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In all my worlds, there are no people. They have shape, structure, geometry, the physics and the backgrounds. Places, regions, cities and borders, architecture

by Artlav 10y ago

In all my worlds, there are no people. They have shape, structure, geometry, the physics and the backgrounds. Places, regions, cities and borders, architecture and machinery. But there is no one. No characters or villains, no random strangers, no gods or myths. Not even faceless masses. At most there can be vehicles in the distance, or a general, indistinct feeling of inhabitation. This might be the reason i never really wrote any stories, despite always wanting to. For all the verse, there is no one to write about. Not sure how to fix that, other than considering a different media. VR, perhaps...

derefr 10y ago
You sound like you'd do well as an art director. You have a vision, but it's an aesthetic one, not a narrative one. You could work with a writer to fit narratives in there.
elorant 10y ago
Well you could try writing poetry.
labster 10y ago
And here I am imagining what it would be like to first astronauts landing on one of your worlds. What would an explorer feel upon seeing vast cities and machinery, but seeing no trace of the people who built it. Was the city built by a species who all died in a plague 1000 years ago? Is it an abandoned City of the Gods, who were destroyed by another pantheon? Did the inhabitants all leave to a higher plane of existence? Was it built by nanotechnology in anticipation of another alien species' arrival? Add a character who is driven to find out the truth and let them explore. Or you could always go with the "the world really is empty" existential horror, like in Yume Nikki. As a world with only one character and very few monsters, it still manages to be terrifying.
- bollockitis 10y ago
  > And here I am imagining what it would be like to first astronauts landing on one of your worlds. What would an explorer feel upon seeing vast cities and machinery, but seeing no trace of the people who built it. This reminds me of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama
e12e 10y ago
Have you read "At the Mountains of Madness" by Lovecraft? Because that (his entire universe) is sort of what that passage reminded me of. Wall-e meets Lovecraft. Disney dystopia.

by Artlav 10y ago

derefr 10y ago

You sound like you'd do well as an art director. You have a vision, but it's an aesthetic one, not a narrative one. You could work with a writer to fit narratives in there.

elorant 10y ago

Well you could try writing poetry.

labster 10y ago

And here I am imagining what it would be like to first astronauts landing on one of your worlds. What would an explorer feel upon seeing vast cities and machinery, but seeing no trace of the people who built it. Was the city built by a species who all died in a plague 1000 years ago? Is it an abandoned City of the Gods, who were destroyed by another pantheon? Did the inhabitants all leave to a higher plane of existence? Was it built by nanotechnology in anticipation of another alien species' arrival? Add a character who is driven to find out the truth and let them explore. Or you could always go with the "the world really is empty" existential horror, like in Yume Nikki. As a world with only one character and very few monsters, it still manages to be terrifying.

bollockitis 10y ago
> And here I am imagining what it would be like to first astronauts landing on one of your worlds. What would an explorer feel upon seeing vast cities and machinery, but seeing no trace of the people who built it. This reminds me of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama

e12e 10y ago

Have you read "At the Mountains of Madness" by Lovecraft? Because that (his entire universe) is sort of what that passage reminded me of. Wall-e meets Lovecraft. Disney dystopia.