Oct
25
A while ago I began asking roleplayers about killing off their characters, why and how they did it, and what the consequences were. The death of a character can have widespread consequences for the rest of your game, both the story and the other characters, as Sarah from RPGRating explains… Read More
Oct
25
Hello! Mike here to tell you that the November Game Summary is now open for submissions!
This is open for all Ongoing Worlds GM’s who want their game featured in the November Game Summary.
What do you do? Simple: write a short summary of your game (around 100 words please!) and submit it using the form below. If your game has unlocked a game summary, you don’t have to make a submission as I’ll simply use that instead. If you want a different summary than what’s up on your game page than feel free to submit. Read More
Oct
24
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
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
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
11
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
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
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 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
