May
11
As promised, there will be continuing coverage of the events of SciWorld…last night in the opening ceremony, David Ball and Tigra Tigress were awarded the Ongoing Worlds Distinguished Service Medals for their work in simming.
May
10
SciWorld is an online convention for roleplayers, taking place in a chatroom. There are two main rooms, each with a different topic of conversation. You can see the full schedule here.
Chat room #1: Click here to open
Chat room #2: Click here to open
I’m a bit of an IRC novice, it all seemed a bit weird and old-fashioned to me until I gave it a try recently. If you’re experienced with IRC then you can probably ignore this instructions. But if you’re a beginner (like me tbh!) I’ve listed some of the most important things here. Read More
May
10
SciWorld 2012 begins tonight at 7:30 pm, EST and as such at the time of this writing is 12 hours away. After several hard long months of planning all we are waiting for is time to count down. During the event, we will work hard to provide you continuing coverage here (and maybe Facebook). This is about having fun so go out, take a friend or two with you and make some new ones as well as we have the festivities that we are proud to call SciWorld 2012, the tenth SciWorld in history.
May
9
Don’t forget about SciWorld, the online chat convention for roleplayers starts thursday (tomorrow) at 23:30 GMT (7:30pm EDT).
The opening ceremony will be hosted by Chas Hammer, followed by hour-long chat events.
SciWorld is spread across 3 nights, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, each starting at different times so make sure you see the schedule so you don’t miss your favourite events.
The events range from chats about TV shows, specific topics about roleplaying and actual roleplaying sessions. Read More
May
5
One of the games I keep noticing pop up on the homepage occasionally is Spellbound, a fantasy game created last November, and had a very popular time over December and January. Spellbound has a good compliment of character,s each with a consistent Japanese anime style image. The game’s pace unfortunately slowed over February- March but made a comeback in April and has been on the homepage (or not far away) ever since.
I spoke to the creator of the game Phantasmagoria and asked him about Spellbound.
I regularly play a few play-by-post games on-line – we usually use special forums such as Myth Weavers to play. Since they are designed to play games this way, and contain a load of features that make a game easy to manage and play for both the game master and the players themselves. Most of the games I play I usually tend to be the game master. I like having that ability to create a world. It’s where my user name comes from. Phantasmagoria could be described as a magical illusion of changing imagery, and considering with each new play-by-post game is a different world and changing story, I think this suits rather well! Read More
Apr
24
The SciWorld Online Convention is approaching!
Join us from Thursday May 10 to Saturday May 12 for three days of gaming, discussions, and events focused on the simming and online role-playing community.
Held in irc, OngoingWorlds, in conjunction with the TRCP Alliance is proud to sponsor this years convention.
For more information visit us at sciworldonline.com or at our event page on Facebook.
See you at SciWorld 2012!
Apr
19
Chele has been roleplaying for over 10 years
When we get a problem with a member, it can usually lead us to going oh FFS! It’s a normal reaction, we would like everyone to get on, and for things to run smoothly with epic plots and interesting characters. When somebody disturbs the equilibrium of this by causing OOC drama, it can really tick us off.
However, in this case, the FFS approach does not stand for For F***s Sake, but instead Fair, Firm, Smart, and is a method for dealing with these issues from a staff point of view. Read More
Apr
12
Have you noticed how you use your mobile phone differently to a computer? Because of the small screen of a smartphone, apps usually push content into one narrow column that you can scroll down through.
When I originally created the OngoingWorlds design, I hadn’t thought of this, so never created a mobile specific stylesheet until now. Read More
Apr
9
On April fools day this year, many sims took part in a shared April fools joke that is probably the most widely spread in simming history. You can see the threads about this on Band of Brothers here and Before the Mast in the screenshot below. The joke was orchestrated by Charles Star from Independence Fleet who I’ve interviewed him about the joke. Read More
Mar
24
A few weeks ago I created a poll asking users what feature they would most like to see added to OngoingWorlds. The results were pretty clear and most people wanted an instant chat box. Read More
