Final week within the Worldbuilding Summer time Camp 2022 Homework Membership, we talked about setting targets for Summer time Camp, to ensure the problem is working for you! This week, we’re speaking about ACHIEVING these targets!

Making the Summer time Camp 2022 themes be just right for you

Final 12 months, we launched themes to the prompts. Your suggestions was that you simply liked them! This 12 months, we’ve chosen themes we really feel are common to all settings, and may help you create dynamic and thrilling areas in your worlds.

Bear in mind, these themes are meant to offer inspiration and enable you to create linked-up areas in your world. You’ll be able to interpret them in any manner you want! Not each immediate straight pertains to a theme, however they will all be tied collectively, serving to you create extra joined-up worldbuilding. And most significantly, keep in mind YOUR aim for Summer time Camp! Think about how the themes would possibly match into what you’re planning and, if vital, how one can twist them to suit YOUR functions!

Expanse (Copper theme)

An expanse, by definition, is a large steady space of… one thing. If you happen to’re writing an earth-like world, that is likely to be an enormous desert just like the Sahara, rolling grasslands just like the Savannah, jungle just like the Amazon Rainforest, swamp like Louisiana, or Arctic tundra. It might be an expanse of water, like a sea or ocean, or of ice, like Antarctica. Or it might be the expansive sky above your world, or expansive tunnels and caverns beneath.

Fantasy worlds can delve even deeper right here, into pocket dimensions, or one other airplane of existence, like fluid house in Star Tek, or the Airplane of Hearth in Forgotten Realms.

For extra futuristic worlds, you would possibly create an city expanse like a cyberpunk mega-city, an enormous sewer system, a Fallout wasteland, or a city-planet like Coruscant in Starwars. Or when you’re in house, how a couple of nebula, asteroid subject, and even an “empty” expanse of house.

Management (Silver theme)

Whether or not you’re writing fantasy, scifi or alt-historical, management guides the peoples of our world setting and varieties their cultures. And management can take many varieties – political and army, in fact, but additionally think about non secular, cultural, industrial, humanitarian, environmental and academic management. We’ll be asking you about folks, locations and traditions that typify management in your world setting, both from the previous or the current.

The Management theme would possibly relate to the expanse you’ve written about earlier than, or it won’t!

Discovery (Gold Theme)

Settings thrive on change, and discovery – whether or not analysis, exploration, or investigation – is commonly the catalyst for that change! What wonders, mysteries, species, applied sciences and civilizations are misplaced in your world setting, awaiting discovery? Which components of the world have already been found and which implications did this have over the setting?

The Discovery theme would possibly relate to the expanse you wrote about earlier than. Or maybe the invention was led by an incredible chief in your world.

Monstrous (Diamond Theme)

Nearly all tales require battle. And in case your setting has no battle, it’s usually laborious to get your tales, novels, or campaigns transferring! On this band of worldbuilding prompts, we’ll be digging into issues in your world thought of villainous, merciless, unfortunate, unnatural or simply “unsuitable”.

Maybe the monstrous issues in your world are newly found, and tied to the invention theme, or maybe they crawled, hopped or few from the expanse you wrote about. Maybe the leaders in your world are the monstrous and villainous ones ( you, Star Wars!). Bear in mind, you don’t must tie all of the themes collectively, however there are myriad methods to take action!

Summer time Camp 2022 Homework Task 2

Since final week, you need to have a transparent concept of what your targets are for this 12 months’s Summer time Camp! Now it’s time to determine how these themes may help you focus your targets additional.

• Open your Summer time Camp Pledge from final week and re-read your targets and motivations.
• Now it’s time to consider how the themes would possibly match into what you’re creating. This would possibly increase on these themes in your world, and should even hyperlink to pre-existing articles in your world you may reference if you get thus far, that can assist you spawn new concepts!
  • If you happen to’re constructing in a preexisting setting, learn by means of your meta and your earlier work.
  • If you happen to’re constructing a brand new setting, I like to recommend filling out the meta to information your worldbuidling!
• Now, add a brief paragraph to your Summer time Camp Pledge about how these themes would possibly hook up with your world setting and your targets.
• Put up your up to date pledge Summer time Camp Pledge article within the feedback to this weblog!

Are you a part of the Homework Membership?

One of many highlights of Summer time Camp is the group, which comes collectively to pour their creativity on World Anvil and our group channels! If you wish to be a part of the Homework Membership, tune in to the Homework Membership streams each Sunday in June and July! We’ll be stay on our Twitch channel at 7pm UK/11am Pacific.

If you wish to showcase your participation to Summer time Camp, now we have some graphics you should utilize in your World Anvil world or in social media:

Obtain all participation graphics and the group streaming pack! You’ll discover logos, stickers, banners—something your coronary heart needs!

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