If your students love playing video games, they will definitely enjoy creating their own character in class!
1) Discussion
Can you remember the first video game you played?
What can you learn from playing video games?
Would you like to be a game designer? What kinds of games would you design?
2) Research
What is a videogame character?
A videogame character is any person/animal/creature acting in a game. They might be a player character or a non-player character.
What are the differences between player characters and non-player characters?
Player Character - any character in a game that is controlled by the player. It's usually the hero or main character.
Non-Player Character - any character in a game that is not controlled by the player. These includes enemies, villages, shopkeepers.
Who designs characters for games?
There are a lot of people who work on designing a character for a game, like game designers and writers. A character concept artist will often draw the first designs.
3) Design
Students work individually, design their own characters and write descriptions of them.
Does your character have a name? What kind of personality do they have?
These are some examples of the characters created by my students!
To create these characters the students used a free online editor called 'Piskel'.
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