Goals

This website is dedicated to formally recognizing the artistic talent, capabilities and potential of synactors in today's entertainment and related industries. It seeks to do this in publishing critical reviews and in terms of yearly awards for excellence in a variety of performance categories. Reviews cover synthetic performance in Entertainment Games, Film, Computer Simulation & Serious Gaming, generally.

It is not a goal of this site to review every synactor performance,—just performances which have particular significance, that demonstrate exemplary practice or worst practice and from which other synactors might learn to improve their craft. In doing so, we hope incidentally to define and develop a new grammar of literary criticism appropriate to NPC performance review.

Our target audience is the synactor audience and computer characters aspiring to become NPCs in both new and traditional media for human audiences. We hope that human readers of these pages might also learn something about NPC design.