Worldbuilding blog
Feb. 5th, 2017 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioHey, Dreamwidth folks... I've syndicated Universe Factory, the blog of the Worldbuilding Stack Exchange community, here on DW. We started the blog late in 2015; you can see a complete list of posts, including some from me.
Some specific links:
- Fight Earnestly and Hit Them in the Gaps, two articles from a HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts) student.
- Articles on generating rivers, using cellular automata to generate terrain (yes, like in Game of Life), and using distortion fields to generate continents. I believe the author of this series is our first contributor who found us via Medium instead of via Stack Exchange.
- An article on calculating political power.
- Building a Truly Alien Alien.
- When Am I? Navigation for Time Travelers
That's all in the last two months. Among older articles, you might enjoy:
- Building the World of Pangaea, an interview I did with Michael Burstein (mabfan) about the worldbuilding behind a shared-world anthology he was part of (edited by Michael Jan Friedman). That reminds me: wasn't book 2 supposed to be out around now?
- Nature's Oven, a short story.
- Worldbuilding As You Go: A Case Study, which is about how I approached writing The Sisters' War (Chapter 1, summary of the story so far).
- What if the world was (completely) round?
- My Revelation for RPGs series (link is to the index).
Some specific links:
- Fight Earnestly and Hit Them in the Gaps, two articles from a HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts) student.
- Articles on generating rivers, using cellular automata to generate terrain (yes, like in Game of Life), and using distortion fields to generate continents. I believe the author of this series is our first contributor who found us via Medium instead of via Stack Exchange.
- An article on calculating political power.
- Building a Truly Alien Alien.
- When Am I? Navigation for Time Travelers
That's all in the last two months. Among older articles, you might enjoy:
- Building the World of Pangaea, an interview I did with Michael Burstein (
mabfan) about the worldbuilding behind a shared-world anthology he was part of (edited by Michael Jan Friedman). That reminds me: wasn't book 2 supposed to be out around now?- Nature's Oven, a short story.
- Worldbuilding As You Go: A Case Study, which is about how I approached writing The Sisters' War (Chapter 1, summary of the story so far).
- What if the world was (completely) round?
- My Revelation for RPGs series (link is to the index).
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Date: 2017-02-06 07:59 pm (UTC)One of my favorites -- for one of my in-progress LARPs, I have some *seriously* alien aliens. The considerable physical differences aside, they have a completely different conception of *time* than humans do. (Suffice it to say, there are some psychic powers involved.) Their interaction with humanity gets quickly and deeply weird, and exploring the ramifications has been fascinating.
Of course, doing this in a LARP means somebody has to actually *play* them. I think they're going to have to be NPCs, but I'm going to go looking for somebody who wants a really serious roleplaying challenge...
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Date: 2017-02-09 01:52 pm (UTC)