I'm making a FTP game with gacha mechanics

So, I graduated from college with a video game design degree over a decade ago and I have yet to really commit to making a game. Now with AI, I can finally do everything. Having it programmed, having art, everything. I can actually focus on what I like doing, the design part. From my design doc: Reelbound Resonance is an (currently) FTP gacha game where you are chosen by a mysterious artifact to become a Resonant. As a resonant, you summon extra-dimensional waifus called Reelbound to battle rogue Codex users through dynamic 3x5 slot reels, where each character’s personality and element directly shape gameplay. Guide your waifus, master the reels, and uncover a world that’s playful on the surface but corrupted beneath, where every spin can be life or death.

The mysterious artifact the player uses is called a Codex. As the player, your codex has a guardian who calls herself Codexa. She aids the player throughout the game and is a manifestation of the codex's will. She comes off as aloof and blunt, but has dry wit. She helps you summon your waifus from the codex. She's the only character design I have so far.

I took my concepts into another AI art engine and made some improvements to the codex for some more dramatic pictures to get some inspiration from. This is as probably as good as my design is going to get without actually hiring an artist. Next up, I'm going to try and get a character promo video done with some lines voiced. I have the voice clip, just gotta lip sync it to a video and hope that it works the first time because of the huge credit cost.

I'm about 60 hours into my project. Right now I'm just concepting designs. I'd say I have about 80% of my core functionalities planned out. I have a jackpot progressive that builds during reel battles and has a really small chance to hit but once it does it's an instant win and has huge rewards. It's fun to generate some pictures to see what concepts would look like.

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I was bouta say sum bout the uh.. dare I say, symbolics on the codex cube, but I realized the ai pictures were just for reference. LOL that would NOT have flown ingame