AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Titan Image Demo showcased advanced techniques that can be used to solve real-world image asset creation tasks using generative AI and Amazon Bedrock. The Dynamic NPC Dialog Demo highlighted Ada, an example for building an in-game non-player character (NPC) as a generative AI application, using Unreal Engine MetaHuman by Epic Games.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Learn about the technology behind the in-game ThorAI (powered by Amazon Bedrock), and get a dive deep into fully voiced, interactive in-game NPCs in the companion mobile game Missing.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

Whenever an NPC is about to dump backstory and exposition on you, they'll ask you to take a seat. During big long quest chains, there are periodic quest stages where you have to wait 1-2 in-game days before checking in with the NPC again. Diegetically, the NPC has to prepare a machine or potion, or get supplies, or whatever.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. (A A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) And as the Vestal, she administers the local election, and in this ancient Roman city only the male NPC citizens are allowed to vote.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. All the content in the game was just data in fields.

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