Crafting New Lives
491 PT
Scope
The motivation behind building Crafting New Lives
I deeply enjoy the Dream SMP content creators and am entranced by storytelling on a larger more malleable scale.
Being able to create and share a story is something that brings me so much joy, and creating the tales that will be passed on and remembered is something I highly value.
I want to take characters I love, my spin on them at least, mash them with my other interests (dungeons and dragons and mythology), and give them to others to enjoy as well.
The ability to create a world or setting that will continue on in other aspects, can be used for all manner of stories from it.
The goal of the project
I am currently approaching this like it is a D&D campaign. I want my audience to feel like they are a part of the story, like they are following our favorite characters as they try to navigate mysteries, monotonies, and mythos beyond their knowledge.
I want the audience to walk away feeling like they can understand these characters, and that heroes or villains can be found in most of them.
Crafting New Lives's Unique Selling point
It is based around minecraft ish. It uses fascinating and compelling stories and builds off of them. I want to bring these characters to life in my own interpretation of them and to share that with others. I want to breathe these characters until they are mine. I want to build a complex and compelling story of how connections can bring triumph, how friends and companions are powerful and that making good connections will bring you into worlds you never dreamed.
Theme
Genre
Genre is high fantasy, mid to low tech, mid to high magic.
No guns and limited gunpowder, thank you very much. Only exists for fireworks and maybe bombs.
Reader Experience
Curious about the world and people around them.
Confident about forging onwards, and that they will get out and survive.
Friendly with those around them, pushing to befriend and understand as many people as they can.
Reader Tone
Somewhere in the middle of dark and bright, leaning towards bright.
It is mildly difficult to live there, as theft is pretty common in most areas. Horrible things happen just a little more often than wondrous thing to the common people, simply because the ruler is a dick and would encourage it.
Recurring Themes
Friendship is magic, alright. Befriending as you go will help you in the long run.
Hard work brings results. Gathering resources will give you a leg up along the way.
Working together is better. Collaboration brings results better than separation.
We rolling with the LGBT.
Character Agency
Some level of agency?
Overarching plan is hard ish to change, and is also pretty rigid.
Change likely won't be super long lasting? I don't really know tbh.
They have a lot of power to change the world for the better, not as much to change it for the worse because that's not the aim of the game.
Focus
Drama
Church Prime
How it blocks out all other religions
Dream and XD's rule
rule of law isn't consistent, and he targets people
overbearing government presence in some areas but not others
classism and elitism wooo
wonderful question
n/a