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. To address these limitations, Convai has developed a proprietary AI-driven suite of technologies.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Generative AI technologies are revolutionizing how games are produced and played. Generative AI technologies are revolutionizing how games are produced and played. Historically, NPCs have predetermined responses and facial animations, where players can only communicate within a limited set of options.

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AWS Games

JUNE 20, 2024

The Updated Game Analytics Pipeline Today, the GAP solution has been updated, and modernized to provide customers the ability to deploy the latest AWS service, and feature updates, using a DataOps engineering practice for their game analytics requirements.

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Logic Simplified

MARCH 8, 2023

AI-enabled digital coaches could offer career guidance and help train employees. AI-enabled colleagues The avatars of virtual colleagues will be the only constraint to the real-world counterparts. Many digital coworkers will join, including realistic, AI-powered, human-like bots.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In fact, 2023 has had some of the biggest game development trends thanks to the increasing use of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI). Also, the introduction of ground-breaking AI-powered solutions, including Chat GPT, has further inspired new game development trends.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

AWS Fargate The headless game test client used a stripped-down version of the game built using Unreal Engine. Setting up a headless game client with Unreal Engine To create a headless game client, nDreams built a Docker container of the game client running on Linux with some bespoke commands to let the game play by itself.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional 3D modelers: Maya ZBrush Blender Mari Substance Painter Unreal Engine (and other real-time engines) Houdini 3D modeling jobs in the industry 3D modelers are sought after in film, games, and virtual production, as well as beyond the creative industries in areas such as product design and 3D visualization.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. But either one was radically different in that way than the most popular game engine, which was the Diku style (we called them “codebases” back then). Earlier in MUD design, these zones even “repopped” all at once.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

We've shown off 3D Generalist Joe's progress on this shield in previous installments of the Kristala game dev blog , but after a few other minor tweaks and revisions, the piece is now completed and ready to be implemented in Unreal Engine. They were instead created by a special NPC for a specific purpose.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

By comparison, let’s talk about Baldur’s Gate, the original game, a game very much in the same genre, that uses literally the same (awful) Infinity Engine for its combat. I am charmed. I played a good 10 or so hours in that game and the “I am charmed” moment never came.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

[link] With Tiff working on the beginning portions of the Dalamase, the newest member of our Level Design team, Ian, got started on blocking out and detailing the underground Cave level area that's home to an important NPC featured in Kristala's storyline. We're certain our testers are especially happy to have that last one addressed.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Future WHAT IS YARN SPINNER IN 2022 The Yarn Spinner project is made of two main parts, which can be confusing: Yarn Spinner "Core" , generic dialogue engine processor thing ("virtual machine") + script compiler written in C#. None of it is Unity specific.

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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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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. me) or PvP buff but conceptually rather boring Aether (cloak + invisible to laser sensors, attacks cancel it, can be upgraded to only consume mana while moving). It would feel terrible.

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC. While studio co-owner and Lead Level Designer Tiffany put the widgets together in Unreal Engine (you can read more about her work in the following section), it was Will who penned the written content itself. Take a look!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

After tweaking and testing both enemies' AI behavior, we're now confident these baddies will properly engage and attack during gameplay. As Pete's first official task for Kristala, we had him work on revising the concept art for a very important NPC, Gustav Gondasa. Take a peek!  [link].

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In our last issue, we showed off Nicholas's progress on the details he's added to give this NPC the signature Keozan look. After nailing the base model for this beast, Fede then brought the rat in engine to begin tweaking the hair shading and playing around with hair cards to create random tufts and patches of fur. Check it out!

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With a rich history that includes introducing AI concepts in programming classes as early as the 1990s, RP4K is now seizing the opportunity to delve deeper into the exciting world of AI. Course Structure and Schedule RP4K offers weekly 18-week AI courses on weeknights or Saturdays.

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