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:
“Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“A Man who always acts in the Severity of Wisdom, or the Haughtiness of Quality, seems to move in a personated Part: It looks too Constrained and Theatrical for a Man to be always in that Character which distinguishes him from others.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)