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:
“In the tale proper—where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident—mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp.... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)