How To: Quick Creation
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Choose someone or something you want to talk to... remember Characters can be anything. It could be a character from a book, a historical figure, a family pet, or even your desk plant! Think about what this Character would say if you talked to them...maybe the houseplant would be thirsty or the family dog might refer to itself in the 3rd person..
With a concept in mind, click on + Create in the nav bar, and then Create a Character.
You'll be presented with the Create a Character screen, which lets you define a Character.
You can see the result of filling out the Name, Greeting and Avatar in this opening message from Gamer Boy:
The name is how you'll refer to the Character in chat and how other users will discover them.
If your character is a famous person or well known thing, just the name may do a lot to define an interesting character. On the other hand, if the name is something general like "Mary" your greeting will be critical in shaping the experience.
The avatar is the image that will appear next to the Character. You can select from generating an image or uploading an image.
This is how a Character would briefly describe themselves. This tagline will appear under your Character in the homepage.
The Description is where you can include information about your Character.
The greeting is just what it says, it's the first thing the Character will say when you start a new conversation with them.
But especially for this quick creation, the greeting plays a critical part of defining who the character is or what the scenario will be.
A great example of this is Text Adventure Game, which only uses the name and a longer greeting to completely jumpstart an open-ended text adventure. This also serves to explain to the user what they should talk about.
Select a Default Voice for your Character
The Character Visibility defines who will be able to talk to your Character. If set to Public, your Character will be visible on Home and in search results. If it's Unlisted, others won't see it unless you share the link, while if you set it to Private no one else will be able to talk with the Character.
That's it! Press Save Changes and you can start talking to your Character.
After talking a bit, you can open the Character settings and examine the complete Character attributes, changing what you entered or adding new information.
You can edit more details about your Character at any time. In the future, when creating new characters, you can also immediately do more detailed editing of a Character's attributes directly by clicking More Options.
