Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games

Chapter 5 Identity, World Systems, and Responsibility

DOI: 10.1201/9781003345619-6

Now that we have all this theory and best practices under our belts, I want to shift focus. Worldbuilding is, inherently, a political practice. And worldbuilding is not worldbuilding in a vacuum. Yes, we can create brand new secondary worlds, with new sociopolitical systems, with new interpersonal dynamics, but at the end of the day we are still human and we will be drawing upon our existing framework, whether we want to or not. And because this book is about cross-discipline collaboration as a key part of worldbuilding, I want to focus on our responsibilities as worldbuilders when it comes to the potential for replicating harm we possess; in other words, what ...