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The joys of the anti-farm sim: "Before the Green Moon" by turnfollow

Radiator Blog

Before The Green Moon (on Itch and Steam ) is a post-apocalyptic indie Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley / Animal Crossing inspired farm life sim about scraping by, in a decaying rural truckstop town with bored depressed locals you gradually befriend (or ignore). But the game doesn't tutorialize this or dispatch an NPC to spell it out.

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Indie game capsule reviews: Immortality, Wayward Strand, Cult of the Lamb, Betrayal at Club Low, Atuel

Radiator Blog

You can totally miss important conversations and scenes because you're stuck in the stairwell climbing animation at exactly the wrong time. Your cute animal cult will follow whatever "Doctrines" you declare. Gradually all these advancements and upgrades add up to a NPC-driven town that can maintain and feed itself automatically.

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Generative AI Sparks Life into Virtual Characters with NVIDIA ACE for Games

Nvidia

The creation of non-playable characters (NPCs) has evolved as games have become more sophisticated. The number of pre-recorded lines has grown, the number of options a player has to interact with NPCs has increased, and facial animations have become more realistic. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. where the main drawback is you're still vulnerable during the 2 second execution animation. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #17

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Hello, fellow indie gamers and RPG enthusiasts! 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. Animation / Rigging / Production. How's it going? We hope well. Wait, wait, wait. Lucky you!).

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #35

Astral Clock Tower Studios

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. They were instead created by a special NPC for a specific purpose. link] Rigging / Animation. and they're not wrong.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #33

Astral Clock Tower Studios

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Implementing sprint attack animations, changing walk animations, and correcting dash rotation issues.

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