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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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

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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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Indie DB

MAY 3, 2023

This fantasy turn-based RPG discusses NPC interactions

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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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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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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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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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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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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 31, 2023

You already have all of these things you’re 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 you’re already near your cognitive load limit, this sensation turns to overwhelming instead.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Like a Dragon Gaiden FPS improvement Tips and Tricks: NPC Density Settings: Look for options to reduce NPC density in the game’s settings, lessening the load on your CPU and GPU. Replace the old PSU by disconnecting it, unscrewing it from the case, and reversing the process to install the new one.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

It also doesn’t have to be stamina bars, it can just be about how fighting is done in farming games or talking to an npc. And it needs to be talked about it more for new innovative game designs.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 25, 2023

Players reported that when they look at an NPC or when they get near random objects or towns, for example, Whiterun, their game simply crashes. You encounter this issue because you are not playing on your dedicated GPU, you are playing with the one integrated into your processing unit.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

NPC (non-player character) Intelligence Enhancement The majority of the enemies in today’s games are non-player characters (NPCs), however, advances in AI are making it possible to give these characters some degree of intelligence.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

In addition to a major NPC that we're currently keeping under wraps until our gameplay trailer is finished, Shelly also started working on the model for our male playable character. First, Shelly gave a little facelift to the texturing used on our Masarusa enemy. Animation / Rigging / Production.

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 8, 2023

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. When XR and AI are combined, the possibilities for gaming are endless.

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Logic Simplified

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition, it can be used to design non-player characters (NPC) that the players cannot control. NPCs respond to player activities automatically using predetermined algorithms. AI is crucial in the development stages of the metaverse. Its ability to efficiently and accurately handle large amounts of data can be quite useful.

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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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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

This week, Cass continued chipping away at the base model for the Cathedral, adding a secret attic area that will house an important NPC you'll will meet along your journey. Stay tuned to hear more about the Cathedral and the mysterious attic NPC in future social posts and development blogs!

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

With revamped weapons well underway thanks to James, another of our talented artists, Amanda, worked on revising the concept for an important merchant NPC that will help you score all the wares and goods you need to complete your Raksaka Proving. How did they get here then, you might ask?

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

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.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. Balancing Two Games At a Time Is Impossible Allegedly, Elden Ring doesn't have different difficulty levels. In reality, it has two. You can choose to summon friends to help you with bosses.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? Getting your hands regularly dirty in the editor will allow you to eventually answer questions like: What unused or underused storytelling vehicles are available to us through the editor?

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

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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