Past raif topics: Player and PC

This is a collection of Past raif topics to do with player and Player Character issues in IF.

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The player and the PC

See also => Triangle_of_identities .. AFGNCAAP (IFWiki articles)
See also => Character Gender in IF (XYZZY News article): Part 1 (archive), Part 2 (archive).
See also => The Player and the PC in the IF Gems review quotes collection (also in the IF Archive)

• PC characterization (Dec 1998)
• PC presentation to player (Jul 1998)
• Specific vs nonspecific main character (Apr 1994)
• Main character being ill defined (Sep 1996)
• PC gender in IF (Jun 2001)
• PC gender (Feb 1997)
• PC characterization / disobedient PCs (Sep 2006)
• PC talking to / refusing to obey player + 1st person perspective (Nov 1993)
• Relationship between player & protagonist / "Interactive Theatre" (playing a role) (May 1996)
• Assigning personality to the player / playing a role (Apr 1996)
• PC personality (Apr 1993)
• Identifying with PC + the problem with puzzles (Nov 1998)
• Best kind of PC / identifying with the PC (Aug 2001)
• Why should the player care ? (Oct 2000)
• Involving players in the story (Apr 2004)
• Internal PC conflict + puzzles (Apr 1994)
• Internal PC conflict #2 (Apr 1994)
• PC emotional reactions (dictated by author) (Oct 1998)
• Giving thoughts / emotions to the PC + leaving objects behind (Sep 1995)
• Character development (Feb 1994)
• Character development + mixing drinks (Feb 1998)
• Development of the PC's character (Feb 1994, RGIF)
• Initial player actions / starting with an inventory (Nov 1998)
• Reasonable things to expect a player to do early in game (Feb 2002)
• "About" text / first thing player should see (Nov 2000)

PC & player knowledge

See also => Player and PC Knowledge in the IF Gems review quotes collection (also in the IF Archive)

• Player knowledge vs PC knowledge (Apr 2002)
• PC vs player knowledge (Varicella) (Nov 2001, RGIF)
• Giving PC knowledge to the player (Oct 1994)
• Handling PC knowledge / memories (Mar 2002)
• PC knowledge / alternatives to amnesia (Feb 2002)
• Modelling player knowledge across restarts (Nov 1997)
• Telling back story without screens full of text (Jun 2005)
• Conveying back stories / nuanced PCs + moral choices (Nov 1999)
• Supplying information to the player (ask about, etc) (Jan 2001)
• PC knowledge & "recall" verb (Apr 1996)
• Conversation topic lists / topics not yet known to the PC (Dec 1998)
• Informing player about special verbs (Jan 2001)

Player perspective & multiple PCs

See also => Point of View and Multiple PCs in the IF Gems review quotes collection (also in the IF Archive)

• Use of second person (Jun 2007)
• Preferred narrative form in IF (1st/2nd/3rd person & tense) (Jun 2007)
• Point of view (1st/2nd/3rd person) (Sep 1998)
• 1st/2nd/3rd person viewpoint (Sep 1996)
• 1st/2nd/3rd person point of view + overview of IF (Feb 1994)
• 3rd person perspective / problems with 2nd person (Jun 1996)
• First person, past tense viewpoint (Jul 1998)
• First person perspective + PC talking to / refusing player (Nov 1993)
• IF prose / player perspective (Dec 2003)
• Objections to 2nd person viewpoint + what IF is (Sep 1996)
• Third person IF (Feb 2000)
• Blind PCs in IF (Nov 1996)
• Room descriptions in games with a blind PC (Jan 1997)
• Non-human point of view + blind PCs (Jul 1994)
• Multiple PC perspectives (a la Suspended) (Dec 1999)
• Multiple PCs (Jul 1999)
• Switching PCs during a game (Jul 2007, RGIF)
• Avatar-less IF (Jun 2002)

Multi player games

Also known also as multiuser games, multiple users games, multiple players games, or even multiple PCs games.

• Multi player IF (Mar 2001)
• Multiplayer IF specification (Nov 2001)
• Multi player IF (with multiple PCs) #1 (Feb 1999)
• Multi player IF (with multiple PCs) #2 (Feb 1999)
• Multi player CYOA design (Jan 2002)
• MUDs & multi player IF (Jan 1993)
• Multi user IF & MUDs (Nov 1994)
• Turning single player IF into multi player (Jun 2007)