Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

The gaming industry is evolving at a rapid pace, with cutting-edge technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) playing a crucial role in shaping its future. VR & AI The Future of Gaming? Will VR and AI redefine how we play games, or are they just temporary trends? But what does the future hold?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City. From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. (A The Forgotten City (2021).

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

With the annual Game Developer Conference (GDC) just days away, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games is ramping up to host exciting technology demonstrations and programming focused on evolving industry trends, including generative artificial intelligence (AI). Be sure to RSVP here if you plan to attend.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1) You have options on how to act and what to do after you acted, (2) these choices impact the game and future choices, both in the near future and far future; and (3) when playing for the first time I didn't feel like I had a choice, there was only thing my character would have done. different outcomes for people or places.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

Chinese developer and publisher Nuverse is using AI for all NPC speech and animation in games. For its upcoming science fiction survival title Earth: Revival the development team used a system to generate speech and compute full body animations for NPCs, without any manual intervention.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

I was surprised Turnfollow was working in this big systemic genre space, since I mostly know them for their very good linear story games Little Party and Wide Ocean Big Jacket. But you can see the "seeds" of this game (ha ha) in their wartime gardening game A Good Gardener so maybe it's not so unexpected.

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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. But we’re working towards narrative and emotive experiences that haven’t been seen in games before.” ” Avatar and persona At its most basic level, Life’s Meta follows the dating video game template.

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

Generative AI technologies are revolutionizing how games are conceived, produced, and played. Game developers are exploring how these technologies impact 2D and. Generative AI technologies are revolutionizing how games are conceived, produced, and played.

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Half Geek

JULY 10, 2022

The changes are major, but not game-changing moving away from the original design intent for the game. An example of the new design below: With more space, there will also be an increase in NPC ship activity. Other NPC ugprades include additional missile launchers and drone bays on ships that field drones.

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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. One notable example is Uncover the Smoking Gun by South Korean studio ReLU Games.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

More info here: The problem with making games for Mobiles. Originally, the game was designed with only Roguelike mode as the default, with the additional two difficulty modes (Normal & Hard) added from beta testing suggestions. NPC Flight AI updated to take advantage of the larger flight area.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

and my notes are obviously going to spoil some of the game's structure, but all these spoilers are pretty vague and anyway I don't name any names. This is a business model I've always wondered about -- make a big complicated game, but then earn revenue from selling ads on the wiki for your own game? Anyway, here's my notes.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

When youre playing a game and your cognitive load is too light, youre at the risk of feeling a little aimless and bored. 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.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

Video games are no stranger to the power fantasy of a lone hero who single-handedly turns the tides of war and saves the day, world, or universe. In this game, war is definitely hell, and all you can do about it is… well, nothing. The Forever Winter is the studio’s debut title, but far from the first game for its developers.

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Juego Studio

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Game characters convey emotions and experiences to gamers. Whether they are the central characters or non-playing characters (NPC), their role is very important in showcasing the motivation and actions supported by the storyline.

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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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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. Still, you can argue that it's a stunning achievement just to be able to debate these questions in a video game. Can't wait for the full frontal in the next game!) Well, I don't know anything about that.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ TLDR, it doesn't feel fun if the AI allies are too strong. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. Not that you should ever talk to a game dev.

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AWS Games

JUNE 20, 2024

In the highly competitive gaming industry, collecting and utilizing data has become a driving factor for game success. Game studios of all sizes have realized the immense value in analyzing player data to drive key business decisions. To address these problems, AWS developed the Game Analytics Pipeline (GAP).

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 29, 2024

In-game economies are entirely different beasts than real-world economies for one major reason - total currency is not zero-sum. 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.

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 14, 2005

Of course, one of my dreams has been to make the worlds first Massively Multiplayer Paper Scissor Rocks game (MMPSRG). Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC's. The in-game maps stink. I am always annoyed by games that they to make inventory management a game-play mechanism.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 15, 2024

More than 320,000 gamers and games industry professionals are expected to gather in Cologne, Germany, next week as Gamescom gets underway. Historically, it’s also been a forum for launching new game development offerings, making partnership announcements, and debuting compelling technology demos.

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I have a design tool I call “Don’t Solve the Hard Problem” It consists of three steps Example 1: Meaningful NPC interactions Now, people working on the hard problem of NPC AI may be upset right now. The example I just gave is SO trivial. And isn’t the problem they are pouring their lives into […]

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 13, 2005

Of course, one of my dreams has been to make the worlds first Massively Multiplayer Paper Scissor Rocks game (MMPSRG). Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC’s. The in-game maps stink. I am always annoyed by games that they to make inventory management a game-play mechanism.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

3:22 - Conversation wheel with “personality” icons and paraphrased words 3:39 - Dynamic inventory in game cinematics, show player’s items 3:46 - Scripted Player equipment change during cinematic 4:04 - Quest variables (e.g. My expertise is in gameplay, so that’s where I will be focusing. should be directed elsewhere.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

1) You have options on how to act and what to do after you acted, (2) these choices impact the game and future choices, both in the near future and far future; and (3) when playing for the first time I didn’t feel like I had a choice, there was only thing my character would have done. ’ different outcomes for people or places.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2024

We discussed use cases for game companies using generative AI, ways to customize LLM, and a high-level architecture for the LLMOps solution on AWS. The architecture that we describe here is a solution guidance to create non-player characters (NPC) for games using generative AI services.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Do you ever wonder what game you should make first? If so, keep reading this What Games Should I Make First Livecast and learn more. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's Avoid making your game a chore to work on What Are The First Moments Of A Game? (0:51

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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. Convai believes in pushing the state of the art and enabling its users to experience the best in gaming. Need to grab a snack from the vending machine?

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As repeated in my Year 10 review , I’ve wanted to continue the recent several years’ trend of a higher ratio of game vs. non-game work, implying a lower relative amount of community-facing work, e.g. writing articles, streaming, hanging out discussing mechanics, etc. An NPC parade, by Darby.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Generative AI technologies are revolutionizing how games are produced and played. Game developers are exploring how these technologies can accelerate their. Generative AI technologies are revolutionizing how games are produced and played. These player interactions tend to be transactional, short-lived, and oftentimes skipped.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2024

Bringing this back to games, it should make sense now. Ubisoft spent a lot of engineering time optimizing the cost of each NPC (cupcake) down as much as possible because they knew that they would have a huge number of them in their game world.

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AWS Games

APRIL 2, 2024

This is part 1 of a 3-part blog series where we will cover LLMOps in detail for the games industry. This blog gives a primer on LLMOps, high-level solution design and specific use cases in the games industry. 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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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

related: Yarn "language" spec , a programming specification / standard for how Yarn should operate in any game engine Yarn Spinner Unity plugs the core into Unity and adds a convenient wrapper. You will need to mod this and personalize it for your unique game project. None of it is Unity specific. Alice: No comment.

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I have a design tool I call “Don’t Solve the Hard Problem” It consists of three steps Example 1: Meaningful NPC interactions Now, people working on the hard problem of NPC AI may be upset right now. The example I just gave is SO trivial. And isn’t the problem they are pouring their lives into […].

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