Radiator Blog

MAY 10, 2025

These non-architectural level design tools are often more effective than architecture at shaping player behavior. What sounds more effective for pulling the player to the exit of a non-linear level? (a)

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Indie DB

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Progess since last update: - Added Market Location (1st interation) - Added Herbalist NPC and logic (Herbalist current will walk to gather location and gather plants/herbs). Added Plants spawns, including mushrooms, garlics, patissons and beets around.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 24, 2024

If there is a worldwide quest that requires all players to collect and refine bolts of silk cloth to hand in to an NPC, how much cloth should that NPC require to make the quest last for at least two weeks with the average number of players per server?

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Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

WIll still need to link it up to the combat and probably experiement with npc target on. Just want to put up a mini update for a little chance of pace. Been experimenting with different UI design. Just a mini ui update for this one, no video for now.

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Half Geek

JULY 10, 2022

An example of the new design below: With more space, there will also be an increase in NPC ship activity. Other NPC ugprades include additional missile launchers and drone bays on ships that field drones. It’s a balancing act between more vision, and avoiding everything looking too small on mobile screens.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

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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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

NPC Flight AI updated to take advantage of the larger flight area. Roguelike mode, NPC pilots will rank up and upgrade their ships more often. In the mid-game, NPCs will come equipped with better armor, shields and weapons. NPC Combat Drone AI re-coded, to optimize flight patterns enabling more shots on target.

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A new shopkeeper NPC is the latest addition to this fantasy RPG indie

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Half Geek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fixed a bug with Merchant NPC during random encounters, if the player is busy in conversation, and Pirates or Zerkers interrupt, it will now resume normal flight. Some bug fixes and re-balancing. Thank you to players who have provided feedback! Fixed bug with new player Drone AI sometimes flying off into the void.

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Game Daily

MAY 23, 2023

Players create their own avatar and persona, and then try to get to know pre-programmed NPCs. You win by ingratiating yourself to the NPC, by saying the right things, and not saying the wrong things. Should the player and the NPC that they are with age together? It’s about creating comfort between the player and the NPC.

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

To further align the NPC’s behavior with expectations, in the future, you can apply reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to receive real-time feedback from designers during the development process. After the NPC is fully aligned, the final step is to apply NeMo Guardrails , which adds programmable rules for NPCs.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

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. 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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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I have a design tool I call “Don’t Solve the Hard Problem” It consists of three steps Example 1: Meaningful NPC interactions Now, people working on the hard problem of NPC AI may be upset right now. The example I just gave is SO trivial. And isn’t the problem they are pouring their lives into […]

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We rarely want AI allies to overshadow players - doing so will break the power fantasy. Instead, we want them to look like they're fighting and take a while so that the player can be the hero. You should read this archive post about [ why we don't want AI allies to be too good or too strong ].

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

You already have all of these things youre thinking about already - this quest for this NPC, that collection for the thing you wanted to craft, how to defeat these particular monsters, etc. When youre already near your cognitive load limit, this sensation turns to overwhelming instead.

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Juego Studio

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Whether they are the central characters or non-playing characters (NPC), their role is very important in showcasing the motivation and actions supported by the storyline. Game characters convey emotions and experiences to gamers.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 29, 2024

In most games, a player character can typically sell as many wombat testicles to the NPC vendor as she might have, creating new currency out of thin air for each testicle sold. There is no limit to the number of wombat testicles she can sell and there is no limit to the amount of currency the NPC can generate for her.

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Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

How does AI improve NPC behavior in games? AI enables NPCs to learn and adapt to player actions, making them more unpredictable and realistic compared to pre-scripted characters. As technology advances, we can expect even more groundbreaking experiences that blur the line between the virtual and real worlds.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. should be directed elsewhere. Likely also locks players off from returning to the previous area.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 10, 2024

Various games now incorporate versions of Chat GPT to enhance NPC interactions. AI is increasingly being utilized in game development, not just for automation and cost reduction, but also as an innovative gameplay feature. One notable example is Uncover the Smoking Gun by South Korean studio ReLU Games.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

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. Context-aware responsiveness This innovative approach consists of enabling adaptive and context-aware NPC responsiveness.

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I have a design tool I call “Don’t Solve the Hard Problem” It consists of three steps Example 1: Meaningful NPC interactions Now, people working on the hard problem of NPC AI may be upset right now. The example I just gave is SO trivial. And isn’t the problem they are pouring their lives into […].

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2024

The architecture that we describe here is a solution guidance to create non-player characters (NPC) for games using generative AI services. The generative AI application uses Amazon Bedrock models to create dialogs for the NPC character. In this blog we will dive deeper into the architecture.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Kairos demo evolves with new technologies from Convai In collaboration with Convai , NVIDIA showed the latest version of the Kairos demo to showcase how next-generation AI NPCs will revolutionize gaming. Open-ended conversations with NPCs open up a world of possibilities for interactivity in games.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Guidance for Non-Player Character (NPC) Dialogue on AWS to automate the process of creating a non-player character (NPC) for games and associated game development infrastructure.

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Indie DB

MAY 3, 2023

This fantasy turn-based RPG discusses NPC interactions

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Game Industry News

JULY 29, 2021

Plot: The plot of this second volume deals with Shin looking for his first support NPC Schnee who has been traveling around the world while waiting for him to return. Hey all I’m back with another entry in Shin’s journey in a new world for this week’s Translation Necessary Thursday. It’s The New Gate Volume 02 by Kazanami Shinogi!

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AWS Games

APRIL 2, 2024

Unique non-player character (NPC) dialogue Game replay is important to ensure players return to the game and do not quit when having to replay a certain section, for example due to continued defeat against a difficult adversary. Script writing efficiency NPCs are sometimes meant to say a specific script, and uniqueness isn’t a requirement.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Add-on: The NPC Editor - by Yael Atletl, Tools Programmer. I’ve been a developer at Moonwards for 2 years now and though I’ve had many roles and done many things, from debugging, refactoring code, networking, fixing materials and more, lately I’m the NPCs and tools guy. The NPC Editor creates State Machines and Behavior trees.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2024

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. Yandere Simulator did not spend as much time optimizing their NPCs, so their NPCs are more costly than the WatchDogs NPCs.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 15, 2024

Among the impressive lineup is a generative AI kiosk featuring Ada, an in-game, non-player character (NPC) created using the MetaHuman framework in Unreal Engine 5 and Amazon Bedrock , a toolset for building generative AI applications.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Gradually all these advancements and upgrades add up to a NPC-driven town that can maintain and feed itself automatically. Do you believe in the importance of live sacrifices? But also veganism? Your cute animal cult will follow whatever "Doctrines" you declare.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

An NPC parade, by Darby. My first step next year will be to release the complete UFD story, concluding it with a new ending (Cogmind’s 10th different ending!). Then as planned comes the Unchained expansion and of course some other cool accompanying features :D Onward!

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It allow’s the player to discover the kind of mechanics the game has and how to take control of the situation The first moments often also include figuring out the world or environment,  the enemies, NPC’s and what items (if any) you have at your disposal. Would VR Games be Considered a Difficult First Game to Make? (1:07:27

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AWS Games

JUNE 20, 2024

These models can be used to identify fraudulent activity in near real-time, provide player specific in-game purchase promotions, automate LiveOps through AIOps, enable dynamic NPC dialogue through generative AI, and more.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2024

MOBs that exist within the world independent of players At least one quest that the players are able to accept, progress, complete, and obtain rewards A functioning leveling system that allows players to level up and obtain rewards Functional UI - combat, looting, character inventory, NPC interaction (e.g.

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