 22 Feb 2004 @ 15:56, by Tom Bombadil
Screenshot: April Ryan, The Longest Journey
A Shared Universe is a system that provides participants with a framework in which to create their own art and literature. As participants refine their skills the co-created universe becomes richer and more rewarding.
The following description is borrowed from a role-playing board dedicated to the gaming culture (for clarity of purpose, the term player was replaced here with participant wherever applicable):
There is often nowhere to go for the amateur writer or artist. Poems get buried away never to be seen again. The doodles never get turned into paintings. Ideas die, never having been fully explored. Shared Universes is an attempt to give this raw undeveloped talent a place to go, to grow, to be seen, and to communicate. In Shared Universes,
like-minded artists band together, for inspiration and support, in organizational units called journey groups. Participants may decide to work on group projects together called, appropriately, shared universes. Artifacts, such as drawings and stories, not only have their own intrinsic value but also contribute to a larger work of art, the shared universe.
All participants are considered to be on a journey. A journey of imagination, self exploration, learning, creating, experience, ideas, growth, sharing, and mastery.
The Muse calls it a Roundtable.
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