Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games

by Kaitlin Tremblay

Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games is a theoretical and practical deep dive into the craft of worldbuilding for video games, with an explicit focus on how different job disciplines contribute to worldbuilding. In addition to providing clearer lenses for recognizing the various components in creating fictional and digital worlds, the author positions worldbuilding as a reciprocal and dynamic process, which acknowledges that worldbuilding is both created by and instrumental design for narrative, gameplay, art, audio, and more. This book encourages mutual respect and collaboration among teams and provide game writers and narrative designers tools for effectively incorporating other job roles into their own worldbuilding practice and vice versa.

Features:



Provides in-depth exploration of worldbuilding via respective job disciplines

Deep dives and case studies into a variety of games, both AAA and indie

Includes boxed articles for deeper interrogation and exploration of key ideas

Contains templates and checklists for practical tips on worldbuilding

214 pages, Paperback

Published March 8, 2023

About the author

Kaitlin Tremblay (they/she) is a queer horror writer and video game developer.

Reviews

[Heather Cleveland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great breakdown of world building from the lens of everyone involved in making a game. Highly recommend for both people in game development and people wanting to get into it