The New Universes Project is a charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering creative expression and community-building in the online collaborative writing space. Our mission is to support writers by providing resources, storage for their work, and a platform for role-playing and collaborative storytelling.
Our mission is to empower writers and role-players to focus on their creative endeavors while ensuring their work is protected and valued. We aim to build strong, supportive communities where creative expression can thrive.
Established in 2001, The New Universes Project was a recognized 501(c)3 public charity in May 2020 incorporated in the State of Oregon. Our organization is overseen by a committee of enthusiasts in role-playing, publication, and technology who are committed to the success of writing and role-playing groups. More information on the group’s structure and charter can be found on the governance page. Specific details about the project’s management team, metrics and other such information can be found on its GuideStar page.
We offer a variety of services to support the role-playing and writing community, including:
- Operating Role-Playing Sims: Facilitating engaging and immersive role-playing experiences.
- Supporting Literary Works: Assisting with the creation and maintenance of role-playing and simming groups.
- Community-Building Operations: Managing SimmingHub, a resource hub for the role-playing community.
- Conferences and Workshops: Promoting equality and equity within simming and role-playing through events.
- Technical Services: Providing server space, technical support, and role-play-specific applications.
- Fostering Cooperation: Encouraging collaboration within the role-playing community for long-lasting support.
Our programs are funded by generous donations from the public and support from organizations such as Snakecraft Hosting, Google, Microsoft, cPanel, Atlassian, Amazon Web Services, and DreamHost.
If you would like to support our programs, please consider donating through the following links:
Our tax ID number for donation and financial purposes is 84-4494599.
You mention role-playing; what do you mean? What is “simming”?
This group writes in a collaborative writing format as a group known as play-by-post; this form of role-playing “game” exists in a mixture of interactive fiction elements and combining collaborative writing within a set setting. Basically, each writer portrays an individual character or a few characters within the universe developed by our team and interacts with other writers and staff members who control others within the universe and live one another’s lives. Posts consist of instant message-based chat one-on-one sessions, group sessions, and those over the message board which are offered 24 hours a day for those with other time commitments. Staff members oversee universe rulesets and monitor the bounds of universe “law” which players can confer over should they have questions when writing. For additional explanations of play-by-post role-playing please see the Wikipedia article which provides a brief overview of the topic or join our Discord server and ask a member of our community.