What kind of world building do you practice the most?

2 years ago by Omega to c/worldbuilding

I have always preferred creating maps and geography over other types of writing, I love learning about language rules and I occasionally find myself thinking about conlanging in the most random moments

If I had to categorise it, I would mostly call myself a cartographer in the space of world building

What do you prefer? I know some that love creating unique species, others just fucking around with planets, some just like making art for characters they wrote about

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t4r1n 2 points 2 years ago

Right now, it's been super easy for me to get sucked into developing peoples and the history of cultures, technologies, and nations. I selfhost Trilium and have turned part of it into a wiki for that stuff. I would like to start focusing on the micro-scale at this point, though. It'll be fun for me to start fleshing out cities and the people in them.

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OmegaLemmy 2 points 2 years ago

artifexian has a really nice and clear tutorial on how you can draw cities in inkscape or illustrator or whatever

Also, trillium looks really cool and I might also host it myself, but since it is in maintenance mode, is there any alternative?

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t4r1n 1 point 2 years ago

That's a handy tip. I'll check him out.

Trilium Next is the community-driven successor, but I can't say I'm too familiar with it. I set up my Trilium awhile ago and I don't typically like to stay on the bleeding edge of things. I will check it out if/when I start having problems. :-)

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