The massively multiplayer online roleplaying game genre began life in the early 2000's, arguably with Sony Online Entertainment's EverQuest as the definitive entry.  I developed a graphical augmentation stack to bring original artistic assets from the original title into the modern world.

I integrated Lantern EQ's extraction tool into a pipeline that includes mesh transformation and smoothing in Blender, followed by AI-powered retexturing using StableProjectorz, and finally, for character models, applying modern animation retargeting in Unreal Engine.

Breathing new life into the original artwork is a fine balancing act of incorporating new technology while preserving original features to maintain the feel most familiar to the fanbase.

I integrated OpenAI's API into Unreal Engine to enable natural, intuitive, and sometimes downright uncanny conversation between the player and NPCs, via text input as well as voice input. NPCs output their response via text and "voice", by taking advantage of AWS Polly AI Voice Generator.