Write a story about someone that hides in a virtual world.
What happens if they lose their virtual world?
Why would they lose it?
Would keeping them in the virtual world make a more interesting story?
Write a story about someone that hides in a virtual world.
What happens if they lose their virtual world?
Why would they lose it?
Would keeping them in the virtual world make a more interesting story?
Create a world that is based around one rule.
What is the rule? (examples; everyone in the world is over 1000 years old, everyone in the world looks the same, no one talks to each other…)
How does this one rule affect the world as a whole?
What kinds of conflicts can this world have?
Create a world that humans have colonized and is very different.
How is the world different from earth?
How is this world more hostile than earth?
Create a world in which people have a magic ability to control one thing in the world.
What kinds of things are the able to control?
How are these abilities abused, and controlled?
Are some more powerful than others?
Who ends up ruling this world?
Create a world where everyone in it must have a symbiotic relationship with some other creature.
Is it one creature to many people?
Is it a relationship made not fore the persons benefit?
What hidden truth could turn this world on it’s head?
Create a world that everyone in it is completely influenced by commercials.
What does the commercials say?
How do they influence the people?
What is in control of the commercials?
Create a world based in magic, and after you have created this world apply the rule “there is no magic.”
How can you keep this world the same but not have magic?
What can you substitute magic with?
How can you keep the feel it had before by exchanging magic with something else?
Inspiration:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke
Create a world where every race in the world has a task to do that is centered around saving the human race.
Example: Merpeople protect humans from drowning.
Why do they do what they do?
Why is humans so much more important?
Is it destiny or is it manipulation that has caused this to happen?
Create a world that has a expansive history.
What is important about this history?
Did the history just happen or did it form the world from the eather?
Create a mythology for space faring race that has long since passed when humans come across there remains.
Example of just how deep you can go Metroid Mythology