Videogame Characters

Often when you play videogames you have a chance to choose the character that you play, I spent a large amount of time over Christmas being a green dinosaur in a go-kart chasing my friends and family around a range of tracks. To some people this may well sound very odd but others may recognise me describing Yoshi and Mario Kart, in this case played wirelessly on the DS.

What makes me choose to be Yoshi? Why not Mario or Bowser instead? In this case it is due to his ability in the game, the ease at which he can corner and that this makes the game easier for me to play. This selection of a character based on their abilities within a game is fairly common and one that you may well recognise, you may well choose the same character in games such as Teken or Dead or Alive.

In some types of videogames you can create your own player, often known as an avatar. This is often the case in MMORPG's (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) You will be presented with a range of choices about how to present yourself online in a virtual world. How people choose to represent themselves online is extremely interesting and is an area that photographer Robbie Cooper focused on and below are two images from his exhibition Alter Ego as well as a link to a BBC article on it.

The link is here:BBC article

Canon Lucy aka Virtual Lucy


Lucas aka Gaenank