worldbuilder

English

Etymology

world +‎ builder

Noun

worldbuilder (plural 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.