Typecasting in games, from a character's perspective
Yesterday's Boing Boing TV video features a short film called Mauvais Rôle ("Bad Role"), a look at a midboss-style monster who wants more out of life than to briefly frighten, then be easily defeated by, a player character. Finally deciding he's fed up with being nothing more than an ego boost for some hero, he splits and goes looking for another job.
The next step is hitting a casting center for game characters, during which he tries, and fails, to show his versatility in some well-known game types. In an ending that should be familiar to Wii fans, the big, awkward, horned monster finds his niche in the gaming world. How inspiring to know that fake people can find happiness in this big (fake) world.
