Worldbuilding and Speculative Systems

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TRACK

Design believable invented worlds through constraints, ecology, institutions, technology, culture, narrative pressure, and symbolic coherence.

How do I design a believable speculative world by choosing constraints, causal systems, institutions, cultures, technologies, maps, and selective details that create narrative pressure?

8 lessons

Continues to Procedural Generation and World Systems

LESSONS

1. 001
   Worlds Start With Constraints
   [TODO]
2. 002
   Ecology, Resources, and Daily Life
   [TODO]
3. 003
   Institutions, Law, and Power
   [TODO]
4. 004
   Technology and Magic as Systems
   [TODO]
5. 005
   Culture, Symbol, and Memory
   [TODO]
6. 006
   Maps, Timelines, and Hidden Causality
   [TODO]
7. 007
   Narrative Pressure and Selective Detail REVIEW
   [TODO]
8. 008
   Capstone: Build a Speculative World Brief CAPSTONE
   [TODO]

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