Game Development Reference
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Summary
Character creation is one of the most rewarding and challenging jobs of a game
artist. It is very rewarding for the artist to see a character that she or he designed
in a game. It is also challenging to come up with characters that enhance the game
design.
This chapter was devoted to character creation. You should now be familiar with many
aspects of character creation. In this chapter, we covered several important points.
Game characters
Player characters
Non-player characters
Enemies
Character templates
Polygon budgets
Character modeling
Character texturing
Creating good characters for games is a challenging process and takes many steps,
yet when the end result is a great game character, the artist can feel satisfied that
the outcome was worth all the effort.
Questions
1. Why is character creation important in game design?
2. Who has the main responsibility for creating interesting characters?
3. What are game characters?
4. What is the software that controls characters in games called?
5. A character that is controlled by the player is called what?
6. What do the letters NPC stand for?
7. What makes an NPC an enemy character?
8. Where did the game industry borrow the use of model sheets from?
9. What is a model sheet?
10. What type of art is used to keep the game characters consistent with the
designed characters?
 
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