A Greeting from the editors

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Special Issue: Advances in Transmedia Character Personality Design Dear colleagues, researchers, authors, and readers, We are delighted to welcome this special issue devoted to advances in transmedia character personality design. As editors, we value initiatives that bring researchers and creative practitioners together, encourage the exchange of ideas, and open new directions for scientific inquiry. We are pleased to provide a place in our journal for research of this kind: work that combines theoretical reflection with creative experimentation and the study of emerging media practices. The issue grows out of the discussions and research exchange associated with XARTS 2025, the International Conference and Summer School on Extended Arts, held in Syros in June 2025. The call invited researchers and practitioners to share approaches, practices, and experiences related to the personality of digital characters in transmedia worlds. Following a double-blind peer-review process, nine papers were selected from seventeen submissions. We thank the authors, reviewers, and everyone who contributed to this initiative. We hope that the work gathered here will be useful to the academic and research community, stimulate further discussion, and support new studies of digital characters, transmedia storytelling, interactive experience, and the creative technologies shaping these fields.