Oct
4
Hello all! It’s been a good month at Ongoing Worlds with all kinds of interesting plot twists and shocking developments. Anything ranging from miner revolts to AR sims, field trips, trans-galactic black ops, and mysterious invitations. Read More
Oct
3
This is one of a few posts I’m going to write about OngoingWorlds’ unlockable perks (see articles about other perks here).
You’ll unlock this perk after you’ve submitted 10 posts to any game on OngoingWorlds. After that you’ll see some formatting options at the top of the “Create new post” screen. Read More
Sep
29
Here’s a new feature which a few people asked for, and doesn’t need too much explaining as it’s quite simple. A post preview allows you to preview your post. See, I said it was simple 🙂 Read More
Sep
27
Written by Kim Smouter, Co-Founder of New Worlds Project. Read all articles about New Worlds Project
Getting the setting right was just one of the many challenges facing our launch. We had to get the word out that we had created this setting. We wanted intrepid writers to come join us to test whether it could serve as a decent platform for collaborative writing and role-playing. We’d been working a few years towards achieving this, whilst keeping our responsibilities at Star Trek: Independence where both of us were quite key players. Read More
Sep
25
Written by Xexes, one of the judges for the 2012 Flashback week competition
Flashback week contained many, many entries, and quite a few judges. Every judge is sure to have different opinions, but here are some thoughts I had, along with some tips and common traps.
While the Flashback Contest had no rules regarding spelling and grammar (“SPaG”), the contest is about writing – and the English language has plenty of rules and nuances. SPaG issues get in the way of reading the story properly, distract the reader, disrupt train of thought, and sometimes even convey the wrong notion. While your fellow roleplayers probably won’t mind them in a roleplay, the Flashback Contest is a contest ; you are competing against your peers. Read More
Sep
21
Here’s the story that came 2nd place in the 2013 Flashback week competition. Written by Billie from Before the Mast. 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
Sep
18
Blue DwarfHaving agreed to help Jay Chrysler find their missing compatriot Cassandra Jones, the crew are first attempting to figure out how to eradicate a computer virus that has mysteriously manifested on the shipboard systems, and have entered an AR game in order to combat it. Read More
Sep
11
In July we posted an article titled “Why Role Playing Games Improve Speech and Language Skills” which continues to be one of our most shared articles, and seemed to inspire many people. After posting this article to Reddit, a few users commented with their own experiences of how roleplaying has helped improve their vocabulary and language skills. Read More
