Shiny Money are currently in the process of making a new game, and they are trying to create a new iconic character. In order to achieve that, i have done some research by looking at iconic characters, such as Mario, Sonic, Lara Croft etc. and find out what makes them so iconic, and different from other video game characters.
Mario, Link and Donkey Kong were created in the 80's. Mario is a short Italian plumber that has appeared in over 200 video games, and he serves as Nintendo's Mascot. The picture below shows the 3 characters evolution through time.
Lara Croft is a female iconic character. She is the main protagonist of the Square Enix video game series Tomb Raider, and she is presented as a beautiful, intelligent, and athletic English archaeologist-adventuress.
Video game characters have been developed to suit their game's genre, for example, for action, hack and slash games, characters with big muscles like Kratos (from the game God of War) and Dante (from the game Dante's Inferno) are created. If you are playing a side-scrolling platformer game, cartoon-like characters such as Mario and Sonic are created.
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