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Star Nomad 2 major update incoming

Half Geek

It’s a balancing act between more vision, and avoiding everything looking too small on mobile screens. 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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Nuverse lets AI do all the talking and moving of NPCs in Earth: Revival

PreMortem.Games

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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Star Nomad 2 Patch Notes (v 2.22.07)

Half Geek

More info here: The problem with making games for Mobiles. NPC Flight AI updated to take advantage of the larger flight area. Roguelike mode, NPC pilots will rank up and upgrade their ships more often. In the mid-game, NPCs will come equipped with better armor, shields and weapons. Improve Merchant NPC Flight AI.

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AWS for Games to spotlight generative AI at GDC 2024

AWS Games

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months. the #1 casual game launch of 2023 Room 2024, West Hall Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024

AWS Games

The Dynamic NPC Dialog Demo highlighted Ada, an example for building an in-game non-player character (NPC) as a generative AI application, using Unreal Engine MetaHuman by Epic Games. launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months.

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Life’s Meta is using AI to tackle the dating game

Game Daily

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. The plan is to release a freemium mobile version, alongside a more sophisticated desktop version. Every conversation is different.”

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AWS for Games updates from re:Invent 2023

AWS Games

Improve your mobile and web app quality using AWS Device Farm : Riot Games details how it uses AWS Device Farm to streamline its mobile app testing process, improve the quality of mobile games and SDKs, run automated and manual tests on real devices in the cloud, identify and fix issues faster, and release updates more frequently.

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