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Building Lifelike Digital Avatars with NVIDIA ACE Microservices

Nvidia

Game developers are exploring how these technologies can accelerate their content pipelines and provide new gameplay experiences previously thought impossible. One area of focus, digital avatars, will have a transformative impact on how gamers will interact with non-playable characters (NPCs).

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The joys of the anti-farm sim: "Before the Green Moon" by turnfollow

Radiator Blog

Before The Green Moon (on Itch and Steam ) is a post-apocalyptic indie Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley / Animal Crossing inspired farm life sim about scraping by, in a decaying rural truckstop town with bored depressed locals you gradually befriend (or ignore). But the game doesn't tutorialize this or dispatch an NPC to spell it out.

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The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

Radiator Blog

A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) SHINY ART STYLE: The most obvious difference vs its Skyrim mod roots is the art style -- it went from 2011 pre-PBR Skyrim to 2020 UE4 Quixel 4k photoscans with subsurface scatter'd Character Creator NPCs.

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Darner's Digest, vol. 3: on the Yarn Spinner v2.0 release + a YS primer

Radiator Blog

Nothing stops you from adding more commands, functions, markup tags, or new ways to process the script. // custom NPC AI script example? Both of those famous games are very typical video game RPG style things where you walk around a world and talk to NPCs, one at a time. documentation !

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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want? Localization. What goes into a localization kit, especially a glossary? What does the Art Team need to know about this quest or level?

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight.

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That Lonesome Valley as cowboy coin crusher

Radiator Blog

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. The romantic interest Bud is a local ranchhand assigned as a guide. In this situation, the NPC knows what you're here for and he wants it too, even if you kinda hate each other. It'll take about 30 minutes.

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