What are characters?

Some articles on characters, character:

Teleprinter Operation - Control Characters
... A typewriter or electromechanical printer can print characters on paper, and execute operations such as move the carriage back to the left margin of the same line (carriage return ... Commands to control non-printing operations were transmitted in exactly the same way as printable characters by sending control characters with ... the line feed character forced the carriage to move to the same position on the next line) to teleprinters ...
Quest 64 - Plot - Characters
... The game's main characters and bosses are Leonardo — Another apprentice magician who appears at Normoon and at Brannoch Castle near the end of the game ... Though not a main character, he still manages to help Brian by providing healing items in a room within Brannoch Castle ...
Queen Of The Demonweb Pits - Plot Summary
... At the conclusion of Vault of the Drow, the characters find an astral gate leading to the Abyssal realm of Lolth, Demon Queen of Spiders, goddess of the ... The player characters are transported to another plane and cast into the labyrinth known as the Demonweb ... In order to return home, the characters must find their way out of the web and then defeat the evil demigoddess Lolth in her lair ...
Maniac Mansion - Overview
... a prompt for the player to select two of six characters to accompany Dave ... is a graphic adventure game in which the player uses a point-and-click interface to guide characters through a two-dimensional (2D) game world and to solve puzzles ... can select from fifteen different commands with this scheme examples include "Walk to", to move the characters "New kid", to switch between the three characters and "Pi ...
Characters - Queer Duck
... The title character, whose full name is Adam Seymour Duckstein (voiced by Jim J ... gay, and that he had insisted that the character be voiced by someone gay ... the tradition of semi-nudity of cartoon characters exemplified by Porky Pig, Donald Duck, Top Cat, etc ...

Famous quotes containing the word characters:

    I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.
    James Boswell (1740–1795)

    When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
    Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)

    Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)