characterprofile We meet again, this time as I promised the Character Profiles. I hope you don’t find Celtx too confusing to use. It does look confusing at first, let’s get on with inserting character profiles.

Anyway, I’ve some character sprites ready for download today, Fox1st and Dragon1st.

Also here are some of the Trickster character portrait illustration. You can use these as media for you character profiles later.

Let’s get started!

Before we do, let’s have a checklist of a typical Character Profiles.

  1. Character Name – A name as in real world.
  2. IGN (In Game Name / Alias) – Alias or IGN
  3. Age, Hair, Weight, Height (optional)
  4. Character Level Range – The level range for the character. This affects the appearance of the characters in Gamic.
  5. Character Class – The class of the character.
  6. Noticeable Skills – Distinguishing Features e.g. great gunslinger, never miss in throws, immortal and etc.
  7. Character History – Some small write up character flashbacks, origins and relationship with others.
  8. Character Portrait – A picture of the character.
  9. Principal Function – What’s this character for? Main Character or known as “Protagonist” or villain “Antagonist” or some other supporting characters.

Once, you have some of these planned out, let’s insert a character profile. Open up your storyboard file in Celtx. Click on Main Catalog and click on the + Add. Select Character and type in the name of the character, Click OK.

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Once, you added the character, try to key in as much as possible description of the profile; based on the info in the checklist above. Adding stuff in here, makes you define the character characteristics, behavior as well as appearance.

It makes it easy to plot and write later because, you can refer back at them just to maintain a good consistency over the flow of story. And also it allows you to role-play and focus toward building your character personality in-game. E.g. Agent Tammy has a military look because, she is from a Military school. She carries a gun given to her by the father. See how Agent Tammy is fashioned in Trickster – matches the profile.

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