A controversy erupted in the indie game development community this week after 19 jurors for the Independent Games Festival (IGF) signed a statement refusing to vote for any game utilizing generative AI, citing ecological, economic, and labor concerns while urging the IGF to adopt a formal ban. The dispute centered on House House's cooperative puzzle title Big Walk , after the studio disclosed that large language models (LLMs) were used "sparingly" near the end of development to resolve a persistent Unity engine bug. The issue involved "infinite length" shadows degrading performance; after a Unity engineer reportedly deemed a fix impossible, developers consulted an LLM chatbot. The model suggested a solution that required extensive human modification before being implemented as roughly 10 lines of code, constituting "well under 0.1%" of the game's total codebase. The revelation triggered debate over disclosure standards and the definition of AI-assisted development, with at least one observer contesting that the shadow bug was solvable through significant human effort alone. The incident has intensified scrutiny regarding the integration of AI tools in acclaimed indie projects and the potential for festival policy changes.