OnlyWorlds
One shape for any kind of world, so your heroes, villains and stories can live wherever you want them.
One element, in many places
Admiral Fluffington is a Character, one of the standard's 22 categories. Every field is optional, and you can add fields of your own.
title: "Character" properties: Constitution: properties: physicality: type: "string" Origins: properties: birth_date: type: "integer" World: properties: location: type: "single-link" category: "Location" Social: properties: rivals: type: "multi-link" description: "Characters the character is in active opposition or competition with" category: "Character"
His data can be fetched from the OnlyWorlds server, which is free and optional. Each link is the id of an element.
{
"name": "Admiral Fluffington",
"supertype": "Military",
"subtype": "Admiral",
"reputation": "Respected commander. The establishment, personified.",
"birth_date": 249,
"birthplace": "0695db83-8ce7-7510-8000-5f44d31b8f79",
"location": "0695db83-972a-74da-8000-262f1559a7f1",
"institutions": ["0695db83-c6e8-7ab6-8000-bf4b7d713f37"],
"family": ["069945d9-d873-7076-8000-96d538f41a22"],
"rivals": ["0695db83-b69a-772b-8000-557e9ba0dcc3"]
}
Any tool can read or write him. In Atlas, a workspace, he has his own page and a place on the world's maps. Little Lens is a small tool for looking through a world. Connect one to Tactical Tangle, a battle game, and its people take the field.
The Obsidian plugin writes him as a note. His fields become properties, his links become wikilinks, and with an account, edits sync back.
location: "[[Feltropolis]]" rivals: - "[[Captain Snoot]]" --- ### Reputation Respected commander. The establishment, personified.
Get playful with the fluff: the Unity SDK lets you browse a world in the editor and bring it into your game.
var client = new OWClient(new OWClientConfig { ApiKey = "0000000001", Transport = new UnityWebRequestTransport() }); var admiral = await client.GetAsync<OWCharacter>("character", "0695db83-afd7-76ee-8000-00f4295f8866"); Debug.Log(admiral.Reputation); // Respected commander. The establishment, personified.
Who is the Admiral's rival?
Captain Snoot, a rogue explorer and smuggler. He and Admiral Fluffington were friends at the Naval Academy until The Incident.
Snoot left the Puddle Navy after it. To the establishment he is a disgraced ex-officer. To others, a folk hero.
from the Admiral's rivalsdescription and Snoot's descriptionreputation
An assistant connected to a world answers from the world itself, not from memory. With a write key or a seat, it can write back.
Your worlds
Any tool that reads the standard opens the same world, links and all.
As one file, as a public page with an account, or through onlyworlds.com, with people and with tools.
Games, apps and AI assistants read the same shape, so one world can feed all of them.
The standard is open, and you can keep a world as a folder you own, on your machine or in your browser.
Character
Creature
Species
Family
Collective
Institution
Location
Object
Construct
Ability
Trait
Title
Language
Law
Event
Narrative
Phenomenon
Relation
Map
Pin
Marker
Zone
Every element has a name and a category, one of these 22. Every other field is optional, so an element can start as one line and grow.
Elements point to each other. Admiral Fluffington lives in , serves in the , belongs to , and has a rival, .
Where to start
Start a world
A workspace for building, writing, mapping and charting a world.
Start in Atlas, no account needed. Make an account when you want your world online, shared, or opened by other tools.
Already have a world? Bring it in.
For developers
OnlyWorlds is an open standard. Build on it, and sell what you build.
0000000001, to try the server without an account.Governance
The standard is open source on GitHub. A change starts as a motion in the Council, where it is voted on and recorded, and a world's Characters can sit there as its delegates.
How do you define a world? Ground it in locations. Characters move through it. Stories give it meaning. Map its powers and conflicts. Create its elements. For everything, an element.
