Character development may refer to:
- Character arc, the change in characterization of a dynamic character, who changes over the course of a narrative.
- Character creation, especially for games
- Character advancement, increase in scores and other changes of a game character — for example, in role-playing video games
- Moral character, a term used in many educational systems to indicate a strategy for the maturation of individual students.
Famous quotes containing the words character and/or development:
“We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused—in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery—by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press—their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“I’ve always been impressed by the different paths babies take in their physical development on the way to walking. It’s rare to see a behavior that starts out with such wide natural variation, yet becomes so uniform after only a few months.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)