[dark steve]

You might want to glance at this first.

Tonight in #IRC, we were discussing this wiki article, formerly "spherical_protagonists." Vision was updating it and ran into a stumbling block: during the course of deciding where various games fall in this category, it got clear pretty fast that "there is no concise term for something that is a player controlled agent (besides 'the main guy')." In Marble Madness, you manipulate the little ball yourself, whereas in Cameltry, you (mostly) just rotate the maze; in Sonic Spinball, you perform the majority of your interaction with flippers. So then, presuming that these objects are all in fact the same kind of entity, what is that entity, exactly?

[dark steve]

c'mon dudes take a stab