Worldbuilding
Sarah Drinkwater and
Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding, for me, was a form of expansive hope—a necessary imagination for being alive.
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
Yatú: Head of Fiction is Norm. Head of Reality is me.
(USB club job titles the co-founders gave themselves)
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
How to Fall in Love With a System: Coziness as a Catalyst for Participatory Agency
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“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger