At the start of 2025, we’re setting out on an ambitious journey: to create AI-driven NPCs that don’t just talk- but think, remember, feel, and evolve. Our vision isn’t about building better chatbots. It’s about crafting believable, emotionally responsive characters that integrate directly into games, remember what you’ve said, and behave in ways that feel truly alive. Whether you’re a solo dev building a small indie world or a studio developing a complex RPG, our roadmap for 2025 is about giving you tools to populate your world with unforgettable characters. Here’s what we’re building and when.

Q1 – Foundations of Thought

Building the brain and giving it structure

We’ll kick off the year by giving our NPCs their first real thoughts. That means plugging in powerful language models, crafting deep character prompts, and laying the groundwork for safe, context-aware interactions. NPCs begin to form personalities—not just dialogue.

• LLM integration with system-level character architecture
• Personality trait system (1–5 scale influencing tone + behavior)
• External memory (RAG) so NPCs recall past chats, facts, and world lore
• Secure input/output validation to prevent jailbreaks and nonsense
• First non-technical NPC creation panel (yes, you won’t need to code!)

NPCs are no longer lines of code. They're the beginnings of people.

Q2 – Emotions, frustration, and game awareness

Teaching characters to feel–and to care what you say

In Q2, our NPCs get emotional range. They can now feel insulted, get curious, grow suspicious, or lighten up mid-chat. We connect them to the game world too–now they know what they sell, what quests are running, and how to use that knowledge in real time.

• Dynamic behavior parameters: frustration rises, trust builds
• Semantic output: real-time behavior logs for devs
• Game state integration: NPCs know inventory, quest status, etc.
• LangGraph Studio: visualized conversation flow
• LangSmith integration: test and trace every NPC response
• Merchant Demo: negotiate with a medieval vendor using your words alone

Talk your way to a discount—or get kicked out of the store.

Q3 – Memory, models, and Instant NPC creation

The world’s first fully generative NPC system begins to take shape

Q3 brings major upgrades. NPCs gain short-term memory, can switch between models (Mistral, Llama, Kimi, Gemini), and start testing at scale. Oh–and now you can generate an entire personality-rich NPC from a one-line prompt and talk to them immediately.

• Short-term memory: summarize recent chats to maintain flow
• Multi-model support + per-node model switching
• Temperature control: precision tuning for creativity vs stability
• NPC Creator POC: auto-generate complete characters from a prompt
• Test suite expansion: from node-level to full trajectory testing
• First in-game NPC deployment

From zero to fully alive in under a minute.

Q4 – Voice, autonomy, and NPC societies

The system becomes alive–literally

By Q4, the NPCs talk. They remember long-term. They end conversations when annoyed or disrespected. We’ll even experiment with NPCs talking to each other, giving rise to emergent drama, gossip, alliances, and more–entirely unscripted.

• Voice integration (11Labs) for instant, expressive audio
• Long-term memory (vector DB across sessions)
• RAG orchestration: lore, memory, and game state merged
• Agentic Testers: AI personas that test your NPCs like real players would
• End-convo triggers: when NPCs decide they’ve had enough
• NPC-to-NPC conversations (exploratory)
• Final polish, testing refinement, system optimisation

You may build a game. But your NPCs will build a culture.

Late 2025 Projects & beyond

Wild ideas we’re already exploring These aren’t locked to 2025, but we’re already tinkering behind the scenes: Personality-driven AI assistants (pirate secretary? sassy cat coach?) Historical talking heads for education (Einstein explains relativity) Procedural murder mystery games with evolving suspects and stories Games that change every time, because the characters decide how.