Worldbuilding + Narrative Design Research Lab | Miami University | Emerging Technology in Business + Design
by Alana Arnold
Aliens are kidnapped from their planet and are experimented on by humans. They escape and start taking over the world, and taking down humans along with it. An average family is on a mission to escape this horrible outbreak, but will they get to their destination safely?
by Allie Williams, Logan Briede, William Howard, and Aidan Quigley
Tranala, a world much like our own, is forever changed by a magical blast. Alongside humans, three fantastical humanoid races arise: the Dacon bear people, the Syreni aquatic mammals, and the Entrass tree people. Each has their own countries, cultures, government, and values, but they all live together in relative, if somewhat uneasy, peace. The blast also caused the separation of people’s souls from their bodies, with the ability to harness and manifest one’s soul based on one’s personality and desires called psychonic. However, when peace is threatened by a cult wanting to steal people’s psychonic, will heroes arise to save the world?
by Elizabeth Cool Leitzell, Brandon Weichert, Jolene Hampton, Tori Medina
In a world of astrological powers and constant conflict, a girl sets out to save her sibling from themself. Journey across the planet, meet new allies, and uncover the secrets of astrology to defeat those who seek to use the power of the stars for their own twisted ends.
by J Scherrer, Connor Zielinski, Darcy Hayes, Christen Niedzielski, Tommy Bozzelli
Cass lives a simple life in the city of Casterial, working at his adoptive father’s shipyard to construct aircrafts. Most people in Casterial will never journey beyond the city, into the dense, dangerous Everhaze which covers most of the rest of the world, but Cass longs to venture into that majestic unknown. When an opportunity to see that world falls into his lap, Cass sets forth to discover why the Everhaze is so feared and the beauty of the world beyond the home he’s known all his life – a choice that brings him face to face with the dread pirates and other entities hidden in the Everhaze.
by Michael Ferguson, Shea Hardy, Jacob Kaplan, and Jeff Overholser
In an Old Western style desert, vampires live underground and take on the characteristics of the animal they feed from. A young reptile vampire has her family taken from her by a group of vampires that go against the status quo in order to gain power. She goes on a journey to fight them and get her brother back, dodging vampire hunters all the way.
by Sadie Zeedrich, Aiden Pearson, Jasmine Pearson, Keaton Ramey, Josef Arnold
In the land above the clouds, a boy named Eryth lives with his tribe. They call the land of Eebe their home, a place made up of many small floating islands settled high above the world of Stratostria. All he knows about that world is that it’s safer for them to stay away from those larger islands and settlements. When a merchant shows up to Eebe wounded, Ereth finds his morals clashing with the tribe’s secrecy. What comes next has the chance to change everything, and possibly spell disaster.
by Noah Davis, Benny Makias, Amber Carrico, Jared Ellis
On the mythical planet of Adar, a secret magical dimension called “The Blur” merged with reality, introducing space-manipulating magic into the world. Centuries after this convergence, a power vacuum at the highest level of magical power leads one young Kobold to discover his true magical potential.