<p>Studio, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Requisites: courses 101 or 104, and 131. Worldbuilding is an art that has been around for thousands of years as a central component in ancient cosmologies, mythologies, and theologies. It thrives today within contexts of comics, computer games, serialized fiction, television series, theme parks, and transmedia marketing enterprise (and their discontents). Worldbuilding is the process of creating a framework where narrative unfolds. Study covers worldbuilding concepts and techniques through written assignments, class presentations, discussions, multi-component creative project, and technical demos. Focus on building rich and compelling navigable environments using software, sound, text, and visuals as well as printed/physical materials. Use of Unity 3D game engine as the primary worldbuilding tool with additional preferred image making tools. Letter grading.</p>

Design|Media Arts

School of the Arts and Architecture

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DESMA 128 - Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding

Learn to create and work within a detailed week-by-week production schedule to complete one large-scale project using the duration of the course

Learn about worldbuilding as a unique craft and methodology through lectures, readings, and other media

Conceptualize and outline the components that make up a rich “world” as an environment and context where narrative(s) may unfold

Use a Computer Game Engine or Virtual Reality creation tool (such as Unity, Unreal, or Godot) to create a navigable environment that combines, visuals, sound and text 

General Catalog

Worldbuilding

DESMA 128

5 units