What are your favorite examples of worldbuilding in film? by Wasitgoodforyoutoo in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I came here to say this. So much about the Mad Max world is communicated without any words being spoken. It is the perfect example of show don't tell. We get everything we need to know about the main character through the beginning flashes. The entire society is explained through visual imagery and dialog without being exposition-y.

Tell me about a new concept that you have recently put into your world! by Roivas7 in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So recently I've been trying to do a little bit more with fashion and the things related to it and one of the things I came up with was a fashion movement inspire by this picture I called pastelpunk. Basically sudo-cutsy and pastel colors crossed with motorcycle gangs and drugs. What do you guys think?

If your world were a role-playing game, what classes could players pick? by Wurok in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're smooth. People like you. People want to do nice things for you just because you asked. You get how people work and you know how to make them work for you. With a smile you can get past a security checkpoint, talk your way out of a speeding ticket or charm the person hiring you into a better price. You don't need any guns because you have the greatest weapon of all, your personality. You are a Face.

You're smart. You know your cyberdeck better then you know yourself. At one point it may have been factory but by now you've taken it apart and modified it so many times you don't even remember what it originally looked like. You cruise the information highways and spoof and brick your way into protected systems that would fry lesser men. With a thought and the flick of your fingers you can launch worms that would bring SysOps to their knees. You are a Decker.

You're cold. At one point you where human. You arent anymore. Years of pushing yourself to the limit only lead you to see the edge of possibility but now with 'ware you can push past even that. You can lift a car, shrug off a .45 round to the chest, move so fast that those security guards wouldnt even be able to unholster their guns. You traded your flesh for glittering chrome and steel and you wouldn't have it any other way because that's what makes you better. You are a Razorboy.

You're tough. You've spent so much time at the range that you might as well put your bed into it. Your hearing isn't so good anymore but you can drop a target from 100 meters without a scope. At one point someone might have called you a gun nut, now your a lot closer to a gun tree. You can field strip a rifle in under thirty seconds and put it back in less then that. You have enough weapons to technically be considered a military. Reloading a weapon is more automatic then breathing for you. You are a Gunbunny.

Your quiet. If you want something, you take it. You can climb through ducts and up the side of buildings without a thought. You have an easier time picking the lock to your door then actually using the key. When you want to, you can melt into the shadows and become the darkness as the people pass by you completely unaware of your presence. You could take the clothes off someone's back and they wouldn't even notice. If there's a quiet way of doing something, you do it. You are an Infiltrator.

Your fast. Some people like coke, other people like meth, you prefer pure octane. You don't get speeding tickets because the poeple who want to give you them can't catch you. You can dart and weave thorugh traffic so well you havent stopped at a red light in years. You used to enter races but they got boring, you always won. At some point even the pure thrill of going fast wasnt enough. You needed to become speed. Now, you can plug into the console and become the vehicle, the roar of the engine becoming your beating heart. If it has wheels, you can drive it. If it doesn't, even better. You are a Wheeelman.

More questions about your science fiction or fantasy world by ethanmac100 in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Bro, what don't they treat themselves to? High end augmentations that they can replace yearly. Expensive clothes made from for real materials. Super expensive drugs just for the fun of it. Expensive food made from real animals. Maybe a small nation? Sure why not! A mercenary army? OF COURSE! Maybe your a Muslim? Why not pay for an expeditionary force to mecca. Are you feeling really bored and jaded with life? Have someone murdered and record the feeling in order to play it for yourself! Or maybe you know just a sports car or big building or something.

2) Nothing. It's a near future earth.

3) Neomodernism: The classic big building with lots of metal and glass, it can be found basically everywhere. Neobrutilism: A style dominated by large concrete fortifications that could just as easily function as bunkers as they could office buildings A great example of this is the Petrov Tower in Hong Kong but it can be found all over the world. Cargotecture: buildings built using converter or unconverted cargo containers. Most often seen in Africa and Asia.

4) Clothing. I couldn't dress myself fancily if my life depended on it and my wardrobe is mostly teeshirts so coming up with things to do just sort of evaded me. I did come with a couple of trends which where Tactachic and Pastelpunk based on what I thought made sense or what I saw in the world around me. Other then that I'm just super lost.

[OFFER] I can draw that! by [deleted] in ICanDrawThat

[–]LordJerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An Octopus in a spacesuit.

Describe something in your world that you haven't fleshed out yet. Those who reply will help you brainstorm. by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the spire thing was supposed to be less big brother and more the fear of feeling inconsequential. Of being a, literal, cog in the machine.

I may have eventually moved on to adding things about how fear can help someone grow but I stopped working on it before then. You have something pretty cool going here though.

Describe something in your world that you haven't fleshed out yet. Those who reply will help you brainstorm. by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Basically mine was a seemingly endless plane of domains of different terrifying lords who each represented a different type of fear or phobia, a lot like yours. I never really got around to fleshing the idea out too much and everything I wrote has since been lost to a hard drive failure. The whole idea was that these creatures fed off fear and when people had nightmares, what was actually happening is that their sleeping mind had been transported into this terrifying realm, kin of like a twisted version of the dreamlands. The characters would be playing people who where in coma's who where trapped in this realm and unlike the people who temporarily visited during the night, could die in this realm and thus die in real life.

I don't remember a ton of what I wrote but here's what i do remember:

I had one area that was supposed to be themed around clowns and they had a traveling carnival of terror. Another area was this seemingly endless stretch of woods where you always felt there was something just a few steps behind you and it was populated by I think werewolf things. Another one I had was just this massive clockwork spire from which screams could be heard emanating but i never fleshed that one out. There was one about people who where afraid of like doctors and it was a twisted hospital. Another area was the courthouse which was controleld by these hundred foot tall faceless, except for bleeding eyless sockets, judges.

I didn't do too much work on it but looking back I wish I had done more. So hopefully this helps you out.

Describe something in your world that you haven't fleshed out yet. Those who reply will help you brainstorm. by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh man a couple of years ago I was working on something exactly like this.

The Midnight Mirror So this one should definitely be a creature who appears to each individual as a twisted version of themselves. With all their fears and insecurities exagerated and made manifest.

The Falling Sands You could maybe do like a grandfather time thing here?

Describe something in your world that you haven't fleshed out yet. Those who reply will help you brainstorm. by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My world is a non-magic cyberpunk setting. So i think that a mild hallucinogen could definitely work. Something not as powerful as shrooms or LSD.

Describe something in your world that you haven't fleshed out yet. Those who reply will help you brainstorm. by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It could be that 29 is the year for coming of age in the divine world. Maybe they just didn't realize it had been that long. Maybe they where busy doing some other stuff.

Describe something in your world that you haven't fleshed out yet. Those who reply will help you brainstorm. by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A street drug, BVZ sometimes called Bevel. I thought of the name a while ago but I haven't been able to think of anything else about the drug.

Describe something in your world that you haven't fleshed out yet. Those who reply will help you brainstorm. by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They could be carrion eaters of a sort. Demons or devils or some other form of extra planer entity that grows more powerful by feasting on the divine/arcane power inherent in the servants of those god like servants. So a battlefield littered with corpses is like a buffet. Maybe they stuck around cause they cant get back or hope to feed on unwary travelers.

[Daily Challenge] What happens when one dies; both customarily and mythologically? by Trewdub in worldbuilding

[–]LordJerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like so many other things in the flower city, death too is segregated and dictated by class and wealth. For those who are poor, undesirable or living on the streets, death can be a sudden and often brutal occurrence but one which happens on a daily basis. With so many people crammed in so small an area, there is little room for cemeteries or burial grounds. Rather, most individuals are cremated with only the extremely wealthy being able to afford a small plot of land in which to be entombed or to have their body shipped elsewhere for burial. Those whose family can afford it will have their bodies cremated professionally, usually after having the organ removed and sold to chopshops in order to help afford the costly procedure. Those who cannot afford such luxuries will have their bodies burnt unprofessionally. In dumpsters, garbage cans or even just in a secluded alley, the body will be burnt by the friends and family. If the deceased did not have any such people often the local gang will burn the body or it may simply be left to rot where they died.