Research On The Attraction Of The Game Characters To The Player

Game character is the most direct way of interaction between player and the game itself.This paper will focus on the research of human character,because they are more close to the players,so that players in the game will have a strong sense of substitution.A good designing of game character can drive players’ enthusiasm to participate in it,which is the focus of players.Therefore,the systematic study of the game character has a certain degree of theoretical and practical value for the attractiveness of playersThere are six chapters in this paper.The first chapter is the introduction,which introduces the background and significance of the research,the present situation of the research,the content of the research and the research plan.The second,third and fourth chapter are theoretical discussion.Firstly,the classification of game characters is introduced,and then analyzes the four elements that are characters,profiles,actions,and sounds of game characters,besides,the relationship between the designing of game character and players also included.Secondly,the author makes analysis aiming at players’ physiological needs,security needs,social needs,esteem needs and self-realization needs,in which social needs,esteem needs and self-realization needs are the focus.Finally,the author elaborates elements that how game characters attract players from profiles,characters,actions and sounds and sum up some principles.In the fifth chapter,the author makes investigation on game players,and provides methods of enhancing game character attractiveness for players according to players’ social needs,esteem needs and self-realization needs combined with the four eleme nts of character designing that attract players.In the sixth chapter,the author makes analysis and summarization based on the content of the paper.The author finally concludes methods that can improve character attractiveness.The author wants to attract players with common interests and promote communication between players from players’ social needs,so that players can discuss roles that they like in the game in various platforms both in and out of the game,or they can create works by the same people based on the characters and further attract more players as a means of publicity;Game companies can enhance the popularity and create topics for players to communicate with each other by reorganizing existing roles and promoting new characters,so that players can know familiar with the character.Besides,companies can determine the target population of the game and the relative advantages of the characters through the division of game market.They can analyze the type of game characters for different players and design different characters for players in different genders and ages by researching on the big data.Finally,companies design different barriers based on game characters started from players’ self-sat isfaction needs,so that players can exert the greatest potentiality by winning t he game and realize self-satisfaction themselves.