Beginner IntermediatedraftWorldbuilding

In-World Living Lab

Live one realistic day inside your fictional world and extract lore from experience.

Duration: 8 hours
Modules: 3
Lessons: 13
Deliverable: In-World Life Journal v0.1

Outcomes

Setup

Prepare the persona, zone, and routine for a bounded simulation.

Realistic Living

Test daily life through constraints, social contact, economy, risk, and sensory detail.

Extraction

Turn journal evidence into lore, visual direction, and a final life journal.

Ready when you are

Start with Course Orientation

Begin at the first lesson, then move through each module in sequence.

Start first lesson

Course modules

Work through each module in order, moving from concepts into practical checkpoints.

Module 1
Setup
Prepare the persona, zone, and routine for a bounded simulation.
4 lessons
1. Lesson 1Lessondraft
  Course Orientation
  Prepare for a safe, bounded in-world living simulation workflow.
  25 min
2. Lesson 2Lessondraft
  In-World Persona
  Create a persona whose daily options are shaped by the fictional world.
  35 min
3. Lesson 3Lessondraft
  Simulation Zone
  Choose the physical and social zone where the in-world day will happen.
  30 min
4. Lesson 4Lessondraft
  Daily Routine System
  Build an ordinary daily routine that can reveal world logic through action.
  35 min
Module 2
Realistic Living
Test daily life through constraints, social contact, economy, risk, and sensory detail.
6 lessons
1. Lesson 1Lessondraft
  Constraint-Based Living
  Use constraints to make the in-world day specific and testable.
  35 min
2. Lesson 2Lessondraft
  In-World Journaling Method
  Write journal entries that capture experience, friction, and lore signals.
  35 min
3. Lesson 3Lessondraft
  Social Interaction Simulation
  Test social rules through short interactions and consequences.
  40 min
4. Lesson 4Lessondraft
  Economy of Daily Life
  Model cost, access, labor, and scarcity inside an ordinary day.
  40 min
5. Lesson 5Lessondraft
  Law, Risk, and Consequence
  Make rules and danger visible through choices, penalties, and tradeoffs.
  40 min
6. Lesson 6Lessondraft
  Sensory Worldbuilding
  Use sensory detail to test the lived texture of a fictional place.
  30 min
Module 3
Extraction
Turn journal evidence into lore, visual direction, and a final life journal.
3 lessons
1. Lesson 1Checkpointdraft
  Journal to Lore Extraction
  Turn journal observations into reusable canon, questions, and revisions.
  40 min
2. Lesson 2Lessondraft
  Journal to Artwork Pipeline
  Convert journal evidence into prompts, references, and artwork direction.
  35 min
3. Lesson 3Capstonedraft
  Final In-World Life Journal
  Assemble a coherent life journal and extract next-step lore from it.
  50 min