Project | Game Conscious Dialogue
- Jul 2024–Dec 2025
- AI • Games
What is Game Conscious Dialogue (TM), and what does it mean for the way we design and play video games?
Meaning Machine's "Game Conscious"™ technology creates NPC dialogue for any situation in real-time. It combines game data with advanced AI so NPCs can adapt their script to anything the player does - even the totally unexpected. This collaboration put two Game Conscious games — Dead Meat and Blood Will Out — to the test, examining how gamers of all types experience, strategise, and respond to a game world where nothing is ever exactly the same twice.
Partners: Bristol Digital Games Lab & Meaning Machine.
- Funding Body
- Innovate UK / MyWorld
- Role
- Co-Principal Investigator
Videos
Gallery
Meet Lucia, the central character of Dead Meat. Did she murder her husband? You'll only find out if you ask.
A participants plays "Blood Will Out" under the watchful eye of Dr Richard Cole.
Press
- New research shows over 90% of gamers find playing with AI-powered NPCs to be "enjoyable and rewarding"
- gamesindustry.biz. March 12, 2026.
- Company that makes generative AI-powered NPCs reports that 95% of players enjoy their generative AI-powered NPCs
- PC Gamer. March 12, 2026.
- Recap: Dead Meat Player Study
- Bristol Digital Game Lab. May 5, 2025.
- Game Conscious™ Characters
- MyWorld. July 1, 2024.