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Give characters different voices or accents.
"The biggest appeal of animation is to give characters, or, in my case, a skeleton, a life and personality," he said.
"The Good Wife" proved that viewers were willing to give characters a chance to evolve and surprise; electoral politics and office intrigue can be as complicated as the clients' legal cases.
Much more can be done in games to give characters the ability to have you fight back - not just with shooting, but with other verbs - talking, solving, finding, making, building, creating, supporting, things that games like Minecraft are centred around.
Try not to give characters jobs that really only appear in plays; the deliberately idiosyncratic (eg "the guy who changes the posters on huge billboards at night") or the solipsistic (eg "writer").
The fact that it is common in musical revivals to rework the unsung material – a lucrative early job for Stephen Fry was tickling up Douglas Furber and L Arthur Rose's script for the 80s London restaging of Noel Gay's Me and My Girl – confirms how difficult it can be to give characters two different reasons to open their mouths.
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Most people want local butchers and bakers to give character and individuality to Britain's fast-cloning high streets.
As this entry has indicated, Hume appears to side with Aristotle and to give character priority over practical deliberation.
A lot of people go to thrift shops looking for unusual items to give character to an outfit.
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