Just a few links this month:
Astronomycast #246 deals with the question: What if something was different? What if any of the parameters of the universe was different, what if we were further out in the galaxy, what if we didn’t have gas giant, and similar topics – this is of great interest to a world-builder because it gives you a good basic framework of what does and doesn’t work in your fictional universes. AstronomyCast is a good podcast at any rate, I recommend it highly.
I didn’t really gather too many world building links recently, this one’s been sitting in my scrapbook since early October:
Really, that’s a ridiculous amount of awesome mapping work. Go check it out!
I don’t have many links to share with you this month, but here we go:
If you like world building or even just map-making, you should watch Jerry’s Map on Vimeo and read the guy’s (sadly fairly empty) blog. He has been working on a constantly-evolving, huge map since 1963.
Finally, this vimeo video has some great shots of Jerry’s Map mounted on a wall.
LoveThesePics.com posted a photo gallery about a Tour of the abandoned Fix Flags amusement park in New Orleans. Very creepy photos, and very post-apocalyptic. Absolutely reminds me of Wasteland or Fallout. The park could easily be the HQ of the Killer Clowns, which is probably a staple of Postapocalyptica.
The site seems to have some pretty cool photo galleries in general… awesome for inspiration.
Tsojcanth had an awesome idea, one-page-dungeon designs in an organizer like notepad booklet. Whatever do you call those? Anyway, he took small notebook and put maps and notes into it. I absolutely love this idea, and I am going to steal it – I put some of these notebooks into my Amazon shopping cart already.
I’m listening to Episode 156 of The Tome Podcast, a discussion of World Building with Keith Baker, creator of Eberron. Excellent discussion – check it out.
Talislanta is available as a free download from the creator. Awesome!