1st blog post to gauge interest for a Splinterlands lore based project!
Hi all,
So some of you may know me, the vast majority likely wont, but this is my first time ever writing a blog post, so bare with the noob-ness as I familiarize myself with concept, I promise they'll get better 😆
So for this first post I wanted to gauge potential interest in a project which is the main reason for starting blogging, so here goes.
I've been an avid reader and amateur writer ever since reading LoTR before I hit double digits, aside from gaming I spent a lot of my childhood writing short stories and some not so short ones just for the fun of it, and I won a few local competitions and placed in some national ones while I was in school so I'm really excited about this potential of this project after SketchyGamerGuy put me onto Splinterlands lore.
So the idea is this, I would like to create an entire story arc based on existing character lore from Splinterlands that would span the entirety of the game and sets released. Now, I'm sure the Splinterlands team have their own ideas in mind for something along these lines in the future, so this would essentially be my take on it based on my own (warped) imagination and ideas.
This would be a pretty huge undertaking of time, effort and would require a lot of dedication on my part, researching the characters, developing the characters and essentially bringing them to life, and on top of that to create an entire story arc to encompass all or at least the majority of Splinterlands characters and creatures.
I am more than willing to put that level of effort in, but I have to be realistic and if there's little to no call for it, it would essentially just be doing it for my own pleasure and that's too much of an undertaking for something that's purely for myself, however if it gains traction I would love to eventually turn it into actual books if it went that far, and with the blessing of the Splinterlands founders of course, but in the meantime I would be looking to basically write a chapter per post and go from there.
So I would really love to hear from everyone and see how many people would get behind this project, if I think its enough to make it worth the effort I would start working on it pretty much immediately.
If you want to get in touch with me with ideas, suggestions or maybe even a little help I would love to hear from you, you can find me almost permanently in the Splinterlands discord, or I'll also be starting to stream on Twitch from next week so you'll be able to find me there too under the name ACryptoApe.
I hope to hear from you soon and thanks for reading! 😍
CryptoApe
Good luck with this. I think you need to reach out to some of the Splinterlands community to get them interested and build a following. It is not worth putting out lots of posts before you have followers as they can only earn for a week.
Have fun with it.
Thanks for the advice man, I'm hoping that the SL crew sees it and maybe even backs it once I start putting out some of my work. I'm not doing it for financial gain, although I wouldn't turn down sponsorship or some form of backing to be able to really concentrate on it and make something big out of it. But this is purely because I love writing, story-telling and I'd like to see others get enjoyment from my work. Really appreciate your support though! 💚
Petition for cryptoApe to begin his work :)
Thank you, that means alot! 💚
I'm for the concept of a lore project, but not so much on yours receiving the official seal of approval. This is basically trying to legitimize fanfiction into canon (which on basis of fanfic can be pretty bad.) A writing contest sounds fun though. Maybe the best stories become official lore?
On the topic of writing Splinterlands fanfic, it's crossed the mind a few times, but I think you have to go rather out of your way for the existing lore of Splinterlands. And I've yet to bother to do that.
Thanks, I think? lol. I'm not trying to legitimize anything I just want to do what I enjoy and hopefully others will enjoy it too!
If it was just doing what you enjoy - you don't need to advertise to the community to write a fanfic centered around Splinterlands. This post translates to <I want to write a story, please make it official too.>
I would totally read that man.
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I think this is an absolutely glorious idea, and I can't wait to read what you write!
Thanks Luthien! If all goes well hopefully I will be starting in the new year, ive just got so much going on at the moment with the stream and the podcast, work, dog, etc haha. Looking at the amount of positive attention its getting though im so excited to get started! 💚
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This is a great idea. I am doing my only little part toward this with a series I am writing for fun based around just one character. More of a narrative within the lore but it draws from some parts of the encyclopaedia to build out the setting a society.
I just wrote the second part today if you fancy a read: https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@joesetsfire/tales-from-the-splinterlands-2-a-secret-revealed
Good luck with whatever you decide to do and if you want to collab, let me know!
Love to see it man, Ill definitely have a read and drop you an upvote! Are you on the discord channel?