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:
“The character of the logger’s admiration is betrayed by his very mode of expressing it.... He admires the log, the carcass or corpse, more than the tree.... What right have you to celebrate the virtues of the man you murdered?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For decades child development experts have erroneously directed parents to sing with one voice, a unison chorus of values, politics, disciplinary and loving styles. But duets have greater harmonic possibilities and are more interesting to listen to, so long as cacophony or dissonance remains at acceptable levels.”
—Kyle D. Pruett (20th century)