Apr
27
Here’s the first monthly game summary of 4 of the best games on OngoingWorlds, written by Dan. Read More
Apr
17
Welcome young traveller to the pit, sit down, put your feet up and relax. Let me regale you with stories of what has happened on OngoingWorlds’ games this month:
What is Here and Now – Taking up the story after What Will be, Will be, our young friends have passed from the cusp of childhood and now enter the wild world of college. Featuring a rather diverse cast of personalities, there is always something for everyone on campus. James Taylor, a young budding musician has made some friends with both the staff and the students. Although he is a party animal, he has yet to show his serious side to people. Read More
Apr
14
New Zion, a Star Trek RPG by John Bromin
Today is a special day, because I have someone very special to talk to here about his new Star Trek game that is beginning on Ongoing Worlds. This is hopefully to be the flagship of many interviews I will do with old and new games alike within the roleplaying universe.
So let me begin by introducing the person I shall be interviewing today. John Bromin is a role-player here who always seems to come up with unique and interesting stories with this writing style. It’s always made very fun and interesting reading, so I’m very excited when he wanted to tell me about his new game on Ongoing Worlds – New Zion. Read More
Apr
3
I’m very pleased to announce that OngoingWorlds has this week surpassed over 1000 likes on Facebook!
This means that 1000 Facebook users have selected to ‘like’ our fan page, where we post links to our blog articles, news about roleplaying, and funny photos for roleplayers and writers. Read More
Jan
19
Ongoing Worlds Medal for Superior Online Role Playing
That’s right, we’re now accepting nominations for the Ongoing Worlds Medal for Superior Online Role Playing (also known as the Squiddie Award). What is this new award, you might ask? Simply put, it is the pinnacle award presented by our organization. Each year it will be bestowed upon three different entities: one person, one sim/game, and one club. They will then be entitled to use the honorific Superior Online Role Playing Laureate (or Squiddie Laureate).
Squiddies will be presented for exemplifying one or more of the following characteristics, primarily during the previous calendar year:
Nominations may be made by anyone (self nominations are permitted). Each nomination should include a write-up of why the person, sim, or club is deserving. The write-up should focus on one or more of the three areas mentioned above and not exceed 250 words. Read More
Jan
17
I’m proud to announce that Ongoing Worlds‘ third Community Honor (OWCH) is hereby officially presented to Leon Archer of Spellbound for his enthusiastic leadership and outstanding contributions to the Ongoing Worlds Blog. Congratulations, Leon!
Not only is Leon one of the leaders within the Ongoing Worlds game The Walking Dead, but he’s also the GM of two games that he founded, XCOM and Spellbound. A quick review of any one of his three games will reveal an infectious enthusiasm for role playing that quickly spreads to the game’s other members and beyond. His leadership, both in and out of story, is a model for us all to follow in creating and maintaining fresh and dynamic role play games.
Over the past few months, Leon has also written several articles covering an array of different simming and role play topics. His posts are always interesting and provide greats points for us to think about and apply to our games. These articles have contributed not only to our network here, but to the collective knowledge of our entire community. If you haven’t yet read one of his articles, check them out!
You can see some of Leon’s other awards here.
Well done, Leon!
Jan
1
The Simulation Cup
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the winners of the 2012 Simulation Cup! But before I get into that, I’d like to briefly explain what the Simulation Cup is and how it works. Filling in this year for the annual Tournament of Simulations, the Sim Cup is a one-time competition allowing role play games of various clubs and genres to compete against each other in a friendly manner for several awards. Each participating sim first submits one mission/episode/thread/chat session that was completed during 2012. Next, each sim’s submission is evaluated by two judges on a specific criteria set. The games receiving the highest marks are then recognized.
Evaluating sims will always be subjective and this is especially true for the Simulation Cup. We’re not here to identify the best sim or sims as this is impossible. Instead, we recognize what we think are the best sims in our opinions. A different set of judges may very well chose a completely different set of winners. And that’s fine. As said earlier, each participating game was graded by two different judges. Read More
Dec
31
Weeks after the end of WBWW, and the winner has been announced, I found this exciting gem in my email spam folder. My heart sank as I realised what had happened, this had been submitted by email but for some unknown reason was treated like spam. Usually I trust Gmail, as it usually does a decent job of distinguishing actual spam, but for some reason it hide this away from me. The story was submitted by Wes from OtherSpace. We’ve featured several articles by Wes about his MUSH.
I can’t apologise enough to Wes, this is a great story but unfortunately it was never passed to the judges. So the best thing I can do is post it here so you can read, and wonder how well it would have done in the WBWW competition. Read More
Nov
6
Ongoing Worlds will be having an extravaganza known as Way Back When Week from November 25 to December 1 2012. For this week, we invite the simming community to write posts in the format of extreme flashbacks to past generations to show their character’s family and backgrounds in a new light.
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Nov
1
The OOC update has been around for quite a while, but until now you’ve had to opt-in by registering on a form on the original article. Now it’s available for everyone, in all games.
Here’s a video where I explain how to make a post into an OOC post, it’s really simple. Read More
