Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Introduction I remember as a young product manager, working on major releases at Disney and Rovio how excited I was for the cutscenes. After release I was responsible for analyzing churn and sharing the results with the team: the cutscenes were driving users out of the game. The team poured their hearts into the work.
Played with Fire
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Unlike traditional games, where cutscenes or dialogue drive the story, VR relies more on player interaction , making storytelling a challenge. How to Improve VR Storytelling 1⃣ AI-Powered NPCs for Dynamic Stories NPCs in VR games should feel alive. Without strong VR storytelling , even the most realistic VR world feels empty.
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Radiator Blog
JUNE 2, 2023
Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. There's no Destiny-like seamless matchmaking and no Left 4 Dead style good-enough bot AI. But not really. The player never quite experiences these ideas in the game itself.
Radiator Blog
MAY 5, 2021
This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. 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.
The Bottom Feeder
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Tweak the AI for one so the moment the goblins see you they all leap out of it and rush you. Each time you find a “Geoglyph," you watch a cutscene which shows a sliver of what happened to Zelda. Problem #3: Key Character Cutscenes Are Too Similar The story of Z:TotK is a mixed bag for me. I think that part is really cool.
Radiator Blog
JANUARY 16, 2022
Some games do all their cutscene scripting and even enemy AI in Yarn Spinner, because really, it's just a simple scripting language that does whatever you tell it to do. Nothing stops you from adding more commands, functions, markup tags, or new ways to process the script. // custom NPC AI script example?
iXie gaming
JUNE 19, 2024
Game artists can leverage the power of 3D art to create 3D cutscenes and cinematics that deliver compelling narratives. Increased Use of Machine Learning and AI : AI and ML are increasingly impacting how we approach our daily operations across industries – and interactive entertainment is no exception.
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