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Crack the case by chatting with GPT in Uncover the Smoking Gun by ReLU Games

PreMortem.Games

Various games now incorporate versions of Chat GPT to enhance NPC interactions. Before Smoking Gun, there was a prototype game called Demon, where GPT played the role of an evil spirit, and the player had to find hidden information and banish the spirit through conversation.

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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. 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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What goes into the vertical slice of an MMORPG? I feel that it would be hard to prototype when a lot of the game’s premise relies on quest progression, player-to-player interactivity, etc. It seems like something that cannot be communicated effectively until much later in development.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Our architecture is also being designed to be a platform for game devs looking for a great place to test, experiment, showcase, or browse other developers' ideas. Our three lovely devs can explain - Karim, Yael, and Zach. Add-on: The NPC Editor - by Yael Atletl, Tools Programmer. Architecture - by Karim Rizk, Project Manager.

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Darner's Digest, vol. 3: on the Yarn Spinner v2.0 release + a YS primer

Radiator Blog

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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That Lonesome Valley as cowboy coin crusher

Radiator Blog

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. 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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