{"id":1438,"date":"2025-02-08T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2025-03-22T18:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:44:30","slug":"world-building-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/world-building-2\/","title":{"rendered":"World Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To allow the world of Those Left Behind to flourish and be a truly believable place on Earth &#8211; I need to fill in the gaps as to how this world came to be and what its future holds, regardless of the player\u2019s choices and story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1115\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/image-4-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1444\" style=\"width:341px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/image-4-edited.png 1115w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/image-4-edited-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/image-4-edited-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/image-4-edited-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/image-4-edited-850x474.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1115px) 100vw, 1115px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franek builds a good picture of the world within his blog, especially with the addition of the contexts section. Which was also a really great excuse to call watching <em>Mad Max<\/em> &#8220;research&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To reiterate from my world designer role post, effective world building means considering and breaking down the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>World layout &amp; geography<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lore &amp; history of the world<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental storytelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Survivor cultures &amp; societies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gameplay implications of the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personally, I&#8217;m a very visual person. I like to see everything in one nicely organised place. I used online tools like miro and milanote as a visual extension of my brain. After careful inspection of the story and character sections of the GDD alongside my big list of world building elements I began to type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/02\/canvas_game-worldbuilding-250205_1958-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that I&#8217;ve got everything vaguely outlined and broken down, I will go further by delving into the most important aspects of the world, I plan to do this in the separate posts below. I&#8217;ll do this in an order that best suits delivering to my teammates, for example; working on geography first to help the environment artist, then working on history and character profiles to hand off to narrative writer and character artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To allow the world of Those Left Behind to flourish and be a truly believable place on Earth &#8211; I need to fill in the gaps as to how this world came to be and what its future holds, regardless of the player\u2019s choices and story. Franek builds a good picture of the world within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-world-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}