Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

NVIDIA ACE for Games is a custom AI model foundry service that aims to transform games by bringing intelligence to NPCs through AI-powered natural language interactions. Developers of middleware, tools, and games can use NVIDIA ACE for Games to build and deploy customized speech, conversation, and animation AI models in software and games.

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Game Daily

MAY 23, 2023

Players create their own avatar and persona, and then try to get to know pre-programmed NPCs. You win by ingratiating yourself to the NPC, by saying the right things, and not saying the wrong things. Should the player and the NPC that they are with age together? It’s about creating comfort between the player and the NPC.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This means we need to think about building a system of rules to do this for us quickly and easily. In such situations, we can potentially provide an NPC healer or other environmental elements like interactables or consumables with cooldowns that provide enough healing for the fights.

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City! As we near a place where we’re ready to package our build for PlayNYC, Will’s been working hard to tie up any loose ends in Unreal. Check it out!

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The last time we met, we were right in the thick of preparing an early, pre-demo build of Kristala for unveiling at the PlayNYC virtual convention. Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC. Here's a peek at some of the pickups you'll find in the demo.

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

After over a year of exhibiting at various online game conventions, we can't properly tell you how stoked we are to be presenting an exclusive build of Kristala—featuring our revamped demo level—at this year's Play NYC convention. Kristala at Play NYC 2021. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to indoor items, Nasahara was also in need of a few structural pieces to help further build out the eerie, abandoned nature of this once-great, sprawling city. We're pumped to get this into the game build once all five are completely finished. Level Design. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Tragically, many important Nisargan buildings and landmarks were ruined in the devastating fire; though the stunning Kristal Cathedral of Nasahara remains standing, its crumbling passageways—once filled with laughter and joy—now serve as grim reminders of the carnage that nearly swallowed the entirety of the city.

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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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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Some items can also be transformed through external means, such as being cooked, coated, rusted, or upgraded by NPC services (one of the main uses for gold). Other types of NPCs can modify or convert other types of items. A TGGW inventory/equipment list. A TGGW enchanter offering their services. Low on treads or armor?

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? Do you want to make people laugh at the silly things the game’s troops say if you click on them enough times?

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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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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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