Getting Beyond Movie Flats: Societies and Worldbuilding
Title:
Getting Beyond Movie Flats: Societies and Worldbuilding
Year:
2024
Original Order:
16175
Game:
WKS24ND262603
Group:
Gen Con Writers Symposium
Short Description:
Victor Raymond Sociology PhD teaches a hands-on workshop about worldbuilding and societies, and why social forces are vital to consider when building a believable background for your novel or game.
Long Description:
Victor Raymond PhD teaches a hands-on workshop about worldbuilding and societies in speculative fiction and gaming, and why social forces are vital to consider when building a background for your novel or game setting. Participants will have the chance to collectively develop a fantasy background, showing how social forces such as economics, history, language, culture, and politics all interact to provide depth, making that background come alive for readers and players. Drawing on concepts such as the unreliable narrator, the victorious perspective, queer readings, and subversive alternate narratives, participants will learn how to productively complicate things, building space for further development of any fantasy world. Some materials will be provided. Featuring: Victor Raymond PhD #gcws #classroom #worldbuilding
Event Type:
WKS - Workshop
Minimum Players:
1
Maximum Players:
86
Age Required:
Mature (18+)
Experience Required:
None (You've never played before - rules will be taught)