A great way to ruin a videogame for me and my children is to require us to name the main character. Five minutes into the game everything stops and we have to type in the name we will use for the rest of the adventure. And this will be the point where my oldest daughter will shut down, completely overcome by indecision. “Just give them a name! Any name!” I’ll find myself yelling, 30 minutes later, still staring at a blinking cursor on the screen. But she will be curled up in a ball on the couch behind me, mumbling incoherently, looking through one of her mother’s old baby name books. “I can’t! I just can’t! It’s too much pressure! Whatever we name them…