{"id":1634,"date":"2025-10-03T15:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:13:24","slug":"what-is-a-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/2025\/10\/03\/what-is-a-character\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Character?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What is a Character?&#8221; &#8211; Emma Raey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is a Character?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An agent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Has goals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On-screen surrogate\/prosthesis for a player<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Point of access\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhetorical device<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Portable in the context of transmedia storytelling\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a difference between a stock character and a stereotype. Stock characters have certain rules to them for players to quickly pick up mechanics\/story, stereotypes are caricatures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the difference between a player character and an avatar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Avatar in Sanskrit means God Made Flesh.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avatars will be an everyman\/mary sue, a blank slate.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Player characters are still a tool\/entry point, but will have their own personality and desires. Sometimes these desires will align with yours, sometimes they won\u2019t. There will be a push and pull.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But also nice dichotomy idiot. What lies outside it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ian Bogost makes the argument that videogames are better without characters. What we should prioritise is political and structural problems to conceptualise in big picture ways how we exist as a product of those supercisims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What is a Character?&#8221; &#8211; Emma Raey What is a Character? There is a difference between a stock character and a stereotype. Stock characters have certain rules to them for players to quickly pick up mechanics\/story, stereotypes are caricatures What is the difference between a player character and an avatar? Ian Bogost makes the argument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}