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

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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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Generative AI Sparks Life into Virtual Characters with NVIDIA ACE for Games

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The creation of non-playable characters (NPCs) has evolved as games have become more sophisticated. The number of pre-recorded lines has grown, the number of options a player has to interact with NPCs has increased, and facial animations have become more realistic. Generative AI-focused companies such as Charisma.ai

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Spotlight: Convai Reinvents Non-Playable Character Interactions

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Whether you’re a creator, game designer, or developer, Convai enables you to quickly modify a non-playable character (NPC), from backstory and knowledge to voice and personality. They used NVIDIA Audio2Face to power the facial animations of their characters, and NVIDIA Riva for speech-to-text and text-to-speech.

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AWS for Games to spotlight generative AI at GDC 2024

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Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Another demonstration will allow lounge visitors to play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process.

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Building Lifelike Digital Avatars with NVIDIA ACE Microservices

Nvidia

One area of focus, digital avatars, will have a transformative impact on how gamers will interact with non-playable characters (NPCs). Historically, NPCs have predetermined responses and facial animations, where players can only communicate within a limited set of options.

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These references are out of date so I hope you’ll bear with me. Why is it games like Watchdogs 2 can have a whole citty full of NPC’s each with mostly unique profiles and interactable (you can hack almost everyone, you can physically interact, etc). But something like Yandere simulator struggles with keeping a frame rate with not even 200 NPC’s. The models in Watchdogs 2 are also more hyper realistic so I don’t know if that means more framerate impaction?

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to perform tasks (load a dude, draw a dude, animate a dude). Ubisoft spent a lot of engineering time optimizing the cost of each NPC (cupcake) down as much as possible because they knew that they would have a huge number of them in their game world. When we talk about performance, it helps to think of it as costs to do things.

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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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