Bruno Samper writes short essays on worldbuilding, drawing on his work on the film Vesper to explain how specific, derived details and withheld explanation make fictional worlds feel real. Each issue offers concrete craft lessons and practical exercises for writers and designers.
Website: https://www.brunosamper.com/
Worldbuilding notes for the Eldraeverse, a far-future setting about a space-faring elven civilization, covering colonies, ships, slang and culture. Issues mix lore write-ups, glossary entries and illustrations, including crossover shardverse versions of canon material.
An serialized fiction project presented as an oral history of the fictional Palmyra Exclusion Zone, told through in-world audio logs, public notices and fragmentary transcripts. Readers get atmospheric horror and sci-fi worldbuilding with an alternate reality game feel.
A fictional worldbuilding newsletter set in the dystopian city of Cinderport, told through in-universe documents such as witness statements, interrogation transcripts and corporate civic profiles. Readers get serialized cyberpunk lore about the surveillance megacorp OptiCorp and its Xoptic enforcement division.
Short, personal essays on worldbuilding, tabletop roleplaying games, fantasy storytelling and media like anime and video games. Readers get a writer's critical reflections plus occasional news about his own fiction and interviews.
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