What is the purpose of a Game World?

Monkey Island is where the game world is the game, the purpose is to create an interactive environment for the player to explore. And this really provides entertainment for the player.

In counter strike the game focuses on the actions of moving, and the usage of weapons. The experienced player experience abstraction of the game world and for the new players it's about immersion.

Approaches to Game World Design

Top down refers to a whole experience before the individual components are designed (new games).

Maps are used in TV, books, films and games, this is a common tool to help the player about the location and understand the game world. In game world maps are also useful to help with the immersion. Each game presents its map and have different goals and expectation from the player. [8] Overall the maps says a lot of the game.

The game is set in the Heian period 794 - 1185 which took place in Heian-kyo in Japan. The game world is different compared how it is today, the culture and art. The Heian-kyo is a huge palace noted with their art, the Japanese took ideas from China and took them to Japan. The huge palace in Heian-kyo reflects its architecture taken from the Chinese inspiration [1]. As well as their Buddhist temples and Japanese art that still exists today [2]. Outside the temple is a country side which is meant for the lower ranked people. [6]

There will be 7,000,000 people in the game world govern by an emperor [4]. The Fujiwara clan dominates the Japanese government, they are warriors (samurais) to govern the country. They would go to the country side to collect taxes, although there were clans created by farmers in the countryside [10]. The reason was to protect themselves. The classes: emperor (highest), Fujiwara clan (high) and humans(lowest) will be in different ranks and live in different areas. The emperor and Fujiwara clan will be in the palace while the humans live in the country side.

Depending where the people lived, either the palace or the country side people would value different things. People valued imperialism and trade this was through the ideas the Japanese got from the Chinese. Both clothing and building were inspired from the Chinese, the building style were taken from the Buddhism in China.

The clothing as we are familiar with is the kimono. The two famous clothing are sokutai for men and itsutsuginu-karaginu-mo for women. [7] The men who wear the sokutai have a long narrow train trailing behind them, depending on the ranks the clothing were in different colours [8]. The itsutsuginu-karaginu-mo is a long half skirt to the hips and a trailing behind the back. This clothing consisted of twelve layers. The layers of colours would represent the woman and her rank. [9]

However, my idea is that the people will be in a lower rank, so the colour would be in a mud yellow colour. The fabrics are very straight narrow and long. The darker colour, the higher rank.