For those that feel the topic of World Building was neglected during the week, I have found some additional resources for you. Please review them as you feel necessary.
Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions by Patricia C. Wrede
Presenters for next week...
Tuesday, November 5th
Transmedia & New Media with Caitlin Shamess
Level Design & Scripting with Dylan Orgeron
Thursday, November 7th
Level Design & Scripting with Marissa Covarrubias
Level Design & Scripting with Brian Lin
For participation points for the week...
Provide one example from a video game, film, TV show, or book in which the setting can be considered a character in the metaphorical sense. Explain. Use the comments below to post a reply.
Shutter Island - *Going to try to say this with spoiling as little as posssible* - I would argue that the setting in Shutter Island is a character in the sense that it changes as "the mind of one of the character's" changes as well. The setting is actually someone's perception of reality, not reality itself.
ReplyDeleteInception - the main settings of the story are dreams created from individual minds of the main characters. The setting changes when the character changes his perception of the dream, an attempt to control the power of that inception. For instance, for one to see a lost loved one, he dreamed of her appearance in his dream in a happy setting on a beach or in a house. When the bad guys and shooting gets involved, the happiness of that dream collapses as the story gets dark and intense.
ReplyDeleteSpore, arguably has planets as individual characters. They have their own creatures, with their own stage of development, which makes it possible to see what stage of development the planet is currently in. Even before the space stage the world can still be considered a character, because it changes as you interact with it and move up in the game.
ReplyDeleteThe Matrix - the world where everyone is conscious in "The Matrix" can be considered a character because it takes peoples minds and forms a world that suits everyone. Its also conscious if something is going wrong in the world that it created and send "reinforcements" to help fix the problem. So "The Matrix could be considered as a metaphorical characters on how it reacts to the other characters in the story
ReplyDeleteAnkh-Morpork, the main setting of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels, is a highly individual city reacting on the Theory of Narrative Causality and the actions taken by characters with varying levels of genre savvy. Whatever the characters do, the city reacts to it and magnifies it, so it's almost as if Ankh-Morpork is a character herself.
ReplyDeleteCorrect me if I am wrong, but I believe one of the islands in Warcraft, one of the Panda islands, is actually a living turtle. And when he gets injured, it actually changes the setting and causes problems for everyone living on the "island".
ReplyDeleteIn the movie the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus one of the setting takes place in the doctor's mind where it is a world that he controls and other people can walk into his mind making him apart of the setting of the movie.
ReplyDeleteFor example the movie freddy cougar was a prefect example. When the person dreams they end up in another dimension. on the third one he came out of the dream in to reality to fight jason. but in the 2nd he was also brought out to be killed but the way all the time traveling and laps and being in peoples thoughts all some up to your question.
ReplyDeleteThe city in Dishonored changes with how you play the game. The more people you kill, the darker and more chaotic the setting is. The less people you kill, the lighter and more peaceful the setting.
ReplyDeleteFable. The world will love or despise you based on your actions. The world that you create is as much of a character as you are.
ReplyDeleteInception--the dream is the character that the dream in for/from. It transforms with that person. Not the consciousness of the person in it but the subconscious that the dream exists for. The dream changes with the realization of the subconscious and the people in the dream, as part of the setting, act out on the invaders.
ReplyDeleteIn Lost, the island a living entity capable of making choices and decisions.
ReplyDeleteNarnia - in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the world reacts based on who is in power.
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