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Nuverse lets AI do all the talking and moving of NPCs in Earth: Revival

PreMortem.Games

Chinese developer and publisher Nuverse is using AI for all NPC speech and animation in games. For its upcoming science fiction survival title Earth: Revival the development team used a system to generate speech and compute full body animations for NPCs, without any manual intervention.

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The Future of Art & AI in Game Production

iXie gaming

Artists have always played a crucial role in game development, meticulously creating characters, environments, and animations. Machine learning algorithms now generate realistic textures, procedural landscapes, and lifelike animations, reducing the time and effort required by human artists.

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Indie game capsule reviews: Immortality, Wayward Strand, Cult of the Lamb, Betrayal at Club Low, Atuel

Radiator Blog

You can totally miss important conversations and scenes because you're stuck in the stairwell climbing animation at exactly the wrong time. Your cute animal cult will follow whatever "Doctrines" you declare. Gradually all these advancements and upgrades add up to a NPC-driven town that can maintain and feed itself automatically.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #31

Astral Clock Tower Studios

With revamped weapons well underway thanks to James, another of our talented artists, Amanda, worked on revising the concept for an important merchant NPC that will help you score all the wares and goods you need to complete your Raksaka Proving. How did they get here then, you might ask? link] Level Design.

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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. This is a clip of the Heider-Simmel animation. How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox?

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

Astral Clock Tower Studios

There's a specific role the damaged piece plays in the Kristala demo's core storyline, and it coincides with an NPC we've been keeping under wraps up until this point. Rodrigo also added an animated Game Save/Loading icon too, which we ultimately ended up changing to a blue hue (vs. link] Rigging / Animation.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #33

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Their leather armor is often decorated with twisting vines, animal imagery, preserved flowers, and other natural craftsmanship. In our last issue, we showed off Nicholas's progress on the details he's added to give this NPC the signature Keozan look. Adding the logic for charged heavy attacks. Also fixed logic error in the code.

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