JUMP 2018
PITCH 2018
SOFT CHAMBER 2018
SB1 2017
READY TO DIE 2018
ENDLESS RUNNER 2017
SNEAK 2017
LOST 2018
KISS 2017
TRYPOPHOBIA 2018
NRV 2017
BALANCE 2017
HELL MASS 2017
NPC BIRTH 2017
SELF PORTRAIT 2018
BUBBLE POP 2018
REINCARNATION 2018
WRITHING 2018
The traditional role of the NPC (Non-Player-Character) in a virtual environment is to provide an antagonist for the player to compete against in some form of narrative. With recent advances in computing and AI fields, the AI that powers NPCs is reaching complex new heights. These NPCs in high budget games go to a virtual home, have virtual families, have simulated morals, and experience simulated fear. Questions of morality arise in giving NPCs self awareness. The figures represent a spectrum of emotions that we feel.
If the machines that we fight and punish in a virtual world feel pain, is it moral to punish them for existing?