Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this guest post, some members of the Moonwards team give us insights into how they approach building such a complex project with Godot. Moonwards is the experience of building a world together. We have Archetypes, we have decoupled Entities, and simple, predictable building blocks. Yes, we know that’s awfully ambitious.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Kairos demo evolves with new technologies from Convai In collaboration with Convai , NVIDIA showed the latest version of the Kairos demo to showcase how next-generation AI NPCs will revolutionize gaming. Open-ended conversations with NPCs open up a world of possibilities for interactivity in games.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 15, 2024

Among the impressive lineup is a generative AI kiosk featuring Ada, an in-game, non-player character (NPC) created using the MetaHuman framework in Unreal Engine 5 and Amazon Bedrock , a toolset for building generative AI applications.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

If I’m not going to run any special events of my own, the community clearly has their own ideas :) (for this particular event I did take a chunk out of dev time to build a custom mode for an improved competition experience, which turned out quite well) A huge thanks to those of you helping put out such great content. Including art!

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cult of the Lamb by Massive Monster This is a Hades-like / Binding of Issac-ish 2D action roguelike wrapped around a Don't Starve / Rimworld-y town building crafting survival system, with all the subversively violent dark cartoon humor of those references. After all, how many games offer you a "suffering musician" build?

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2024

The architecture that we describe here is a solution guidance to create non-player characters (NPC) for games using generative AI services. The pipeline builds and tests the application, deploys it into a QA environment, runs system tests on the deployment, and if they succeed, deploys the infrastructure changes into production.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Improving user experience at Epic Games using Amazon Timestream : Epic Games covers its application of Amazon Timestream to build a scalable solution for monitoring and deriving insights from the play time of millions of gamers across its game catalog.

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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. Context-aware responsiveness This innovative approach consists of enabling adaptive and context-aware NPC responsiveness.

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AWS Games

APRIL 2, 2024

Unique non-player character (NPC) dialogue Game replay is important to ensure players return to the game and do not quit when having to replay a certain section, for example due to continued defeat against a difficult adversary. Script writing efficiency NPCs are sometimes meant to say a specific script, and uniqueness isn’t a requirement.

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AWS Games

JUNE 20, 2024

These models can be used to identify fraudulent activity in near real-time, provide player specific in-game purchase promotions, automate LiveOps through AIOps, enable dynamic NPC dialogue through generative AI, and more. Perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes on stored telemetry data with AWS Glue.

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Logic Simplified

MARCH 8, 2023

Metaverse can be used to build virtual environments that reflect the actual world or can use them to create wholly new fictional worlds. Both of these technologies are massive engines necessary to support the building of the metaverse project. NPCs respond to player activities automatically using predetermined algorithms.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2024

MOBs that exist within the world independent of players At least one quest that the players are able to accept, progress, complete, and obtain rewards A functioning leveling system that allows players to level up and obtain rewards Functional UI - combat, looting, character inventory, NPC interaction (e.g.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

Below are two videos that showcase the throwing functionality; the first is an in-depth peel into the actual programming process within Unreal Engine 4, and the second showcases the throwing in action within the Kristala game build. link] After tackling that, Allie focused on bringing some fun new enemies into the Kristala game build.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

Developed in.Net and containerised with Docker, the tool managed the build of the headless game test client image and deployed it to AWS Fargate. Looking ahead, nDreams is excited to explore exciting new integrations, such as an AI-driven headless game client to create a more realistic, dynamic NPC behavior.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You'll read a lot about the work that went into making our Play build smooth and seamless in this issue of the blog, but check out this article from our friends at NoobFeed and the following video from Piercing Metal that explain a bit more about the exclusive build of Kristala we exhibited at Play NYC. In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This helps to build the feeling of the game being cute and wholesome. A very important NPC in the game. This is very important because it allows me to learn how to improve my marketing skills which in terms allows me to build a fan base for Harvest Island! It looks bright, colorful, and wholesome. It’s a vending machine.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As a result, game developers have had to build more games that support cross-platform play in 2023. For instance, in the pool billiards pro game, the player can play against a “computer” – an AI-powered NPC. Cross-Platform Play There has been a significant increase in the number and variety of devices used by gamers.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

There were creative worlds such as MOOs where anyone could build anything. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. Some of this was used to just add nicer NPCs, with conversations, reactions to the environment, etc. Why did something like that come to be?

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

You had a brilliant idea for that NPC or weapon name that you are very proud of? You wouldn’t want your successor to butcher it, so build a nice glossary that will help with future titles of the series and ease the marketing team’s work.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition? One such creature featured in Kristala is a sweet and gentle Hemani named Cloudette, an NPC you'll encounter in a unique level area called The Hermitage. He's a merchant NPC you'll meet as you embark on your journey to becoming a Raksaka warrior.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. We have announced our next game, Queen’s Wish 2: The Conqueror , an all-new, innovative, Empire-building indie RPG, coming later Summer. Balancing Two Games At a Time Is Impossible Allegedly, Elden Ring doesn't have different difficulty levels. Subscribe now Share

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

The map models are rich and varied in terms of items, buildings, and terrain changes, which offsets outdated graphics performance. These dialogues, sounding more akin to whispering, usually take place among the crowds of NPCs who don't have names. (Oily skin texture). Fortunately, the art design of the game performs well.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This month, in addition to our typical development sprints, we've also been hard at work prepping a super special convention build of Kristala for the upcoming Play NYC convention. We especially love how Tiff made one of the moons blue and the other purple. Have a look!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls. Last up for James this sprint was to create a design for a new kind of pickup we'll be implementing in the Kristala game build: Kristal Memories. They were instead created by a special NPC for a specific purpose.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

How to become a 3D modeler CG Spectrum's 3D modeling career track and Bachelor of Animation and VFX (3D modeling) will help you build solid 3D modeling and sculpting skills. You’ll learn industry-quality asset creation, building 3D props, creatures, and environments using Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, guided by industry experts.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We don’t want it to trigger if an enemy or NPC walks within the area, so let’s set up a Unit which will allow for the identification of our player. Our NoCode game development course teaches indie game devs how to build breathtaking games from scratch. . Step 5: Target the Character Tag. Want to Make Video Games?

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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. Programming. This sprint was no different.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

You don’t have to build a fully functioning economy or put something behind every single door, or whatever. Even a handful of new mechanics or other properties are often enough to help create that question in people’s minds: “what else might be possible in this game?”

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Let’s imagine we want to just keep ourselves organized so we want to use a comment node so we can easily describe what we’re building. We want it to encase our two other nodes, because we want to describe what we’re building. If a Non Player Character (NPC) or enemy enters into the region, it wouldn’t trigger the trap.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Quests that do world building. Helping a NPC gets you a pet/sidekick [link] may I chime in? Funny, and builds NPC character (which they don't do much with after). Say I need to get inside the castle. Is my only option stealth? I loved all the side quests in The Witcher 3 for example. And please don't try to abuse my FOMO.

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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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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Quests that do world building. Helping a NPC gets you a pet/sidekick [link] may I chime in? Funny, and builds NPC character (which they don’t do much with after). Say I need to get inside the castle. Is my only option stealth? I loved all the side quests in The Witcher 3 for example. Witcher 3 - Practicum quest.

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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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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 14, 2005

Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC's. I'd like to be able to mouse over buildings to see what they are. I hate wandering into town and having to hunt down the right building. Last night we discovered a cave system under a building. This might help with the social aspect of chatting.

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 13, 2005

Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC’s. I’d like to be able to mouse over buildings to see what they are. I hate wandering into town and having to hunt down the right building. Last night we discovered a cave system under a building. I play for a few hours every day.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

Or die trying The team at Fun Dog Studios developed a dynamic combat system that keeps NPC enemies constantly fighting each other. Fun Dog Studios was founded when a team of 30 veteran devs came together to build their own dream game. Just remember, your character is not the chosen one determining the course of the war. Or die trying.”

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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. By the end of the game, that threat has disappeared and your build is fun and OP. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight. It would feel terrible.

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