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The Future of Art & AI in Game Production

iXie gaming

AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities. This feature is especially helpful for online games, which rely on real-time simulations to work successfully. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to simulate the real world.

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Exploring the Boundless Potential of XR and AI

Logic Simplified

It has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with digital content and could change the way we work, learn, play, and live. For example, the AI-driven NPC (non-player characters) in the game can have their own behaviors and motivations, making them feel more like real characters. What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

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. Enter “simulationism.”

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

Radiator Blog

But the game doesn't tutorialize this or dispatch an NPC to spell it out. The game never says "each NPC has a favorite type of gift item type, and you should equip it and talk to them", you have to guess that this mechanic exists from playing previous farming games or just out of sheer luck. You're just an NPC in their story.

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A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

3D models can be rigged and then animated, placed as stationary objects in a scene by a layout artist, simulated or destroyed by an FX artist, and used for shadows or holdouts by a lighting artist. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing. CG Spectrum's 2022 Houdini FX student showcase.

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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. Longtime readers may remember my white working class British masculinity simulator Hard Lads , so I'm certainly not unsympathetic to this premise. see: "CRT Simulation in Super Win the Game" ).

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