S2E13 - Worldbuilding, Storytelling, and Genre Conventions - “Yeah there are robots and yeah they’re in outer space”

Worldbuilding, Storytelling, and Genre Conventions


In this episode:


We get interested in different pieces of media for different
reasons. Generally, there are two types of stories: character
stories and idea stories. Sometimes, a setting can make us bounce
off a piece of media really hard (real-world stuff for Void and
traditional high-fantasy for Beej), but it can also be enough of
a draw that we push through mediocre stories to find out more
about the world.

We discuss various settings such as Star Wars, the Brandon
Sanderson Cosmere, Mass Effect Andromeda, Fallout, and Zelda.
There are lots of draws to each of them, but in the end, we
discuss the conventions that make each of them work for us and
why others don’t.



Weekly Geekery


Beej - Card thief / Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze /
Splatoon

Void - Card Thief / Dynasty Warriors Unleashed / Blaster
Master Zero / A King's Tale / Planet Coaster / Torment Tides of
Numenera / Shovel Knight



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