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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, May 11, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Square Enix integrated AI-generated images into the 2024 multiplayer game Foamstars, using the third-party tool Midjourney to create album cover artwork displayed in-game alongside the game's soundtrack. The producer confirmed this represented a small experiment, accounting for approximately 0.01% or less of the game's total content.
Details
Foamstars producer Kosuke Okatani confirmed at a press event that Midjourney — a tool that converts text prompts into images — was used to produce abstract images for in-game album covers tied to the game's music tracks. Square Enix clarified in a follow-up statement that all core gameplay elements and other assets were created by the development team. Midjourney takes text prompts as input and produces visual images as output.
Products affected
Foamstars
Sources & Evidence
News Article
Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). Square Enix: Square Enix integrated AI-generated images into the 2024 multiplayer game Foamstars, using the third-party tool Midjourney to create album cover artwork displayed in-game alongside the game's soundtrack. The producer confirmed this represented a small experiment, accounting for approximately 0.01% or less of the game's total content (data as of 2026-05-11) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0f85d648-fc11-4972-ab8a-2616274b7b40. Accessed October 5, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0f85d648-fc11-4972-ab8a-2616274b7b40
- Data as of
- May 11, 2026
- Last verified
- Not recorded
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