Category: Living NPCs

How to give AI agents perception, time and agency inside game NPCs

Living NPCs: A Classification of AI Integration Approaches for Game Characters

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23602008  79stabilfr·wuedophcgmx
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Where should a language model attach to a game, and which faculties of a character should it control? We propose a two-axis classification: the integration surface (a mod of a shipped game, an engine SDK, an agent on an authoritative server, or an agent that reads pixels and presses keys) and seven augmentation types graded 0 to 3 (dialogue, vision, hearing, memory, time perception, action, soc...

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23602008 79stabilfr·wuedophcgmx
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[s]Reviewed Sources8%○≥80% from editorially reviewed sources
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[a]DOI66%○≥80% have a Digital Object Identifier
[b]CrossRef8%○≥80% indexed in CrossRef
[i]Indexed58%○≥80% have metadata indexed
[l]Academic68%○≥80% from journals/conferences/preprints
[f]Free Access82%✓≥80% are freely accessible
[r]References38 refs✓Minimum 10 references required
[w]Words [REQ]4,137✓Minimum 1,000 words of article body. Current: 4,137
[u]Original [REQ]100%✓≥85% unique sentences (no padding or repeated blocks) and no leaked drafting notes. Current: 100% unique
[e]Evidence [REQ]33✓Cites at least 1 external source(s): links, DOIs or a reference list. Current: 33
[d]DOI [REQ]✓✓Zenodo DOI registered for persistent citation. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23602008
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