{"id":146893,"date":"2025-11-21T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146893\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:26:14","slug":"ubisoft-sets-generative-ai-game-teammates-from-neo-npc-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146893\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Sets Generative-AI Game ‘Teammates’ From ‘Neo NPC’ Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUbisoft<\/a> is debuting new game experience \u201cTeammates\u201d from the developers behind its 2024 project \u201cNeo NPC,\u201d which the French gaming giant says will show how \u201cgenerative AI-driven gameplay can shape a new generation of more interactive and engaging games.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe prototype for \u201cTeammates\u201d is currently playable for a limited number of participants in a closed playtest.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Ubisoft, \u201cIn the initial prototype from 2024, Neo NPCs displayed novel cognitive and natural language abilities but remained in a static environment. \u2018Teammates\u2019 now puts our Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) in a more traditional gameplay setting \u2013 a first-person shooter \u2013 with new advanced AI features that allow them to respond dynamically to real-time voice commands and adapt their behavior to each situation, revealing distinct personalities along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUbisoft says these \u201cTeammates\u201d characters will \u201creact naturally, adapting to players\u2019 strategies, moods and even personal slang, for an experience that feels unprecedentedly responsive,\u201d and can \u201cinterpret player intent and tone, as well as environmental cues to generate fluid, context-aware reactions, deepening immersion and player agency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really about experimenting with entirely new ways of creating interactive stories,\u201d the Ubisoft project\u2019s narrative director Virginie Mosser said. \u201cOur role is to give AI meaning, to narrativize it, ensuring logic doesn\u2019t replace soul. We designed \u2018Teammates\u201d to leave space for player creativity, finding that balance between emotion and unpredictability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe experience features in-game companion \u201cJaspar,\u201d described as \u201ca personal assistant designed to support players throughout their missions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe developer says Jaspar \u201crecognizes the player by name, helps with onboarding, understands the game\u2019s lore, and can highlight threats or key objects in the environment.\u201d He can also \u201cremind players of mission objectives, suggest next steps, and generally act as a tactical guide when they are unsure what to do next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUbisoft announced the new project Friday, following its release of its latest quarterly earnings results, which were initially delayed by nearly a week due to what Ubisoft now attributes to a shift in accounting. Ubisoft also announced it had now received a large investment payment from stakeholder Tencent which would go towards covering recent expenses accounted for in its earnings.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGames of tomorrow will listen, understand and react to players far more than today, and our research gives a glimpse of what adaptive, generative play could add on top of proven game systems,\u201d Ubisoft director of GenAI gameplay Xavier Manzanares said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve shared an experiment this early with players, but our goal is to pave the way with a strong technology layer so our creators can start imagining the value it could bring to their project and players.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, the \u201cTeammates\u201d division has also built an Application Programming Interface (API) that \u201cabstracts the complexity of generative systems, embeds necessary guardrails including hallucinations, bias, toxicity among others, and helps control its power to put it at the service of human creativity and play.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTeammates\u201d is meant to serve as an experiment that \u201cserves both as a playable prototype and a testbed for the underlying technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThink of it as an agnostic middleware for GenAI that we can easily plug to our in-house game engines, Anvil and Snowdrop,\u201c Manzanares said. \u201cIt opens a whole lot of new opportunities for our teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are making exciting progress in building the tools of tomorrow for our teams. This work reflects the direction we want to take in the years ahead,\u201d Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot said. \u201cCreativity remains deeply human. AI provides tools that help bring creative visions to life in new ways, it can be a powerful enabler to create even more meaningful and immersive experiences for players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ubisoft is debuting new game experience \u201cTeammates\u201d from the developers behind its 2024 project \u201cNeo NPC,\u201d which the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145,46560],"class_list":{"0":"post-146893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-ubisoft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}