AvatarMC Soon™ - Issue 116: Meet the Team: Lore

2024-02-17 19:08:28 +0000 UTC by QuietDove

Hello! I’m QuietDove, and I lead the Lore Team for AvatarMC. In this blogpost, I’m hoping to give everyone a flavour of what it is our team does and what our aims for the server are.

Who Are We? Direct Link

The Lore Team is predominantly responsible for writing quests, dungeons, and NPC dialogue.

As Team Leader, it’s my job to make sure our content fits in with both our server lore and the wider lore of the Avatar world.

Our Goals Direct Link

Our long-term ambition is for the server to have a larger overarching main quest line, set ten years after the end of The Legend of Korra, and in a world where Korra herself is missing. Although this is very much a long term goal, we try to keep everything we create with this backstory in mind.

For the time being though, we are aiming to add several smaller quests and storylines set within this internal server lore. My aim is for the five Capitals to each have their own self-contained quest lines that will able to be played by everyone.

What if I Want to Join? Direct Link

If you’ve got a passion for storytelling, a penchant for writing dialogue, or a head swimming with story ideas, then please do apply.

Along with these things, you will also need:

  • A collaborative mindset: Be prepared for your work to be critiqued and take on broad suggestions that other team members might make. This is especially important as writing is only one part of creating content for the server. Scripters will need to make everything work, Artists will need to create NPC skins, and Builders will need to build the environments.
  • A basic understanding of scripting: Trust me, you only need a basic understanding! This will help when Scripters come to put your words into a script file and will allow you to make changes with ease. There is plenty of support available with this.
  • Some knowledge of game design: Creating quests is about so much more than dialogue. Crafting a quest that is engaging and not just an endless wall of text is the real challenge, especially when you have to do this within the confines of Minecraft!
  • Patience: Creating content can be a long process. As mentioned before, several teams will need to be involved in the creative process. In addition, your dialogue scripts will end up being much longer than you first anticipated, as additional scenarios will always need an extra line or two, just to stop the player from going off track!

Thank You for Reading! Direct Link

I hope that’s given you a nice taste of what the Lore Team does and what our goals are. If any of that has whetted your appetite, then please don’t hesitate to get in contact and apply.

Lore Team Application

— QuietDove