This week we were placed into teams which we will be working in for our assignment ‘Design a world’. Originally, we were placed in teams of teams of 10 and tasked with coming up with 100 ideas for worlds. The brainstorming went well, with everyone contributing and suggesting ideas which came into their head. The teams were then split in half, and divided into two groups of 5. This came as a bit of a shock but we were able to come up with 100 more ideas to work with. At the end of the session we agreed to each take our 5 top ideas and rank them from 1-5 so that we could decide with idea we all liked the best. I also posted in the discord channel all the information for one of our team members who had to leave early. We arranged our meeting place before we left class so that we could easily coordinate with everyone’s schedules.
When we met on Monday, we found that there was a few common world designs which everyone liked. The top 5 were:
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Hell as a convenience store2. Mirror gateway dimension3. Every human is secretly a monster4. Tattoos are sentient5. Tv dimension travelWe discussed as a group a way to bring all of the top 5 ideas into one final concept for our world building. Ultimately, we decided on the concept of monsters who hide among humans, but can use secret portals inside tv screens to travel to a hell dimension. There, they are able to buy evil products from hell convenience stores.
We decided to each work on mood-boards to brainstorm initial ideas for characters and settings and I set up a One Drive file for everyone to put their work in.