42 – Worldbuilding Secret Sauce with Peter Chiykowski
But, what is the secret sauce!? Peter Chiykowski is all about it. He’s an award winning author, cartoonist, dog enthusiast and maker of awesome kickstarters and we get to pick his brains! We talk about it some of the key components to good worlds and how a creator can build such depth into their own...
42 – Worldbuilding Secret Sauce with Peter Chiykowski
41 – Cultivating Player Engagement Through Worldbuilding
Isn’t it great when your players are obsessed? When they form massive cork boards with twine and string connecting images of different characters and phenomena in your world. How do you bottle this, though? How does a GM drive player engagement with worldbuilding? James and Seth break down how to drive player excitement and engagement....
41 – Cultivating Player Engagement Through Worldbuilding
40 – What Has the Empire Ever Done for Us!?
Well!? The Empire is obviously evil, I mean, obviously. However, we reckon most folks in the galaxy far far away were pretty ambivalent about it and might not have even noticed the change of the guard. Marcos and James discuss the Mandolorian and how the show depicts the regular folks in the margins of galactic...
40 – What Has the Empire Ever Done for Us!?
39 – Jedi, Good, Bad, and Ugly
Happy Star Wars day everyone! May the Fourth be with you! The Jedi are a staple in everyone’s worldbuilding imagination, most everyone wanted to be one at one time or another. Seth and I are gonna tell you why they’re terrible and not just cause they indoctrinate kids in their hokey religion or have a...
39 – Jedi, Good, Bad, and Ugly
38 – Food Glorious Food
There’s one thing that unites us all, one thing that is totally and indisputably common to the human experience. We eat (and breath, and probably whole bunch of other stuff but mostly that first thing). Every people has unique food and that food is informed by thousands (if not millions) of years of history, necessity,...
38 – Food Glorious Food
37 – What About Wanda
We spoil the crap out of this show so if you haven’t seen it yet and you want to see it and you don’t like spoilers then we recommend you give this a miss till you catch WandaVision. As for the rest of you. What happens when a deity grieves? This episode Marcos and James...
37 – What About Wanda
36 – Does your world have potential?
If you were to strip your story from your setting leaving just the world you made behind would people still want to be there? If you take Rocky out of Philadelphia you just have, well, Philadelphia, Will Smith out of Bel Air and… you get the idea. Some worlds are just saturated with potential even...
36 – Does your world have potential?
35 – Cheating at Worldbuilding with Seth Ring
Let’s be honest, GameLit is cheating at worldbuilding. Our very own Seth Ring is joining us today to talk about worldbuilding in his fantastical world of Nova Terra. Seth goes into the nuts and bolts of his collaborative writing style gives away some of his best secrets on how to write and keep writing even when...
35 – Cheating at Worldbuilding with Seth Ring
34 – Horror in the Margins: Interview with Zack Goings
Horror holds a grim fascination for millions of people but it can be elusive at times. The things that you’d think would draw out the biggest screams sometimes fall flat because they’re too obvious or gratuitous. Real horror lies in subtlety and the unknown. What if the best horror is in the margins, just outside...
34 – Horror in the Margins: Interview with Zack Goings
33 – Mars is Having a Mid-Life Crisis
Maybe it's time for Mars to reclaim its youth in our fiction.
33 – Mars is Having a Mid-Life Crisis
31 – Chekhov’s Obelisk
As worldbuilders we constantly desire more detail in our settings but is it possible that we’re writing checks that can’t be cashed? When an object is placed in the world it’s inevitable that at least some your audience will place significance on it but the very act of worldbuilding is making things that exist, at...