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Staying alive is all the victory you can hope for in The Forever Winter by Fun Dog Studios

PreMortem.Games

Or die trying The team at Fun Dog Studios developed a dynamic combat system that keeps NPC enemies constantly fighting each other. Just remember, your character is not the chosen one determining the course of the war. They’re a mere mouse in a maze, scrounging for scraps.

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Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

This calls for another ECS concept: “ Archetypes ”. Add-on: The NPC Editor - by Yael Atletl, Tools Programmer. I’ve been a developer at Moonwards for 2 years now and though I’ve had many roles and done many things, from debugging, refactoring code, networking, fixing materials and more, lately I’m the NPCs and tools guy.

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Operationalize generative AI applications on AWS: Part I – Overview of LLMOps solution

AWS Games

FMOps stems from the concept of Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), which is the combination of people, processes, and technology to deliver machine learning solutions efficiently into production. Creating a unique experience each time a player interacts with an NPC or watches a cut scene can increase player satisfaction.

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I’ve noticed that when I play open world games I can have wildly different emotional reactions to exploration. Like, a new quest hub opens up and sometimes I go “Oh nice, there’s so much to do” and sometimes I go “oh no, there’s so much to do”. Why does this happen and what design choices make the difference?

Ask a Game Dev

In cognitive psychology, theres this concept calledCognitive Load. You already have all of these things youre thinking about already - this quest for this NPC, that collection for the thing you wanted to craft, how to defeat these particular monsters, etc. Beyond that maximum, you start forgetting things and need to be reminded.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #27

Astral Clock Tower Studios

In today's issue, we're servin' up some serious updates on a few large-scale, ongoing 3D models and concept pieces. This week, Cass continued chipping away at the base model for the Cathedral, adding a secret attic area that will house an important NPC you'll will meet along your journey.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #20

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Although we've tasked our newest concept artist and character modeler, Pete, with trying his hand at the textures for our main Anagativan characters (which you can see later on in this issue), Shelly spent the first half of this sprint finishing up her own textures. o [link] Concept Art. Check it out! What do you think?

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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