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borders / trades / transport

Worldbuilding Genres :

Science Fiction Hard (scientific acucracy, plasauble tech develop, ) vs Soft (social, psycho, philo) (CP)
Fantasy, Low vs High
Alternate history

origin of the world begining of the world how creatures come drom

Lore

The backstory created around a fictional universe should provide believable and convincing settings, which should intertwine with design and gameplay assumptions. Everything is adffectred by cuyltuiral and biological pressure, they dont exist in vacuum (feeding, reproducing).
Holon represents a way to overcome the dichotomy between parts and wholes. Koestler’s Holon Simultaneously Whole & Part.

Multiple co-existing rules.
Rules for all characters must be the same. A consistent world is a believable world.
We are in our cultural bubble so its easy to slip of with our cultural point of view and embed them into the fictional worlds.
Further to future more detailed designs
Gaps in the world allow players to participate in its existence. When details are ambiguous, people will fill them in themselves, driven by curiosity. Hard vs soft World Design.
- hard [rules consistency transparency realism ]explain everything < immerse by place in believable and grounded world
- soft [unknown flexible rules imaginative involvement]situational that are convincing independent of logic telling all logic behind will destroy the curiosity [i.e. story from child perspective should be somehow naïve and not fully logical ]

Pace

Pace layers

Make story on various level of magnification Every world is holistic system At multiple scales (Consistency Believability)

Peace size scale

Human world: Self/Individual (character), Family (Home, environment), Community, Others (Citizens), World, Cosmos
Human organism: Organism > Organs > Tissues > Vells > Organelles > Molecules > Atoms

Paces time scales

Pace scales by Stuart Brand and (architect Frank Duffy) - Six layers that function simultaneously at different speeds within society

Years	Stuart Brand layer	Function	Frank Duffy	Bourdieu
0	Fashion, Art	Innovate (New Ideas, competitive)	Stuff (Sets changes)	Events
5	Commerce	Differentiation (better ideas, unique process)	Space Plan (Furniture changes)
15	Infrastructure	Record (slow, incremental, preservation, efficiency, common ideas)	Service (pipes and maintenance )	Economic / Society
70	Governance		Skin, (human)
100	Culture		Structure (building )
forever	Nature		Site (place, )	Environment

Economy cycle

10 years - credit cycle - crisis
100 years - world power cycle: reserve currencies 1450 Portugal > 1530 Spain > 1640 nith > 1720 Fr > 1815 GB > 1944 US > crypto
1000 years - governance of humanity cycle: Tribes > Religions > Kingdoms > Governance

Speed of change


Fast	Discontinues	absorb shock, learn, innovation, revolution	Has all the attention
Slow	Continuous	integrate shock, constraint, consistency	Has all the power

Structures

Structure - Matter
Information - Genetics
Energy - Metabolism

Pathetic Dot Theory

Lawrence Lessig It discusses how lives of individuals (the pathetic dots in question) are regulated by four forces:

Law - threatens sanction if it is not obeyed.
Market - supply and demand
existing conditions- Technology, biology, geography, technology and others constrain our actions.
Cultural Norms - enforced by the community

lex McDowells Mandala

Disruption - what if
Context - where
Ecologies - social/ mental / physical urban planning
Domains / sub - transports system / fashion / technologies

system
location
maker
body
culture

Self (culture, history)
Body (structure terrain)
Mind (Governance > economic)
Fuel (Energy> Resources)

G.R.A.P.E.S.

Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economy
Social

Geography

Condition and adaptation to explore and source energy. Spices tend to get out of natural boundaries and limitations, and sometimes idiosyncrasies - past social pressures which are presently outdated.

Planet

Tectonic Plates

Planet required hot core with cool surface for tectonic to occur. Planets lithosphere divisions into plates that slowly move.

Rules of division. No more than 3 plates interact with each other (no 4 corners junctions). https://web.archive.org/web/20141202090712/http://experilous.com/1/blog/post/procedural-planet-generation | | | | | —- | —- | —- | | Convergent | Ocean - Land | Trenches, earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains | | | Ocean - Ocean | Trenches, earthquakes, volcanoes, island | | | Land - Land | Trenches, earthquakes, volcanoes, island | | Divergent | Ocean - Ocean | Volcanoes, ridge, rift valley, colacanic islands | | | Land - Land | Earthquakes, rift valley, volvanoes | | Transform | Ocean - Ocean | Earthquakes | | | Land - Land | Earthquakes | https://www.youtube.com/@Artifexian/videos

Earth like should be mostly under water. How much water.

Water Current

Glaciations

are heavy and they move
how far they extended

Ecosystems

plants > get energy from sun > bugs eat plants > lizard eat bugs.
find niche and adapt. shifting landscape of available niches and adaptations that find opportunities. (evolutionary pathway)
simple systems have problem with less potential of emergence
i.e.: planet rotate slowly force to migrate society every few decades

Climatology & Atmosphere

Impacto of climate
Impact of weather
Impact of seasons

Geophysical / Terrain

Geomorphology
- mountains are less accessible.
Hydrology
Tectonics
Gravity

Biosphere

predators competitor
strategies of survive

Diversity

Identities:

ethnic/ gender / nationality

Spieces classification

Invertebrates Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Mamas

Resources

export/ import
natural resources
chance of survival
food sources, water sources

Civilizations

History

https://mythologian.net

Society

Groups hierarchy: individual > communal > societal > civilizational
Groups share traits > lead to stereotypes

Culture

Art and Culture

Language

Communication - Text, Fonts, letters
Epigraphy
- decode ancient records https://www.dcode.fr/cistercian-numbers
Naming
- simple proper descriptive nouns.
- neologisms - new worlds. (jedi -not knight not monk, something in between) on the other side you can use.
Gestures

Creating language

Conlang - constructed language Who is going to speak this lang. What culture is (to reflect)

Basic steps

what sounds
2 some words
create grama
form modern from proto

20-30 sounds

hawaiian rotokas mohhawk - mało literek

Sound symmetry - it should go with series

Where in mouth sound is produced	label (front lips)	Alveolar		post-	Velar	Glottal (back)
Stop (completley obstructing air flow)	pa	ta			ka
Fricative (small gap)		sa				ha
Affricative (as stop then release as fricative)		tsa		cha
Nasal (nose)	ma	na
Liquid (change in contour in air wavelenghth)		ra	la	ja	wa

Vowel system:

vowel
hi	i		u
mid	e		o
low		a

Basic world order:

Subject - Object - Verb ~45%(Latin, Japanese, Turkish, Hindi) Subject - Verb - Object ~42% (English, French, Russian, Malay)

Adjectives from noun or wfrom werbs

good neither noun or verb - proto-indo-european

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHK1gO2Mh68&list=PL6xPxnYMQpqsooCDYtQQSiD2O3YO0b2nN

Media

Education

Philosophy

Believes

Symbolism
Traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group,
Gods, Practices, Myths, Legends, Rituals (rites of passage), Ideals

Religion

Shape of god reflect values of society / natural phenomena’s (understanding world by society ). There is no clear interpretation (its not a logic)

Monotheism: centralized larger power structure
Polytheism: A less unified and centralized. can split powers to different societies and human needs. anyone can find sth for him. In catholicism saints have this role. different roles

What worship Our civilization worship sun and sky because they give us life. Maybe something else is essential to live style i.e.: In dune they worship worms, there is no reason to worship sky or sun it give them nothing.

territory, num of believers, how old

Power

abstract categorization of actions based on aspects of national power. Each categorization

Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic - is an instrument of national power (IOP).
Geography

Politics

System of governance

Social, dem. fascist, kingdom, federation

Empires

enormous powers. Some of pillars of empire stability:

communication - how effective between:
- gov - gov
- gov -cit - policy, propaganda, reforms,
- cit -cit
control
- terror - but leave question about rebellion prisons and incentives to coop. not lasted long in world
- security - is reason to be part of empire
- control resources ??
- ppl have different reason (bribe, security, religion)
- propaganda (1984) manufactured stories
- self governance & sovereignty -
- stimulation - make them want to be part like religion./ sport
commerce
- local economic stability

Monarchy

Successive monarchy. - Mostly patrilinear primogeniture(eldest son inherent) root ed in traditional role of warior.

Legal system

Laws

System of governance
How law correlated
How law enforced
How power changed
class sysetm / casts

Class division

Fractions / Houses / Class / casts
wealth, power and status.
historic context
tribes
what are bariers to change class ?

Military

Functions of military formations

infantry, heavy, air
tactics - terain dominance covers
tension between cultural systems.

Economy

resources supplies import/export trade ? how wealthy society is

Market Sectors


Materials	cyclical	fluctuate much, predictor
Industrials	cyclical, sensitive	provide serv to oher companies (midle in pref)
Financials	cyclical	very cicl , very volitle , high rebo
Info tech	cyclical, sensitive	it, semi > growth only in good times
Consumer discretionary	cyclical	want but not need > starbuks first to cut > higher return
Consumer staples	defensive	need to buy like toilet pap.
Energy	defensive, sensitive	oil gas
Healthcare	defensive
Communication services	defensive, sensitive	google >
Utilities	defensive
Real estate	all

cyclical - depend on economy .
defensive: -

Logistic

Transportation Tall buildings ?

Science

science > engineering > building

Loop Innovation

Communications Medium as Process loop
Culture > Laws > Economy > User Experience > App Code > OS Code > Hardware & Tech Architecture

Hardware & Tech Architecture:

Emerging Tech Provides New Affordances >
Creators Explore New Affordances >
Distributors Provide Channels For Audiences to Access New Work >
Audience learn grow to watch new work & Provide feedback >

Adaptation of Innovation

Innovators 2.5%
Early Adopters 13.5% / People who want complete solutions ! Crossing the Chasm
Early majority 34%
Late majority 34%
Laggards 16%

Gartner Hype Cycle

…. Current state of innovation.

Technology

Technology advancement

Agriculture > Hunter Gatherers > Self-sufficient > Synthetic
Settlers > Conquest > Trade > Prosperity > Reason > Collapse

Industrial Revolutions

.
Primitive	Nature	Fire	up to 400,000
Agriculture		wooden plow, new horse-drawn threshers, grain and grass cutters, cultivators, rakes, and the labor-saving corn shellers, first urbanisation
Metallurgy			3300 BCE bronze / 1200 BCE iron (Steel)
Transport		Deep water navigation
Thermodynamic	Machinery	1st revolution Steam engine 1712	1797-1882
Electricity	Wires	2nd revolution Dynamo, Generators, Electricity	1800
Industrial		Combustion engine 1860-76 > Assembly line, Urbanisation	1913
Calculation	Digital	3rd revolution Transistors Computer, Internet, Globalization	late 20th
AI		4th revolution Internet (information)	21th
		5th revolution Molecular fusion / quantum comp / atomic lvl - brain net	Future
Fiction	Magic

Architecture

Unnatural fiction

Magic

from thin air

Alchemy

from other matter

Emulation of fictional events

Utopia/Protopia

Examples

Old vs. New World

Eastern vs. Western

	1984 / orwel	Brave New World / Huxley
	those who ban books	no reason to ban a book
truth	concealed from us	drowned in a sea of irrelevance
culture	captive	trivial
control by	inflicting pain	inflicting pleasure
will ruin us	what we ffear	what we desire

Hard questions

Free will vs. determinism
- matrix / kalvinist vs armenian
- Quantum probabilistic Universe: is probabilistic but not random? What did bother Einstein was the prospect of real indeterminism, built deep into the underlying laws of physics. This kind of indeterminism would make it impossible for even an all-knowing being to perfectly predict the outcome of any event.
- Maybe living things are so unique because they don’t fall under determinism
Should you live for the present or work for the future.
- Happiness is most important?
- Freedoms self vs society
Meaning
- Is absolute truth possible / A perfect logos
- Values and are you true to them
- How to value beliefs.
- Is there any purpose
- Is categorizing burden or blessing
Conscious
- What mean be conscious
- Are we biological machines ?
Is time emergent or fundamental ?
Life
- an organism’s astonishing gift of controlling ‘a stream of roder’ on itself and thus escaping the decay into atomic haos.
- existing order displays the power of maintaining itself and producing ordedly events.
Solving stop problem - nie da się obliczyć czy algorytm się kiedyś skończy

Political corectness - key post modern attribute - universalizing gesture - regresive

https://para.wiki/w/Main_Page

Books:

The art of gathering: how we meet and thy it matters bypriya parker

On Writinbg and worldbuilding https://www.youtube.com/@HelloFutureMe

Language:

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