Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind Intro

Introduction written by Connie, with Organisational & Management help by the WoW team <3

Ever wanted to participate in Summer Camp or other WA Events from previous years but on your own time and still get some sort of reward?

Do you have a new world that you wish that you'd done a Summer Camp or Prompt in but that world simply didn't exist in that time and now it's too late?

Do you have completionist disease and want to do everything that has ever been or will be?

If you said yes to any of these questions, I have the solution! Introducing the Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind (and maybe later Events Rewind), I'm working on slowly remaking mossy overgrown versions of the old Summer Camp Event badges so that I, and maybe also you, can redo old events and get a cool shiny new badge!

The Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind is self-led (as in, you do it, by yourself, on your own time) and not affiliated with World Anvil or the Official Summer Camp event. This is just a fun thing I came up with to try their prompts but in my own time!

How does this work?

Since this is entirely unofficial and to save myself the trouble of having to verify a million entries in perpetuity, this is going to be a self-assigned thing. All you need to do is make an article for each of the prompts and each time you reach the article goal for each badge, you can give it to your article.

Since it's self-led with no set schedule I personally suggest that you use the badges as a sort of upgrade-able/evolving badge rather than a final ranking. However, how you participate in this is entirely up to you, and how you wish to present the finished prompts are too. Do feel free to submit the prompts to their respective pages, too! I'd love to see what you all end up creating!

Submitting Prompts

Each year will have pages on this world which act as prompt-pages you can submit your work to using the same comment and template combo as submitting your worlds to here. I thought this would be an added bonus as hopefully it'll encourage people to read what people share and create a growing list of answers to the prompts!

In Summary

To put all of this rabble together, basically your main workflow would be :

1. Go to the Summer Camp Rewind prompt page for the year you want to start with and pick your prompts.

2. Write a corresponding article in your world for each of the prompts you've chosen

3. (Optional) Submit your prompts to the corresponding prompt page here!

4. Check to see if you meet the Criteria for the Badges, and if you do, assign yourself the badge!


 

Badges

These badges are unofficial and made by myself but inspired by the original badges, so they're subject to my taste and art style.

2018 Summer Camp

Since we're attempting to work from the first summer camp forwards we're starting with 2018. If you need a refresher on the original WorldAnvil page for Summer Camp 2018 you can find it here. You can also jump straight to our 2018 page with all the prompts listed here.

Badges

Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind 2018 Bronze Badge
Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind 2018 Bronze Badge by CottageOfConnie
Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind 2018 Silver Badge
Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind 2018 Silver Badge by CottageOfConnie
Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind 2018 Gold Badge
Unofficial Summer Camp Rewind 2018 Gold Badge by CottageOfConnie

Comments

Author's Notes

Authors Note (Connie)

Thank you for all your love and support towards my project! I will be slowly getting to try and reproduce my own mossy versions of every summer camp year but art takes time and I'm chipping away at making this world viable as well as working on getting the challenge stuff sorted. I'll update and ping as I release new badges so keep an eye on the community tabs!


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Sep 7, 2025 00:18 by E.G Bear

This is a great idea, and I love your badges :)

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Sep 7, 2025 07:13 by Connie Ruotsalainen

Thank you so much! They'll be more soon once I finish waking up and get my stuff together!

Sep 7, 2025 06:55

Amazing badges and idea. Thank you for putting it together!

Sep 7, 2025 07:14 by Connie Ruotsalainen

You're welcome! I mainly made this for myself but if it benefits more people than just me, that's always a bonus!

Sep 7, 2025 09:23 by Owen Davies

I absolutely LOVE this Idea! Especially tackling the Summer Camp/Events I wasn't here for!   Plus the badges are gorgeous!

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Sep 7, 2025 12:38 by Connie Ruotsalainen

If you ever do participate feel free to show me! I'd love to see what you make! My main driving force is because I wanted to say I completed A L L the prompts!

Sep 7, 2025 10:08

Absolutely love this idea! Totally going to give it a go, those badges are fantastic!

Sep 7, 2025 12:38 by Connie Ruotsalainen

Thank you! Please show me if you do, I'd love to see what you make!

Sep 7, 2025 10:13 by CoolG

Sounds like a lot of fun!! Love the badges ^^

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Sep 7, 2025 12:39 by Connie Ruotsalainen

Thank you! I was so worried people wouldn't like how sketchy my art style is haha

Sep 7, 2025 16:00

I love this and the badges - awesome idea.

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Sep 7, 2025 16:30 by Connie Ruotsalainen

Thank you!

Sep 7, 2025 16:04 by Keon Croucher

This is a fantastic idea, and a great way to flesh out a setting for those whom are new, or perhaps for those whom wish to partake in a different vein, some might even go back and re-approach prompts they've done before but with the years of experience and writing chops they have now (me I am them, they are me should I choose to go back over SC prompts from 2018)   Really cool idea Connie, good luck to you and all those whom partake, may you find all the inspiration you can manage and more :D

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Sep 7, 2025 16:31 by Connie Ruotsalainen

Thank you! I started it mainly as I want to go back and do ALL the prompts on this world (I was very inspired by what Mochi was talking about wanting to do the community prompts) and I sort of built it out from there. I want to eventually make an achievement log type article/hub for this world that sort of branches each project/time but we'll see how far we get.

Sep 7, 2025 18:03

Very cool idea, and I like the badges. Does it matter how long it takes to complete the items, or is there a time limit for the unofficial challenge?

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Sep 7, 2025 19:52 by Connie Ruotsalainen

It takes as long as you want it to be. It's more of a goal you can whittle away at rather than a rush like the actual events are. There's no set timeframe.

Sep 10, 2025 19:46

This is a lovely project idea! It's perfect for people like me who joined Anvil later. I hope you'll eventually catch up to the current years and keep it updated <3 That'd be super cool if you do (though admittedly that's a commitment). Even so, this is awesome and the badges are so cute. Thank you for creating this :)

Sep 10, 2025 20:47 by Connie Ruotsalainen

I will eventually get to all the badges it's just gonna take a bit of time, especially as I'm working with nnie to get prompt pages and other small details and flourishes done! <3

Nov 1, 2025 13:56 by Chris L

This is a thing I've wanted to do since my first Summer Camp in 2020. What a cool way to bring this back for everyone!

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