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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Worldbuilding"”.
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On Nature's Prototypes: Character Design and Worldbuilding
<p><em>Nature’s Prototypes</em> is an ongoing narrative series that blends realism and fiction to create both dialectic plot structures and image sets. For substance, the series utilizes biological inquiries into fields, like ecology, pathology, and bioengineering, to imagine action-centric …
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Motivated Fictionality: Worldbuilding and The Thousand and One Nights
… joint telling and picturing of the Nights as a worldbuilding practice. A way of being in—and of—the world, worlding and worldbuilding is understood here as an active, aggregative process, wherein the work of writing and visualizing fiction is indivisible from the construction and perception of …
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Creation Through Destruction: Artifacts of Worldbuilding in Experiential Legacy Games
… rituals, and games. All three utilize worldbuilding to have a profound impact on our lives and our games. By tracing their entangled evolution over time, it becomes clear that legacy games are one of their more recent forms. Legacy games employ many of the mechanisms of liberation and …
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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop
… Precarity of Images” examines how theories of worldbuilding common to the science fiction genre are applied to the making of agitational propaganda for liberation movements. In doing so, it questions how both explicit and implicit political images—posters, games, comics, illustrations, social …
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The allure of choice : agency and worldbuilding in branching-path, transmedia universes
… in this thesis looks at the intersection of worldbuilding and transmedia and where player agency can hope to fit between these traditions. The second focuses on the Game of Thrones universe, looking to understand the effects that adding the branching-path Telltale game had on this universe. …
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Flooding as Remembering: A Trickster’s Guide to Fugitive Ecology, Revolutionary Recall, and Speculative Worldbuilding Beyond the Plantationocene
Since the early days of conquest, Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous peoples of the Lower Mississippi River Delta have survived recurrent processes of settler colonial un-worlding by re-worlding sovereign lifeways rooted in reciprocal relationships to other colonized peoples and the …
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Between a Rock and a Better Place
… </em>pairs a critical preface on the role of worldbuilding in my fiction and fiction by authors I have learned from, including Ling Ma, Samuel Beckett, and J.R.R. Tolkien, with original stories. The characters in these stories grapple with Biblical plagues, health insurance conspiracies, and …
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Lucille excerpts
… The first is a ten-page craft paper analyzing worldbuilding within three novels: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The craft paper uses the book Wonderbook: The Illustrative Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff …
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Elements of Enchanted Forests: On Writing Child of the Forest
… world. The critical piece expands upon the worldbuilding, supported by the idea of soft worldbuilding and expanding on the world only when the characters knowledge allows it, giving the reader a more intimate experience. In addition, the magic system is also explored, going into ideas on …
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BOGASATSWANA: redbuilding the boat while sailing
… of origin, Botswana. It is an exercise in worldbuilding through painting, wherein I establish post-colonial Botswana as a fictional place through the interrogation of gaps within the historicised national myths of the country and locate myself in said place and medium as a subject in the …
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Imagine Another World: A Philosophical Approach to Black Speculative Arts and Literature
… builds other material or immaterial realities. Worldbuilding is a way for collective Black imaginations to experience another world that is at the very least different from the anti-Black world order. Throughout each of the four chapters, this interdisciplinary work engages speculative …
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Cogwheels of the fantastic: The mechanisms of medieval fantasy
… its relationship with violence, environment, worldbuilding, and power dynamics. This thesis aims to help establish the start of a lexicon of shared terminology and fantasy novum to better facilitate criticism of medieval fantasy as a distinct genre. Fantasy, Tolkien, and science fiction …
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The Property and Sovereignty Problems of International Repatriation
… the State, and the possibilities of decolonial worldbuilding. In this work, repatriation is considered not only a legal process but on multiple scales of meaning as a cultural, spiritual, and political process.
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SOME OF US ARE STARING AT THE STARS: SPECULATIVE FICTION, FANDOM, AND TRANS IMAGINATION
… speculative fiction as a survival strategy and worldbuilding tool. Through engagement with trans and nonbinary fans and creators of imaginative works, Damien shows how speculative fiction has powerful material effects for trans lives. Primary attention is given to the possibilities contained in …
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Undefinitive
… the human era. Using text as the foundation for worldbuilding, I construct a fragmented installation where ceramic sculptures and video projections evoke fictional histories that resist linearity and definition. By inhabiting the in-between space of human and non-human, body and mind, I explore …
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A world of difference: media translations of fantasy worlds
… wide-ranging and emphasise the possibilities of worldbuilding, making then good sources for multi-media franchises. This thesis will examine examples from these genres to examine what elements are translated to a new medium, and what is discarded. This examination will help explain how and why …
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Fake the dawn : digital game mechanics and the construction of gender in fictional worlds
… (interactive inputs) contribute to games' worldbuilding. In particular, this work is concerned with the replication and reinforcement of problematic gender roles through game mechanics that express positive ("warm") interactions between characters, namely healing, protection, and building …
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Advantages of Magic Systems in Literature
… on two main areas of discussion, ‘plot’ and ‘worldbuilding’, and how they intersect with the two broadly identifiable kinds of Magic System – ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Magic. This shall be accomplished by comparing the systems within three primary fantasy series, Harry Potter, Mistborn and The Poppy …
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A Netflix experience : reimagining the direct-to-consumer platform
… viewing. · immersion by enhancing the worldbuilding capabilities of the Netflix platform through the use of transmedia storytelling. · achievement by offering an Apple Arcade-like mobile gaming subscription on the Netflix platform. The successful execution of these ideas would make …
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