AI notice
AI notice: how this guide's pictures and text are made and checked
Every picture on nationalgamesweek.net is an illustration made with an image model. This page explains how those pictures are made, why none of them is presented as a photograph, and how the text is reviewed before it goes live.
Every picture here is an illustration
The guide uses no photographs at all. Each picture, from the game night table on the front page to the lost pawn on the error page, is a flat illustration generated with an image model and then reviewed by an editor. The style is the same across the site on purpose: soft grain, rounded shapes, pastel backgrounds and simple faces.
That choice is practical. The game nights, classrooms and library tables this guide describes happen in thousands of homes and halls every November, and no single photo could stand for all of them without picking one real family or one real store. An illustration can show the kind of evening a page talks about without pretending to be any particular one.
Why the pictures carry no AI badge
Photo-like images made with AI need a visible label, so nobody mistakes them for a record of a real moment. The pictures here are drawn illustrations, and nobody could reasonably take them for photographs, so they carry no badge on the image itself.
The files still say where they come from. Every size of every picture carries the standard IPTC marker for algorithmically generated media, which photo tools and search engines can read. This page is the plain-language half of that disclosure, and it is linked from the footer of every page next to the privacy policy.
What the image model is never asked to draw
Some things stay out of the pictures, and each one is checked before it is published. No real person is drawn, whether a game designer, a store owner, a teacher or anyone who once helped run the week. No real store, library or school appears either.
Game boxes, cards and boards are plain colored shapes, so no publisher's artwork, logo or trademark shows up. Pictures with readable fake writing, odd hands or anything that looks like a real brand are thrown out and made again.
How the text is written and checked
Writing tools help draft some passages. Marion Kessler, the editor of the guide, reads every page before it is published and is responsible for what it says. Facts about the week's history, the 2005 Top 100 and the dates come from the organizers' own announcements and pages from the first weeks and the public sources listed on the history page, and each claim is checked against them.
The status of every game on the 2005 Top 100 list was checked by hand in October 2026. Where a fact could not be confirmed, the page says so instead of guessing. Dates for future years are worked out from the Thanksgiving rule and can be checked against any calendar, which is the simplest test of all.
Reporting a problem
If a picture looks like a real person or a real place, shows a brand, or a fact on any page seems wrong, write to [email protected] with the page address and a short note. The picture or sentence will be checked and replaced or corrected if needed. The contact page lists what else the editor can help with.
FAQ
Questions people ask
Are any photos on this site made with AI?
The site has no photographs at all. Every picture is a flat illustration generated with an image model and reviewed by an editor before publishing. Because the pictures are plainly drawings, nobody could take them for photographs of a real event, so no AI badge appears on them; the files carry the standard IPTC marker instead.
Do the illustrations show real people, stores or games?
No. The illustrations never show a real person, such as a designer, store owner or anyone who once ran the week, and never show a real store, library or school. Game boxes, cards and boards are drawn as plain colored shapes, so no publisher's artwork, logo or trademark appears in any picture on the site.
Is the text written by AI?
Writing tools help draft some passages, but the editor, Marion Kessler, reviews every page before it goes live and checks each fact against the organizers' own announcements and pages from the first weeks and the public sources listed on the history page. Where a fact could not be confirmed, the page says so plainly rather than guessing at an answer.
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