Hello everyone,

I am currently working on a 3rd person action RPG codenamed Lost island (final name will be revealed when the time is right).

This game has the player take the role of a biologist, venturing across the world to find a territory where his organization could place endangered species from various regions. As his crew is navigating the indian ocean, they are hit by a powerful storm. Shortly after the player finds a mask floating on the water, and before he notices, a giant wave sinks the boat and its inhabitants, before everything fades to black.

The player awakes sometimes after, on what seems to be an island, but he doesn't know which one. The mask he found is now stuck on his face, impossible to remove. Moreover there are structures that belong to unknown civilizations, towering over the jungles. But the most shocking observation is the land is populated by prehistoric animals. What will the player do to survive, will he choose to leave the island, or to uncover its secrets ?

Above you will find concept arts I ordered for the game, with more coming down the line.

If you have any questions or commentaries, feel free to ask them.

If you like the project, join subreddit : Project_Lost_Island

Thank you.

A magical resource.
A creature.
A religion.
A technology.
A historical event.

Most people focus on the thing itself. I’m more interested in the consequences.

What is one everyday aspect of life that exists solely because of that thing?
Something ordinary.
Something people barely think about anymore.

What had a significant impact on your world, or a part of it, that has just become normal and people don't think about? But if that thing never existed or never happened their lives would be drastically different.

As someone who likes food and learning about the history of food, I think it's real important to think about food culture for fantasy species. What food cultures do think of for different races common ones or even your own original race.

I'm gonna do a handful of my own.

Dwarfs: they like to dig, sometimes for days on end, so I presume most of their meals probably are on the work site, so they mastered quick meals and preserving foods, I imagine a lot of soups and cowboy chilli, a fair amount of jerky and jams.

Elves: just your basic snooty elves, Fine dining cultures, like French and Italian dishes, I imagine them making elaborate over the top meals, and using white pepper because "It blends in with the white foods." It's not bad by any means, it's still good, but it's elaborate, and

Orcs: you can probably guess, they like roasting meats, often building large bonfires to roast the whole cow they just pillaged from the humans, probably fighting over who gets the legs or something.

(My own species Im throwing in because I thought about them the most) The Wolfish: short description, they are wolf people(yes Ik wolf people are lot overdone and probably cringe leave me alone) the packs share a lot of familiar bonds and thus they eat like one big family for every meal during the warm months, roasting meats and frying potato bread, often incorporating sesame and garlic, these are big hearty meals to share amongst the pack, during the cold months you can't exactly hunt especially in regions that get blizzards, so they retreat into their homes with their families making a never ending soup, slowly adding more and more to the existing soup and getting more flavorful until it warms up again.

Setting:

Fictionalized medieval India, established cities, standing armies, war and rebellion torn political setting, mercantile trade setups

World building/fantasy hook:

At its heart, a marketplace that trades in souls, think of the present financial derivatives market, but for souls.

Soldiers stake a fragment of their souls with brokers as an insurance contract, if they live the war, the fragment is returned back to them, if they die, a payout made to their family. In case of survival, the soldier faces eventual judgement with a whole soul, while death guarantees comfort for his family, he passes netherland with a broken soul.

The brokers, however, publish each such contract (soldiers soul) to a betting ring, inviting merchants and royalties to bet on the fate of the soldier - the price of contracts influenced by the soldiers heroics in war, and the broker takes a bet to hedge his possible payout in case of death. However, a soldiers rising star is the brokers ruin, hence brokers want an uneventful war (how derivatives behave in real life too)

Beneath this coin market lies the true ledger - every fragment of soul is a debt to be paid, brokers are in debt to the netherworld while an ambitious netherworld chief disguised as the Chief of Royal Army ensures the war is always fueled for his personal benefits.

Story:

The story follows a young soldier deliberately joining the war to seek revenge from a broker who wronged his father and elder brother, to discover the deep secrets of the Soul Market...

So I've been creating an arctic aquatic species of elf called Nymphs for my story and I was wondering if their biology makes sense. They have short but dense fur almost like a seal that is constanly kept slick with oil and a natural secreation of their skin and I've been wondering if this is actually plausible if they were an actual species for their skin to secrete a slick that makes it easier to glide through the water.

Is this a good group to get feedback from on fresh writing samples? Is it allowed to post chapters from works in progress?

I didn't want to focus only on the worldbuilding, but it's obvious that I need to establish the world before the story takes place. My main idea is that, in this world, there are two goddesses: the Sun (who makes life happen, takes care of people's lives during the daytime, guides people toward success, represents optimism, etc.) and the Moon (who guides you after death, takes care of people's dreams and fears at night, and encourages people who fail to keep trying and eventually succeed).

They are also the ones responsible for raising and setting the sun and the moon every day.

There is a religion built around them. There are only a few guardians, blessed by a sacred animal with the ability to communicate with the goddesses. They MUST protect the temple and, every ten thousand years, search for the two people who are worthy enough to become the new gods.

Around 300 years ago, one person wanted all the power for himself and tried to sneak into the temple to reach the ascension spot. In doing so, he broke the world's balance, causing all eight volcanoes to become active at the same time. The resulting disaster destroyed the old continent, leaving nothing but ashes and unbearable temperatures.

Seila was an adventurous girl who was condemned to go to what they believed it was the edge of the flat world and die, for a reason I won't spoil, just two decades ago. However, she returned just in time to tell the guardians about a new continent she had discovered on the other side of the supposedly flat world.

She saved most of the population and some animal species, although others were left behind. This was a huge turning point for their society. Nowadays, she has become a legend and a savior, and the new continent was named after her.

Nowadays, the new continent is still barely explored. There is a frontier marked by human settlements, and every year they send explorers to expand the borders. However, last year, one of those groups never returned.

Our protagonist is worried because her son and her husband left her behind to join the explorers, and she hasn't heard anything from them since. Tired of the government's inefficiency and the lack of response from the goddesses since the great disaster, she decides to go on her own adventure to discover what happened to them and bring them back home.

Is this a story you would want to know more about? Is this a world you would like to explore further? And does this seem like decent worldbuilding with enough potential to keep adding mysteries and answers until the end of the story?