Worldbuilder's Anvil

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1st Steps New Indie Single-Player RPG Video Game– Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 268

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This missed moment: How an amateur gets started

1. Get some help from people who have done this before
   1. Make their ideas work for me
2. Core Idea ß Core Idea A hero inherits a title and land and uses them to plot his revenge on his father's murder.
3. Features
4. Story
5. Game Flow
6. Characters
   1. Hero: Count Wuphumm Germbadd Heib Blaphvisseralas
7. Worldbuilding needs
8. Plan a Timeline Trello

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Today's Topic How we Timeloop Fiction

So we are looking to run a story with a timeloop. So Michael and Jeffery talk a bit about what we would make a good story elements when time keeps repeating.

So join us as we start the timeloop.

So we are looking at … nooooooo

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Podcast Show flow

• What is a timeloop
• Important Items for
• • What causes the timeloop to repeat
  • The Protagonist
  • The Antagonist ????
  • Day 1
  • Alternate Scenes
  • Random Scenes
  • Closing Scenes
  • What are the irritations?
  • What are black herrings?
  • What breaks the timeloop?
  • Is there other limiters?

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Today's Topic Brainstorming extras content in a single player indie RPG video game

So looking to start a new project in my world. Michael and I start brainstorming video game content, a wishlist, for a secondary battle and diplomacy system for a single-player JRPG style. This is all designed to keep Jeff engages since his driveway took out his editing budget for his book.

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• Creating a solo JRPG style game in RPGMaker MV
• Brainstorming wishlist for the system to complement traditional battles.
• Background for the setting
• War
• Diplomacy
• Battles
• Domain

Worldbuilding Task

Look at your plans, do you have the skills to achieve everything

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Today's Topic Worldbuilder has lost its meaning.

Maybe I should stop looking through worldbuilding sites online. I see so many people get stuck on worldbuilding. More to the point, I see people who call themselves worldbuilders get stuck on what it means to make your world realistic.

I personally have had it. I cannot consider myself a worldbuilder any more. I create fictional fantasy settings. Join a shocked Michael as the talks to Jeff giving up on the worldbuilder moniker.

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• Yes I will still use worldbuilding skills
• What has a worldbuilder become to mean?
• The problem
• What we should be doing?
• Brainstorm a better name than worldbuilder

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So in my recent illness, he downloaded and played Lord of the Rings Online played for the first time since 2012. The game is old and not perfect, however, I had so much fun my wife downloaded the game and we played together. The experience got me thinking, there are certain games that stick in our minds years after we stop playing them. I really wanted to think about what are the features of those games that make them live on in our hearts.

Join Michael and me as we look at the features of the games we love.

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• Lord of the Rings Online
• Destiny and Destiny 2
• Everquest
• Baldur's gate
• Privateer

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Today's Topic We look at the world of judge Dread

If you are looking for a dystopian post apocalypse world for inspiration. Go no farther than earth. No not Hunger Games or the Fallout universe. Join Michael and Jeff as the look at the earth of Judge Dredd.

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• Drokk it
  • Great war of 2050
• Special Judicial Squad, Street Judges, Chief Judge,
  • Governments sign up for support
• Law Giver
• City Blocks
• Mega Cities
• Wastelands
• Space Colonies
• Nations broken down largely into City States
• Mutants
• Undead
  • The Crime is life! The Sentence is death
• Magic
• Psionics
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Today's Topic Here are simple hacks I use to get the most out of my time

One of the major issues I hear from worldbuilders is that they do not know how to get the time. However, often time they have no idea even how much time they have to work creatively each week

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• Win-Win goals support agreement
• • I need time, what time do you want?
  • Not judging
  • A weekly discussion about obligations and needs
  • Care about their hobby or secondary interest as much as you want them to care about yours… even if they don't
  • Work on being flexible
• Gmail calendars
• • Shared with family
  • Track your must-do activities

• Budget time (Episode 133 Learn how I found 17 extra hours a week in 15 minutes)
• • 168 Hours
  • Minus Sleep – Work – eating – commuting - stuff you have to do
• Trello Tracking
• • Major things I am doing (or want 2) and the steps to get there
• Daily and task planning
• Daily Journal

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This missed moment: Why do we want to make it darker

1. Monster Vision with Joe Bob Briggs story of Highlander
2. Why we want it darker, or something else
3. Possibly a reaction
4. Maybe a reflection of our taste
5. The hope standing out will lead us to our magnum opus

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Today's Topic If you are writing grimdark. The characters are not going to have a good day.

If Horror had a child with Epic Fantasy and the child and the child has a really bad attitude it would be named Grimdark. Join Michael and Jeffery as the look at the

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• Understanding Grimdark
• What it is not?
  • It is not horror
  • It is not epic fantasy
  • It is not anti epic either
  • It is not dark fantasy
• What it is if the last four items where relegated. Grimdark would be the child of all of them that was treated poorly its entire life.

• Pros
• Cons
• Interesting works
• Interesting stories
• Who does it work for?

If is not horror, it is not Epic but something using both ideas

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The Tuesday Tidbit is where I talk about something I missed in the latest episode or funny moment that I had to cut when I was recording with Michael. They will premier in Facebook live videos typically Tuesday @ 1 PM unless My Baby says otherwise on our page Gardul and then moved to our YouTube channel and finally the audio will be released on Fridays @ 12 PM

My ultimate reason for loving worldbuilding frameworks – Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 262

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This missed moment: My ultimate reason for loving worldbuilding frameworks

1. I am obsessed with cultures
2. I started worldbuilding reading National Geographic
3. My ultimate wonder, why do some areas have many ethnicities while others only have a few.
   1. Balkans verse Britain
4. Flexibility gives me the ability to look at the work in different time periods
5. Wargaming for the win

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