It’s February! This month will likely be filled with the primary voting part of the Worldbuilding Awards and a ton of community-organized challenges! So strap in and let’s check out what’s coming.
As all the time, our staff has been busy enhancing World Anvil this month!
😶🌫️ New atmospheric areas!
You requested, and we answered! We’ve added a bunch of various location sorts within the Geographical Location template for the sky and oceans, together with jet streams, wind belts, cloud bands, and extra—your sky-sailing adventures can now grow to be a actuality!
📣 Calling all Sages! When you’ve got a customized area, this will likely be tremendous helpful for you!
Generally, when viewing your world by means of your customized area, some icons fail to load (on account of technical limitations). To resolve this challenge, now you can use this new choice to arrange a customized FontAwesome package:
- Get a customized FontAwesome package (examine the FontAwesome documentation for particulars).
- Copy your FontAwesome package URL.
- On World Anvil, click on the gear on the left aspect, then the artwork palette to entry your world’s Styling settings.
- Click on on the CSS tab and paste the FontAwesome package URL within the “FontAwesome Customized Equipment URL” subject.
After saving adjustments, your world will pull icons out of your customized package reasonably than World Anvil’s package.
Take a look at the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the complete changelog.
🗓️ February occasions
Now we have a number of superior occasions this month, to encourage you and make it easier to obtain your objectives!
- 🏆 fifth Worldbuilding Awards: submit your finest worldbuilding to the Worldbuilding Awards (WAWA) earlier than the eighth! Then, on February fifteenth, the primary voting spherical will start! Examine the occasion web page for particulars.
- 🤩 Friendship February: this month we’re shining the highlight on the challenges YOU are organizing! Examine the unofficial problem round-up and be part of the neighborhood with #UnofficialChallenge!
- ✨ Neighborhood Day: this month’s World Anvil Neighborhood Day will likely be on February twenty second! Right here’s the programme:
- 🎓 Sage Seminar: The ULTIMATE Crowdfunding Spreadsheet—defined (5pm UK/9am Pacific): On this month’s Sage Seminar, creator Laura VanArendonk Baugh will share and clarify all about her technique to handle crowdfunding and all the mathematics that comes with it (prices, stretch objectives, rewards, and so forth)! Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal (Sages solely).
- 🙌 Friendship February: Unofficial Problem Month Highlights (6pm UK/10am Pacific): be part of us on stream with different Anvilites to share and be taught extra in regards to the inventive occasions happening locally!
- ☕ Interior Sanctum Espresso: if you happen to’re a member of the Interior Sanctum, preserve your eyes peeled for this month’s Espresso particulars on Discord!
Comply with us on Twitch to be taught after we go stay!
🔥 Examine if you happen to received WorldEmber!
The winner checklist for WorldEmber is out now! Examine if you happen to’re in it and declare your prizes now. If you happen to received and don’t declare your prizes earlier than February seventeenth, you’ll miss your likelihood! Examine the checklist and declare your prize right here.
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
This month we’re that includes… The Finish of Humanity! This text by Stormbril is written and laid out as a newspaper, and is a beautiful window to the darkish world of Cathedris. Right here’s what the creator needed to say:
This world means a lot to me—it’s the inventive outlet I by no means knew I wanted, it’s what made me notice that I can share the issues I make with the web at massive, and that whereas scary, it’s extremely thrilling to see how individuals react and reply to your work. I’ve realized a lot about design, and honed my inventive craft a lot with Cathedris. It’s the challenge that bought me into Structure college. It provides me an opportunity to go wild and check out new issues time and again, with this text being an awesome instance of pushing myself to create completely different distinctive themes for articles to hammer house particular themes that I actually wish to spotlight. I’d all the time wished to do a extremely cohesive newspaper-style article, and I’m overjoyed at the way it got here out in the long run. It was so thrilling to pack a lot lore into the article with this framing machine, permitting the format and theme to inform as a lot of the story because the textual content itself.
Personally, I like good wholesome competitors. I like creating alongside aspect all of those extraordinarily gifted individuals. It pushes me to attempt new issues, to take possibilities and to hone my very own abilities. Whereas I usually don’t create issues with the concept of profitable the Worldbuilding Awards in thoughts, I’d be mendacity in the event that they didn’t present an incentive to place simply that little bit additional polish on my articles. The thrill about WAWA is infectious, the concepts which might be generated are implausible and provoking. Seeing previous winners, and future winners, gives me so many alternatives to be taught and enhance. And, after all, being a winner myself has been an enlightening course of as nicely—it lets me know what works and what doesn’t, what resonates, and the place finest to direct my power.
The article received the Energy & Honor Award within the Worldbuilding Awards 2024, so test it out now for an incredible dose of inspiration!
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