worldbuilderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

world +‎ builder

名詞

worldbuilder (複数形 worldbuilders)

1. One who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc.
   • 2001, Neal Hallford, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games (page 207)

     Many mistake my approach as hostile to the sacrosanct memory of J. R. R. Tolkien, undoubtedly one of the greatest worldbuilders of the 20th century and indirectly the father of both a literary and a gaming genre.

   • 1989, Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott, A Sociology of the Absurd

     We are weary of theoretical worldbuilders who strive to construct logical designs that weave together all components of the social fabric.