Tag Archive | world building
Mass Effect/AEC: FORWARD!-Citadel’s Space Military Review
Tweet of the Day: Gaming as #SuperWomen: Female Protagonist Can’t Be Justified? ——— ——— FORWARD! : Issue 3/96 The Alliance Premiere Military Publication “A Review of the Citadel’s Military Forces: 2196″ April 2, 2196 by Lydia Mugabe The reconstruction of the Citadel races military forces continues. While the galaxy returns to economic stability the Citadel’s […]
A Sunday Treat: Sir Terry Pratchett and the Science of Discworld
Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation-10b-Intervetion ——- A great video that shows the thinking that went into the world building of behind the Science of Discworld (a spinoff of Pratchett’s long running series of fantasy novels) and an odd, but interesting exploration of real life science as well: ——-
Lessons from the Aether: Sandbox Games and Populating Your Worlds
Tweet of the Day: Gettin’ Nerdy With It: RPGs ——– The lowly spear carrier. It is a steeple of story telling from time immemorial. Somebody must deliver the news that the king is dead or simply stand around while the heroes do the hero thing. In movies they are the extras in crowd scenes which […]
World Building Wednesdays: Character Does Not Equal Culture
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 7.38: Writing Love Scenes ——- It seems I run out of world building posts. That happens, so this will be last one for awhile. I’m hoping I can fill the slot with something just as useful but I can’t make any promises. I will endeavor to keep posting stuff […]
World Building Wednesday: Why World Build?
Tweet of the Day: Building a Near Future World ——– Over the past couple of months a few commentators (?) inb my blog have expressed what can only be described as a “dislike” of world building. “I don’t world build.” “It’s too much work.” “That’s why I don’t write fantasy/science-fiction.” Let me ask you a […]
World Building Wednesdays: Sex and Culture
Tweet of the Day: A Reaction to Klein’s Pyramid of Literary Quality ——– Marriage, Courtship, Reproduction, Sexual Roles, Sexual Identity, Religion, Law, Economy. All of those things are touch by or related in some way or another to sex. And I am not talking about sex as titillation for the reader (or writer) but as […]
TV Tropes Monday: Standard Sci-Fi Fleet
Tweet of the Day: Scenes: The Building Blocks of Your Story ——- Let the folks from TV Tropes illustrate the trope: As Space Is an Ocean, naturally the space fleets in many Sci-Fi settings tend to follow the same lines as the wet navies of Earth. These are typically separated into three classes: Small Craft, […]
World Building Wednesday: Fictionalizing Your World Building
Tweet of the Day: More than Magic & Gadgets- Taking Science Fiction and Fantasy to Another Level ——– Show don’t Tell, or so the old writing adage goes. So much so that I either read or written the line above at least once in the last year. It is one of the reasons why most […]
Mass Effect/After Eath Chronicles: ANN Headlines Now- Bekenstein Rebirth
Tweet of the Day: The Coffee Shop Writer ——– ANN Headlines Now February 9, 2196 Bekenstein Rises Again By Iris Dunnigan MILGROM, BEKENSTEIN- Some are calling Bekenstein the “Phoenix Colony” after its meteoric rise from the ashes of the Reaper Invasion. Unlike other key galactic trading centers such as Illium, enemy forces did not occupy […]
World Building Wednesday: The Passage of Time
Tweet of the Day: Is Your Character Stagnating? ——– This was going to be just one post, but after some consideration I decided to split up in multiple posts. The question is Time. Time appears on the surface to be a simple subject. Most world building starts with a timeline, a simple list of events […]
