Worldbuilding Festival 2026

This is the playlist for the second annual YouTube Worldbuilding Festival which will be held September 4-6th!

Curated by: Madeline James Worldbuilds (31 videos)

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Tracks in this Playlist

• A weekend of worldbuilding wonder is COMING!!! || 2026 Worldbuilding Festival Schedule + Hosts
• CHAOS Doodles of Early Nomadic and Settled Settlements?!?!
• Conceptualization and Ideation!
• Getting Started with Economics in Your Worldbuilding
• A Paleoanthropology of the Boubaverse with Biblaridion and Hannahsmth
• Polity Chart: Building a Broader Horizon of Constructed Polities (ft. Worldbuilding Pasta)
• Patchwork Pantheon: Worldbuilding Game
• An Ecological Approach to Domestication and Agriculture - Part 1 (ft. Lands Unknown)
• Introduction to Lakoff's Theory of Conceptual Metaphor
• Mapping Natural Resources Using Tectonics and Climate
• The Joy of Mapping: We're Making a Fantasy Map like Bob Ross
• Mapping the Material Plane | Worldbuilding Festival 2026 (with @RedQuills )
• Designing Alien Sophonts for Project Oculus
• ASMR Tea-Drinking Break Time (replacement stream)
• Hanging the Stars || How to Create a Star Map
• LangTime Studio, Special Episode 20: Worldbuilding Festival 2026
• Building a Society Monster-First Ft. Mallory Dunlin
• Kahoot Worldbuilding Relay
• Linguistic Kinship Systems
• Shamanic Music (?): Exploring Possibilities in Yaatláw Musical Performance with Coby
• Exploring Sex and Gender across Biology and Culture (with Jake Penny)
• From World to Plot: Finding the Drama in the Details Ft. Biblaridion
• Scale and Toponymy: Naming Things at Different Scales
• Death Comes from the Fog: Designing Fog Monsters Ft. Biblaridion
• Mapping the Boubaverse: A Manual Climate Venture (ft. Let's Have a Bouba)
• An Ecological Approach to Domestication and Agriculture - Part 2 (ft. Biblaridion)
• Lord of the Langs: The Two Relays
• Kinship in Contemporary Anthropological Perspective
• Conlanging… without words?!?!?! Ft. Nakari Speardane
• Worldbuilding After Dark: Mating Systems & Anatomy (18+) Ft. Mallory Dunlin
• Gnomes, Chimeras, and Vampires OH MY || Our Wacky Paranormal Universe ft. Lands Unknown