{
  "name": "AI Game Companion Definitions",
  "status": "Editorial definitions",
  "updated": "2026-07-22",
  "terms": [
    {
      "term": "AI game companion",
      "definition": "An AI system that supports a player through guidance, interaction, action, social presence, memory, or continuity related to video games.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/ai-game-companion-definition/"
    },
    {
      "term": "AI gaming companion",
      "definition": "A near-synonym for AI game companion that more naturally emphasizes the wider activity and continuity of gaming.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/ai-game-companion-vs-ai-gaming-companion/"
    },
    {
      "term": "Game companion",
      "definition": "Any person, character, guide, tool, or system that accompanies play; AI is not required.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/ai-game-companion-vs-game-companion/"
    },
    {
      "term": "Gaming assistant",
      "definition": "A system primarily framed around completing informational, configuration, or performance-related tasks for a player.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/ai-game-companion-vs-gaming-assistant/"
    },
    {
      "term": "Coaching companion",
      "definition": "An AI companion that interprets current play and provides guidance, analysis, strategy, or commentary.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#coaching"
    },
    {
      "term": "In-game companion",
      "definition": "An adaptive AI companion that exists inside a game world as an NPC, party member, teammate, or character.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#in-game"
    },
    {
      "term": "Agentic companion",
      "definition": "An AI companion with permission to perform game actions, follow commands, or control an entity.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#agentic"
    },
    {
      "term": "Social companion",
      "definition": "An AI companion that creates personality or social presence around gaming.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#social"
    },
    {
      "term": "Continuity companion",
      "definition": "An AI companion that preserves meaningful gaming context and restores the correct thread across time.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#continuity"
    },
    {
      "term": "Gaming continuity",
      "definition": "The preservation of the useful thread connecting a player’s past, present, and intended future play.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/terminology/#continuity-terms"
    },
    {
      "term": "Restore point",
      "definition": "An intentional, addressable record selected to re-establish a previous gaming thread or state.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamecompanion.com/terminology/#continuity-terms"
    },
    {
      "term": "Companion Play",
      "definition": "A continuity-companion implementation created by Raynor Eissens that saves and restores gaming conversation state.",
      "canonicalUrl": "https://aigamingcompanion.com/what-is-companion-play/"
    }
  ]
}