Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 23, 2024

NPC Escort design has evolved since players had to escort the Defias Traitor to Sentinel Hill way back in 2004. If the goal is to protect the escorted NPC, then no real changes are necessary - the player is supposed to stay with the NPC and deal with the threats that appear along the way. World of Warcraft).

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Indie DB

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Progess since last update: - Added Market Location (1st interation) - Added Herbalist NPC and logic (Herbalist current will walk to gather location and gather plants/herbs). Added Plants spawns, including mushrooms, garlics, patissons and beets around.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) SHINY ART STYLE: The most obvious difference vs its Skyrim mod roots is the art style -- it went from 2011 pre-PBR Skyrim to 2020 UE4 Quixel 4k photoscans with subsurface scatter'd Character Creator NPCs.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 24, 2024

If there is a worldwide quest that requires all players to collect and refine bolts of silk cloth to hand in to an NPC, how much cloth should that NPC require to make the quest last for at least two weeks with the average number of players per server?

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Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

WIll still need to link it up to the combat and probably experiement with npc target on. Just want to put up a mini update for a little chance of pace. Been experimenting with different UI design. Just a mini ui update for this one, no video for now.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

But the game doesn't tutorialize this or dispatch an NPC to spell it out. The game never says "each NPC has a favorite type of gift item type, and you should equip it and talk to them", you have to guess that this mechanic exists from playing previous farming games or just out of sheer luck. You're just an NPC in their story.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Helping a NPC gets you a pet/sidekick [link] may I chime in? Funny, and builds NPC character (which they don't do much with after). Travel around gathering ingredients (which didn't feel tedious as you needed to Island-hop for other story & puzzle reasons) then cast spells that advance the story. Witcher 3 - Practicum quest.

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Half Geek

JULY 10, 2022

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. It’s a balancing act between more vision, and avoiding everything looking too small on mobile screens.

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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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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

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. NPC Combat Drone AI re-coded, to optimize flight patterns enabling more shots on target.

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A new shopkeeper NPC is the latest addition to this fantasy RPG indie

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Half Geek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fixed a bug with Merchant NPC during random encounters, if the player is busy in conversation, and Pirates or Zerkers interrupt, it will now resume normal flight. Some bug fixes and re-balancing. Thank you to players who have provided feedback! Fixed bug with new player Drone AI sometimes flying off into the void.

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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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Game Daily

MAY 23, 2023

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. Should the player and the NPC that they are with age together? It’s about creating comfort between the player and the NPC.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

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.

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

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. After the NPC is fully aligned, the final step is to apply NeMo Guardrails , which adds programmable rules for NPCs.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Another demonstration will allow lounge visitors to play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process.

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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. Just remember, your character is not the chosen one determining the course of the war. They’re a mere mouse in a maze, scrounging for scraps.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. When youre already near your cognitive load limit, this sensation turns to overwhelming instead.

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Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

How does AI improve NPC behavior in games? AI enables NPCs to learn and adapt to player actions, making them more unpredictable and realistic compared to pre-scripted characters. As technology advances, we can expect even more groundbreaking experiences that blur the line between the virtual and real worlds.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We rarely want AI allies to overshadow players - doing so will break the power fantasy. Instead, we want them to look like they're fighting and take a while so that the player can be the hero. You should read this archive post about [ why we don't want AI allies to be too good or too strong ].

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Juego Studio

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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. Game characters convey emotions and experiences to gamers.

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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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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. me) or PvP buff but conceptually rather boring Aether (cloak + invisible to laser sensors, attacks cancel it, can be upgraded to only consume mana while moving). It would feel terrible.

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 14, 2005

Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC's. I don't interact with anyone else, for all I care those other players are NPC's, but there is something enticing about being with other people, even if you ignore each other. I would like to see an option for "word balloons" above peoples heads when they speak.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. should be directed elsewhere. Likely also locks players off from returning to the previous area.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 10, 2024

Various games now incorporate versions of Chat GPT to enhance NPC interactions. AI is increasingly being utilized in game development, not just for automation and cost reduction, but also as an innovative gameplay feature. One notable example is Uncover the Smoking Gun by South Korean studio ReLU Games.

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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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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 13, 2005

Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC’s. I don’t interact with anyone else, for all I care those other players are NPC’s, but there is something enticing about being with other people, even if you ignore each other. I don’t pay much attention to the chat area in the lower left.

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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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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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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.

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Indie DB

MAY 3, 2023

This fantasy turn-based RPG discusses NPC interactions

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AWS Games

APRIL 2, 2024

Unique non-player character (NPC) dialogue Game replay is important to ensure players return to the game and do not quit when having to replay a certain section, for example due to continued defeat against a difficult adversary. Script writing efficiency NPCs are sometimes meant to say a specific script, and uniqueness isn’t a requirement.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Helping a NPC gets you a pet/sidekick [link] may I chime in? Funny, and builds NPC character (which they don’t do much with after). Travel around gathering ingredients (which didn’t feel tedious as you needed to Island-hop for other story & puzzle reasons) then cast spells that advance the story.

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Game Industry News

JULY 29, 2021

Plot: The plot of this second volume deals with Shin looking for his first support NPC Schnee who has been traveling around the world while waiting for him to return. Hey all I’m back with another entry in Shin’s journey in a new world for this week’s Translation Necessary Thursday. It’s The New Gate Volume 02 by Kazanami Shinogi!

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