Locations Work

When I started the FMP right after I finished photocopying useful past work I spent 3 weeks working on making sketches of the fictional country and cities maps.

I googled the population of New York to get an idea of how many people live in big cities which gave me an idea of how populated they are, it was over 8 million (8.538).

First I got images of the world maps so I could show where the fictional land masses would be in relation to the rest of the real world.

Next I drew the islands and named the country after its founders the Morgan family, then I needed to decide what kind of biomes would exist in the fictional country so I used my knowledge of video games to help with this.

I knew that the game Minecraft used biomes as a part of its world building and so I found a table of all the biomes and used that as a basis to add biomes to the fictional country. I then continued to add more by using the game series Mario Kart which uses different biomes to make its race tracks more unique and Banjo-Kazooie and Crash Bandicoot as they both use biomes to make their levels more unique. All these game series and their websites helped me make a full fictional country.

Next I needed to choose the buildings that were going to be in the city, to do this I used the game series from the biome list as some of their levels were building based and then I got a list of building types and went through the list and added buildings to the city and named them after their owners, founders or the city itself.

Here is the Wikipedia page that I got the list of buildings from. (There are links at the bottom to more building types)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_building_types

I then hand drew the map mostly but realised it wasn’t good enough for me but I was running out of time so I left the map in a beta stage with a few streets in the city unfinished but I did list a few house numbers that people live at.