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泥中蟠龍's Game愛歌 _ Character development and player development

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Character development and player development   Do you remember Street Fighter, the iconic '90s fighting video game? What about Super Mario a little bit to the past? If not, what about Tekken (Iron Fist) or Onimusha (literally 'Oni Warrior')? You would know StarCraft at least. The reason why I mention video games of the past all of a sudden is to talk about auto-combat games which can be found easily in the recent mobile gaming market. I don't want to criticize the auto-battle games like Monster Taming, the most representative auto-combat game. A gamer usually is required two things when he/she play a character-based video game which has developed steadily since the establishment of the video game. One is character development. The character-based games usually, aside from genre characteristics, lead the players to develop a character through various factor...