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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Game Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

Human writers enter details of an NPC’s roles, personality, and parameters. “We are particularly excited to see [LLMs’] impact on the fine arts. Ubisoft’s video demo of Ghostwriter makes the tool seem useful enough. Smith writes a lot of pitch-deck presentations for TV execs.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

This is a huge one, and arguably it’s important to many kinds of games, and other forms of art as well. AAA games are first and foremost products and their “smooth functionality” is prized above all else. Ultimately, the player has to like the characters, the world, the art style, the music, and so on.

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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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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. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Diegetically, the NPC has to prepare a machine or potion, or get supplies, or whatever.

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