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The archive is revealed! Please read, comment, and enjoy!

Creator reveals are in seven days time, on 24 September 2022. See you all then!

Hello gamers!

As of 6pm EDT 11 September, we still have two lingering pinch hits. Consequently, I am going to move reveals back to 11:59pm EDT Friday 16 September.

Please, if you have ability to pick up a pinch hit, go to THIS POST and, if you can pick one of them up, comment with your AO3 name to that post. Do not comment here - your comments will not be screened.

I'm very sorry for the delays. I too am disappointed that we can't reveal on time. However, I also believe that we cannot go live until these pinch hits are claimed and filled, and that a little more time might be all that is needed for an artist or writer to pick one of them up.

EDIT: The remaining pinch hit has added prompts for Dragon Age. Please take a look!

The deadline has passed and we have some pinch hits! These are due at 11:59pm EST, 8 September, so that we can go live at 6:00am on 10 September. If you can pick one of these up, please comment with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number. All comments are screened.


( PH 10 - Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Mass Effect Trilogy, Prey (Video Game 2017) )

CLAIMED - PH 12 - Dragon Age (Video Games), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games), Octopath Traveler (Video Game), Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, The Outer Worlds (Video Game), The Arcana (Visual Novel)>

CLAIMED - PH 13 - Thief (Video Game Original Series), Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Dishonored (Video Games)

CLAIMED - PH 14 - Fate/Grand Order, Andromeda Six (Visual Novel), Love & Legends (Visual Novel)

CLAIMED - PH 15 - Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Etrian Odyssey Series

( PH 16 - Life is Strange: True Colors (Video Game), Ghost of Tsushima (Video Game), Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game) )

CLAIMED - PH 17 - Breath of Fire III, Breath of Fire IV, Suikoden V, 悪魔城ドラキュラ 暁月の円舞曲 と 蒼月の十字架 | Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow & Dawn of Sorrow

Signups are closed, matching has been done, and assignments should be with you all very shortly! If there are any problems with your assignment, please shoot me an email at press.start.mod@gmail.com so that I can sort it out.

We also have seven initial pinch hits. Please take a look at them and, if you can pick one of them up, comment to this post with the pinch hit number and your AO3 name. All comments are screened!

CLAIMED - PH 1 - Dangan Ronpa Another (Fan Games), Fallout: New Vegas, Detroit: Become Human (Video Game), Misao (Video Game)

CLAIMED - PH 2 - Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Assassin's Creed - Origins, Assassin's Creed - Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Three, Granblue Fantasy (Video Game), Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game), Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Hades (Video Game 2018)

CLAIMED - PH 3 - Dishonored (Video Games), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Psychonauts (Video Games), Spyro the Dragon (Video Games)

CLAIMED - PH 4 - Danganronpa - Hope's Peak Arc, Detroit: Become Human (Video Game), Life is Strange 2 (Video Game), Tell Me Why (Video Game), Crossover Fandom

CLAIMED - PH 5 - Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Etrian Odyssey Series

CLAIMED - PH 6 - City of Heroes (Video Game), Return of the Obra Dinn (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)

CLAIMED - PH 7 - Octopath Traveler (Video Game), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney

Nominations have closed and I have some queries:

• Final Fantasy VII - How do you want this named? I was considering Final Fantasy VII (Original Timeline), would that work for you?
• Hitman - There are nominations for Hitman: Absolution, Hitman: Blood Money, Hitman: Contracts, Hitman: Silent Assassin, Hitman: World of Assination Trilogy, and Hitman (Video Games), and there are very similar nominations inside each of them. Are these all in continuity with one another?
• Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors (Video Game 1997) - I'm not sure this is eligible. Is it in continuity with the main series, and how important are the Doctor, the Master, and Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart to the game?
• Life is Strange (Video Games) - Can you please tell me which individual titles these characters/relationships belong to?

Any duplications or issues with nominations, now is your chance to tell me! Signups open on 2 July, and I look forward to seeing you all there!

Nominations are open! You may find the tagset here! Sorry everyone for the delay, I went down with a migraine and words were hard.

Before we start nominating, some preliminary information.

Character Nominations
You are able to nominate characters and character combinations! This means the following:

• Character A (video game title) - A fanwork where Character A must be the focus;
• group: Character A & Character B (video game title) - A fanwork where the gen relationship of Character A and Character B is the focus;
• group: Character A/Character B (video game title) - a fanwork where the shippy relationship of Character A and Character B is the focus. You are also free to nominate group: Character A/Original Male Character or group: Character A/Original Female Character.
• group: Character A/Character B & Character C (video game title) - a fanwork where the shippy relationship between Character A and B, as well as their gen relationships with Character C are the focus.

The above examples are for two-three characters, but there is no maximum for how many characters can fit into a relationship tag (outside of the character limit in the nomination form itself). 

Matching is "OR", meaning that you match on a tag. If you want Character A and Character B in your gift, nominate them as a group. If you nominate each of them separately your creator only has to include one of them. Please keep that in mind when nominating!

Putting the video game title in brackets after your nomination is essential. This is to aid me in identifying wandering tags and in cases where some fandoms are synned to each other in weird ways I can force the tags to go where they need to. Do not nominate without it! You also can shorten the prefix of "Group" as required, but please do not remove it entirely. We are doing our best to limit the use of canonical tags so that tags don't wander, hence putting a prefix in front of a relationship tag.

Crossover Fandoms
Crossover character combinations are eligible.

There are some basic rules.

• When nominating a crossover, the fandom is Crossover Fandom. I have already nominated Crossover Fandom into the tag set so please use that spelling. Not nominating a crossover into this fandom will mean that nomination will be rejected;
• Nominations can be for gen fic or ship fic;
• Nominations are to be written like this: Group: Character A (Video Game 1) & Character B (Video Game 2) (or group: Character A (Video Game)/Character B (Video Game 2) though, as above, "Group" can be shortened as required;
• There is no limit of the number of characters that are in a tag set, short of AO3's character limit;
• All characters in the crossover combination must be video game characters.

Series of Games
The test for whether a game is part of a series and should be nominated as one is as follows:

1. Is the game marketed as being part of a series (i.e. a trilogy, games set in the same world etc etc);
2. Are the games that make up the series part of the same continuity or different continuity;
3. Is there a significant crossover of major characters between the games?

At the moment:

• Dragon Age (Video Games) is the correct tag for any nomination for Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and Dragon Age Inquisition;
• Mass Effect Andromeda is a separate game to the Mass Effect Trilogy;
• Final Fantasy games are separate to one another, except for the ones that are explicitly in continuity with each other (so, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 are one nomination, but Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X are not);
• Kingdom Hearts is a separate continuity to Final Fantasy;
• The Star Ocean games can be nominated separately;
• The Kiseki/Trails series can be nominated as individual series (i.e. Sora, Sen etc etc)
• Fallout can be nominated separately.
• Final Fantasy VII should be nominated by timeline (original timeline, Remake timeline) - I am taking suggestions about how these groups should be named. I am willing to explain why I want separate nominations if anyone is curious.
• Assassin Creed games are by individual subseries.
• Danganronpa is to be nominated into Dangan Ronpa (Hope's Peak Arc) and Danganronpa v3. Hope's Peak Arc includes Danganronpa, Danganronpa 2 and Ultra Despair Girls.

If you are considering nominating a game that could be a series, or could be a tie-in, please drop a comment below so that I can hash it out with you first.

Eligibility of Games
For a game to be eligible it must:

• Be released by the time that signups close; and
• Not be heavily dependent on another, non-video game canon.
• If it is a game that is coming out in instalments, one instalment must be released.

Finally, a reminder: if you defaulted after the no-penalty default deadline in previous years, you remain ineligible to participate in this round until you complete your penalty gift. If you don't remember what you need to do, please email me and I will let you know what you need to do!

Otherwise, happy nominations! Noms close 11:59pm on 29 June.

The archive is now revealed! Go forth, comment, and enjoy!

Any issues, please email me at press.start.mod@gmail.com

The deadline has passed! There are some participants with extensions and we have three pinch hits. These are all due at 11:59pm EST on the 9th of September. If you can pick one of these up, please comment with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number. All comments are screened.

CLAIMED - PH 9 - Dance Dance Revolution, Final Fantasy Tactics, Killer7, Minesweeper, Ultima (Video Games)

CLAIMED - PH 10 - 十三機兵防衛圏 | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Video Game), Death end re;Quest (Video Game), SCARLET NEXUS (Video Game), Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, アルノサージュ ~生まれいずる星へ祈る詩~ | Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star, Odin Sphere, NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR (Video Games)

CLAIMED - PH 11 - Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy X Series

The no-penalty deadline is fast approaching and we have two new pinch hits! Please take a look at them and if you can pick one up, comment to this post with the pinch hit number and your AO3 name. All comments are screened.

CLAIMED - PH 7 - Bravely Default (Video Game) & Related Fandoms, Kingdom Hearts (Video Games), Mobius Final Fantasy, Princess Maker 2, Soul Calibur, 聖剣伝説３ | Seiken Densetsu 3 | Trials of Mana (Video Game)

CLAIMED - PH 8 - Persona 5, 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Your Turn to Die, Phantom Rose Scarlet

We have one new and one outstanding pinch hit! Please look over these carefully and, if you can pick one of these up, comment with the pinch hit number and your AO3 name. All comments are screened!

CLAIMED - PH 6 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, NieR: Automata (Video Game), Persona 5, Tomb Raider (Legend Timeline), Crossover Fandom, Tomb Raider (Survivor Timeline)

CLAIMED - PH 7 - 十三機兵防衛圏 | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Video Game), The Banner Saga (Video Games), Darkest Dungeon (Video Game), Final Fantasy VI, Hades (Video Game 2018), The Last of Us (Video Games), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Octopath Traveler (Video Game), Odin Sphere, いけにえと雪のセツナ | Ikenie to Yuki no Setsuna | I Am Setsuna (Video Game)