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Dec 14, 3:48 AM
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I mean, if it's something beyond a desire to write a book / make a game or else. Just a world you enjoy fantasizing about, or even note detailed map with its special habitants and peculiar places. The reason I ask is because I was wondering a bit these weekends and, eventually, tried to engage with such imaginary activity. That was something new and fascinating, heh~~~

So, yeah, feel free to share your experience!🩵

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Dec 14, 3:54 AM
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Yes, but in an ideological way, not a geographical one.
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Dec 14, 5:29 AM
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Yeah, I think it is easy to imagine a world that doesn't exist. However, I'm more interested in analysising real-world events. But writing your own fictional world requires too much effort imo. I just prefer reading other people's fictions sometimes.
Dec 14, 6:05 AM
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Not in the sense that you described, but I certainly have in the context of writing a story. But world builders disease is a very real thing lol, though if you never planed on writing a story for your world dw about it.
Dec 14, 7:20 AM
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Yeah, I think it is easy to imagine a world that doesn't exist. However, I'm more interested in analysising real-world events. But writing your own fictional world requires too much effort imo. I just prefer reading other people's fictions sometimes.
@DesuMaiden

Sure, it takes a lot of time. I guess, one should spend hundred of hours to eventually create something profound and meaningful. Still, it's a cool hobby to try out even if it never goes too far.
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Dec 14, 7:22 AM
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Not in the sense that you described, but I certainly have in the context of writing a story. But world builders disease is a very real thing lol, though if you never planed on writing a story for your world dw about it.
@Akutsun

Hm, but what's that disease you mentioned? Never actually heard of it before.
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Dec 14, 8:35 AM
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@Akutsun

Hm, but what's that disease you mentioned? Never actually heard of it before.
@Cute_Marseille

It’s when an author gets so preoccupied/distracted with building their world that they never actually start writing their story.

But there’s a lot of people who just enjoy creating a world with no intention of writing a story for it, so it’s not really a concern in that case.
Dec 14, 8:38 AM
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Wow, it sounds interesting. I'll try it.
Dec 14, 8:50 AM
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I always imagine a pre-modern world similar to Genshin Impact's universe.
Dec 14, 9:25 AM

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I do this all the time, i'm obsessed with it. I tried to make RPG Maker projects before, but I havn't been too successful with that so far.
Dec 14, 9:40 AM

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I do come up with my own headcanon for various anime and video game worlds. I would write some fanfiction but I'm a terrible writer.
Dec 14, 10:01 AM

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Yes I do that a lot there's a few (hundred?) drawings with characters in my worlds. Most of them are modern, tall buildings etc but sometimes I do medieval style, and use cathedral interiors for references. I even tried creating my own whole city, for a manga about an adventure to the city and have like 30 pages of lineart. I hate coloring.. it takes so long. But I sometimes do writing too and especially like writing fantasy.
Dec 14, 10:03 AM

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@Cute_Marseille

It’s when an author gets so preoccupied/distracted with building their world that they never actually start writing their story.

But there’s a lot of people who just enjoy creating a world with no intention of writing a story for it, so it’s not really a concern in that case.
@Akutsun

Sounds like some kind of creative procrastination. Guess, the causes can be similar as well. But anyways, we all need some time to think and put everything on its places, so it's only natural to get lost a bit in any activity, not only worldbuilding.
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Dec 14, 10:05 AM

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I do this all the time, i'm obsessed with it. I tried to make RPG Maker projects before, but I havn't been too successful with that so far.
@Astachanna

But why's it so? What went wrong with your projects? :O
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Dec 14, 10:24 AM

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I was never able to form a team, and my ideas are always way too big. It's sad, because I had a lot of good ideas.
Are you into any of the RPG Maker programs by any chance? There is a large number of them, the most recent is MZ I think.
Dec 14, 10:26 AM

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Every action we make has karmatic consequences btw. So yes, essentially we are creating our own stories with everything we do or say.
Dec 14, 10:32 AM

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When I was 13 - 15 I created this world in my mind based on Besaid Island where everyone was naked and there was rampant sex
Dec 14, 11:30 AM

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Yes. I like to go into my own fictional world specially when I can't sleep. I think I read too much fiction and watch too much anime lol
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Dec 14, 1:10 PM

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Yes, but I don't have the time to write the lore and details in a document. If had more time, maybe I would.
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Dec 14, 3:54 PM

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I try to pretend that an anime is happening in my fantasy world, rather than some sort of realism. =_=
Dec 14, 7:04 PM

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Sometimes, but I rarely commit to them for very long.
Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows.
Dec 14, 7:33 PM

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I usually like to use the current world because I think it's interesting to see how this world would react to a bunch of shit going on.
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Dec 14, 11:26 PM

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Yes I do that a lot there's a few (hundred?) drawings with characters in my worlds. Most of them are modern, tall buildings etc but sometimes I do medieval style, and use cathedral interiors for references. I even tried creating my own whole city, for a manga about an adventure to the city and have like 30 pages of lineart. I hate coloring.. it takes so long. But I sometimes do writing too and especially like writing fantasy.
@SuperAdventure

Sounds amazing! ^o^
You could write your own story this way, the only thing is to find people to cooperate with~~
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Dec 14, 11:29 PM

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Yes. I like to go into my own fictional world specially when I can't sleep. I think I read too much fiction and watch too much anime lol
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Heeey, Andrea, I don't see anything wrong with it! It's better to have your own colorful world then living in cruel reality outside of the window😅

Do you exactly write or draw it? Or you mean, you keep everything in your mind?💭
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Dec 14, 11:31 PM

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I try to pretend that an anime is happening in my fantasy world, rather than some sort of realism. =_=
@Astachanna

That's the spirit! I do it as well😅
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Dec 14, 11:32 PM

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Wow, it sounds interesting. I'll try it.
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Feel free to share your experience anytime if you'd like😁
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Dec 15, 11:16 AM

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@SuperAdventure

Sounds amazing! ^o^
You could write your own story this way, the only thing is to find people to cooperate with~~
@Cute_Marseille Oh I don't work with anyone else, all by myself. The drawings are all on paper, and I have to color it myself.
I probably *could* just scan the lineart before coloring, and pay someone to do coloring on computer... but I'm distrustful and have heard of too many people getting ripped off.
Dec 15, 11:20 AM

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@Cute_Marseille

It’s when an author gets so preoccupied/distracted with building their world that they never actually start writing their story.

But there’s a lot of people who just enjoy creating a world with no intention of writing a story for it, so it’s not really a concern in that case.
@Akutsun Yea this is an issue that comes out of gaming. A lot of people play a game and see a 'world' on screen, which obviously has a lot of rules because it's a game; and so they think of 'world' in the context of gaming..... and that's definitely not a good approach to writing.

I know someone IRL who is always working on a novel, describing their world and how it works, what this or that invention led to; there's all this technology, and it goes on and on and I'm sitting there like... okay who are the characters? What are their names, what are they like? Where's the people?
A world without people it's like a game without players or even NPCs... just an empty shell.
Dec 15, 11:52 AM

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@Cute_Marseille Oh I don't work with anyone else, all by myself. The drawings are all on paper, and I have to color it myself.
I probably *could* just scan the lineart before coloring, and pay someone to do coloring on computer... but I'm distrustful and have heard of too many people getting ripped off.
@SuperAdventure

Hm. Do you think coloring is that important?🤔 I know nothing in arts, but even so manga goes pretty fine with b-w style. Why wouldn't you try as well? Who knows if it comes something amazing😁.
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Dec 15, 12:12 PM

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@SuperAdventure

Hm. Do you think coloring is that important?🤔 I know nothing in arts, but even so manga goes pretty fine with b-w style. Why wouldn't you try as well? Who knows if it comes something amazing😁.
@Cute_Marseille Oh yes coloring is the only way for it to be visible (or else pencil shading) As far as I know, traditional manga are done in inks- that's how it shows up so well. But since I'm using pencil (F, HB, which is very light) there's no way you'd see anything unless I cranked up the contrast (I tried this and it's just not appealing to look at)
I love traditional manga very much and can spend hours drooling over their work, but realized I'm just not able to use inks, so I color with pencils. When done well it can look nice but the output is painfully slow....
Right now I'm experimenting with doing manga style pages with panels, shrinking down the scenes and characters, so it'll be easier to color and the results are good so far soon as I get done, and much more fun
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I tend to do a lot of daydreaming in the uhhhh day, so you could say that I still have fantasies about being a superhero or Warrior for justice and stuff like that. Man that sounds cheesy. 😂
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I felt like writing something a few weeks ago, went down a Google rabbit hole, and ended up installing a local wiki server on my machine to help facilitate creating a world. But the whole process was like modding Skyrim: spend forever setting everything up and then at the end you don't even want to play anymore 🙃
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@Cute_Marseille Oh yes coloring is the only way for it to be visible (or else pencil shading) As far as I know, traditional manga are done in inks- that's how it shows up so well. But since I'm using pencil (F, HB, which is very light) there's no way you'd see anything unless I cranked up the contrast (I tried this and it's just not appealing to look at)
I love traditional manga very much and can spend hours drooling over their work, but realized I'm just not able to use inks, so I color with pencils. When done well it can look nice but the output is painfully slow....
Right now I'm experimenting with doing manga style pages with panels, shrinking down the scenes and characters, so it'll be easier to color and the results are good so far soon as I get done, and much more fun
@SuperAdventure

Hm. But is it possible to change the final image through scanning + digital editors? I mean, if you drew it with any pencils (no ink) and then worked with some saturation, lightness/darkness, shades etc? Would it look more presentable?
Technologies go far really fast, so it should be a possibility.

P.S. Again, I should mention I know nothing in arts, because my major is linguistics. So, feel free to correct me🤔.
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I tend to do a lot of daydreaming in the uhhhh day, so you could say that I still have fantasies about being a superhero or Warrior for justice and stuff like that. Man that sounds cheesy. 😂
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Are you seeing yourself a Marvel-like or DC-like hero? Or perhaps, even My Hero Academy's?🦸
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I felt like writing something a few weeks ago, went down a Google rabbit hole, and ended up installing a local wiki server on my machine to help facilitate creating a world. But the whole process was like modding Skyrim: spend forever setting everything up and then at the end you don't even want to play anymore 🙃
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That reminds me any experience of playing Sims when you spend hours on characters' details and then never play them🙃.
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I also do art commissions on Discord. ^_^
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I came up with a story that has been actual hell to realize but I digress.

I made a whole world for this story, a world held together by the whims of immortal gods who are lazy and apathetic who only care about how other immortals view them and nothing else. They operate on whims that pop up rarely. So basically one of them is fucking a mentally ill mortal and it goes haywire and has almost nothing to do with the status of the world whatsoever.

This isn't Tolkein shit, this is just weird fetish material with extra steps.



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Are you seeing yourself a Marvel-like or DC-like hero? Or perhaps, even My Hero Academy's?🦸
@Cute_Marseille

Somewhere along those lines yes. Also a lot of my fantasies come from past jrpgs that I played, Oh why oh why can they not be real!? 😭
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I thought this looked pretty good, though I have seen better. <3

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I used to do this all the time. I had created two of them back when I was younger, and though I planned to make stories in those settings, I could never complete them. It's been a work in progress all my life. I do have worlds now as well, but I'm not satisfied with them.
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@Cute_Marseille

Somewhere along those lines yes. Also a lot of my fantasies come from past jrpgs that I played, Oh why oh why can they not be real!? 😭
@Retro8bit

Of course they can! Never toss out your dreams✨✨
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Oh jeez, all the time. Ever since I was little. Games, stories, etc. But it's one thing to just think and plan these projects out. It's another thing to actually do them. That's where it gets complicated.
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I found a really good ai story generator, I should have posted the link. I'll try and find it again. But I put one of my stories on my profile.

https://www.appointo.me/story-tools/anime-plot-generator
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