Course Title: Metaverse & Worldbuilding Design
Course Description:
This pathway explores the future of interconnected digital worlds and shared virtual experiences. Students learn to design immersive, social, and persistent environments that connect people through interactive storytelling and world systems. The curriculum blends game design, environment design, social interaction, and virtual economy development, preparing graduates to lead in the emerging metaverse industry.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Design expansive worlds that support social interaction and exploration.
- Create systems for multiplayer connectivity and shared experiences.
- Integrate avatars, identity customization, and progression systems.
- Develop functional in-world economies and reward structures.
- Blend AR, VR, and mixed-reality technologies to create connected experiences.
- Conceptualize and produce a prototype of a persistent virtual world.
Prerequisites: None (prior experience with 3D or game engines recommended but not required).
Curriculum
- 2 Sections
- 6 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- LessonsThis course focuses on designing immersive environments that communicate story and emotion through architecture, scale, and detail.5
- Capstone ProjectStudents design and produce a fully realized connected virtual world prototype that demonstrates social, economic, and narrative systems.1
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