Lego fishing boat from Dredge

In my personal favorites list, Dredge is definitely one of the best games of 2024. Black Salt Games team hit every target with this game: nice graphics, interesting story, lovecraftian-like soft horror (if you can even call it this way). I became addicted right away, even if you can complete this game within one day.

I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to build a lego boat based on the designs from this set. Rebrickable had a number of fishing boat designs, but they were quite different from Dredge:

So I wanted to give AI generators a shot at it, some only accept textual prompt, so I had to ask ChatGPT first to generate a proper prompt for it:

A small fishing boat with a light blue hull, separated by a white stripe from the upper brown section. The cabin is white with a dark brown roof and features two black rectangular windows on the front. A black smokestack near the back of the cabin emits a faint trail of gray smoke. On top of the cabin, a red and brown pole-like structure extends upward. The sides of the boat are protected by black tires hanging as bumpers. At the rear of the boat is a functional crane-like mechanism, painted in muted red-brown and gray. The design is simple, practical, and focused on functionality

Grok:

Looks pretty good, but impossible to build with lego – pieces are non-existent.

OpenArt.ai:

This is probably one of the best ones since many pieces look very reasonable.

BrickCenter – positions itself specifically for designing lego sets

Pieces look reasonable, but you can also see weird "AI" surfaces and also the whole design is pretty bad at the front.

Dalle (ChatGPT)

As bad as BrickCenter, and very similar in fact.

All in all, none of the generators has come up with anything reasonable, I wonder what kind of tools Lego itself uses to design sets. Will revisit this in a couple years to see the progress.

And this is, for instance, an image I found in the Dredge Steam Community, need to request designs from a person who already built it: