Bring your world to life
The Worldbuilder’s Guild is coming. Those are the words currently on the Guild’s homepage, as you can see from the featured image above. Back in August I added a free resource library to the Worldbuilding School. This was a beta test for the Guild, and it received great feed back from the people who signed […]
Imagine this. You’ve been called into the office of Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company. He welcomes you in, motions to a chair and then begins: “I want you to put together a worldbuilding dream team as a task force to build a brand new intellectual property from scratch. Money isn’t an issue, […]
Have you ever dreamed of inviting other authors to write a story in your world? Sure, most authors are busy writing their own novel, and novels take TIIMMEEE! But what about a short story? A story between 3,000 to 7,500 words doesn’t take anywhere near the commitment or energy of a novel. Chances are if […]
You can learn a lot from video games. Especially the way some RPG games build their open sandbox worlds – which has inspired me to run a worldbuilding experiment. Even if you have no interest in video games what so ever, stick with me as this could prove to be a really interesting way to organise […]
So you want to write for video games? Or maybe you want to write an interactive ‘fighting fantasy’ novel of your own? Fantastic. This type of story writing is known as interactive fiction. There are important techniques used when writing interactive fiction that are different to those used when writing a “classic” novel. It’s important […]
As worldbuilders it’s our job to create an environment where stories can thrive. That’s why we also add narratology to our list of key skills. Think of it as the 8th key skill. Interactivity in storytelling (also known as interactive narrative) is a hot topic in entertainment especially as it’s so important to both video […]
