Where The Boys Are feat. Mattie Lubchansky
TRASHFUTURE
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The Future of NPCs
The AI underpinning a lot of the most beloved NPCs is impressive. It's important to highlight that it's still governed by behavior, trees and set patterns. Ultimately, this means that behavior and responses can become predictable once players figure out the variables shaping it. So what if games did things differently and allowed players to interact with NPC on script? What if they were unpredictable? What if we gave all the NPCs BPD? Yeah. That's right. Anyway, so yeah, if in case you were hoping to have a deeper and more meaningful interaction with the shopkeeper from your video game, that's now possible. I'll buy it. No, that's too much. Third option.
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