Worldbuilding for Game Designers

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Our modern world is dominated by giant media companies and increasingly they don’t so much sell story characters or gameplay as they do their setting. Fictional worlds are big business and represent big value to companies and audiences alike and they are increasingly expected and demanded by both. As yet however the art of building worlds has only been taught to writers of novels or films. The same worlds are frequently used across different modes of media but successfully adapting them to games or building them for this purpose requires a specific approach. Unlike all other artforms games mandate participation with the audience stepping into the world of the game and taking on the roles th…