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
May
10
This article was published at the request of Major Tom, the Editor-in-Chief of Outpost 42 News, a fledgling news website for the simming & online role playing community.
Outpost 42 News is dedicated to providing you with the fastest, latest, and most relevant news about the simming and online role playing community. In fact, we’re the most trusted fair & balanced name in news! We will never let you down! 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
Feb
8
The results are in and we have some winners! If you’ll recall, we asked for nominations back in December. If you’re not familiar with ToS, the original competition was held back in 1999. For this year’s ToS, each participating sim submitted 10 posts that were written sometime during 2017. The posts were then evaluated by three judges in three different categories (Story, Characters, and Readability/Grammar) on a 1-10 scale. The final scores were then adjusted based on the individual judge’s respective averages and standard deviations to adjust for both hard & easy grading judges and judges with small & large ranges of scores.
As I say every year, evaluating sims is a subjective art, and this is certainly true with ToS. We’re not here to identify the best games as this is impossible. Instead, we’re here to identify what we think are outstanding role plays that exude excellence. A different set of judges may very well chose a completely different set of winners. And that’s okay! With that our of the way, here are your 2017 tournament winners: Read More
Jan
12
It’s always interesting to look back and see which of our blog posts attracted eager readers.. Here’s the most popular from 2017: Read More
Jan
3
Tis the season to be jolly! The nomination period for the 2017 Simming Prize has officially opened! Some of you may have heard whispers as we geared up and began the hunt for judges and nominees on the low key, but now it’s absolutely undeniable that we’re open and ready for business once again! Read More
Dec
17
With FallFest out of the way, it’s time to turn our attention to something else. Ahem… Role players, hosts, and club leaders alike are all hereby invited to enter their games/sims/role plays in the the oldest and most prestigious competition of the entire simming and online roleplaying world: the Tournament of Simulations (ToS)! What, did you think it was some other competition? C’mon!
Ongoing Worlds is now officially calling on YOU (yes, you!) to enter your simulations and online role plays in the 2017 edition of ToS. This will be the 13th tournament to be held, and the 4th sponsored by Ongoing Worlds. Nominations will be accepted through December 31st, 2017. Winners will be announced sometime later. Here’s how to enter: Read More
