Summer Camp 2025 Reading Challenge - WIP
Created by Adam Tingley // Wreckerdwarf
I have had an amazing time this summer camp. I feel like my style is settling and I have found it easier to get into the swing of things when I sit down and begin to write. It’s been very challenging to get the time spare to take part this year with finding a new flat in a new town, preparing for a new job, holding a full-time job in the meantime, taking part in challenges for game dev and attending some of the biggest multi-day events of the year. Somehow, I’ve managed to achieve diamond through sheer determination (And totally not just through some late nights sprinkled through the month).
My goals for my world this summer camp were fundamentally to just keep fleshing out areas around existing articles and allowing older ones to grow with additional nuance. The entirety of Havenguard currently is a foundation. I am doing it in this way to allow myself the space to learn without every detail needing to be canonical and require retconning when I come to write about the world in length.
I am incredibly happy that I’ve obtained diamond this year as it was a bit touch-and-go at times!
As an honourable mention, although not strictly a part of the summer camp prompts, I also made this fun little map to help establish some of the locations in my world. I’ve purposely made it so that it has the space to be expanded upon in the future as well as being created from an amalgamation of knowledge within the setting itself. Who knows how reliable some of that information is? I’ve also not seen anything like this in my browsing of World Anvil so far so I’d love to get some feedback on this type of map!
My Personal Picks
Here is a small selection of articles that stuck out for me personally. For all of my summer camp articles, please check out my summer camp homepage!
It’s an article about cheese that turned the prompt on its head! I had a lot of fun writing this one.
What can I say? I like world building in prose. I really like how this article came out and although I feel like I need to work on its pacing a little bit, I feel it represents dwarven hubris pretty well.
The frogfolk from last year didn’t have such a great time but I do want to have them survive in some shape and form into the true setting for Havenguard.
I just had a lot of fun writing this one! Taking inspiration from the inventor Franz Reichelt’s story and converting it into a world of dwarves and goblins.
The Ang’Verd series was my first attempt at simultaneously writing a batch of articles in an attempt to make them interlink in interesting ways. Not only between each article in the series but also to have meaningful connections to older articles.
A weird mix of humour and dark violence and an insight into the clouded goblin psyche!
As an honourable mention, although not strictly a part of the summer camp prompts, I also made this fun little map to help establish some of the locations in my world. I’ve purposely made it so that it has the space to be expanded upon in the future as well as being created from an amalgamation of knowledge within the setting itself. Who knows how reliable some of that information is? I’ve also not seen anything like this in my browsing of World Anvil so far so I’d love to get some feedback on this type of map!
Congratulations on diamond! Looking forward to checking out your reading challenge picks!
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