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EP 33: World Building Strategies

The Art of World Building: Creating Breakout Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds In Stories and Gaming

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The Bottom-Up Approach to World Building

If we don't consider that big picture first, then we might do something like place a forest somewhere and then later we decide to change which hemisphere this continent is in. This will be caused by using the knowledge we have gained from this series or any other resource on world building. Another good reason to do this top-down approach is that it creates cohesion. If we need to create a handful of sovereign powers on the same continent, they can fit together in a way that makes a little bit more sense when it comes to the variety of landscape for example. There's an alternative and that would be the bottom-up approach which is basically the exact opposite of what I just said. In this

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