The Final Fantasy series had an incredible effect on the gaming world. Developed by Square Enix and released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1987, the game was considered an outlier at the time: games had simplistic plots and little to no character development. For this reason, the game was named “Final Fantasy,” for the game’s director thought it would be a failure for being a strange game at the time and would end his career. Nonetheless, history differed from expectations. Known for its rich lore, deep interactions between characters, and outstanding music, the series changed the role-playing genre forever. The Final Fantasy series became an international hit, selling more than 164 million units worldwide as of October 2021.

Out of all the 95 Final Fantasy games, we chose Final Fantasy XIV for the following reasons:

• It is the latest massive multiplayer online role-playing game, which has a relatively large number of characters, clans, and races.
• The wiki is well documented and detailed.
• Non-linear storyline.

The final goal of this project is to understand the game’s characters and world better through network and text analysis, comprehend how the characters are related to each other, and see the importance of the characters in their respective communities.

If you are interested about how we reached our goal or you want to see our code you can check this link to have access to our Explainer Notebook.