Madeline James WorldbuildsAnnouncing the 2025 Worldbuilding Festival which will be a free event here on YouTube from Friday, September 5th to Sunday, September 7th. In this video I go through some of the details of the festival, the initial schedule, and the streams we have planned!
Remember, this is almost 2 months out so things could change but I wanted to start getting people excited now!
--- Other YouTubers in the Festival --- @Artifexian @Biblaridion @conlangery @hannahsmth @LangTimeStudio @LetsHaveaBouba @MadelineJamesWorldbuilds @RedQuills @landsunknown
Worldbuilding Festival Schedule and Details Announcement!!!Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-07-11 | Announcing the 2025 Worldbuilding Festival which will be a free event here on YouTube from Friday, September 5th to Sunday, September 7th. In this video I go through some of the details of the festival, the initial schedule, and the streams we have planned!
Remember, this is almost 2 months out so things could change but I wanted to start getting people excited now!
--- Other YouTubers in the Festival --- @Artifexian @Biblaridion @conlangery @hannahsmth @LangTimeStudio @LetsHaveaBouba @MadelineJamesWorldbuilds @RedQuills @landsunknown
--- Links --- Patreon: patreon.com/c/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorlds Website: madelinejameswrites.com Worldbuilding Guide: madelinejameswrites.com/worldbuilding-guide My Writing Channel: youtube.com/@madelinejameswritesContinue Seed Language || Languages of Pillar World ConlangingMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-10-06 | Continuing our seed languagePlanning Sound Changes || Languages of Pillar World ConlangingMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-10-06 | Probably planning sound changes!Continue Seed Language || Languages of Pillar World ConlangingMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-09-30 | Continuing to work on the seed language of pillar world! This video will live redirect to David Peterson's The Art of Language Invention: 10 Year Anniversary which you can also find here: youtube.com/watch?v=HQL9DnVtl5YSeed Language Culture || Languages of Pillar World ConlangingMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-09-22 | I will be working on my own for this stream, trying to come up with the foundational culture details that will be relevant for our seed language. This will probably include: - frame of reference (where they come from there are no dragons) - number system (base 10?) - relevant nouns/words - plants/animals/terrain features - original mythology - other references This will all be from 10K years ago so most of it won't be directly relevant, but there will be traces still in the language family!Starting the Project || Languages of Pillar World ConlangingMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-09-15 | Starting a new conlanging project... the naming languages of Pillar World! This stream will be a bit of an introduction of the project, the approach, and then getting started! Jake from LHAB will be joining me for this project!Worldbuilding for the Paranormal with Lands UnknownMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-09-08 | Ross (of Lands Unknown) and I will be wrapping up the first ever Worldbuilding Festival with some worldbuilding for various paranormal/urban fantasy/romantasy world tropics.
----- LINKS ----- Patreon: patreon.com/c/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorlds Website: madelinejameswrites.com Instagram: instagram.com/author_mjames/?hl=enThe Biology of Pillar World Part 1: Ecology with Biblaridion || Worldbuilding FestivalMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-09-06 | In this stream I will be working with Biblaridion to look at the biology of pillar world (my personal worldbuilding project), where we will lay out the groundwork of what sort of plants and animals exist in this world and how the general ecology works.
----- LINKS ----- Patreon: patreon.com/c/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorlds Website: madelinejameswrites.com Instagram: instagram.com/author_mjames/?hl=en nWorldbuilding Festival Kickoff || Group Worldbuilding ChallengeMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-09-05 | To kickoff the first ever Worldbuilding Festival, I am going to host a little group worldbuilding challenge! Participants include Biblaridion, Worldbuilding Pasta, Hannahsmth, and Jake and Miles from Let's Have a Bouba! They will be working together to build out separate aspects of a region from the map to naming languages to religion and more, having to adapt for new requirements every so often.
----- LINKS ----- Patreon: patreon.com/c/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorlds Website: madelinejameswrites.com Instagram: instagram.com/author_mjamesWrapping up our spells and grimoires || Spell Language Conlanging Part 19Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-08-31 | We are going to wrap up the spells and grimoires we have been creating with the language - before moving onto something new!Quick shortcut climates AND a full Koppen climate method using patterns! || Worldbuilding GuideMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-08-27 | This is July's voted on video topic by my patrons! Climate shortcuts! I couldn't help myself and extended the patterns for the quick and dirty method to do a full koppen climate map!
--- Links --- Patreon: patreon.com/c/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorlds Website: madelinejameswrites.com Worldbuilding Guide: madelinejameswrites.com/worldbuilding-guide My Writing Channel: youtube.com/@madelinejameswritesBuilding spells for my book || Spell Language Conlanging Part 18Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-08-24 | We are going to continue working on the spell language grimoires and spells!Setting Scenarios for Further WorldbuildingMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-08-15 | For moving forward with our cultural and societal worldbuilding guide, as well as the future regional worldbuilding guide, we needed to establish setting scenarios to focus our worldbuilding! We cane up with the first 3 line on stream (link is below if you want to watch the process) but I wanted to neatly present these to you, as well as the 4th scenario I came up with!
00:00 Scenarios 03:43 Cyberpunk 1477 08:08 The Demon Made Me Do It 13:24 Whose City Is It Anyway 17:26 Glaciers and Alpacas 19:27 A question and moving forward
---- LINKS ---- Website: madelinejameswrites.com Patreon: patreon.com/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorldsMádèlǐne learns˥˩ the IPA for tône with Jake from LHABMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-07-27 | I will be joined by Jake from LHAB to continue my education on IPA to include tones! Are you scared? I am...Spell Grimoire in Ausmoulau || Spell Language Conlanging Part 16Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-07-20 | We are going to keep making spells and we are going to put them in a grimoire!Age of Discovery, Globalization, Age of Sail || Society & Culture Worldbuilding Part 7Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-07-18 | Welcome to the seventh part of my societies and culture worldbuilding guide series, where we are going to continue building our eras by talking the age of discovery and then briefly discuss the age of sail and industrialization.
00:00 Intro 03:18 State capacity 05:05 Empire scale 06:32 Globalization of trade 07:37 Slavery 11:58 Open-ocean sailing 15:41 Trade routes 16:53 Map age of discovery 19:14 Map age of sail 21:48 Industrial revolution 23:50 Eras by continent 27:53 Thoughts 28:31 What's next
Graphics from Wikimedia Commons and attributed in videos Music is As History Unfolds by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen from Epidemic Sound
--- Links --- Patreon: patreon.com/c/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorlds Website: madelinejameswrites.com Worldbuilding Guide: madelinejameswrites.com/worldbuilding-guide My Writing Channel: youtube.com/@madelinejameswritesReviewing Ausmoulau grammar and documenting spells || Spell Language ConLanging Part 15Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-07-13 | We are going to be reviewing the grammar and changes to my spell language, now called Ausmoulau, now that the relay is well enough past! And then we shall work on our spell storage/documentation system and start building out more spells if we have time.Lets learn IPA vowels || IPA Classtime with Wil of Lands UnknownMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-06-29 | ...Lets Create our Setting/Story Scenarios Live!Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-06-11 | On this livestream we will decide on the three story/setting scenarios to use as examples going forward with the worldbuilding guide series!I try to learn my ɑβçs || IPA Classtime with Wil of Lands UnknownMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-06-08 | We are going to take a break from the spell language after the relay SO instead, Wil (formerly RossBayGeo) is going to try to teach me my ɑβçs (aka IPA...)Start thinking now! We need example settings for future worldbuilding guide parts.Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-06-03 | As we move forward into more detailed worldbuilding topics (like food, clothes, government) we are going to need to move away from our world maps and into specific settings. And as a writer, I like to do this from the perspective of the type of story we want to tell! Next week we will have a livestream (linked below) to pick out story ideas for the settings we will use as examples moving forward.
Correction: 4:25 I mean Tuesday JUNE 3rd, not January
Patreon: patreon.com/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorlds Website: www.madelinejameswrites.comNo Copula and ReDo Diagrams || Spell Language Conlanging Part 14Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-18 | This stream is the first one on the new channel and will be for getting rid of copulas, documenting the alternative, and starting to redo our diagrams.Migration, Extinction Events, and Available Animals || Society & Culture Worldbuilding Guide Part 2Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-14 | Welcome to the second part of my societies and culture worldbuilding guide series, which is a sort of season 2 of my worldbuilding guide series. These videos build off the physical world building we've already done. Part 2 will include talking about human migration, extinction events, and the availability of large domesticable animals!
NOTE this video was originally uploaded on my channel Madeline James Writes on February 8th, 2024.
00:00 Intro 1:20 Mapping Human Migration 3:50 Migration Paths 8:02 Migration Distance 10:28 Available Beasts of Burden 14:19 Extinction Events 23:45 Mapping Extinction Events 27:26 Final Thoughts
------ LINKS ------ Website: madelinejameswrites.com Instagram: instagram.com/author_mjamesMadeline James Worldbuilds Live StreamMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-12 | ...Expansion, Fragmentation, and Middle Ages Eras || Society & Culture Worldbuilding Part 6Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-08 | Welcome to the sixth part of my societies and culture worldbuilding guide series, which is a sort of season 2 of my worldbuilding guide series. These videos build off the physical world building we've already done. Part 6 will include talking about the middle ages, expansion and fragmentation, trade routes, and we will build our middle age eras!
00:00:00 Intro 00:01:26 Plan for Middle Ages 00:05:37 Naming Landmasses and Oceans 00:07:26 State vs NonState Order 00:09:43 Overview of Medieval Times 00:16:34 Empires in Middle Ages 00:18:31 Expansion 00:24:17 Borders 00:25:11 Trends 00:28:49 When Empires Fall 00:35:15 Patterns when Empires Fall 00:38:04 Agricultural Changes 00:38:27 Map Potential Trade Routes 00:43:28 Map Isolated vs Networked 00:44:20 Mapping Eras 00:47:40 Changes to consider 00:52:41 Map new eras 00:54:28 Examples Era Changes by Continent 00:57:48 Examples Era Changes Barnes 01:00:12 Examples Era Changes Seller 01:06:26 Map Final Middle Ages 01:07:53 Polities by Centralization 01:11:22 Empires and Peripheries 01:11:56 Example Final Maps 01:12:48 Document Histories 01:13:32 Middle Age Trade Routes 01:14:17 What's next?
Graphics from Wikimedia Commons and attributed in videos Music is As History Unfolds by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen from Epidemic Sound
---- LINKS ----Patreon: patreon.com/c/MadelineJamesWordsAndWorlds Website: madelinejameswrites.com Worldbuilding Guide: madelinejameswrites.com/worldbuilding-guide My Writing Channel: youtube.com/@madelinejameswritesMore Spell Language! || Spell Language Conlanging Part 12Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | Continuing to work on my spell language conlang!Attempting a ConLang Relay Leg || Spell Language Conlanging Part 13Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | Attempting a conlang relay leg to gauge how far along my conlang is!Creating some documentation || Spell Language Conlanging Part 10Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | Lets continue to work on my spell language, talking about some polysynthesis research I've done and more work with complex clauses!Lets Conlang Live Pt 1 || Starting my main naming languageMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | I am getting started on my main naming language that will be a bit more involved than my previous naming language videos, but mostly isolated to a naming language with perhaps a few features like honorifics. I will prepare some guidelines and a goal before we get started but I am definitely looking forward to some feedback from everyone! I am definitely a noob.
(Moved from Madeline James Writes channel where it was originally)
(Moved over from Madeline James Writes channel where it originally went live)
------ LINKS ------ Website: madelinejameswrites.comLets Conlang Live Pt 3 || Honorifics, Diminutives, and Name GenerationMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We will hopefully be finishing the naming language for my main language in this stream. We need to determine the diminutives, start building up more root lexicon, and start actually generating names!
(Moved over from Madeline James Writes where it originally went live)
------ LINKS ------ Website: madelinejameswrites.comCreating a Naming Language Builder for my Story Worlds || Conlanging Vlog 1Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | Welcome to my first foray into conlanging, specifically with naming languages! I am going to go through my goals for creating naming languages for my novels, the program I created to build these, and show you the first naming language I am making! Future videos will dive in deeper as I continue to expand this program and the naming languages I can build.
00:00 The Need for Naming Languages 04:59 Conlang Basics 13:34 Program Tour 26:56 My First Naming Language 42:24 More Langs to Come
(This video was originally posted on my Madeline James Writes channel)
------ LINKS ------ Website: madelinejameswrites.comBuilding a Naming Language for my Novel Vlog || Conlanging Vlog 2Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We are continuing my foray into building naming languages by using the program I wrote to create a naming language for my next story's invading people.
00:00 Intro 00:59 Language Rules 15:38 Naming People
(This video was originally posted on my Madeline James Writes channel)
------ LINKS ------ Website: madelinejameswrites.com Instagram: instagram.com/author_mjamesContinuing my Slavic inspired Naming Language || Slavic Naming Language part 2Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We have setup the phonetics and basic name generators, but now we need to restrict the name endings, rename my characters, and then move onto place names and honorifics!Lets create a naming language for my Magic Forged project || Slavic Naming Language Part 1Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | Since I am about start my major revision, It is time to create a proper naming language for the people of my story! Hoping to get as much done as I can. I am available until 3 so we will see how long we go for!Documentation and linguistic terms || Spell Language Conlanging Part 11Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We are going to continue last streams journey to document the spell language so far to better understand our foundation! And I'm going to look up 80 linguistic terms because I know nothing!Back to Spell! || Spell Language Conlanging Part 9Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We are back to working on my spell language!Fixing spell structure || Spell Language Conlanging Part 8Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We are going to continue by fixing the spell structure, specifically the incorporation!Sandhi Sound Changes || Spell Language Conlanging Part 7Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | Time to codify the sound change system and see what happens to everything we've built once run through!Expanding the Spell Book || Spell Language Conlanging Part 6Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We're going to build out some more spells as we expand the language!All the Verbs and Spells || Spell Language Conlanging Part 5Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We will pick up on working on my spell language! Go back and watch the earlier parts if you want to catch up.Lets Build Verbs || Spell Language Conlanging Part 4BMadeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | We will pick up on working on my spell language! Go back and watch the earlier parts if you want to catch up.Creating the Verb Stem || Spell Language Conlanging Livestream Part 4Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | This stream is planned to work on the forming of the verb stem!
Spell Language Conlanging Part 1: Conlanging playlist:
(This was originally live on my Madeline James Writes channel)
------ LINKS ------ Website: madelinejameswrites.comWorking on noun building Spell Language Conlanging Livestream Part 3Madeline James Worldbuilds2025-05-06 | The plan for this stream is to work on noun-building as I continue creating the spell language for my next book! Go back and watch the earlier parts if you want to catch up.
Spell Language Conlanging Part 1: Conlanging playlist:
(Originally live on my Madeline James Writes channel)