Lore Design

Lore Design

Lore Design is the process of creating the background stories, histories, and rules that shape the world inside a game. In game development, designers use Lore Design to decide why places look a certain way, why characters act as they do, and what events happened before the player arrives. This work helps make the game world feel real and gives players reasons to care about what happens. Designers often use visual clues, like old buildings or special symbols, to show parts of the lore without using words. Lore Design can help guide the look of objects, the style of maps, and even the way music sounds in the game. When designers plan lore early, it can make it easier to keep the whole game world consistent as it grows.

game narrative, worldbuilding, environmental storytelling, character backstory, interactive storytelling

— Kevin Green