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non-player character
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fictional character in a role-playing or video game that cannot be played or controlled by a real-world person
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Within Vinony's link graph, non-player character is referenced by 2,437 other articles, and connects out to mob, video game and boss.
Vinony files it under MUD terminology, Role-playing game terminology and Video game terminology.
Its subject is documented across 41 Wikipedia language editions.
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- short name
- เอ็นพีซี
- nickname
- непись
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Encyclopedic overview
A non-player character greets the player in the 2019 video game A Short Hike.
A non-player character (NPC) is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player. The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster, or referee, rather than by another player. In video games, this term usually means a computer-controlled character that has a predetermined set of behaviors that potentially will impact gameplay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “non-player character” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.