I have decided to make a survey to help me with character design ideas.

I am hoping this will help me find out what people are into and to give me some ideas that will help me begin designing.

Here are the questions and why I chose to ask the question:

What are your favourite mythological creatures and why?

I chose this question to gain some intel on what kind of creatures people like, and it will give me some ideas in which mythological creatures I should research. This will help me with designing enemies.

What are your favourite classes to play as?

Warrior/fighter, Knight/paladin, Barbarian/bezerker/Monk/Material Artist, Thief/rouge/assassin, Archer/ranger, healer, mage/wizard, Necromancer and other.

The most popular choices are the ones I will consider when making the magical girls abilities. I want people to actually like the characters I am designing, therefore I thought this question would be important and give me the imformation that I need.

What are your favourite things to do in video games?

This will give me information on how people play games, what sort of character they like to take on, which again will aid me in designing characters. Do the majority of people play as "good guy" or do they go off on a rampage? This could link in with the general feel of the characters I will be designing. Do i make them bad-ass, or goody goody?

If YOU were designing a character, what would you like them to be like? Gender? Hair colour? Personality traits? Special Abilities? Fears? ect?

Knowing specifically what people like will also help me with designing characters. If there are similarities in what people like, it would be useful to include that in my character design.

If you could create ANY magic spell, what would it be?

The characters I'm designing are magical girls, with magic powers. This question will help me know what kind of magic people like so i can apply it to my character designs.

THE RESULTS!

As of 05/04.2018 I have gathered 15 responses. I thought this would be enough for a conclusion.

What are your favourite mythological creatures and why?

Elves are the most popular choice here, so I will definitely be doing research into elves (Although I was thinking of more monstrous creatures, I can still use research into elves to help me. Prehaps an enemy can be an evil, monstrous kind of elf)

My favourite idea is probably the dragon. A dragon could make an awesome enemy. With that being said I will do at least some research into all the creatures here, including some of my own.

What are your favourite classes to play as?

The top result, with 6 votes is an archer/ranger. And following behind with 5 votes is the healer and wizard/mage option.

In the middle is thief, monk & necromancer.

The lowest results are warriors and babarians.

People added sumari and engineer.

From this I have gathered what people like to play as. I will make one character in the style of one of the popular choices, and one which is my personal favourite, assassin/theif, which was in 3rd place. Mages and Rangers tend to be ranged enemys, as mages generally use a staff which is long range, and rangers use a bow which is also long range. I dont want the only two characters I design to both be long range, I want them to be completly different. Which has given me the idea of an assassin style close range mage. Instead of a staff, they conjure magical daggers and have the use of spells through their hands.

What are your favourite things to do in video games?

People generally like to do pretty different things, but something that is common is people like to style their character, and get better armour. Which means I could design 2 or 3 different Armour/weapon types that you find whilst leveling up.

If YOU were designing a character, what would you like them to be like? Gender? Hair colour? Personality traits? Special Abilities? Fears? ect?

Everyones response is pretty different from one another, but that's because everyone is an individual and has different preferences. For this reason, I didn't find this helpful in the way I'd hoped, but its given me some ideas.

If you could create ANY magic spell, what would it be?

Again, everyone's response is very different. But a lot of people seem to want to conjure things at will. This has given me ideas for magic spells that both character and enemies could use.

CONCLUSION

I found this method of research to be quite helpful, and i think I'm going to do another survey when I have some character ideas to see what people prefer. The people I asked to take this survey were mostly into video games already, therefore would be the target audience, therefore making this research even more important.

Ideas I've gathered:

Possible enemy could be some sort of evil elf?
The idea of having an assassin/mage hybrid, and having a ranger as a definite idea.
The idea of making several armor designs for when the character levels up.

Next steps: