Basics of Game Design

On Characters and Monsters

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out that given the schedule for the game, they think it would be bet-

ter to add more NPCs and enemy characters than spend too much

time on a feature that appears only at the start of the game.

e other gating factor as far as artwork goes is what the char-

acter will look like on the playeld. If the game uses a rst-person

point of view where the player looks at the world through the eyes of

the main character (as in e Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Fallout 3),

then the player seldom sees the character, and therefore an exten-

sive character visualization system might not be needed. If, on the

other hand, the play