OngoingWorlds blog

News & articles about play-by-post games, for roleplayers & writers

Oct
24

By

The story of New Worlds Project: #5 – Designing the ultimate website for your ultimate game…

Category: Roleplay-related projects Tags: Leave a Comment

New worlds website timeline

By Kim Smouter, Co-Founder of New Worlds Project. See part 1 of the story of New Worlds Project here.

The website is the engine room of any decent play-by-post role-playing community, and as a result, it deserves as much attention as you give to the setting and game design process. In this chapter, I intend to cover in greater detail how the past, current, and future websites of New Worlds Project were designed and brought to life, in the hopes of inspiring greater deployment of efforts within our community. Read More

Oct
21

By

Tib’s Corner – Interview with David “Onion” Ball

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, Interviews Tags: , , , , 5 Comments

Just the Tib's Corner Logo, mediocre, I know

Hey everyone! Tib here with Tib’s Corner’s first interview! Our first interview is with no one other than the Ongoing Worlds creator, Dave Ball, AKA Onion. Dave Ball is not only the site’s creator, but the creator of Blue Dwarf itself. I had the chance to talk to Dave with a short interview, and here’s what I found out about the creator!

Q: When did you decide to make a fan-fic based off of the BBC comedy “Red Dwarf”?

A: It was when I was at college, I spoke with a friend who first had the idea of creating an ongoing “game” where you send email between members to continue the story with each email. Read More

Oct
15

By

Ed gets his Flashback week prize

Category: Awards, Competition Tags: , 2 Comments

edbrownYou’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

By

What a great FallFest & two OWCH for the price of one

Category: Awards, Events, OngoingWorlds site news, Roleplaying community Tags: , 12 Comments

FallFest image by James Drysdale

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
11

By

2013 Simming Fall Festival

Category: Events, Inspiration for writing, Roleplaying community, Trivia Tags: 17 Comments

FallFest image by James Drysdale

FallFest image by James Drysdale

FallFest ’13 is almost upon us!  This year’s premier event for the role play community is hosted by UFOP: StarBase 118 and chaired by Diego Herrera.  As always, #OWFallFest is open to all simmers and online role players, regardless of rank or club affiliation elsewhere.

The schedule of events includes interactive discussions, dynamic role plays, and engaging trivia games.  Be there later today at 1:45 PM Eastern Standard Time / 6:45 PM British Summer Time when Diego and co. kick things off with the opening ceremony!

Below you’ll find a complete listing of events and links to the applicable chat rooms and live audio feed. Read More

Oct
10

By

M.I.A.Y.R.W.M.O – Why you’d be mad to miss Fall Fest 2013

Category: Events Tags: 1 Comment

Fallfest banner

This article was written by Ed Brown, aka Diego Herrera from Starbase 118, the chair of this year’s Fallfest.

It’s easy for the host of an event to turn around and brandish clichéd slogans about their events. “Miss it, miss out” is a great example of that – a stopgap phrase that works wonders for fluffing out a generic advert that doesn’t seem too exciting. That’s why in this case we need extra letters – miss it and you really will miss out – and I’m even prepared to go the extra mile and tell you why! This year’s fall fest is crammed to the gunnels with SIMming discussions that will help you bone up on your RPG know how no matter which group you belong to, science fiction trivia and live SIMs and our very own Fall Fest DJ, all hosted by UFOP: Starbase 118. Sound like a blast yet? Read on. Read More

Oct
9

By

Tentative FallFest ’13 Schedule

Category: Events, Roleplaying community, Trivia Tags: 7 Comments

FallFest image by James Drysdale

FallFest image by James Drysdale

That’s right, we’re less than 48 hours away from FallFest ’13!  And we’ve got a *great* lineup of events ready for you and the rest of the role playing community.  In fact, that schedule is posted below.  Not only are there going to be a lot of interesting discussions, role plays, and trivia games, but Landon Wakeland will be DJ’ing his third FallFest.

Check out the facebook page for the latest news and information.  Be sure to let all your friends know about FallFest too.  And don’t forget to mention #OWFallFest in your tweets!

Other than that, we’ll see you at 1:45 PM Eastern Standard Time / 6:45 PM British Summer Time! Read More

Oct
9

By

The story of New Worlds Project: #4 – Keeping the excitement going

Category: Roleplay-related projects Tags: Leave a Comment

arnou

By Kim Smouter, Co-Founder of New Worlds Project. See part 1 of the story of New Worlds Project here.

It might be worthwhile having a refresh. Chapter 1 introduced this series as a story of the up and down and hopefully up again that New Worlds Project has experienced in its 10 year history. This chapter covers what we did to keep it going and can perhaps serve as a checklist for others… Read More

Oct
9

By

Locke is awarded the OWCH

Category: Awards Tags: , 2 Comments

The OWCH awardI’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

Oct
7

By

4 ways how attending FallFest will help your role play

Category: Events, Roleplaying community Tags: Leave a Comment

Image by James Drysdale

Image by James Drysdale

For anyone who hasn’t yet heard, FallFest ’13 is happening this Friday, October 11th.  We’ll kick things off with the opening ceremony at 1:45 PM Eastern Standard Time / 6:45 PM British Summer Time.  After that, we’ll continue with six whole hours of interactive discussions, dynamic chat role plays, and multiple trivia games that’ll be packed into two chat rooms.  We’ll also have an audio feed with a live DJ throughout.

We’re fortunate enough to have Diego Herrera of UFOP: StarBase 118 as our chairman this year. Diego and the entire team at SB118 have put together a fantastic lineup of events that will be published sometime on Wednesday. Read More

« Older Posts
Newer Posts »