GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

Ubisoft has shown three behind-the-scenes demos at GDC this week on the potential of AI when it comes to building NPCs. Dubbed NEO NPCs, Ubisoft's efforts involves combining AI responses with narrative back stories and prompts designed to avoid making the NPCs appear 'soulless'.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 10, 2024

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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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 6, 2024

AWS Play and Learn Lounge activities AWS generative AI specialists will be on hand in the Play and Learn Lounge throughout GDC, demonstrating how large language models (LLM) and generative AI services enable non-player characters (NPCs) to be more dynamic and intelligent.

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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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Add-on: The NPC Editor - by Yael Atletl, Tools Programmer. I’ve been a developer at Moonwards for 2 years now and though I’ve had many roles and done many things, from debugging, refactoring code, networking, fixing materials and more, lately I’m the NPCs and tools guy. The NPC Editor creates State Machines and Behavior trees.

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