#obviously there are other people who are really good at it e.g. JRR Tolkein but I was never able to get into LotR

[canadian-riddler]

I yearn for the worldbuilding skills of George Lucas

#so says Indy #obviously there are other people who are really good at it e.g. JRR Tolkein but I was never able to get into LotR #I tried but I think I don't like high fantasy #writing angst #sort of lol #there's... George RR Martin but that's also high fantasy so I'm not in a rush to try GoT though I THINK he wrote sci-fi before that #and JK Rowling but the world is very #there's a lot to it but it's also all in Britain kind of thing #and when she tried to expand on it she just sort of did 'it's Britain but in another country' #which you see a lot in fanfiction where someone tries to write a property from a country they don't live in #Valve is good at worldbuilding in a similar way #they have a very big world but in a very specific context #they have this huge planet-spanning conflict but there's not really a sense of what's happening outside of what they tell you about #it's not mentioned how they got from New Mexico to Europe or indeed how the rest of the world is doing #like where are the locals why is everyone in Half-Life someone who used to work at Black Mesa #are we supposed to infer the Combine sent everyone in the world to Europe? why? is some Russia-adjacent place the best place to keep people #but I already know the reasons things aren't explained in Half-Life is because the writers don't know and are going to figure it out later #when they deem it important #so maybe the world will get bigger later idk #check back in 13 years #anyway tldr of the best worldbuilding I can think of I like George Lucas's the best