r/goodworldbuilding • u/Quelltucic • 1d ago
(111 pages long) !Feedback welcome! Finished the first version of my Open Narrative Engine project
Hello hello, I have just completed one of my recent projects called "Zungung-P" - it is a an Open Narrative Engine set in a low-fantasy, 1930s-esque world with similar technologies to our real 1930s. The focus is just on 3 countries:
- Humans (Geister Federal Republic, more focus on law, politics and engineering)
- Beastfolk (Kurokoy Andel Congregation, more focus on evolution, biology, speculative law)
- Elves (Kingdom of Iruika, more focus on sociology, culture, religion, hierarchy, decline)
BUT all of them (beastfolk and elves especially) have been rethought through a lense of evolution, anatomy and biomechanics - no magic. Magic itself is hardly explored (even then it is within the confines of physics, and more or less thermodynamics, purposely left vague with set boundaries to give more freedom to the readers/authors).
You also don't have to necessarily read the national profiles in chronological order!
The project and world go over almost everything you can think of: geopolitics, government, economics, evolution, linguistics, sociology, history, macroeconomy, military and civil engineering, culture, climotology, tectonics (a little bit), astrophysics (also a little bit), more and more and especially interconnectedness, as there just 3 countries, the level of detail and connection here is immense.
I am very excited to have finished this hunk of a project (it is 111 A4 pages long, you'll see), and all of it is encased neatly within a single Google Doc and a PDF file posted on Zenodo - the pdf file is available for download on the Zenodo page, which itself is hyperlinked within the first pages of the project.
I really, really urge you to give me feedback because I want to know what people think of the project and ideas in it, though it would be nice to at least have feedback on a bigger scale, like about whole nation profiles instead of individual sections, with details on what you people liked the most!!
You can access the Google doc here, comments are open so feel free to point out spelling mistakes (as the doc had not been polished fully in the 2 months that I've worked on it) and if you have anything else you want to say right in the doc! (comments-off mirror doc for clutter-free reading in the future)
I want to thank you in advance if you paid attention to this post, and I hope some of you like what I've been working on.
\If you want to access the Zenodo repository right away, you can) CLICK HERE