Build the world
Worldbuilding, lore, cultural history, belief systems, atmosphere, and the internal truths that make an imagined place feel inhabited.
Multidisciplinary creative · remote collaboration
Kyle Figard
Creative Collaborator
I am a multidisciplinary creative who works with creators and teams to develop imaginative projects. I bring worldbuilding, narrative, systems, symbolism, identity, culture, and belief to the work—contributing ideas, developing material, solving creative problems, and helping each project become more coherent and fully itself.
One creative toolbox
- 01 Worlds
- 02 Narratives
- 03 Systems
- 04 Symbols
- 05 Belief
Selected work
A world bible, two books, a symbolic deck, an elemental game, and a published collaboration.
Each case study identifies what I created, explains the decisions behind it, and links to the actual artifact or published record.
01
Science-fantasy world bible
Otri
A post-collapse science-fantasy world where æther has limits, ruins belong to no one, and biomechanical Companions are people.
Worldbuilding · culture · systems · belief
Enter the world ↗02
Published devotional philosophy
The Arcanum
Thirty-three Divine Names become a unified cosmology, ethical system, and daily contemplative practice.
Writing · belief-system design · symbolic structure
Explore the book ↗03
Symbolic print-and-play prototype
The Pagan Deck of Cards
Sixty-four cards resolve seasons, elements, festivals, directions, zodiac signs, and sacred motifs into one visual system.
Systems · symbolism · visual direction
Study the system ↗04
Mythic-fantasy novel
Sleepy Gods
An ancient being wakes after an eon of self-erasure and must choose to remain present in the world he forgot.
Narrative · character · lore · prose
Read the opening ↗05
Original elemental strategy game
Ma’a
Hold one stone. Exchange one stone. Bring Fire, Water, Earth, and Air into line.
Game design · systems · symbolic interaction
See how it works ↗06
Published real-world collaboration
Do You Speak Future?
A self-initiated quotation compilation became the early concept for a book carrying Jacque Fresco’s insights forward.
Concept development · collaboration · handoff
Read the collaboration story ↗The creative toolbox
I develop the relationships between a project’s parts.
A belief changes a culture. A rule changes player behavior. A symbol can carry both meaning and mechanics. I work across those connections.
Find the story
Narrative foundations, story development, character, tension, theme, and the emotional question everything else grows around.
Make it function
Rules, relationships, categories, hierarchies, feedback, and structures that let a concept operate coherently rather than merely sound interesting.
Give it identity
Symbolism, recurring motifs, conceptual synthesis, tone, and the choices that help a project become recognizably and fully itself.
Area of particular depth
Religion, spirituality, and belief
Cosmologies, mythologies, sacred practices, moral systems, institutions, sects, symbols, and the everyday relationship between belief, culture, politics, and history.
About the work
I like to work on creative projects.
That simple fact is the center of the role. I join creators and teams wherever an imaginative project needs ideas developed, material made, internal logic strengthened, or several influences resolved into a clearer identity.
I can enter for a defined piece of development or stay with a project through a longer creative phase. The shape can be freelance, subcontract, contract, or a suitable remote role; the contribution remains grounded in the work itself.
Work with me
Bring me the imaginative thing you are trying to make.
I am open to books, tabletop and card games, RPGs, video games, film, television, interactive media, and creative projects that do not fit neatly inside an established category.
Mode Remote, with asynchronous collaboration preferred
Shape Freelance, subcontract, contract, or employment
Boundary Creative development—not marketing execution
See how I work