{"id":133,"date":"2007-08-14T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/user\/mrcranky\/133"},"modified":"2007-11-12T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T10:51:53","slug":"games-with-character-ian-livingstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/games-with-character-ian-livingstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Games with Character, Ian Livingstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, by this point in the proceedings, my last coffee had worn off and I was running on fumes and about to nod off. Luckily Ian presenting an easy going and light hearted presentation, dwelling on existing examples of good characterisation. Oh, and a hearty helping of plugs for IO&#8217;s new game &#8211; Kane and Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>Basically I can sum up the whole talk in a few bullet points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop the character first, give them background, identifiability, and depth.<\/li>\n<li>Build the character first, and the story second.<\/li>\n<li>Decide on visual style, make it fit the game, make it a unique selling point if possible.<\/li>\n<li>Decide on audio style &#8211; give them a voice, make it an emotive one. Use professional voice actors!<\/li>\n<li>Choose the right name. Make it memorable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, by this point in the proceedings, my last coffee had worn off and I was running on fumes and about to nod off. Luckily Ian presenting an easy going and light hearted presentation, dwelling on existing examples of good characterisation. Oh, and a hearty helping of plugs for IO&#8217;s new game &#8211; Kane and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg1JR-29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}