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These days, I don't worldbuild so much as I craft narrative vignettes and short (written in-universe) encyclopedia entries along the general premise of the universe. These are all some form of sci-fantasy with speculative micro-elements (like how 2004 Battlestar Galactica has a fanatically religious robot empire, with shipboard life and interior elements straight from the 90s); which I unwittingly used as a research-guidance vehicle. I use these more and more as a means of prototyping speculative tech, or thought-experimenting around things I expect to do (or may happen) IRL. (Ofc with arbitrary details, setting and characters; though with heavy symbolism and "what if X company or organization was based"--ie. had major community membership, held ostentatious public events, or just liked trains--so far as the actual organizational mechanics weren't completely screwed.) I've got 3 separate worlds going on: A galactic cold-war-gone-hot, with XR-obsessed tech mystics running deep-tech R&D and interstellar navigation ("War in Haven", 2019-); a Manhattan Project-analogous AI-singularity race between le big bad rumor-cloaked electronics conglomerate, and a bunch of renegade grad students from all over the place ("Ascension Project", 2022-); and "what if semiconductor manufacturing was truly a religious endeavor" manifesting on a (quite stormy) post-catastrophic Earth ("Haste", 2024-). The former 2 are where I've experimented with various mostly VR/XR-related techs and possible uses (including my current PC-in-progress :DD), the last one is pure fun. The daydream-to-documentation barrier is pretty high though, currently WiH and Haste are the only ones on paper; the former is maybe 20% described, the latter only exists as one thematic analysis including the former.

5:02 what da ant doin

nah man, society have broken me down. what used to be a mind that sparkled with all the ideas in the world, reduced to a tired dumbass. being a god of a world is not meant for the weak even if those worlds might only exist in a dream. i yearn the lobotomy

Im in the process of creating a scifi universe that has worldbuilding, and that worldbuilding is important for the story (especially since lost technology from a previous age is important to the fictional war in setting).

IM a avid wrld builder and ive beeen feeling out of it latley becaues ive had this idea that i need to make money and thingk about the real world but this bring me back to the roots. I have 22 Lexicons and this will help. Thx for bring the roots to the tree,

please release the series of worldbuilding!

This is how I spend most of my days

Sometimes I’m not super kind to the person in the mirror, and so…as someone who’s frequently daydreaming, watching moving pictures and background music in my head, who feels a lot of shame thinking of the empty journals and notebooks I collect but never fill…THIS was something I really needed to hear, something that made my chest fell a lot lighter, so thank you for that. Think Imma go write some stuff.

For me worldbuilding is fun because i like to come up with rules and questions and answer them eventually. Having limitations and hard ruleset for world is important so it makes sense at least for me. Let's say you are making magic system then there like 1000 questions to ask like how it was created ? are there any sources of magic ? -> gods, crystals, etc ? how it affects society on the ground ? Who can use it ? Is it public knowledge or secret ? what is magic used for ? what creations it sparked and what were not needed because magic replaced them etc... this is always fun for me since eventually you build up something that is logical but also fantasy and can be used to write a story with in that world.

Edit: I just made my first video to showcase my storyline “ The Story of Samael “. It Would be much appreciated if you guys watched my video and give me feedback for making the second part 🙏 World building is a fun concept.but there are rarely people who take it seriously, there’s a difference in soft and hard world building. Some people really like to expand deep on how stuff work, I am one of those people. I for the past 4 1/2 years have been perfecting a verse of science fiction/Fantasy. I myself am a science enthusiast who enjoys to learn about physics, chemistry, Biology astronomy and philosophical perspectives. I have and been mixing these ideas with a universe I’ve been world building. Great video for inspiring people to just world build. Even if it’s not a serious concept you want to continue doing. It’s a fun and creative project you can do anytime.

Henry Darger would’ve agreed with a lot of this advice.

Excellent Video, inspirational, and well-articulated.

11:48 just described what maladaptive daydreamers are pros at, I should know, I am one😭

I have a world building project that honestly started in like 2006, but picked back up in 2019-present. I write a lot about the world, have created a language, characters, history, war, and using illustration skills plus Minecraft as a physical representation of the world. I’ve drawn maps, and included my sisters, husband and friends to discuss geopolitics. It’s so freeing.

You so missed the chance for the flame to be the "I" in your Thumbnail Now it's Creatiivity

I've always loved world building! But it feels like I don't really do it right...like, I don't try to make languages [though I kinda want to, it just sounds hard], I don't know how to make maps.....I kinda got lucky that people like my OCs and the spaghetti of ideas that I throw at the wall fit well enough.

I would LOVE how a 'How I world build video'. I have so many characters, lore, stories and settings and it feels so 'done' and already existing as its so fleshed out in my head. Yet I sometimes realise that none of it has been born into this world, none of it is physically produced. I would love to know different methods of noting down and archiving it all in a satisfying way!

Half way through the video about world building and writing- that is fanfiction for me. I love fanfiction for the inherient non-profit mindset of it, so many stories are told just for the sake of it, for the enjoyment of others. Some of those world buildings, still haunt me. I read one that was set in a pirate universe and had a really soft magic system that just seemed so natural, and so lived in. I only rexently starting to write fanfiction again after overcoming the 'oh no its cringy teenager shit im so over', and uve not published a single word, and i dont know if i will, but writing has been so freeing to my mind again.

Around the time this came out, the algorithm placed it on my timeline and I saved it to watch later. For some reason, today I finally did and I am so glad. This is one of the best videos I've watched in a while and you, friend, have such a way with explaining things and inciting that timeless childhood wonder. I've been feeling kinda unmotivated lately, you know.. between school and work, relationships and social media addiction, etc. It has me feeling like I can barely string a single sentence together sometimes, much less create cool things! Sometimes I feel like I've used up the entire limited supply of creativity I had available in my body and now the well just dried up. Being reminded that it is something that lives inside me always, that I just need to feed and nurture it back to health, that there is no right or wrong way to create... This is a priceless reminder

While watching this at 2x speed, I remembered all the times I drew stuff (when I was a kid and more recently) and then the world built off of that. I think I would enjoy doing some more sketching (big projects and simple sketches).

this will probably be the only (sort of) out of character comment i ever do ever. so if you find this out there hi ~ congrats or something idk i’ve been working on a fictional band called ‘Goblin Party’ for a few years now. they have a whole world. there’s 5 band members with back stories. they are working on their debut album to be released this coming year (2025). currently they are keeping the name of it under raps. here’s a letter from their band manager: “Goblin Party will be dropping a mix called Hallowsoul, never released, from 2022 on sound cloud New Year’s day 1.1.25. It was never finished due to dangerous local tensions that forced the original 3 band members (and a worm named Quist) into an unfortunate hiatus. after the release of hallowsoul mix 22’ they will be occasionally dropping unfinished clips and sketches from before the ‘war’ to celebrate the album to come-and honestly clean out their very limited and hard to come by techdrive. The debut record is slated for late 2025 around Halloween, this time with 3 new friends and 2 original members (sadly no worm on this one RIP Quist you will be missed) we thanks you and hope to see you around town. ~ band manager and best former mall wizard in the world, Darrell ‘The Splitz’ Harper. ” no body calls him ‘the splitz’ he’s been trying to get it to catch for years lol. anyways yeah GP new stuff soundcloud “Goblin Party” check it out soon.

It seems your handwriting also became non linear in the process.

Did i heard Minecraft?

your voice reminds me of oxhorn and its super soothing

A year ago, today, I started off with Tribal people worshipping a tree-like god. Now I'm here learning how to construct an entire planet with earth-like qualities! I feel like I've still got a lifetime of imagination in me to continue this world-building, and I don't plan to stop!!! It was because I had so many story ideas, but didn't want to put it into our world, so I'm making it my passion to make my own to make my own stories in it.

theres this Roblox game i forgot its name but if you just search libary you will find it and theres so many storys in it its cool

great vid!

ive attempted world building a couple times now, but i think it was too forced and didnt stick (tho i do not consider them failures bc i had fun for the few days it DID stick). But a few weeks ago, i was sitting in my 3 hour statistics lecture, bored out of my mind, and i started doodling a random character. A week later, i drew the same character in a more refinded manner in my biology lecture. And again, in my sketchbook with a full body and color. And while sitting in yet another lecture, i started thinking up a story for them. It started as a jester, turned into a clown, filtered through a few more things before settling as the goddess of life and motherhood. From there, I've made 5 more dieties, but only drawn 1 more. I think this might be the natural start of my world, but im going to try not to force it.

I absolutely love world building! It’s so much fun! What so interesting about world building is you create rules, guides, and answers to questions that pop up on your plot. It gives your story a place, a setting. Stories are important but when I watch a movie or read a story, I always have the thought, “What more is there to the world?” If there’s no world building thought in it then I become disappointed with that question. However, if the world has something really truly structuring it then that question is one of intrigue. It’s one of the biggest elements of immersion. Right now I’m working on a very large project and I’m solidifying my world before I lay out the plot. I am adding so much, but in reality less than 20% will be explained or noticed by the reader. I have history, culture, time period, technology, and mythical things that are being fleshed out.

OMG 😱 you said >>the secret<< out loud... on the internet!! 🤦‍♀️ Yes, every Table Top or "Creative Table" enthusiast is already deeply engrossed in this IRL Please don't open any of my cupboards... they're filled with terrain and miniatures 😅

I love how this video reminded me of the world I used to build and immerse myself when I was just 11 years old. Cheers man♥️

Terrific video. I was dissatisfied with my first dozen attempts at worldbuilding because they seem to be just another version of earth-like most of the world settings available. In the late ‘90s I worked on my ultimate world. - I started with making a list of all the typical features found in most settings and chose to not do those. I love cosmic horror and wondered what would happen if a monster (non-human) designed a world. For 20+ years I only use this world as my sandbox. It can accommodate almost any fantasy modules. It isn’t Earth, so I don’t worry about geographic validity, the proper flow of rivers, or any Earth like feature. The world can support almost any genre and can do so simultaneously. The one rule is that if something can’t be explained then it’s a mystery but works anyway. No retconning or ridiculous explanation . Any game that is set on Earth typically cannot be run here; however, there are exceptions. Anything weird like GammaWorld, Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun, Conan, Deadlands, etc. can have adventures set there. Mundo Magnum.

For me, World Building is an extremely interesting educational tool. I like to use our own world as a reference. In my fictional world, I cant just yeet a straight line across a map from one point to another and call it a day if I use our own world as a reference, because shit dont work like that on our world. I then have to learn how rivers work, where they start, where they end, how they shape terrain and how the terrain shapes them.Then it goes own, to what terrain attracts people, what resources would make those people grow into a civilization, what would make that civilization fall, what kind of civilization it would be. To use our own world's physics, terrain, histories, laws, countries, ideas in my own way I first need to learn how these things function on our world, so I continuesly sink into random rabbitholes about every topic from economy, to geography, to history and so on. Very rewarding and interesting process

i'm an artist and i've been building my world through writing for 3 years now. it's something i can retreat to after getting burnouts from making art. now im developing some of my art and even my thesis around it.

This is some good stuff, and using Minecraft to illustrate your idea is brilliant!

Jesus, had to stop because you sounded so arrogant

I think one of the most important lessons from this, at least for me, is remembering to simply make things because you want to, not with any expectation of publishing or trying to make money off of it, because, like you said, it'll be very quickly soul-draining to do so. I remember that, when I was younger, I'd do all sorts of silly little things like writing interviews between me and my characters, or doing crossover stories between my different worlds and universes and even existing IP sometimes. But there was a change, maybe during the pandemic, where all my writing became focused on finishing the series of novels I'd been writing up to that point, and I couldn't just make anything for fun. It all had to be published and it all had to be *for* an audience. But it's so liberating to just create for fun! It's difficult to get back into that after so long, but it's a very important lesson all the same. Thank you very much!

So far I have 4 complex worlds I can name off (the other 100+ are either unfinished or too small to mention). They can be boiled down to these: Sci-Fi Utopian, (been thinking on since 2020) Sci-Fi Lovecraftian Post Apocalypse, (been thinking on since September 2024) Dark Fantasy, (been thinking on since 2019 Idk anymore this one is just chaos. (Been thinking on with my friend since 2023)

1:52 the fact that in my story a lot of the setting happens in a literal void. And most universes are composed of a void filled with some occasional islands

My only obstacle: Lazy as fuck

Im too stupid, uncreative, boring and untalented to ever build something of any merit. I don't even know why I clicked on this video, when I know I'm too incapable to make anything from it.

I really admire the way your brain thinks and your mentality - it is such a freeing moment from the perfectionistic don't-try way my brain likes to think of things!

I once tried doing a little bit of worldbuilding, but something about it feel off like im stuck doing nothing stuck without inspiration, i feel worldbuilding is daunting, even thou i am doing nothing So i stopped, until one day i realize that i have total aphantasia, i may not be able to compare my experience to others but the glimpse of visual imagination i occasionally see in my dreams, that was the inspiration of how i started worldbuilding And since realizing that, i ever more motivated to do the worldbuilding, to make something "finished" Although i will never stop doing this

I've been working on a fancomic based on Devilman for like 4 years now, fell in love with making up lore for the comic now I can't stop worldbuilding

obsidian mentioned, also, yet another rabbit hole to enter

U remind me why I like daydreaming, being creative and finding things to do outside of just looking at my phone. World building for its own sake, i do it all the damn time in my head, thinking of a fantasy romantacising historical china. A world in which the exam system teaching true magic is the means of which one rises the social hierarchy. In this world, the emperor's lineage was cut off after a curse was placed that targeted the title of "emperor". Hence, the imperial system revolving around the emperor was slowly abandoned, and a democracy was born, centred around the use of knowledge. To the west border of the country is a wasteland, in which many raiders march every few months, uncannily like clockwork despite the raiders being human. Due to this, a "festival" is held during these times for great mages to show off their new ritualistic spell to wipe out the horde of raiders in a grand display for the elites of the world to see. Just the idea of a bunch of people gathering to see multiple grand spells be used far away is so funny and neat to me

Love you Bro!

underrated channel

"✨️Magical Fairy Lands✨️ To 💢Magical Fairy Lands💢" I just finished The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams last week so that hit hard lol