Worldbuilding
Sarah Drinkwater and
Worldbuilding
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
The scariest thing about technology? The humans making it. Technology isn’t inherently bad, but it’s too often in the wrong hands. If it truly speaks to and supports your audience, then don’t feel shy to utilise technologies to build your brand world and connect with your audience in more mutual ways. This is about world (not just bot) building.
MORNING • 024 - Entering Limbø, With Ø
Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future
ted.com
It doesn’t have to be the way it is is a playful statement, made in the context of fiction, with no claim to “being real.” Yet it is a subversive statement.
Subversion doesn’t suit people who, feeling their adjustment to life has been successful, want things to go on just as they are, or people who need support from authority assuring them that... See more
Subversion doesn’t suit people who, feeling their adjustment to life has been successful, want things to go on just as they are, or people who need support from authority assuring them that... See more
Ursula K. Le Guin — 28. It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is
The most ambitious art is the art of worlding
Learning about it helped me solve a puzzle:
On the inside, I feel like an introverted artist. But on the outside, I'm constantly creating social containers: residencies, classes, writing groups, etc.
The realization hit the... See more
