Cognitive Sovereignty Self-Audit for Game Developers
This audit measures whether you understand and own the technical and creative decisions in your game, or whether AI tools have become a substitute for your own problem-solving. Your score reveals how much cognitive ground you have handed to AI systems.
Before using AI to generate code for a system, write out in plain language how you want that system to behave. Use AI to implement your design, not to design for you.
When you use image generation tools, create a visual reference document of five to ten images that define your game's look. Reject any AI output that drifts from this standard, no matter how polished it appears.
Every month, disable GitHub Copilot for one coding session. Write a small feature entirely by hand. If this feels impossibly slow, you have lost too much ground.
Keep a design journal where you explain why you made specific choices instead of accepting an AI suggestion. This forces you to own your decisions and builds the reasoning skills AI cannot replicate.
If multiple games in your genre look visually similar, audit whether they are using the same AI tools. If so, commit to making one core aesthetic choice that contradicts what those tools prefer.