Overview
- Panic updated its Playdate Catalog rules this month to reject games that use generative AI for art, audio, music, text, or dialog.
- The Catalog policy names tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, Midjourney, Suno, and Udio as examples of prohibited generators.
- For the upcoming curated lineup, Panic said Season 3 titles must use no AI at all, which it clarified includes art, music, writing, and code.
- The shift follows a Season 2 release, Wheelsprung, that used ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot for development, which Panic acknowledged as an oversight in its review process.
- Panic said existing Catalog games that used AI will stay listed with clear flags, and it maintains its long‑standing requirement that developers disclose any AI use, even as it positions this ban as unusual among major storefronts.