Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

We continue our series of articles about the different roles in the video game localization industry. Federica Lusardi , Senior Translator/Editor – Italian at Square Enix in London, walks us through her experience in one of the localization industry’s most critical subjects, translation. so TMs are very important.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

One area of focus, digital avatars, will have a transformative impact on how gamers will interact with non-playable characters (NPCs). Historically, NPCs have predetermined responses and facial animations, where players can only communicate within a limited set of options.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

There's a specific role the damaged piece plays in the Kristala demo's core storyline, and it coincides with an NPC we've been keeping under wraps up until this point. Rodrigo also added an animated Game Save/Loading icon too, which we ultimately ended up changing to a blue hue (vs. link] Rigging / Animation.

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Game Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

Human writers enter details of an NPC’s roles, personality, and parameters. Nor did any of those jobs touch upon programmers, artists, animators, and other creative roles in digital entertainment. Ubisoft’s video demo of Ghostwriter makes the tool seem useful enough.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

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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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

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. documentation !

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 14, 2005

Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC's. Nobody seems to mind that I go around killing livestock, which I assume the locals use for meat, milk and possibly companionship on a lonely night. Come on, they're animals, and not wicked-cool magic animals, just plain old animals.

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