No post is required this week. Please make these additions directly to your design document (or a text file you will use to copy/paste into that document.)
This week’s task is to work on developing your main player character and any critical NPC characters.
For your player/protagonist character, remember that a good character arc include both an obvious desire, and a deeper need beneath it, that drives the character to grow/change/evolve. Obstacles and challenges are essential to this. In this way even the villains have a moral function in the story as they help the player/protagonist to grow/evolve. Consider what kinds of skills, tools, helpers, environments, and contexts your player will need to pursue her needs and so to evolve & grow. Next week, you will add to this the abilities and levels that will form part of the scaffolding for your character’s growth. So do keep these in mind, and add as they appear.