AI Disclosure

As of April 2026, Catalog will no longer accept titles that use “Generative AI” for art, audio, music, text, or dialog.

There are lots of people in the world who are extremely eager and excited to create beautiful music, art, and words for your Playdate creation. If you need any help at all finding people to help with any parts of your title, you can check out the collaborations channel in the Playdate Squad Discord or the Playdate Developer Forum.

“Generative AI” refers to AI models including (but not limited to):

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Google Gemini.
AI-based image generation models such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Midjourney.
AI-based audio generation models such as MuseNet, Suno, Udio, and others.

This does not refer to your own, custom-written functions for determining in-game behaviors, such as “enemy AI”.

Any previously approved or released Catalog titles that used “Generative AI” will still be available on Catalog at this time, and will be flagged as such with an explanation of how it was used.

For the time being, we will allow Catalog titles that have used AI assistance in the coding process, but we will flag any title as such and specify the extent that it was used (for example, “Lua debugging”) so the customer can decide whether to support it or not.

All of this is under constant discussion and is subject to change at any time. We will update this page as we make further changes.

Generative AI Questionnaire

There is a section in the Catalog Assets form for each game’s page that asks about the use of generative AI in the creation of the game. The generative AI questionnaire on the Catalog page will be updated sometime in June 2026 to reflect this new policy.

Your answers to these questions will be displayed on the game’s page in Catalog, in a way similar to the accessibility and rating disclosures. For titles where this question has not been answered, the page will state:

This game’s developer hasn’t reported on its use of generative Al.

We recommend that you update this section for all your titles in Catalog. Starting on the Catalog Developer dashboard, edit each game and click through to its Assets form.