Against Worldbuilding

Against Worldbuilding. Against Worldbuilding Why Alexis Kennedy wishes we didn't use the word. With an introduction by Matt Hosty. The fantasy genre is notoriously difficult to define but it would perhaps be easier to understand after examining its roots in travel literature. Here for the first time in one place are the best of his essays and columns – from hard-won lessons about game development to reviews of unreviewable games, from narrative design principles to writing masterclasses, from historical discursions on labyrinths to the notorious 'Against Worldbuilding'. As a reader, I'm most drawn to writers that invent new realities or tweak our own. Against Worldbuilding

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The eating habits of the Greeks at Troy have mystified scholars for, quite literally, millennia.

People like to read about foreign places and exotic races.

Against Worldbuilding These guys are camped out along the beach in the Hellespont, which a couple of hundred years after Homer was known as one of the finest fishing-grounds anywhere in the Mediterranean. For twelve years, he's been writing some of the most original and intelligent narrative games of the last decade as well as guest-writing gigs for BioWare, Paradox and Telltale Games. Here for the first time in one place are the best of his essays and columns – from hard-won lessons about game development to reviews of unreviewable games, from narrative design principles to writing masterclasses, from historical discursions on labyrinths to the notorious 'Against Worldbuilding'.