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

Oct
30

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Fifty Shades of Blue

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Celebrating the 50th Blue Dwarf Podcast.

Blue DwarfThis article was written by Mr Tenn Pup (Jack) AKA Alex.

Wow! I can’t believe it’s only just over a year since we first pondered the possibility of a Blue Dwarf Podcast. David Ball put the notion to me in September 2012 by means of a tentative tweet. A few test-‘casts ensued (embarrassing Chris Barrie influenced murmurings from myself – a couple are still available online, if you know where to look), while David researched the best way to go about hosting and publishing the stories. A bit of skilled nudging and some excellent behind-the-scenes organisation from Mr Ball, and we’ve somehow managed to publish fifty already! Read More

Oct
30

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Tib’s Corner – Interview with Andy Longman “BaronVonLongman”

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

Tibbeh

Hey ho Ongoing Worlds! Tib here with an interview with seasoned OW Veteran and Blue Dwarf veteran, Andy Longman or as you know him “BaronVonLongman.” Read More

Oct
29

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Enter your game into the Tournament of Sims

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ToS doesn't have a logo, so here's another exciting tournament!

ToS doesn’t have a logo, so here’s another exciting tournament!! 😛

Hey roleplayers, I wanted to let you know about a fantastic competition that’s been running for quite a few years and would be quite prestigious to win!

It’s called the Tournament of Simulations (“simulations” or “sims” being another word for play-by-post roleplay, used quite a lot in Star Trek communities). Judges will take a look at your game, read your posts over a certain time period and assess everything about your game including plot, characters, writing, and member participation.

There’s not much time to act on this, as entries close on the 5th of November – So make sure to submit your game asap. Read More

Oct
25

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So you want to kill a character…

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Roleplay character jumping off a cliffA 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

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November Game Summary is Closed

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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Ed gets his Flashback week prize

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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

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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

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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

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