EGAM-263: World Building

This class will not only examine a variety of iconic verbal and visual storyworlds of mainstream entertainment - across films, games, comics, animation, novels and television - forensically deconstructing them to better understand what makes them thrive. Understanding the critical creative architecture of worldbuilding will then allow the students consciously build their own world. From defining the commerciality of the idea to the shape and the map of the location to character groups that populate the world to the social values and cultural structures that define life in the storyworld, students will finish the term by crafting their own unique, immersive storyworld that will be primed to expand into and thrive across a variety of mediums. Course Learning Outcomes: The student will learn the core creative strategies required to successfully create a storyworld across multiple mediums.