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

MAY 28, 2023

Game developers are exploring how these technologies impact 2D and 3D content-creation pipelines during production. To further align the NPC’s behavior with expectations, in the future, you can apply reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to receive real-time feedback from designers during the development process.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In terms of both technical achievements and content expansion, 2024 was a huge year for Cogmind… but first, the traditional opening collage, a quick visual summary of the year: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (larger size here ). 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. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Guidance for Non-Player Character (NPC) Dialogue on AWS to automate the process of creating a non-player character (NPC) for games and associated game development infrastructure. To view additional recordings from re:Invent 2023, visit the AWS Events content page.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Game developers are exploring how these technologies can accelerate their content pipelines and provide new gameplay experiences previously thought impossible. One area of focus, digital avatars, will have a transformative impact on how gamers will interact with non-playable characters (NPCs).

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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 generative AI application uses Amazon Bedrock models to create dialogs for the NPC character. In this blog we will dive deeper into the architecture.

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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.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 25, 2023

Players reported that when they look at an NPC or when they get near random objects or towns, for example, Whiterun, their game simply crashes. System Requirements MINIMUM: OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 You encounter this issue because you are not playing on your dedicated GPU, you are playing with the one integrated into your processing unit.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. All the content in the game was just data in fields.

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 8, 2023

It has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with digital content and could change the way we work, learn, play, and live. For example, the AI-driven NPC (non-player characters) in the game can have their own behaviors and motivations, making them feel more like real characters. What is Artificial Intelligence?

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities. Generating Game Content Every video game features countless unique models, animations, sounds, graphics, and more. Producing these assets takes a long time and a lot of money.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

Engine/ # Copy over game content (see PROJECT_NAME arg) COPY --chown=1000:1000./${PROJECT_NAME}/./${PROJECT_NAME}/ 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. RUN apt update # update SSL certs so our websockets etc.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Well, we've been carefully and strategically saving some of our best content in anticipation of finally launching the official Kristala Patreon campaign. Why, you might ask? BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

But a Lot of Pretty Things get Repeated While Elden Ring is enormous, a lot of that length comes from repeated content. Fortunately, when you get tired of a certain sort of content, you can skip it. Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. Some bosses show up, lightly reskinned, four times or more.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want? What do I need to consider to make non-linear storytelling still feel like a coherent narrative and not a bunch of disjointed vignettes?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

As mentioned above, you can get additional details on each of these individual pieces (and the roles they play in the Kristala demo) by joining our new Patreon campaign, where we regularly share a ton of behind-the-scenes tidbits and exclusive content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With Blizzard's expertise in creating compelling end-game content, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to become a major success and influence future game design trends. ? And with Blizzard's skill at creating compelling end game content, I have no doubt they will figure out how to monetise just as strongly on the back end of this game.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC. He also addressed some last-minute, temporary needs - like writing the content for our PlayNYC build's tutorial widgets. Take a look!

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Specifically in the case of RPGs, though, I think it’s really important that the player finds themselves asking, “I wonder if I can X” That X might be, “get to the top of that mountain”, or “combine this class with that class”, or “steal a precious quest item back from the NPC I gave it to” JRPGs (..)

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

One of the magic staves James designed below was created for a super important Kota character that we'll be revealing in our upcoming Patreon content. Stay tuned for more details on how you can become a Patron and be the first to devour new Kristala character reveals. 3D Character Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

With Tiff working on a bunch of the water villages and pathways of the Dalamase, Level Designer Ian spent some time this sprint laying out the underground Cave level area that's home to a special, secretive NPC you'll meet in the Kristala demo. Have a look! link] Rigging / Animation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With Blizzard's expertise in creating compelling end-game content, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to become a major success and influence future game design trends. And with Blizzard's skill at creating compelling end game content, I have no doubt they will figure out how to monetise just as strongly on the back end of this game.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We’ll be sharing some clips from David’s recording sesh for Hiratrola—plus many more making-the-trailer goodies—over on the Kristala Patreon hub , so join us over there if you’d like to snag some exclusive Kristala content you definitely won’t find anywhere else. Concept Art.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Previs animator - Previs artists create and block out 3D digital content that helps visualize what a scene, set, or certain actions will look like before it’s filmed, created, or finalized. They will experiment with different camera staging and rough animation using proxy and production-ready assets.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. In this situation, the NPC knows what you're here for and he wants it too, even if you kinda hate each other. SPOILER WARNING: This post spoils what happens in my new game That Lonesome Valley.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. Maturity and fullness means that as an online game, Lost Ark’s artistic expression meets the tastes and needs of mainstream players and is massive and varied in content.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 30, 2025

February is nearly upon us already, Travelers, which means we're gearing up to release a MAJOR new content update that will be dropping very soon on Steam as part of our Early Access releaseand it features a new NPC voiced by a popular gaming YouTuber. What other new features and mechanics will be included in the February drop?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Kristala's next big content update is officially LIVE MEOW on Steam , which means a brand-new adventure is about to begin in the dark fantasy world of Ailur. Be sure to play the update, check out the new merch, and let us know what you think of the new content in the comments. It's official, Travelers!

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. Some players may try to guess an NPC's sexual mood based on stereotypes like muscular tops, skinny submissive twink bottoms, etc.

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