Your favorite game characters

[Amenti]

Who is, or are, your favorite character from your created games, and why? You can also showcase them by posting art or sprites about them, if you want, not required.

 

[TheoAllen]

This is a hard question, since basically I love most of characters I ever created. If I'm going to pick one, I'm gonna pick one male and female.

For male one, some people who play my game may already know him, it's currently Soleil Alfred is my fave male character.

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Concept art :

In game screenshot

In game animated gif (that currently not yet released)

Yes, he's a cliche shounen boy at many points. Some might not like it cz how overly used a character like this. But the fact, I hastily created him, and now he grows together with me while I was developing my game. It was the time when I needed a character that would do a melee atk and I could not use any existing a character I've created for some reasons, must a brand new, so I randomly made one. I thought he was a throwaway character that I would forget once I finished my game.

But no, turned out I liked how to wrote this character. From his personality, and how he speaks. I feel enjoyable writing his dialogue. Another reason is how I came up with his skill set. His name referred to the Sun, so I made a self rule that his skill set should be referenced to either fire or Sun. I didn't expect I came up with a gimmicky skill where you can switch between two modes. Each mode improve his performance at some aspect while you can't get both. The modes are referred to the Sun where it has 2 phases, a supernova phase (I named it as flameskin, it boost your atk a.k.a offensive mode), and a blackhole phase (improves damage taken, and can debuff enemy during attack, a.k.a defensive mode). This gimmick never been on my thought for my previous characters I had

Overall, he's just an easy to develop character. I even use his name for my in game name in other online game.

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Now for female character (Actually I have two, but I'm gonna pick one)
I didn't have a chance to introduce her since she stuck on my first (and big) project where I realized that the project is too big to handle that I can't do it alone. (Note: yes, this is what happen when you start your very first project as your dream project, so better start with small )

Her name is Cecilia Fortuna

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In game screenshot

She shares the similar trait with Soleil. There's only a little thing I can say about her as I haven't really developed her quite much in game. But at least I've ever dreamt big of making a theme song for each character in this project. And her theme song was one of fave music I created

Spoiler: go listen

 

[Amenti]

Wow, you even included a theme song. That's pretty good, I like it. Thanks for sharing.

I'm sorry I couldn't share my favorite character in the first post, but I haven't even released my demo yet. But I do like Nina at the moment, the elf in my avatar. I like her so much that I have decided to keep the name for my game. I could have given her another one, but Nina sounds good.

 

[Dalph]

General Gustav from Royal Odyssey.
He is my own version of Gustaff from the Cover Art Characters.

Phisically he looks give or take the same as the Cover Art character, but he is slightly edited and wears a silver armor instead of his default bronze one.

In my game he is a war veteran with solid strategic and leadership skills.
I made him act like a mentor or some sort of old uncle, he acts very protective towards the little princess and is very inspiring towards the soldiers.

He is cheerful, light-hearted and very positive, but has a dark sense of humour that might surprise everyone around him sometimes.

 

[Archeia]

I don't really like talking much about my absolute character favorites...but if I have to pick one that I don't mind sharing,

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It would be the Goddess from Princess Project. Princess Princess: Another Story and Porcupine Princess.
Everyone and their dog tends to hates her from my games and that's why I love her so much. I imagined her as an overly exaggerated British Woman that uses an automatic machine gun and her tea pots as weapon. I don't know why she had to be this way. She kinda just...wrote herself.

Theme Song(s)

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[Kes]

'General Discussion' is for broad themes as they affect the making of games.
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[Amenti]

@Kes Oh, my bad. I thought that since it involved characters from made games, that it was alright to post there.

@Archeia I like the art, it's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing, too.

 

[Matseb2611]

Favourite from our created games? Oh, well, this will be tough, since I've released so many games by now. I might have to make a top 10 or something. Let me think for a second...

Ok, this is not in order of preference, since that'll be even harder to do. Rather I'll just separate it by games/series.

1) Hank (Snares of Ruin, my current project) - Maybe I'm a bit biased since he's the main protag from the project I am working on now, so I have to place myself in his shoes a lot, but I've been having great fun providing a myriad of moral choices and behaviours for Hank, letting players choose whether he's a professional detective or has a lip with his superiors, whether he's loyal to one woman or a swinger who goes round and cheats.

2) Gwen (Snares of Ruin) - I think she is very likeable because of how loyal and positive she is. She will stand by you even when you act like a douche, and she has a lot of that sweet innocence where she still believes in the good in other people and doesn't give up on them. I kind of modelled her character on what a healthy ENFP personality type is like (if you're familiar with Myers-Briggs, you'll know what I mean).

3) Alzyra (Snares of Ruin) - She is more than just a pretty face and a huge rack. Not only does she hide a bit of a dark secret (being a vampire), but she's way more intelligent than she seems at first. She's a scientist and she loves what she does for a living. Without giving away spoilers, part of the reason she chose to be a vampire was related to her love for science. She is quite sophisticated and knows her worth.

4) Anku (Incitement trilogy) - He was pretty much the fan favourite of the series. A robot who joins your team early in Incitement 1, trying to figure out the meaning to his existence, and ends up making close friends in the process and showing more humanity in his character than even some people are capable of.

5) Hesper (Incitement trilogy) - Anku's best friend. She's a nerdy girl who loves working with gadgets, hacking computers, and tinkering with stuff, and she was very fascinated to befriend a sentient robot at the first opportunity. She also learned to pilot ships and use a sniper rifle despite getting a nasty eye injury during work.

6) Seraphia (Incitement trilogy) - Pretty much goddess Athena but in a sci-fi setting, haha. Seraphia is a tough alien woman. She's smart and persistent, eventually becoming a general and attempting to lead the troops during a lot of difficult battles.

7) Mercury (Mercury: Cascade into Madness) - A nice girl turned vigilante. After a very traumatic experience, this sweet and innocent girl loses her mind and struggles with her inner demons, which push her to fight in order to survive, eventually turning her into a relentless killer that punishes gangsters, low lives, and other city scum. She's unhinged and unpredictable.

8) Gashrun (Atonement series) - A summoned ninja demon who is extremely obedient to his master/mistress (Elleria in the story). He's one of those silent and deadly types. No nonsense. Kill, ask questions later. A huge dedication to a sense of honour and respect for the traditions of his species.

9) Elleria (Atonement series) - A dark sorceress who went from being a full on antagonist to more of an antihero, from using others and finding it hard to trust, to making a group of close friends. Her morally grey nature is one of the main reasons why I enjoyed writing her. She's not really a hero, because she doesn't go out of her way to help others, but she doesn't cause harm to them either. Although, given the right circumstances, she has a darkness in her, that when unleashed, can be catastrophic for the world (Evil Elleria).

10) Adesard (Atonement series) - a half angel, half demon vindicator who was prophesized to end the world in vengeance for the mankind's sins. However, upon a closer look there's a hell of a lot more to him and his backstory. He was one of my favourite antagonists to write, because despite being the antagonist, he probably had more of a hero inside him than the actual protagonists of the story.

Thank you if you've read the whole thing!

 

[Canini]

Two of my favorite characters (doubtly so because they were originally bit-characters in another story) are Alex and Adva. Adva is one of the protecters of the underworld, and Alex duty is to make sure the roads of the dead are secure from demons. What I particularly like is that you don´t see a married adventure couple that often.

Alex

Adva

Here are some sprite versions made by @Plueschkatze for a prototype I am working on in a modified version of the Falcao Pearl ABS.

Here is the snippet of text that they are from originally:

Jane's other brother Alex was there as well, with his jackalope girlfriend Adva, who was in the Silver City on vacation from her duties in the underworld.

Alex was a very short man, his girlfriend Adva towering above him when they walked together, hand in hand. As an entrance to this little family reunion they arrived with Alex waving wildly while riding on one of Adva's shoulders, making everyone laugh uproariously. Alex was talking enthusiastically about his new studies of economy (his thesis was titled "Reaching economic balance in places with streets paved with gold").