{"id":1575113,"date":"2026-05-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqiDdwL2b5kVc8EdbHT6vn"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:00:00","slug":"two-point-museums-latest-dlc-features-a-buildable-studio-where-artists-can-create-millions-of-unique-artworks-and-theres-no-generative-ai-involved-whatsoever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/two-point-museums-latest-dlc-features-a-buildable-studio-where-artists-can-create-millions-of-unique-artworks-and-theres-no-generative-ai-involved-whatsoever\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Point Museum’s latest DLC features a buildable studio where artists can create ‘millions’ of unique artworks, and there’s ‘no generative AI involved’ whatsoever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m a big fan of Two Point Museum<\/a>, the latest and greatest of Two Point Studios’ revival of the Bullfrog-style management sim. But I am also a fan of how the developer has approached the release of its DLCs. You can pay for expansions like Zooseum<\/a> and Fantasy Finds<\/a> to get a big chunk of extra stuff to build, but you also get a portion of the DLC for free with each of the game’s updates.<\/p>\n

Such is the case with Two Point Museum’s latest add-on, Arty Facts<\/a>. As the name implies, this expansion lets you add an art gallery to your institution. The pack adds 27 new art exhibits for your guests to gaze meaningfully at, but it also adds a new “art studio” room where your experts can create paintings of their own. According to the expansion’s launch trailer, the art studio facilitates “millions of potential outcomes”, thus providing an “endless” stream of custom art.<\/p>\n

I was curious about how this system works, particularly whether it used any generative AI given it’s filtering into games everywhere these days, often without clear disclosure. So I posed the question to Sega, which publishes the Two Point games. Sega got back to me pretty quickly with a thorough rundown of how the art studio works, the upshot of which is there is “no generative AI involved”.<\/p>\n

To summarise, there are three types of art the new in-game studio can produce, namely paintings, portraits, and sculptures. Each of these artworks is randomly generated from a catalogue of relevant assets, such as 3D models in the case of sculptures, or pre-made character icons in the case of portraits. <\/p>\n

But the way each artwork type is generated is slightly different. Paintings, for example, have four layers that are each randomly generated, as are the colour palettes of the painting, and the size of both the canvas and the frame. Portraits, meanwhile, have various filters that help define the variation of the images. As for sculptures, players can actually choose between three different materials\u2014clay, marble and bronze\u2014with randomised variations in colour in each.<\/p>\n

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