It was a neat experience to watch this live. The concept of a NPC being a real person is such a powerful thing, I guess that's why games like Journey were so impactful. Another game that pulled...
It was a neat experience to watch this live. The concept of a NPC being a real person is such a powerful thing, I guess that's why games like Journey were so impactful.
For those that just want to see what the fuss is about:
The main feature of the mod aside from all the spooky stuff
Users of the mod are pooled into lobbies and randomly show up as NPCs in the instances of other users. It's honestly quite creepy to have random people showing up as broken models, doing weird things in your solo/offline game. https://gm13.xalalau.com/wiki/Mingebags
Those are common in MUSHes and RP MUDs (multi user dungeons). Those are on-line text games. They are called "puppets". They usually behave like a regular NPC but sometimes a human will use it as a...
Those are common in MUSHes and RP MUDs (multi user dungeons). Those are on-line text games.
They are called "puppets". They usually behave like a regular NPC but sometimes a human will use it as a puppet to interact with players. There's sometimes no indication that an NPC is being used as a puppet.
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AMA with Hitomi
wow, never imagined seeing Vinny (Vinesauce) on here. SPINNNN!!!!!!!!
What made you post this 8 year old vid :O ?
It just showed up somewhere for me. I don't remember where anymore.
It was a neat experience to watch this live. The concept of a NPC being a real person is such a powerful thing, I guess that's why games like Journey were so impactful.
Another game that pulled this off at a larger scale was the GMod map gm_construct 13 beta. If you have Gmod, try it out https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2553727051
For those that just want to see what the fuss is about:
The main feature of the mod aside from all the spooky stuff
Users of the mod are pooled into lobbies and randomly show up as NPCs in the instances of other users. It's honestly quite creepy to have random people showing up as broken models, doing weird things in your solo/offline game. https://gm13.xalalau.com/wiki/MingebagsThose are common in MUSHes and RP MUDs (multi user dungeons). Those are on-line text games.
They are called "puppets". They usually behave like a regular NPC but sometimes a human will use it as a puppet to interact with players. There's sometimes no indication that an NPC is being used as a puppet.