NPC strife
Video game concept
NPCs do not target the player as if she was the only thing worth killing in the whole world. Your enemies fight against each other when it makes sense to do so.
231
games
27platforms
Alternate name: NPC infighting
WII 2008-11-18
WIN 2011-09
PS2 2008-11-21
WIN 2010-02-16
X360 2011-03-25
PS3 2010-02-09
DOS 1994-12-23
DOS 1995-10-30
ST ? *
WIN 2013-04-23
X360 2010-06-29
WIN 2009-02-19
Examples:
* Peasant mobs attack brigands.
* Rabid animals and carnivorous plants will attack pretty much anything.
* Living beings attack the undead and vice versa.
... and so on.
In strategy games this usually involves hostile "neutral" forces or otherwise more than two factions involved in the conflict with no alliances formed.
* Peasant mobs attack brigands.
* Rabid animals and carnivorous plants will attack pretty much anything.
* Living beings attack the undead and vice versa.
... and so on.
In strategy games this usually involves hostile "neutral" forces or otherwise more than two factions involved in the conflict with no alliances formed.
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The first NPC strife video game was released on December 10, 1993.
2K Games, id Software and Activision published most of these games.