I’m curious what everyone here is using their worlds for? Are you creating them for a tabletop game experience? Are you using them as settings for your creative writing? Are they a world for video game or film? Are they an activity to escape this world for a little bit?
my story
I’m not sure I qualify as actively world building, although I’m working on finding some time for it. My focus is to build a world in which I can run dungeons and dragons campaign(s). I’m not focused on defining new races, animals, or flora. I’m reusing what is already available in that world but focused on the social/political/geographical constructs. I’m creating land for them to live, towns/cities/villages to inhabit, religious and political orders to inevitably cement disagreements, and a history of such events to motivate current affairs.
I’m maintaining it in a self-hosted dokuwiki to enable high level of cross linking all this content together.
Sort of the same for me. The world I make was mainly used in writing campaigns between me and a close friend of mine, we actually intended to write books together with the characters and elements we had, but long story short that isn’t an option anymore.
Nowadays I’m just trying to flesh things out and get everything together in a neat and concise manner, which is what my own wiki project is for, alongside a set of short stories to accompany it, with intentions of having it be all under a CC BY free use sorta field so anyone can do whatever with what’s there, though that’s it’s own topic for another time.