LogFAQs > #965021315

foolm0r0n posted...

I honestly like the tool in concept, but the execution makes no sense. All the ratings are subjective anyway so how does it help? There doesn't seem to be a tangible metric that it lets you optimize for.

If there was a system in there for testing with various demographics and seeing how much people like or identify with the character, that would be useful. Or more of a red flag / green flag system.

I am fairly certain that it's just a weighted system measuring deviation from the most common. My guess is that they input some set of protagonists and their characteristics, and valued the most common at "0".

Since you're essentially just looking at how "common" each quality is, I think it's probably a relatively objective way to measure things. Of course, you'd have to discount the fact that categorization is something that people are generally bad at (including those who built the tool).

It's not a very sophisticated-looking tool-- seems like it'd mostly be useful for identifying gaps than any actual guided development, but maybe that's what they're using it for. Plus (questionable) PR.