History Main / Worldbuilding

* ''Literature/TheSagaOfRecluce'' by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

* "VideoGame/Centaura" has quite a huge amount of lore and background to show off, even giving brief backstories for how the Southern Corvus War (the war that started Centaura) began. While most of the lore is not entirely in game, the rest in Centaura and Dead Ahead's Discord server, wiki, and lore document, it is much more than what other Roblox games provide.

** Miller's films in general usually exceeds in worldbuilding.

%%* Creator/MasashiKishimoto's ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', the SequelSeries ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', expands upon this, as it builds up from elements introduced in the prequel series.

* ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' purportedly spent seven of its ten-year development cycle on world building, creating the tons of characters and the various looks and cultures of the {{Floating Continent}}s.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Blackburn}}'' is heavily based on worldbuilding. Much of the story is dedicated to the lore of the city, and introducing tons of characters who will be more important later.

* The Rev. W. Awdry, the author of ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'', spent roughly four years "mapping" the Island of Sodor, which in the books, takes the place of the real-life Walney Island. The end result is a plausible world with a realistic railway network.

* The ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' is, in a few words, a really big world where every character from the main characters all the way down to [=NPCs=] that players can interact have an ongoing story that's happening while the plot is moving forward. From the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Liberl arc]], the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Crossbell arc]], the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Erebonia arc]], ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie'' and the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesKuroNoKiseki Calvard arc]], there's hundreds of hours of plot content plus side quests that help build up the lore of the franchise. And they're all interconnected as well.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' is built on this trope; Creator/KurtBusiek has mapped out the entire timeline of the 'verse and will not hesitate to include throwaway references to unexplained people, places, and events in its own history. These often appear to the reader as {{Call Back}}s, {{Cryptic Background Reference}}s, and {{Continuity Nod}}s, creating a very strong sense of a fully interconnected narrative universe.

* The creation of a FantasyWorldMap, history, geography, ecology, [[{{Mythopoeia}} mythology]], several different cultures in detail, and usually a set of "ground rules", [[MagicAIsMagicA metaphysical]] or otherwise. Sometimes, such worlds will have a CreationMyth that's either hinted at or told in more detailed fashion. This kind of worldbuilding can go to the extreme of working out entire [[ConLang constructed languages]]. Authors typically revise constructed worlds to complete a single work in a series.

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing a fictional universe. It is an important task for storytellers and creators in science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative fiction (e.g., alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction). The world that the author builds could be as small as an isolated village or as vast an a fictional galaxy. Strictly speaking, anything that happens in that universe "builds" it, so "worldbuilding" is only used to describe the invention of fictional details for some reason other than the convenience of a currently ongoing story, up to and including [[DoingItForTheArt simply engaging in worldbuilding for its own sake]].

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing a fictional universe. It is an important task for storytellers and creators in science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative fiction (e.g., alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction). Strictly speaking, anything that happens in that universe "builds" it, so "worldbuilding" is only used to describe the invention of fictional details for some reason other than the convenience of a currently ongoing story, up to and including [[DoingItForTheArt simply engaging in worldbuilding for its own sake]].

A common form of worldbuilding is the creation of history. This could just be a FramingDevice for a story told by a historian, but fantasy worlds regularly include historical notes for centuries of warfare and intrigue. Stories can then be written at various points along that timeline, and each of those stories will have a clear relationship to all the others. It makes the writing of serial fiction much easier, especially if the series has multiple authors. If so, the fictional universe is a SharedUniverse.

The result may sometimes be called a ConstructedWorld, conworld or (Tolkien's word) sub-creation. The term world-building was popularized at science fiction writers' workshops during the 1970s. It connotes a focus on detail and consistency. Many post-''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' {{Fantasy}} and post-''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' ScienceFiction writers use world-building in an attempt to give their stories weight and meaning that they would not have without a well-defined setting.

Constructed worlds frequently have their own aesthetics, above and beyond the aesthetics of the stories taking place in those worlds. Some artists and hobbyists build fictional worlds with no intention of writing any stories in them--at least, none more detailed than historical documents.

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing a fictional universe. It is an important task for storytellers and creators in science fiction and fantasy. Strictly speaking, anything that happens in that universe "builds" it, so "worldbuilding" is only used to describe the invention of fictional details for some reason other than the convenience of a currently ongoing story, up to and including [[DoingItForTheArt simply engaging in worldbuilding for its own sake]].

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing a fictional universe. Strictly speaking, anything that happens in that universe "builds" it, so "worldbuilding" is only used to describe the invention of fictional details for some reason other than the convenience of a currently ongoing story, up to and including [[DoingItForTheArt simply engaging in worldbuilding for its own sake]].

* Forest Bed from ''VideoGame/TheTraderOfStories''. It's [[SceneryPorn pretty]].

* Shiden Kanzaki's light novel series ''LightNovel/BlackBullet'' has this with prologues, epilogues, and exposition. Unfortunately [[CompressedAdaptation most of the world building was cut out]] in the anime.
* Kazuma Kamachi's Light Novel series ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has a lot of worldbuilding.

* The reason that the ''WebOriginal/{{Smegolia}}'' universe was created for. Just a dump for science fantasy world building ideas and concepts...and to give the the Smegolian species their own world.