Wiktionary
n. 1 The celestial world. 2 The community of law-abiding citizens (compare underworld). 3 (context video games English) In certain video games, the space connecting disparate towns/dungeons/levels. It can encompass the entire world, but doesn't necessarily have to.
Wikipedia
An overworld is, in a broad sense, an area within a video game that interconnects all its levels or locations. They are mostly common in role-playing games, though this does not exclude other video game genres.
Overworlds generally feature a top-down view or a third-person perspective of the fictional world within the game. It often contains varied terrain (including caves, mountains, forests, and bodies of water) and a collection of towns and other locations (most commonly dungeons or levels). When the party enters one of these locations the world map display may remain on the screen, be replaced by the local geography, or be hidden until the party exits the location. In many games, the player is able to travel on the world map; in other games, the player uses the world map to select their next location. Typically, a dungeon houses a host of enemies, while a town usually is safe. In some games, there are a series of world maps. Some games allow the player to view only a portion of the world map at the beginning of the game, with new locations becoming visible as the game progresses, whereas other games show the entire world map from the beginning.
The term "overworld" also refers to the opposite of the "underworld"—the world underneath the ground.
Overworld is the third album by the Swedish metal band Machinae Supremacy, which was released on 19 August 2008.
Overworld is an alternative metal band from Sweden, formed in 2011 in Stockholm. The band is composed of guitarists Nikke and Kaz, bassist Lynx and the drummer Andie. Despite the band being young and newly formed, its members are not new to the scene, having previously played in other Swedish underground acts. They play a type of music self-titled as "adrenaline rock 'n' roll metal".
The band's name originates from a drunken conversation between Kaz and Andie about taking over the world, a phrase which was shortened to become "Overworld".
Overworld may refer to:
- Overworld, the area within a video game that interconnects all its locations
- Overworld (Savant album), 2012 electronic music album by Aleksander Vinter under the alias "Savant"
- Overworld (Machinae Supremacy album), 2008 album by metal band Machinae Supremacy
- Overworld (band), Swedish alt-metal group
Usage examples of "overworld".
It felt cozy and secure and familiar, and she found she could think her own thoughts, and not dwell on the overworld and the terror it still held for her.
She knew the overworld frightened her, but until that moment she had not known the extent of her fear.
Istvana had told her that it was a normal part of the work of those in the Towers, to move about the overworld from time to time.
She had sent Donal into the overworld with a few ill-chosen words, never suspecting she could do such a thing, and it was not a trivial matter.
But the Tower of Mirrors is gone, and there is now nothing in the overworld to fear.
I think when you pulled the keystone out of the Tower in the overworld, you also seared the physical one on Darkover.
Callista, moving through the overworld, the world of thought and illusion, had led him through the blizzard, after the crash of the plane.
As he had done then, he reached for her, only to find that she was not there at all, that she was not on this plane at all, but that her form, through the overworld, which she had explained as the energy-net double of the real world, had come to him through space and perhaps time as well, taking shape to mock him.
Then he was standing on the gray and formless plain, seeing with surprise that behind him, in the overworld, there was a landmark, a dim structure, still shadowy.
Time in the overworld seemed to run on a different scale and was not even consistent, but something else entirely, so that sometimes a brief conversation would last for hours, and at other times a lengthy journey which, subjectively, seemed to endure for days, would flash by in the blink of an eye.
Damon had told him once that at times, in sleep, the mind moved into the overworld, without any conscious thought.
Andrew and Ellemir looked more dim, and he saw that they were asleep on the other furniture, because they were here only in his mind, not conscious on the overworld level at all.
If his breathing faltered, if his circulation was impaired by the cramped position, if, even, he developed an itch which could disturb his concentration here in the overworld, she could repair the damage long before he was conscious of it.
Here in the overworld, where no hint of physical passion could lend danger to the gesture or the thought, he reached for Leonie, and as he had longed to do through many hoepless years, he took her in his arms and kissed her.
Now he must go into the overworld, into time itself, and search for help there, for a way to bring Callista back to them.