearing glasses

With Every Heartbeat

Maeve Esperanza Delaney (Tag: #MC: Maeve Delaney)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs)

Perfect Match

Declan Axel "Dex" Carver (Tag: #MC: Dex Carver)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs) Character in Development Dex's 2024 Christmas List Bed, beer, bacon

Endless Summer

Skye Taylor (Tag: #MC: Skye Taylor)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs)

Desire & Decorum

Cecily Winslow (Tag: #MC: Cecily Winslow)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs)

America's Most Eligible

Kael Alexander James Sutter (Tag: #MC: Kael Sutter)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs)

Blades of Light and Shadow

Ghorlith Nagoni (Tag: #MC: Ghorlith Nagoni)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs)

The Royal Romance

Elyza Laurell Monroe (Tag: #MC: Elyza Monroe)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs)

Crimes of Passion

Ellix Rose (Tag: #MC: Ellix Rose)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs)

Across The Void

Alxavrion Quorvin "Xav" Krynthos (Tag: #MC: Xav Krynthos)

Character Portrait (with other Choices MCs)

The Freshman Series

Professor Vasquez (Non-Romantic)

Fallen Snow

Chris x Emily (Default TFS MC)

Touchdown

Kaitlyn x Emily

Happy Birthday!

Pumpkin Wonderland

Red String Series (Dormant, may or may not update) (last updated 07/30/18)

1, 2, 3, 4

Kaitlyn x Emily, Becca x Emily

Regret Series (Completed)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.1 Kaitlyn's Ending, 18.2 Becca's Ending

Regret: Rewrite

Kaitlyn x Aera (My TFS MC)

The Annual Greatest Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt

Perfect Match

Hayden x Kai Park (PM F!MC)

Shut Down

Shut Down: Rewrite

Endless Summer

Quinn Kelly x Taylor (ES Default MC, no gender)

Ever a Never After

The Royal Romance / Desire & Decorum

The Royal Romance x Desire & Decorum Crossover (Crackfic)

With Every Heartbeat

F!Dakota Winchester x Maeve (My WEH MC)

Where Forever Faltered

I make papercrafts when I feel like it. Feel free to request for papercrafts if you want, I can't make promises but will get to them when I have time. It takes me many hours to create one papercraft so please be patient. You will have to build the papercraft model yourself.

The Freshman Series

Chris, James, and Kaitlyn

Side note: PB reblogged this papercraft back in 2018 for the Choices Appreciation Week lol back when they were still active on tumblr.

Zig, and Becca

The Royal Romance

Asian King Liam

America's Most Eligible

Jen Espinosa

[gutsfics]

anyway other than the lis being the most basic tropes imaginable, Project Spellstruck DOES sound interesting. i love a good Child Of A Villian Forced To Deal With The Expectations Of Them Being The Child Of A Villian

if my special silly Batez was any indication

[spell-struck]

My arcana swap, Protag!Ann au "Aces High and Queens Wild" has updated! Please give it a read ❤️🩷

[abigailspinach]

[vivalgi]

Looks like Candlelight has also chosen the dark side. Another generic, distinctively glossy AI "art" piece. Hive Moderation agrees with me as well. *sigh* I guess I should have expected it 😞

Even both poll options turning out to be guys was less disappointing.

[masked-alien-lesbian]

Candlelight Games: Project Spellstruck

Magic school! Called it! 🪄

Oooo...maybe we can actually become evil? That would be a neat change of pace

Goc and multi LIs of different genders! 🎉

I will cry if it don't work on my phone! But 2025!! That's not too far away!

"Spellstruck" is a cool name though.

These are beautiful graphics!

The link to the article:

[masked-alien-lesbian]

Sneak Peek into Candlelight's new book

[spell-struck]

Hello party people 🩷 Chapter 2 of my protagonist Ann fic, Aces High and Queens Wild, is live now!!

[sazanes]

Yeah, Choices is using Romance Club too 💀 sometimes i confess I even like some cgs Romance Club do, but in the end i find all the errors the generator do and it's so sad, disappointing 😔 they don't capture all the characters features correctly and sometimes it's not even the same person. Sometimes, the artists' touch will do good on the characters' features but forget little details. But I'm just tired at this point because we can't stop them 💀 the worst thing is they are trying to tell people that this is a real artist job, I mean yeah the artist is doing the final touches 🤣 please just be honest, we can see 💀

This post is primarily meant for all the doubters, naysayers and people in denial who ganged up against me when I first declared my suspicions that wannabe Malfoy revealed on @candlelightgames' Instagram post might be AI generated.

I will point out some of the most obvious signs of AI usage after the break but first I want to quote Owen Wilson: "Wow!" Usually half the AI image detectors fail to do their job, but never before have I seen such a unanimous decision - all 7 out of 7 online tools that I managed to find are saying that the Project Spellstruck's first character art is most likely AI:

Now, onto the analysis. People are still expecting clearly visible errors from generated images, such as irregular amount of fingers or something going through another object, but AI has come a long way and it's becoming harder to point out obvious signs without focusing hard. It's even able to create a vague resemblance of symmetry and repeating elements. AI generated art isn't often published "straight out of the oven" either. Artists-prompters make the AI do a lot of inpainting and add their own little touch-ups until the images are more or less presentable. A character has 16 fingers? Just mark the problematic area you want to be regenerated, maybe even make a rough sketch over it and then have the program do its job again. Even Bardick's design evolution, CL has demonstrated, looks very similar to the typical AI-assisted workflow I just described:

It's hard to put into words what makes art feel and look AI, but don't worry, doubters, I can also point out some strange elements that strongly hint at this character art being largely made by AI.

Below is the highest quality image I could get, so you can come back to it and zoom in if you want to see the clean version without my scribbles:

The coat's lapels

In the corner of the left lapel there's this triangular piece:

Whatever it's meant to be, it's a single solid object and not nearly as incoherent as what's happening on the opposite side:

The triangular shape seems to be made up of 3 disconnected sticks and the ends of the golden protruding lines that flow into that corner, become intrusions, although they don't line up very well either. Try to explain what the artist was attempting to do here. It's a very clear example of AI making up some fuzzy incoherent details. No need to find any further evidence really, but let's move on.

Occasional double vision effect around the edge of the golden hem, creating parallel running lines (a typical thing I've noticed image generators tend to do):

The pants and belt

That wobbly dotted line is the edge of his pants:

I've also traced the lines of the belt buckle, so you can see exactly how much it makes sense upon closer look. Not a lot, right? Also, the prong melts into the buckle, doesn't even go through the belt's hole and there's more fuzzy scribble around it.

Shadows

The shirt's collar creates shadows to both sides of it:

The lighting source seems to be behind the guy as the corner of the collar is further from the viewer than the shadow it casts:

Some other shadows are suspicious as well but not so obviously bad to confidently demonstrate them.

This is not an attempt to turn anyone against AI, but merely an analysis to show the most obvious signs that this dude was probably more or less generated by AI. If you like this kind of artificial art and are fine with Candlelight or any other studio/artist using it, then I won't stop you from enjoying it. If you have a hard time recognizing AI art then I truly envy you, ignorance is bliss as the saying goes. However, please don't come to proudly demonstrate your ignorance and argue with me or even worse, try to make fun of me because you think I'm wrong in saying that this character art was generated with AI. As I've now proven, it most likely is. It's too early to turn into an overprotective fangirl over a project we still know barely anything about.

[vivalgi]

The story premise sounds fun. Playing as a black sheep whom everyone hates is quite exciting and I never say no to fantasy setting. Plus, the MC is gender customizable and there's multiple LIs, which hopefully doesn't mean it's a sausage fest with only one sidelined girl to choose from.

The art style isn't set yet. Personally I don't really care if the art style is more simple like Lovestruck or more complex like Choices or is rendered in Blender, Unreal Engine etc. I just prefer more realistic character design and facial expressions to cartoonish or anime and everyone probably already knows my stance on Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and other image generators 🤮

Looking forward to it!

We’re thrilled to announce PROJECT SPELLSTRUCK, a next-generation narrative game that captures the ultimate magic school experience✨