GTA 6 NPC system has been in development for over 10 years

Rockstar Games has been working on its NPC interaction system for more than a decade. Jason Schreier says the system was being prototyped as early as 2014. The mechanics in GTA 6 are a further development of the greet and antagonize systems originally introduced by Mark Tennant in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Sources state that the game utilizes a vast number of distinct character movements to provide NPCs with different daily routines and behaviors. To support development, Rockstar Games grew its artist team by over 10x between the development of GTA 5 and GTA 6.

Background In 2018, Red Dead Redemption 2 launched with 2,441 Rockstar employees. Our earlier story