A game character refers to a character in a game, especially a video game or role-playing game.
More specifically, it may refer to:
- Player character, a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, typically a protagonist the game's plot.
- Alternate character, a controllable character in addition to one's "primary" player character.
- Non-player character, or NPC, a character that is controlled by the gamemaster in tabletop role-playing games. In video games and other scenarios with character representations, an NPC is controlled by a program.
- Boss (video gaming), a computer-controlled opponent in an enemy-based challenge, which is found in video games.
- Mob (video gaming), a computer-controlled non-player character (NPC) or monster in a computer game such as a role-playing video game.
Famous quotes containing the words game and/or character:
“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child’s life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)