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Calling all fans of human endeavour: Veteran modder Elias Daler, renowned in the community for their PlayStation and Dreamcast projects, announced the opening of "Humanbrew", a Discord server for a community of coders, recompers, decompers, emulation heads, and any and all homebrew project enthusiasts who are still delivering work crafted without the implementation of A.I. tools.
Daler, who hosts the Discord server with several friends, announced Humanbrew on social media yesterday afternoon, suggesting fellow slop-free tinkerers gather to "learn from each other, make cool things and have fun". In less than a day, the new Discord had attracted over 500 members (as of the time of this writing)
From recent anecdotal evidence online, the traditional homebrew community is reaching a terminus.
In a year that has seen a clouty, conveyor-belt mentality drown the hobby in a race to deliver results as quickly and as competitively as possible - frequently forgoing any aspect of investigation and development work, the results of which would evolve and educate the entire community as a whole - traditional homebrewers (and indie developers) are finding themselves shouted over at best and imitated at worst.
This has led some coders to retire from the community entirely, and recently caused the closure of the popular resource site decomp.dev. Further eye-rolling took place during last week's Steam Next Fest, when the demo festival was inundated with thousands upon thousands of low-quality games, many of which were direct clones of other indie titles, and some of which were clones of clones.
While some consider such talk "gatekeeping", the fact remains that a key part of homebrewing, and particularly decomp/recomp work, is the investigation, the sharing of knowledge, the revelation of coding skills past, the preservation of forgotten techniques - all of which evolves the entire medium. The result is great, but the tireless work to achieve that result advances the hobby itself, opens up new pathways and techniques, and educates the designers of tomorrow... It isn't all about boasting that you got Psychic Detective running on the Wonderswan.
With new spaces such as Humanbrew, hopefully traditional homebrew developers will have a platform to research, champion, and seek help for their individual projects, while players and gaming fans can follow interesting and innovative ideas, safe in the knowledge that the projects come 100% slop-free.
The horse has already left the barn, and AI is likely to remain a part of the home development scene going forward - bubble bursts or otherwise. But for those indie developers and players frustrated by the fast-food nature of AI projects, as well as its ongoing impact on the world at large, Humanbrew will hopefully be one of numerous shelters where devs can ply their trade within a community of like-minded, talented coders.