Public domain worlds (By Moos-a-dee)
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Mupoa: An alternate Earth
See also: Mupoa world building
I wanted to create an entire world from scratch for use in games and such, starting with the first sentient life at the start of a planet, before dry land even existed. I wanted to also create various different sentient species with their own languages and lifestyles, trying to evolve a culture and language from the ground up based on the animal's environment, physical capabilities, etc.
Generally, Mupoa is just an alternate Earth - this is to simplify things like seasons, not having to research how, for example, different amounts of moons or different distances from the sun would affect a world's environment. This is also to help me by emulating history of the Earth, taking as far as I would like but branching out the different species.
I haven't really done a Mupoa project before to completion just because I get a sort of analysis-paralysis over wanting to research the science and history of the planet Earth. I suppose any scientific inaccuracies I come up with will just need to be explained away as such-and-such species recording that history having errors in communal memory and such. :)
First sentient species: "o", the cephalopods
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Mupoa, the name of this world and setting, comes from this first species' term for their home: "mu-poa", "big-rock". Other species on the planet have different names for the planet, but the setting as a whole I call Mupoa.
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Additional reference/resources for world building
- https://www.youtube.com/@eons/videos - About how Earth was formed, supercontinents, etc.
Amikomon: Friend monsters
There are a lot of knockoffs of Pokemon, but as far as I know none of them are public domain - you can't really actively, freely contribute to the building of the bestiary or the world. But with Amikomon, this is public domain and you're free to do with this as you want!
- I've created a Monster idea generator to generate "type" and "creature" combinations so you can come up with something more unique than Palworld's ideas. ;)
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| Cubboom (Electric Leopard) | Clapcat | Joltuar |
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| Flareflea (Fire Flea) | Charoach | Pyrepest |
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(2024-04-06) Amikomon!
I thought it'd be cute to make a Pokemon/Digimon/Monster Rancher inspired thing for the public domain. There are a lot of Pokemon-inspired video games out there now, but those are still proprietary and you can't really contribute to the official "lore" or bestiary or anything. So here are these. If I use these monsters in my video games I'll also provide spritesheets.
MUC: The Magical University of Conjuring
MUC is a university for magical folk located in Raytown, Missouri. Although to a non-magical person there is nothing resembling a university in Raytown, those of a more magical persuasion know to seek entry past a charmed entryway behind the 350 Highway Taco Bell.
Example departments: FLYS (Flying sciences), FFC (Fauna and flora care), FAM (Familiars studies), NUM (Necromancy and Undead Management), CONJ (Conjuring), DIV (Divination), ENCH (Enchantment), POT (Potions), AST (Astro/logy/nomy).
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| Ufela Briskfall (any), Flying TA | Layli Elathil (she/they), Fauna and Flora TA | Fyril Bennbaen (he/they), Necromancy TA |
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| Rav Bestamiko (they/them), Familiar training TA | Balin Duthahá (ze/zir), Potions TA | Myna Styrn (she/her), Astronomy (or Astrology) TA |
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Zine (2023-05)
I made a little zine for KC Zine Con featuring this setting.
Justification (2023-01)
I grew up with HP too but I'm not so invested in the world that I'm going to keep supporting JK. Why don't WE create OUR OWN WORLD to expand and build off of??
I think that magic houses of various countries should be created by people who are of those countries. For example, I don't really know about British culture, so I'm going to be safe and probably build out a magical school in the midwest of the U.S. :p The UMKC of magic, as it were…
What about HP world is appealing?
- Secret magical world within our own world (masquerade),
- separate magic-based culture different from non-magical world culture,
- wizarding schools around the world / wizards can be from any culture,
- wish fulfillment of using magic and going on adventures,
- wish fulfillment of being a normal kid then suddenly becoming famous and rich,
- romanticization of boarding school and the culture fostered by those who live there,
- silly names,
- memorable instructors - including ones people thirst after,
- cottage core aesthetic and victorian era shop aesthetic, "living in a castle is cool"
- sportsball games to play,
- subverting authority figures,
- no internet, just letters via owl,
- fantasy creatures,
- witchy aesthetic,
- people can turn into cats,
- house based competition/points,
- secrets in castle,
- danger, mystery, challenges to overcome,
- Original Character creatibility:
- classifications of groups/cliques ("houses") with personality traits assigned,
- any animal can be your pet (another "choose your own" customization thing),
- patronuses (another "choose your own" custom thing per character),
- Recognizable symbols (reference: The Consumerist Dystopia of Harry Potter
- House scarves / robes
- Sportsball snitch
- "glasses and scar" main character able to logo-ize
- Candy (jelly beans, choco frogs) and snacks (butter beer)
What do we not want?
- TERFs
- "Slavery is good, actually."
- Anti-semitic bankers
- Fat-phobia
Witches? (2021-03)
I randomly drew these cute witches and actually really liked them. I don't know what to do with them, but they're here if anyone wants to use them for something.
Prismages: Magical girls (and boys and nonbinaries)
Repository: https://gitlab.com/RachelWilShaSingh/prismages-public-domain
Prismages is a project to create a public domain set of magical people (inspired by magical girl / mahou shoujo manga/anime I loved growing up), with the intention of creating games and other media around them, but also providing a jumping off point for others to remix, add on to, or play around with the characters and concepts.
I may create my own “Prismage Universe” for my projects, but anyone else is totally free to switch things up however they see fit.
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| Ruby Melton | Amber Franklin | Goldi Kumar |
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| Honeydew Lu | Skye Mohammad | Mauve Díaz |
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Jan 2023 - Adamaris, a friend of mine from FFXIV, drew the following!
Jan 2021 - I received some "fan art" from a Michael Beane! Check out their art:
