Category: Environments

  • How to Draw simple Maps?

    How to Draw simple Maps?

    Why draw Maps for your Stories? Maps bring visual information. They bring Clarity. They reveal the Complexity of your World. How to Draw them? By Balancing Clarity & Complexity. Summary – 6 steps to a simple Map Define the Limits of your Map. Place all the Fundamental Locations. Link all these Locations, or most of…

  • How to create Monsters? 6 Examples

    How to create Monsters? 6 Examples

    Monsters are Strange. They tend to be represented as Horrifying. But they can be Anything. Monsters are the best way to create Diversity in your World. There’s a Diversity of Monsters to Develop & Implement. Most of them will fall within these 6 types: Funny Adorable Gorgeous Hideous Nefarious Horrifying Summary – 6 steps to…

  • How to Create more Diverse Environments?

    Environment often get overlooked. In most cases, they look underdeveloped or too similar. How would you depict Environments to diversify them? Summary – How to Create Diverse Environments? Define the essential Characteristics of an Environment. Alter them to Create Specificities. Do it 10 times. Compare the 10 Worlds you’ve created. For each of them ask…

  • How to Create Immersive Worlds? Science Fiction & Fantasy

    How to Create Immersive Worlds? Science Fiction & Fantasy

    What makes Science Fiction? What makes Fantasy? What are the Differences? How do they overlap? How do we merge both? Summary – How to Create a World through a Fantasy/SF frame? Define the Common Traits. Define the Differences. Establish how you will make use of Commonalities through an Action-Adventure frame. Create a Simple world in…

  • How to Design Unique Items?

    What makes an Item Unique? If an Item is enough to Characterize an Environment, a Culture, a Function or an Individual you may consider it Unique. Summary – How to Create Unique Items? Define its Origins. Define its Function. Define its Effects. Define who can become its User. If the Item is intended to be…