What does NPC stand for?

Non-Player Character

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In terms of new content, significant steps have been taken to improve the payability of a popular Hazard Zone, called the Hollows, and Non-Player Character encounters have been rebalanced, including improved rates of respawning, new villain groups and the inclusion of a new mobile hospital at the entrance to the zone.

Epic tale of good and evil

So there are non-player characters in World of Warcraft whom are controlled by the game, the software.

World of Warcraft Is Nothing without Your Character

A summary of the improvements AI bring to online gaming: non-player characters or NPCs act in realistic manner, not to mention that allies are more helpful and enemies become more fiendish than ever.

Artificial Intelligence and Xbox 360

The old characters still appear in the game as non-player characters who can be recruited as allies in various miniquests that are part of the game's flow.

DIGITAL L.A. : MY MONITOR IS BIGGER THAN YOUR MONITOR

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) API for non-player character development.

Forterra Systems' Virtual World Software Supports Production ...

Players can also swap tips and "cheats", send gifts and sneak attacks to friends, and interact with non-player characters who dole out hints and quests.

SuperSecret Launches New Online Social Game for Tweens

In the environment, real people -- represented by avatars -- will be able to meet and collaborate for a plethora of reasons: cultural awareness training, mission rehearsal, simulation-based design, first responder training, crisis resource management training and so on, and be supported by a variety of non-player characters generated by validated U.

Forterra Awarded Contract by PEO STRI to Integrate Virtual World ...

The ultimate goal of the effort is to enable non-player character technologies to control avatars in the virtual world in such a manner as to reduce or eliminate the need for live role players in training scenarios in order to provide more realistic and cost-effective training solutions using multi-player virtual world technologies.

Forterra Systems Awarded Phase II SBIR to Bring Non-Player Character ...