Feature Flex 🦾 World Builder

Lore Machine’s Modular Story Text Generator

Feature Flex is an an exploded view on new advancements at Lore Machine. In each installment of Feature Flex, we go deep on one system feature. Today we flex World Builder, Lore Machine’s modular story text generator.

In this video, we use World Builder to make a manga, a StoryScape™ and video:

What is World Builder?

World Builder is a narrative concepting tool that generates story text from webform inputs. Users can select a story genre, describe a world, dream up characters and locations and list plot points. In seconds, World Builder generates a ~2,500-word story optimized for visualization.

Once your story text is generated, you rejoin Lore Machine’s familiar visualization workflow. Here is the StoryScape™ for Midnight City. You can navigate StoryScapes by pulling the scene index drawer out on the left side of your browser. Here are some select panels of Midnight City laid out by Lore Machine’s Manga Maker.

How 2 World Builder?

Like all AI systems, Lore Machine is only as good as the input it receives.

Pro Tip #1: We built Midnight City by filling out the first of what will be many World Builder webform templates. World Builder loves to be surprised. We suggest inputting both cohesive elements and curveballs to make maximize intrigue.

Pro Tip #2: When dreaming up your characters and locations, hyper-specific details go a long way. Give your character a ‘chip implant in their forehead’; give your location ‘a sense of impending doom’. These flourishes turbo-charge the uniqueness of your story.

Pro Tip #3: Your World Builder text output is labeled with “Plot Points”. We auto-insert these numbered section titles to help our system identify discrete scenes. We suggest leaving the plot points in your generated text for now. When you’re ready to publish your story, you can remove these demarcations in Editor » Scene Text.

Why World Builder?

We developed World Builder for two practical reasons:

1. New Lore Machine users were showing up without a story on deck. They needed something to visualize.

2. ChatGPT barfs out very mediocre stories that reduce the voice of the writer to rubble. We believe in authorship.

As writers, we know that getting started can be the hardest part. World Builder kickstarts your imagination into gear with the outline of a story. From there, it’s your world baby! Whether you’re writing a screenplay, game lore, fan fiction or a commercial treatment, World Builder can ⚡turbocharge⚡ your ideation process.

But this exciting new feature is more than just ignition; it’s also adventure. World Builder takes stories down the most unusual paths. So get lost at Lore Machine Dot World.