They’re Decompiling Our Games with AI Now

A skateboarding and kickflipping in a military shooter? Playstation Astro Bot is running on a Mac? Game mechanics are being ripped out and glued into other games. And AI is doing the decompiling. Welcome to the Decompileaclypse! (say it out loud three times, I dare you) This is all great fun for players, but totally terrifying for anyone shipping a game. As an indie dev who's been making games for 13 years, I go through what this means for us: is gameplay code basically open source now? Are AI training sets gobbling up ripped game codebases? What will Steam do? Will big publishers lock everything in the cloud? And why I still think Great Games come from Great Design, not copy-pasting. Plus: a very real not-at-all-fabricated sponsorship from FARM-ing. Previous video — "The IndieAIpocalypse 2.0 is here?!":    • The IndieAIpocalypse 2.0 is here?!   CHAPTERS 00:00 – The Decompiler Has Arrived 00:24 – Decompiled Games & Modding Examples 01:33 – Decompiling with AI vs. Old School Methods 02:29 – Software as Clay: A Developer's Perspective 03:16 – From One-Shotting to Stealing Whole Game Mechanics 04:05 – Open Source (?!) 04:44 – Legal Realities & Mod Takedowns 05:08 – Poisoning the Well - AI Training Sets Tainted? 06:35 – The Software Stores - (Steam, Sony, Nintendo) 07:23 – The Big Corpos Solution: THE CLOUD 08:19 – I was sponsored by Farming ?! (Sponsor Joke) 09:10 – Why AI Can’t Replace Game Design & Vision 12:02 – The Reality of Finishing a Game 13:05 – Buy a Farm & Keep Making Games 13:54 – Thank You & Outro SOURCES Decompiled Games Footage: @MuzzleDOLG @AISearch @AndrewTsai @TobynJacobs @AlexCortina @CHASM @Rooseafe EA CEO compensation (FY2026 SEC filing): https://pocketgamer.biz/battlefield-6... Steam AI disclosure update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/g... Stock Footage Credits: Pexels - Stephen Pierce, Hasan Ince, Khanh Hoang Minh, Cristian Rojas Music Credits: Uppbeat - Flow State - Scary Gong Uppbeat - Theo Gerard - Italian Town Square Uppbeat - Sky Cassette - They Found us Uppbeat - various SFX #gamedev #indiedev #ai