How do you create lore and build worlds for your games?

In the distant future, an intelligent alien collective has completely eradicated the human race, sparing only a single human brain. This brain is then utilized to create a race of humanoid robots interconnected through a hive mind and tasked with building a colony for their alien overlords. What if one of these robotic servants became self-aware of their situation, fought against their captors, and ultimately managed to break free?

Just look at how Fromsoftware is doing the lore. They are the best of all when coming to game design. and their recoreds can prove this!

I'm building a new studio and the project convinced two guys to work with me for the prototype, for "free". The original Idea started as a plain description of the world I wanted to build and it got SO MUCH BETTER when we put it the "What if" formula: "what if the villagers of this world need to survive?"

As the path of evolution takes its form, transformations require great sacrifices, leaving behind everything. The Earth saga is now a faded memory in humanity’s history and survival. Humans are not the only interstellar lifeforms with the intention to endure the cosmos. In a finite universe resources and habitable planets have become a rarity. The current home planet needs now to colonize a further 6 identified planets to secure humanity’s future and defend against increasing alien attack. Cosmic Force Cadets are being recruited and trained to build the colony’s infrastructure, find resources, and also be the brave, fearless first line of planetary defense.

This hive mind scenario was practical from actual bee colonies and other science fiction works. The humanoid servant robotics would mainly be synthetic beings that have no expression and are driven off of essential functions.

The Cosmic Force Metaverse is the Solar System TRAPPIST 1 with Red Dwarf 1a The star of the TRAPPIST-1 system is a red ultra-cool dwarf, the least massive type of star. In contrast the earth's sun, the TRAPPIST-1 star is so cool that liquid water exists on planets orbiting very close to it. This star also shines brightest in infrared wavelengths, which are invisible to the human eye. The TRAPPIST-1 system contains a total of seven planets. While Red-1b, Yellow-1c, Cyan-1g and Magenta-1h require life support environments to be in place the remaining three planets have the right conditions to harbor life without support. Rare minerals and rewards are available on ALL planets but the most rare could be on the inner and outer.

I freelance Narrative Design on the side. One thing I like to use, and that I also find super fun, is that not everything needs to be explained. Whether it's a custom in your world. A type of item/weapon or even a major historical event. The imagination of the consumer/player/reader can sometimes be better than anything you come up with. A bit like not seeing the monster in a horror film. It works for all storytelling mediums. Google the "Cow Tools" narrative concept to read about it in more detail.

The current home planet needs now to colonize a further 6 identified planets to secure humanity’s future and defend against increasing alien attack. Cosmic Force Cadets are being recruited and trained to build the colony’s infrastructure, find resources, and also be the brave, fearless first line of planetary defense.

Properly organized lore will also contribute to your internal teams. Coming from a localization background, I have witnessed multiple times how in-house localization teams are struggling to find accurate information on the IP they are working on, having to constantly rely on questioning colleagues or browsing through fan-made Wikipedia-style databases. Put some effort and allocate resources to keep your lore database consistent, this will improve the overall efficiency of your team.

We created a map of time and events as a reference. Timeline kept in earth years for records purposes Basic timeline chapters intro Some backstory 2364 - 1st January ARC I leaves earth : population on board 1000, five dogs, five cats, two rabbits and stored genetics of numerous animal and plant species 2364 - 2nd June ARC II leaves earth : population on board 1000, six dogs, four cats, two guinea pigs and stored genetics of numerous animal and plant species 2364 - 3rd December ARC III leaves earth : population on board 1000, three dogs, seven cats, two mice and stored genetics of numerous animal and plant species 2371 - Waking from cryo on ship 2596 - Incident on ship

I tend to build strategy games. In titles of this nature, one thing we try to do is to make the world believable and consistent, so players know what to do and intuitively recognize ways of solving problems. Our best games are ones where the world and your actions "just make sense". In some games, we've also had success delving deeply into scientifically accurate representations of the world. For example, in one game we build an extremely sophisticated galaxy generator that started with a star's position on the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram and used that to create the star and a plausible set of planets with specific characteristics that then drove which races would/could occupy them. Once properly balanced, this created its own narratives.