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Episode 269 The Anvil goes looping Mar 10, 2019

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Today's Topic How we Timeloop Fiction

So we are looking to run a story with a timeloop. So Michael and Jeffery talk a bit about what we would make a good story elements when time keeps repeating.

So join us as we start the timeloop.

So we are looking at … nooooooo

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What is a timeloop
Important Items for
- What causes the timeloop to repeat
- The Protagonist
- The Antagonist ????
- Day 1
- Alternate Scenes
- Random Scenes
- Closing Scenes
- What are the irritations?
- What are black herrings?
- What breaks the timeloop?
- Is there other limiters?

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What is the timeloop in your world?

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Episode 268 Brainstorming video game content Mar 03, 2019

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Today's Topic Brainstorming extras content in a single player indie RPG video game

So looking to start a new project in my world. Michael and I start brainstorming video game content, a wishlist, for a secondary battle and diplomacy system for a single-player JRPG style. This is all designed to keep Jeff engages since his driveway took out his editing budget for his book.

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Creating a solo JRPG style game in RPGMaker MV
Brainstorming wishlist for the system to complement traditional battles.
Background for the setting
War
Diplomacy
Battles
Domain

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Look at your plans, do you have the skills to achieve everything

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Episode 267 Jeff is no longer a worldbuilder Feb 24, 2019

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Today's Topic Worldbuilder has lost its meaning.

Maybe I should stop looking through worldbuilding sites online. I see so many people get stuck on worldbuilding. More to the point, I see people who call themselves worldbuilders get stuck on what it means to make your world realistic.

I personally have had it. I cannot consider myself a worldbuilder any more. I create fictional fantasy settings. Join a shocked Michael as the talks to Jeff giving up on the worldbuilder moniker.

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Yes I will still use worldbuilding skills
What has a worldbuilder become to mean?
The problem
What we should be doing?
Brainstorm a better name than worldbuilder

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Look at your plans, do you have the skills to achieve everything

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Episode 266 Finding inspiration for new properties in our nostalgia Feb 17, 2019

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So in my recent illness, he downloaded and played Lord of the Rings Online played for the first time since 2012. The game is old and not perfect, however, I had so much fun my wife downloaded the game and we played together. The experience got me thinking, there are certain games that stick in our minds years after we stop playing them. I really wanted to think about what are the features of those games that make them live on in our hearts.

Join Michael and me as we look at the features of the games we love.

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Episode 265 I AM THE LAW Feb 10, 2019

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Today's Topic We look at the world of judge Dread

If you are looking for a dystopian post apocalypse world for inspiration. Go no farther than earth. No not Hunger Games or the Fallout universe. Join Michael and Jeff as the look at the earth of Judge Dredd.

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Drokk it
- Great war of 2050
Special Judicial Squad, Street Judges, Chief Judge,
- Governments sign up for support
Law Giver
City Blocks
Mega Cities
Wastelands
Space Colonies
Nations broken down largely into City States
Mutants
Undead
- The Crime is life! The Sentence is death
Magic
Psionics
Implants

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Episode 264 6 Tips to help you recapture your time Feb 03, 2019

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Today's Topic Here are simple hacks I use to get the most out of my time

One of the major issues I hear from worldbuilders is that they do not know how to get the time. However, often time they have no idea even how much time they have to work creatively each week

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Win-Win goals support agreement
- I need time, what time do you want?
- Not judging
- A weekly discussion about obligations and needs
- Care about their hobby or secondary interest as much as you want them to care about yours… even if they don't
- Work on being flexible
Gmail calendars
- Shared with family
- Track your must-do activities

Budget time (Episode 133 Learn how I found 17 extra hours a week in 15 minutes)
- 168 Hours
- Minus Sleep – Work – eating – commuting - stuff you have to do
Trello Tracking
- Major things I am doing (or want 2) and the steps to get there
Daily and task planning
Daily Journal

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Dark, Darker, Superdarkestexpialidocious – Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 263 Feb 01, 2019

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This missed moment: Why do we want to make it darker

Monster Vision with Joe Bob Briggs story of Highlander
Why we want it darker, or something else
Possibly a reaction
Maybe a reflection of our taste
The hope standing out will lead us to our magnum opus

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Episode 263 Looking at Grimdark Fantasy Jan 27, 2019

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Today's Topic If you are writing grimdark. The characters are not going to have a good day.

If Horror had a child with Epic Fantasy and the child and the child has a really bad attitude it would be named Grimdark. Join Michael and Jeffery as the look at the

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Understanding Grimdark
What it is not?
- It is not horror
- It is not epic fantasy
- It is not anti epic either
- It is not dark fantasy
What it is if the last four items where relegated. Grimdark would be the child of all of them that was treated poorly its entire life.

Pros
Cons
Interesting works
Interesting stories
Who does it work for?

If is not horror, it is not Epic but something using both ideas

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My ultimate reason for loving worldbuilding frameworks – Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 262 Jan 25, 2019

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The Tuesday Tidbit is where I talk about something I missed in the latest episode or funny moment that I had to cut when I was recording with Michael. They will premier in Facebook live videos typically Tuesday @ 1 PM unless My Baby says otherwise on our page Gardul and then moved to our YouTube channel and finally the audio will be released on Fridays @ 12 PM

My ultimate reason for loving worldbuilding frameworks – Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 262

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This missed moment: My ultimate reason for loving worldbuilding frameworks

I am obsessed with cultures
I started worldbuilding reading National Geographic
My ultimate wonder, why do some areas have many ethnicities while others only have a few.
1. Balkans verse Britain
Flexibility gives me the ability to look at the work in different time periods
Wargaming for the win

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Episode 262 Why I have been working on a framework for worldbuilding Jan 20, 2019

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Today's Topic – Sketch it out

For two years, Jeff has been working a framework to make better worlds more quickly. Join Jeffery and Micheal as the discuss frameworks, why Jeff made one, and what you need to have in a good framework.

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