IN DEVELOPMENT
FIRST PROJECT
Garage Cleaner
A first-person sorting game about making sense of the mess—one useful thing at a time.
Follow development ↘Independent games, visibly made
Small worlds.
Honest process.
Powered By Pixels is my attempt to finally make the games I have always wanted to make.
MAKE IT / SHOW IT / SHARE IT
01 / ABOUT
Hi, I'm
Powered By Pixels.
I'm a games-industry veteran of more than 20 years, a parent, and someone who has always wanted to make games of my own. This is my attempt. I'm using the tools I can access to build small, tactile worlds—and to share the process honestly.
02 / GAMES
Made with care. Still in the garage.
03 / AI PLEDGE
TRANSPARENCY, NOT PERFECTION.
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I make games with generative AI tools because they enable me to make them in the first place. I recognise that those tools may be trained on the art and creative work of people who were not asked for consent or paid. I pledge to transparently share part of these games' proceeds with artists through established foundations—not as a solution to the questions around generative AI, but as a practical commitment to give back.
PUBLIC LEDGER
Contribution counter
SETTLED ARTIST CONTRIBUTION€0.00
Live data begins when Garage Cleaner launches.
- Live gross activity
- Awaiting launch
- Provisional Net Receipts
- Awaiting launch
- Next expected payout
- After first settled period
Updates distinguish estimates from storefront-settled figures. Corrections remain visible.
HOW A CONTRIBUTION MOVES
Visible from sale to support.
- 01
Live activity
Sales and refunds appear as provisional activity.
- 02
Storefront settlement
Monthly reports confirm Net Receipts after adjustments.
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Allocation locked
The pledged share becomes a public payable amount.
- 04
Artist support paid
Receipt and independent confirmation are added to the ledger.
The next calculation period appears before the previous payout is completed.
04 / THE HARD QUESTIONS
No gloss.
No magic answer.
We want this page to make a disagreement clearer, not make it disappear.
01Why use generative AI at all?+
This game would not exist in its present form without these tools. That explains our decision; it does not exempt us from the trade-offs involved. We use them under human direction to make a small game possible, then remain accountable for what we release.
02Do you think this pledge solves the problem?+
No. Generative tools may be trained on copyrighted work without artists’ consent or payment. A contribution cannot repair that history or guarantee a fair future. It is a concrete, public step toward sharing value with working artists—not a claim of moral clearance.
03What are your limits?+
We do not use cloned voices or likenesses, and we do not ask tools to imitate living artists’ styles. We will describe player-facing generative content accurately wherever a platform requires it and on this page.
04How is the contribution calculated?+
Net Receipts means money reported by the storefront after taxes, platform and payment fees, refunds, chargebacks, and similar storefront adjustments. Salaries, marketing, contractor costs, equipment, and AI-tool costs are not deducted from this pledge calculation.
05Why not pay a human artist instead?+
When we can fund specific commissioned work, we will. This project’s original constraint was that a conventional team was not financially possible. We do not treat that constraint as evidence that artists are optional—or as a reason to avoid sharing success when it arrives.
06I do not want to support any game using generative AI.+
We understand and respect that choice. Some people conclude that the consent, livelihood, or environmental concerns are unacceptable in every case. Transparency is not a request to ignore those concerns; it is the minimum we owe people making an informed decision.
05 / CONTACT
Have a hard question?
Send it.
hello@poweredbypixels.com ↗For feedback on the pledge, artist-support partnerships, or the games themselves.