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Use RPG Playground to Share Something that Matters to You.

What matters to you? Your culture?  Your family? A favourite sports team? Surfing on Sunday? A certain song? Your pet dog? Everyone has something that matters to them.  Very often we try and explain why these things are so important to us but it is hard to cover all the reasons.  We could plan and write an explanation text to make sure we get our point across, or we could create a video game and let people learn through play. Learn RPG Playground is a Role-Playing Game(RPG) creator.  It lets you make games like the birds-eye view video games from the 1980s and 1990s like Zelda and Gauntlet. RPG Playground is really easy to learn and you can create a basic working game in minutes.  You will need to create an account first and remember to save your work regularly.  But you can share your work with anybody and they will be free to explore your world, meet the characters you have added and learn from the conversations they have.   Once you are ...

Build a New World with Inkarnate and PlanetMaker!

If you want to bring a story to life.  Why not build a world for that story to exist in.  It's easier than it sounds with  Inkarnate  and  PlanetMaker ! Learn: Watch the video for a quick tutorial on Inkarnate and PlanetMaker Connect: Writing: You can use this map in the planning of a story.  By thinking about the world your story will live in before you start writing, you can think of the challenges your characters will face and the settings where the story takes place.  It's also a great way to help your reader visualise your story. You could write a fictitious recount of a traveler who explores the world.  Or an explanation text to describe the animals on your planet. Art If this is what it looks like from far away, what might it look like closer up?  You can connect to architecture, landscapes or cultural designs. ThingLink: Using the Inkarnate map image, you can tag certain locations so that additional information,...