Dec
4
That’s right, the 2018 Simming Fall Festival is scheduled for December 15th! Indeed, TNU Project has been selected as this year’s host, and Josh Hina will serve as chair. We’re going a little different route this year as TNU is not a club in in the traditional sense. Instead, they’re a member of Ascension Sims. However, Josh and co. already have an outstanding line up events ready for December 15th. Read More
Nov
10
It’s time to select a FallFest host! Well, it’s actually past time! We held SciWorld later than usual this year and wanted there to still be a good gap between the two. Anyway, we’re now accepting applications to host and chair the online roleplaying community’s premier event: The Simming Fall Festival (aka FallFest). This will be our 8th festival since beginning back in 2011. Read More
Sep
14
In June, we asked for nominations. You responded, and we announced 19 nominees in August. Now it’s time to reveal the three winner of this year’s Squiddie (officially the Ongoing Worlds Medal for Superior Online Role Playing). Choosing just three winners from 19 excellent candidates was extremely difficult as many are deserving of a top-level award. However, that’s our job!Aug
15
What a SciWorld we had last month! In case you missed it, Bravo Fleet and Star Army partnered together to host the 2018 edition, which was an absolute blast! As far as we know, this was the first time that two different sim clubs co-hosted the convention. The first SciWorld was in 1999, and it has been held continuously since 2011. We believe that this year’s SciWorld was the 16th, but we’re not positive as many records from the early 2000s are no longer available. Read More
Aug
10
Congratulations to all of the 2018 Squiddie Nominees! In response to our June post, we received 11 nominations for 10 people, 6 nominations for 6 games, and 3 nominations for 3 clubs. In case you lost count, that’s 20 total nominations for 19 different entities. All 19 are outstanding in their own right and deserving of top-level awards. Unfortunately, we can only award 3 Squiddies every year: one person, one game, and one club. We have our work cut out for us!
Without further ado, here are your 2018 nominees in no particular order… Read More
Jul
28
That’s right, SciWorld 2018 is today. See you over there.
We would also like to give a special thanks to Alexander of Bravo Fleet and Wes Davis of Star Army for chairing this year’s convention. Great work so far! We can’t wait for SciWorld to begin!
Jul
16
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the 2018 SciWorld Online Convention will be hosted by 2017 Squiddie winner Bravo Fleet & 2013 Squiddie winner Star Army on Saturday, July 28th! Obviously, we’re changing things up a bit this year. We’re holding SciWorld in the summer instead of the spring and you get two hosts for the price of one (actually, it’s still free).
If you’ve never heard of SciWorld, it’s a time when the entire simming and online roleplaying community comes together for one day in online chat rooms for engaging discussions, interactive trivia games, and live chat role plays. In short, we share ideas, information, and energy! Bravo Fleet & Star Army are on point to plan, advertise, and execute the festival. Indeed, it takes a lot of work to make SciWorld happen! Read More
Jun
17
The time is here! Time for YOU to nominate the best from our community to win a Squiddie (aka The Ongoing Worlds Medal for Superior Online Roleplaying). Each year we present Squiddies to three different entities: one person, one sim/game, and one club. Squiddies are bestowed for exemplifying one or more of the following characteristics, primarily during the previous calendar year:
You can read about past winners here: 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 Read More
Mar
5
Nearly four years ago, I published an article titled Spelling tips – It’s your game they’re looking for. The concept was simple: Since what we do is sometimes called creative writing, shouldn’t we show some competency with the writing part? We also certainly don’t want to turn new players off with our own poor spelling or grammar, right? That piece covered the proper use of its/it’s, your/you’re, and there/their/they’re. Today we’re going to look at five more situations that are often confused. Read More
Feb
22
A little over one year ago, we interviewed 12 online role players about their experience with Pokémon Go. The answers were… well, diverse! A lot has happened with Pokémon Go since that February 2017 article: Gen 2 & 3 releases, legendary raids, EX passes, and more! So why not revisit our interviewees and see where they are today? We were able to catch up with six of them.
The mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go was released jointly by Nintendo and Niantic in July 2016. It reached an astounding 500 million downloads by the end of 2016, and increased to 750 million by its one year anniversary. While not as popular as it was shortly after its launch, Pokémon Go maintains a loyal following of players. Read More
