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First published 2011-7

Player Character Engagement in Computer Games

Petri Lankoski

Games and Culture

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First published 2023-11

“Go. Just take him.”: PTSD and the Player-Character Relationship in The Last of Us Part II

Stephen Michael Johnson

Games and Culture

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First published 2023-3

The Moral Service of Trans NPCs: Examining the Roles of Transgender Non-Player Characters in Role-Playing Video Games

Aiden J. Kosciesza

Games and Culture

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First published 2019-11-22

Behavior tree design of intelligent behavior of non-player character (NPC) based on Unity3D

Xianwen Zhu

Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology

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First published 2023-6

Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters

Gabriel Elvery

Games and Culture

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First published 2012-12

Does Game Playing Experience Have an Impact on the Player-PNPC Relationship?

Christine Daviault

Bulletin of Science,Technology & Society

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First published 2021-11

Postmodern Medusa: The Monstrous-Feminine in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Gregory Blomquist

Games and Culture

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First published 2026

Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Drama Therapy in the Wild: Developing Personal Bonds with Characters Improves Players’ Self-Concepts

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Seth I. Sagstetter, Choeeta Chakrabarti [...]

Transcultural Psychiatry

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First published 2025

Character-Driven Storytelling Design for Digital Games: A Scoping Review

Athirah Zaini, Allan Fowler, Robert Amor [...]

Games and Culture

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First published 2018-12

A Bard in the Hand: The Role of Materiality in Player–Character Relationships

Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman, Joe A. Wasserman

Imagination,Cognition and Personality

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