Creating AI-Powered NPCs in Pygame: A Step-by-Step Guide

Integrate Artificial Intelligence into your Pygame NPCs for realistic conversations and behavior — A practical guide with OpenAI.

AI has entered our lives in many areas. If you like playing games like me, you must have been involved with NPCs who constantly repeat the same things. This is actually a situation that distances us from reality. But when you look at it, since they can’t write separate dialogues for each NPC, it is necessary.

Based on this situation, I thought about what it would be like if we tried to do this with AI. Let me say in advance that I have no game development experience. My goal was to simply integrate AI, talk to an NPC and have it perform a certain task.

In this tutorial we’ll build a simple farm game using Python and Pygame. Our goal is find a hidden Golden Seed. Our guide? Pip a friendly but very scatterbrained chick NPC powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o (or you can try another model). Pip wants to help but good luck getting a straight answer!

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