Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

This question intrigues both gamers and developers as these advancements promise more immersive, intelligent, and interactive gaming experiences. From AI-powered NPCs that adapt to player strategies to VR environments that transport players into entirely new worlds, the fusion of these technologies is revolutionizing gaming.

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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. The Forever Winter is the studio’s debut title, but far from the first game for its developers. Just remember, your character is not the chosen one determining the course of the war.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 10, 2024

AI is increasingly being utilized in game development, not just for automation and cost reduction, but also as an innovative gameplay feature. Various games now incorporate versions of Chat GPT to enhance NPC interactions. Testers filled in the gaps with their imagination, and we ultimately secured project development approval.

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Game Daily

MAY 23, 2023

Life’s Meta from Buenos Aires-based Widow Games is in development and fund-raising mode right now. 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. I say, why not?”

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 29, 2024

In most games, a player character can typically sell as many wombat testicles to the NPC vendor as she might have, creating new currency out of thin air for each testicle sold. There is no limit to the number of wombat testicles she can sell and there is no limit to the amount of currency the NPC can generate for her.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 15, 2024

One of the world’s most anticipated games industry events, the conference brings together developers, publishers, hardware manufacturers, and cloud providers from around the world alongside the gaming community to celebrate industry achievements and discuss the trends shaping the industry’s future.

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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. Perhaps as a result, Egor is one of the least interesting and less developed characters in the game unfortunately. It would feel terrible. Kind of sad.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. These characters are designed to integrate.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

I posted a challenge for aspiring developers to identify as many specific features and systems as they could spot. It’s been a few days since the Dragon Age Veilguard gameplay video was released. My expertise is in gameplay, so that’s where I will be focusing. Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During re:Invent 2023, the AWS for Games team showcased the latest ways our customers are using AWS game development tools and introduced several new purpose-built guidance and partner solutions that are now available in the AWS Games Solution Library.

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AWS Games

APRIL 2, 2024

Using LLMOps improves the efficiency in which models are developed and enables scalability to manage multiple models. Use cases for LLMOps in Games Let’s explore some use cases in the games industry to see how customers are leveraging Generative AI to improve developer efficiency and game play quality.

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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 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Moonwards is an in-development open source sandbox MMO built with Godot. It starts with a vast set of habitats and infrastructure, and a detailed development timeline based on solid known technology. Godot lets you do that, although one could argue that if it doesn’t work, it’s the developers’ fault. But that’s OK.

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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. > Bob is weird (choice 2) Bob: I'm not that weird, am I?

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AWS Games

JUNE 20, 2024

From increasing player engagement and monetization to detecting fraud and optimizing performance, data analytics has become a vital tool for game developers. To address these problems, AWS developed the Game Analytics Pipeline (GAP). For developers, the AWS SDK can be integrated into your game to collect data.

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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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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Or how to keep the development within a realistic scope? It allow’s the player to discover the kind of mechanics the game has and how to take control of the situation The first moments often also include figuring out the world or environment,  the enemies, NPC’s and what items (if any) you have at your disposal.

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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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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 8, 2023

It is an umbrella term for all immersive technologies including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR), and those yet to be developed. Gaming: Many game development companies are booming with the implementation of AI and XR due to increased realism and immersion that these technologies provide.

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Logic Simplified

MARCH 8, 2023

Ways in which the future of metaverse can transform the work Immersive learning experiences and training The future of metaverse can transform training and skill development by considerably reducing the time required to develop and acquire new skills. AI is crucial in the development stages of the metaverse.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

About nDreams nDreams is one of the world’s biggest virtual reality game developer and publisher at the forefront of XR innovation. Amazon GameLift FlexMatch makes it easier for game developers to use FlexMatch standalone from Amazon GameLift game servers.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

As AI continues to advance, the future of art and AI in game development holds tremendous promise. Artists have always played a crucial role in game development, meticulously creating characters, environments, and animations. Developers strive relentlessly to make games that seem more realistic and engaging.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There’s a lot of changes that I had to make within the game before I could make a polished trailer and if you guys are keeping up with the game development, you can noticed the significant graphic improvements as well as the subtle details added. A very important NPC in the game. I finally got to make a new trailer for the game.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

Usually game developers don’t give a lot of thought into stamina bars and how it can affect the characters and game design. It also doesn’t have to be stamina bars, it can just be about how fighting is done in farming games or talking to an npc. Stamina Bars aren't talked about a lot.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

As our 3D Generalist, Shelly has her hands in a bunch of different aspects and areas of development, lending both her texturing and modeling skills to help fill in various holes and gaps within our 3D elements. Gustav is a friendly NPC you'll encounter along your journey through Ailur. link] Quite the transition, eh?

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Game Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

Headlines like “New Ubisoft AI Tool Could Help Scriptwriters Create More Immersive Game Worlds,” and “Ubisoft Developing An AI Ghostwriter to Save Scriptwriters Time,” ticked the company’s core messaging boxes for the product, called Ghostwriter. There are certainly more products like Ghostwriter being developed.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

We're officially in the final development crunch for the vertical slice demo of Kristala! In addition to a major NPC that we're currently keeping under wraps until our gameplay trailer is finished, Shelly also started working on the model for our male playable character. How's it going? We hope well. Wait, wait, wait.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

Ultimately, the aim is to make the game accessible to a wider market without ruining the game experience that the developer intended. It may look easy when we receive a project and the developers provide us with a rich localization kit full of design documents, scripts, explanations, and possibly an early version of the game itself.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Here you'll get an inside look at the detailed development work done for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the inaugural title from the team behind Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-lead indie studio based in Central PA, USA. Stay tuned to hear more about the Cathedral and the mysterious attic NPC in future social posts and development blogs!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. Featuring the latest releases from studios large and small—and from developers old and new—Play NYC celebrates every facet of gaming in a way that only the Big Apple can.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Today, Sovereign Moon Studios, the makers of your favorite NoCode game development course , are excited to bring you a new tutorial that will show you how to use triggers and switches within Unity’s free visual scripting add-on called Bolt. How to add Triggers & Switches Using Bolt. Let’s jump in! Want to Make Video Games?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Kristala at Play NYC 2021. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

If they don’t create textures themselves, 3D modelers will work especially closely with texture artists and look development artists (aka surfacing artists) who will add realism and detail to their model through texture maps and shaders. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

As in, it says that developers are ALLOWED to do a certain thing, not that they HAVE to do it. Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. How does any developer know? NOTE: The lessons to be learned are positive ones. So if you don't like this sort of game, you're safe. In reality, it has two. The answer is.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. So… DikuMUDs started to add scripting systems , which were generally much more limited than the ones on LPMuds, but fit better with the whole “fill out some rows in a form to add content” development model.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. He's a merchant NPC you'll meet as you embark on your journey to becoming a Raksaka warrior.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

As this video talks about, as players play more and more games, it becomes more difficult for them to find this sense of wonder in new games – even more so when they become game developers themselves. It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on.

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