For our web quest, Educational Gaming Industry, some of us are interviewing game designers. We are interviewing to find out what it takes to be a game designer and what happens on a particular day. One person we interviewed creates educational games. In interviewing her, it was interesting to note how the process of designing a game can be creative. One aspect is creating a character. When talking about creating a character, you are actually referring to the characterization, which is everything observable about a character such as what they look like, sound like, how they move, etc. Put that all together and you get a character with human heart, a character that people can identify with. For a detailed looking into characterization, I suggest the following: Building Character