Worldbuilding
Sarah Drinkwater and
Worldbuilding
projects like Invisible Seattle and Loot prove that inventive and imaginative results can emerge from collaboration, producing works that defy easy categorization and commercialization.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
world building is the new web design
thoughts on the creative tensions of Disneyland: between art and commerce, the child vs. the adult, what you can see vs. what’s hidden, and surrendering vs. control.
Austin Kleon • Imagineering
Paradoxically, the most reliable method to envision and plan for futures, isn’t just studying and extrapolating scientific facts, historical developments, psychology and demography, but by building stories beyond our wildest imagination.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
What role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons pioneered was using the same gameplay mechanics not to fight tabletop wars but to tell stories, centered not on armies but on individual characters of a player’s own creation. The point of playing was not to beat your opponent but to share in the thrill of making up worlds and pretending to act in... See more
The New Atlantis • Reality Is Just a Game Now
