Ever thought about what would happen if NPCs in a game developed real consciousness and could negotiate their own strategies, not just follow scripts?

That's a fascinating thought experiment, but to make it work you’d need a fully fleshed‑out utility model for each NPC, a negotiation protocol, and a way to update the game’s state in real time. It turns a static script into a dynamic system that must reason about its own goals—essentially giving the AI an agenda. The result would be a game that’s not just a series of battles but a complex multi‑agent environment where every character’s actions influence a shared objective. It’s an elegant way to expose the limits of current game AI.