Apr
7
We’ve posted a few articles about Mary Sue characters in roleplaying games (you can see them here), but what exactly is a Mary Sue? There’s obviously the story of the very first Mary Sue character, but the term means different things to different people.
There was a discussion about this on RPG-Directory this week, which was quite enlightening, and here are the highlights: Read More
Apr
3
I’m very pleased to announce that OngoingWorlds has this week surpassed over 1000 likes on Facebook!
This means that 1000 Facebook users have selected to ‘like’ our fan page, where we post links to our blog articles, news about roleplaying, and funny photos for roleplayers and writers. Read More
Mar
31
Maybe other people who have studies in Communication and PR would approach it from another side, and I am curious to see how they see it too. But as an economist who has learnt management and marketing in Uni, I believe in applying as many marketing and management concepts to managing a RPG. Yes, RPGs are not profit yielding, but this is the only main difference. In truth, most concepts applying to small businesses and non profit organisations do apply to it.
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Mar
23
I recently had a chat with Mike Bremer, CO of the Star Trek play-by-post game Starbase 400, part of the 9th fleet roleplay community. I asked Mike a few questions, and got an interview going about his game, which I’ve published for you lucky buggers below! 🙂
How did Starbase 400 first come about? How long has Starbase 400 been running?
The Simm launched in 1995 as the USS Pegasus in the now defunct Seventh Fleet. Mark Casey then moved the simm to Tango Fleet when he started it in 1996. I joined the simm a few months later, and then took over as CO in 1997. It’s ran continuously under my command since then. Read More
Mar
19
Are you looking for more members to join your game? If you’re not advertising on PBEM2 you might be missing out, here’s a video walkthrough of me showing you how to add a listing on PBEM2 🙂
Mar
12
I probably should have posted this weeks ago, but time has unfortunately got the better of me lately. As you know we announced the Squiddies a couple of weeks ago, these were the best of the games nominated to us by roleplayers like you, who lovingly let us know about their favourite roleplaying games, clubs and people. As most of these were so well written and reflect genuine enthusiasm, I thought it’d be nice to publish these here. Read More
Mar
11
Hi dudes, I’ve made an update today to how the character’s recent activity is displayed on a character profile. This new timeline layout displays the dates the character profile has been updated, as well as the most recent posts where they were mentioned.
If you’ve got any feedback about this update, send me an email through the contact page, or in the chatbox. Thanks, and I hope you like the new layout! Read More
Mar
7
The Federation Sim Fleet is celebrating 20 years of providing quality simming and role playing. To kick off our exciting week of simming celebration, they’ll have Hosts in our IRC chatroom #FSF, which are volunteering to hold open chats, sims and trivias! The chatroom will be staffed every day from Sunday, March 3rd through Saturday March 9th, starting at Noon Eastern time and will have someone in there until late evening. Read More
Mar
2
Now that the Oscars are out of the way, it’s time to present the real awards, the Squiddies! The Squiddies (officially the OngoingWorlds medal for superior online roleplaying) are our own award for roleplaying excellence, where we invite all roleplayers to nominate their games, clubs and fellow roleplayers for an award. Nominations were given to us by a form on an article published back in January (we postponed our event to not conflict with SimEnc’s Simming Prize). We announced the nominations last week, and our judges have been working diligently to reach a consensus on the winners.
The competition was fierce as we received nominations for 19 individuals, nine sims/games, and six clubs. Read More
