Oct
15
You’ll remember a couple of weeks ago Ed Brown won the Flashback Week competition? I sent him his prize, a snazzy OngoingWorlds mug which he’s received and has taken this photo of him with his prize.
Ed is known in the Starbase 118 community as Diego Herrera, the very same who’d volunteered to chair last week’s Fallfest chat. It was a few days into the planning of Fallfest when I realised I was chatting to the same person! (I felt a bit dumb). Read More
Oct
12
FallFest image by James Drysdale
What an outstanding FallFest! Indeed, Diego and the entire support team from UFOP: StarBase 118 put on an absolutely fantastic show. I actually counted 50 people in chat room #1 at one point during the first hour. Wow! Maybe next year we’ll need to expand to three events at once. Who knows?
Anyway, I’d like to again thank everyone who had some hand in putting FallFest together. We had contributors from seven different clubs (United Federation of Peaceful Simmers, Ongoing Worlds, UFOP: StarBase 118, Phoenix Roleplaying, UCIP, New Worlds Project, and Independence Fleet). So without any further ado, here they all are: Read More
Oct
9
I’m very pleased to announce that I’m awarding the newest OWCH (Ongoing Worlds Community Honor) award to Locke, from the game Blue Dwarf.
Locke has been helping me behind the scenes with improving the OngoingWorlds.com website to bring you new features including email features, mentioning characters in a post, and the post preview. And hopefully much more in the future! We’ve got loads of ideas for improvement, but also if you have ideas of your own please send them in too, you can contact me on Twitter, Facebook, or via the form on the website. Read More
Sep
21
The judges have voted, and the scores have been calculated!
As you know, the first week of September was Flashback week, and we encouraged all roleplayers to submit their flashback posts into our story competition. Read More
Jul
9
I’m proud to announce that I’m awarding the OWCH award (OngoingWorlds community honour) to Jack Tennant, for being an awesome member in Blue Dwarf and for going “above and beyond” being just a member of a roleplaying game. For months Jack has been recording the Blue Dwarf story into an audio podcast, a task which isn’t as easy as it sounds. it takes careful planning, organisation, practice, a talent for recording your voice and… well… the guts to record your voice in the first place! Believe me it does take guts, and I’m almost an emotional wreck when I record things like the how-to Youtube videos. Read More
Mar
12
I probably should have posted this weeks ago, but time has unfortunately got the better of me lately. As you know we announced the Squiddies a couple of weeks ago, these were the best of the games nominated to us by roleplayers like you, who lovingly let us know about their favourite roleplaying games, clubs and people. As most of these were so well written and reflect genuine enthusiasm, I thought it’d be nice to publish these here. Read More
Mar
2
Now that the Oscars are out of the way, it’s time to present the real awards, the Squiddies! The Squiddies (officially the OngoingWorlds medal for superior online roleplaying) are our own award for roleplaying excellence, where we invite all roleplayers to nominate their games, clubs and fellow roleplayers for an award. Nominations were given to us by a form on an article published back in January (we postponed our event to not conflict with SimEnc’s Simming Prize). We announced the nominations last week, and our judges have been working diligently to reach a consensus on the winners.
The competition was fierce as we received nominations for 19 individuals, nine sims/games, and six clubs. 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
