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Nuverse lets AI do all the talking and moving of NPCs in Earth: Revival

PreMortem.Games

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. It even helps writing the lines.

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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. They’re related, but the difference is this: A game writer’s primary responsibility is to promote the story that the game tells through the scripts they write. Creative writing. Technical writing.

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Operationalize generative AI applications on AWS: Part I – Overview of LLMOps solution

AWS Games

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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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. I wouldn't recommend either anymore.

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The Last Pile of Thoughts About Elden Ring, Promise

The Bottom Feeder

Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. Apparently, the Game of Thrones dude helped write Elden Ring’s … um … “story”? Balancing Two Games At a Time Is Impossible Allegedly, Elden Ring doesn't have different difficulty levels. In reality, it has two. That's It Loved this game.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #31

Astral Clock Tower Studios

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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Quest Feedback

Grumpy Gamer

Helping a NPC gets you a pet/sidekick [link] may I chime in? I like quests which turn out to be something completely different than you expect, and where the good writing/setup makes you forget that its a scripted event. Funny, and builds NPC character (which they don't do much with after). RPG or adventure, makes no difference.

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