[MULT] Pitboss Worldbuilding Challenge

[Pydgie]

I'm planning on posting the beginning of my story very shortly here (in a separate thread) and will then post updates pretty much whenever something interesting happens. I think you can pretty much post whenever and whatever you want, though. In addition, @sillsworth was planning on creating a Google Doc and linking to it in the SG so we can anonymously share information.

Also, @Pydgie - I saw in the Language Translation thread that you know Arabic. I'd like to create some pseudo-Arabic names for landforms and (much later) cities, so would you maybe be willing to lend a hand?

Sure, I'll try to help, although it's my second language so I can't guarantee 100% quality. Just let me know, whenever, bro.

 

[Heerlo]

Are you away currently? It's your turn right now, but you haven't been online for two days.

Uh, I posted earlier today. Well, I was away from the computer for a while, and I figured it might be turn by now. Going to play it now.

Edit: Oh, you probably meant on steam. Nevermind.

 

[sillsworth]

kobo1d, it is your turn! Play soon so Arexander can get on. Not saying he's better than you, he's just online and it would be convenient.

 

[Devutaren]

I just thought of something that could potentially speed the game up a little, although I'm not sure if it would actually work.

If people could guess a time of day when they'd most likely be able to play their turn, it would be easier to estimate when their turn would be over. So maybe we could make a Google Doc and post that estimated time, in order of play. So if fishoak put in that he could play at 12am GMT, maybe cpm would then put in 3am GMT, or something like that (it'd be best to post the times in GMT so no confusion arises). And so on.

It would be cool if it worked out, but of course, we can't expect people to play at the same time every day ad infinitum. Maybe we could attempt the Google Doc, though. That might speed up a few of the turns, at the very least. Go to the SG for a link to the Google Doc.

 

[cpm4001]

Good plan, Dev. Added my times to the doc (though you may want to remove the link from this thread and repost it in the SG, so we don't have unwanted edits.)

 

[sillsworth]

I just thought of something that could potentially speed the game up a little, although I'm not sure if it would actually work.

If people could guess a time of day when they'd most likely be able to play their turn, it would be easier to estimate when their turn would be over. So maybe we could make a Google Doc and post that estimated time, in order of play. So if fishoak put in that he could play at 12am GMT, maybe cpm would then put in 3am GMT, or something like that (it'd be best to post the times in GMT so no confusion arises). And so on.

It would be cool if it worked out, but of course, we can't expect people to play at the same time every day ad infinitum. Maybe we could attempt the Google Doc, though. That might speed up a few of the turns, at the very least. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_mCKRttXpXY-fwIFhDKtBLSE_O_UtKYtRCmWbLQMqbQ/edit?usp=sharing

Yeah I was gonna set that up after the first turn went by, guess I'll add mine to it now.

 

[Devutaren]

Good plan, Dev. Added my times to the doc (though you may want to remove the link from this thread and repost it in the SG, so we don't have unwanted edits.)

I'm not very good at the internet. What's an SG?

 

[cpm4001]

I'm not very good at the internet. What's an SG?

It's the Social Group . And don't worry; it took me the longest time to decode many internet abbreviations!

 

[kobo1d]

Opening save crashes to desktop. Working on it.

 

[cpm4001]

You're using the GMR desktop client, @kobo?

 

[kobo1d]

I've tried both desktop and online download methods. I am going to try a re-install on a different computer and see if that works. Sorry to hold everyone up, if I can't get it running by morning the ship might have to sail without me.

 

[Pydgie]

What is a gmr?

EDIT: never mind, figured it out

 

[kobo1d]

Fixed! Sorry for the long delay. Glad I got this working.

 

[redwings1340]

EDIT: Nvm, there was no problem. Turn taken.

 

[kobo1d]

Where are we posting our writeups? Here is 4000 B.C. from one local's view:

He had done it, he was finally a man! Little Brother ascended the last few steps to the highest point of Sky Meets Sand. He paused at the top to catch his breath and an arid breeze briefly took his mind off the glaring sun. The view was more beautiful than described by Oldest Brother when he had returned from his Quest Of Adulthood.

Little Brother could see the Great Ocean, far in the distance, the Edge Of The World. He covered his eyes to look down to the fields of wheat and thought of Little Sister, working her tiny hands, as was her duty, to help feed the village. Might she be looking up at Sky Meets Sand at this moment? It didn't seem likely, but Little Brother smiled at the thought. The village itself looked much smaller from this height, and in this moment it seemed completely natural to him that everyone he had ever known and will ever know has lived and died in that little collection of grass huts.

Suddenly the dry breeze stopped and the full weight of the sun seemed overbearing. His arm ached from his Spear-Throwing Trials, but it made him proud because it reminded him that none of his peers could match him in the distance competitions. Little Brother was finally a man, filled with a sense of pride that all he sees before him, from this bleak desert hilltop, is his destiny. He set off down the slope toward the village, where he would return with newfound honor and respect.

Thoughts on the primary-source type writing? Sounded like everyone else was going to go more history-book non-fiction style but fiction from the point of view of someone within the world seems more interesting to me.

 

[sh3baproject]

Where are we posting our writeups? Here is 4000 B.C. from one local's view:



Thoughts on the primary-source type writing? Sounded like everyone else was going to go more history-book non-fiction style but fiction from the point of view of someone within the world seems more interesting to me.

very amazing. i do see myself doing a history book nonfiction but if you want to do a fictional POV then go ahead. i like it.

 

[cpm4001]

Where are we posting our writeups? Here is 4000 B.C. from one local's view:



Thoughts on the primary-source type writing? Sounded like everyone else was going to go more history-book non-fiction style but fiction from the point of view of someone within the world seems more interesting to me.

Nice! Looking forward to more of that (and yes, I'm going history book style, because I'm unimaginative...)

 

[Devutaren]

I was kind of planning on doing something in between. Like a monk writing a chronicle. So I'd be writing from the perspective of a contemporary, but the narrator would mainly be academic. No perspective on events, but he tries his best to be unbiased and logical.

 

[sillsworth]

Thoughts on the primary-source type writing? Sounded like everyone else was going to go more history-book non-fiction style but fiction from the point of view of someone within the world seems more interesting to me.

You can choose where you post your writeups, the Story section is always a good option. I like to write nonfiction history and then some fictional POV stuff after I have history and culture ironed out. I would avoid starting some POV stuff until after ancient era, because that's when we decide names of things and city origins, some stuff that'll probably appear in POV stories.

Until then, I'm creating a con-cuisine of the stuff my culture is currently eating and preparing. Morama beans with porcupine, tongues of sea-beasts, fermented intestines, etc.

But like, it's up to you man.

 

[redwings1340]

We could all create a discussion about what's going on with our current civ in the discussions section of our social group. That might be a good method of sorting the write ups and worldbuilding from the rest of the discussion and everything else we talk about.