{"id":111,"date":"2024-10-23T19:23:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/?p=111"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:33:51","slug":"week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/2024\/10\/23\/week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 &#8211; Game Spaces &amp; World Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Game Spaces &amp; World Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week was all about world building and the elements that go into making a rich gameworld. During the lectures, we identified environments, events, and characters as some of the few aspects that go into making a good gameworld. We also distinguished the difference between what makes a gameworld a place vs a space. And a space only becomes a place when it has been filled with human connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, we were given a task about world building in which we had to create a world profile using prompts. I paired up with my classmate, Esi and we used the pre-written sentences to make a world inspired by Greek mythology. During this process, I found that as we picked from the prompts, they followed a theme so the exercise had it&#8217;s intended purpose of helping us make a world where the elements worked together and were meaningful to the players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"357\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/10\/Worldbuilding-Warm-Up.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" style=\"width:304px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/10\/Worldbuilding-Warm-Up.png 357w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/10\/Worldbuilding-Warm-Up-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/10\/Worldbuilding-Warm-Up-300x405.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were introduced to a guest speaker during our next lecture and we were told of the importance of context when creating realistic worlds and biomes. The key takeaways from this lecture were: use references, stick to biomes, and breakdown the environment to understand its specific characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">gameworld breakdown <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-79fb870f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9630e6e2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Spaces &amp; World Building This week was all about world building and the elements that go into making a rich gameworld. During the lectures, we identified environments, events, and characters as some of the few aspects that go into making a good gameworld. We also distinguished the difference between what makes a gameworld a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-summaries","category-year-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}