press_start_comm | Nominations Open!

Nominations are open! You can find the tag set here.

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 - A fanwork where the gen relationship of Character A and Character B is the focus;
group: Character A/Character B - 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.

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!

Crossover Fandoms
Crossover character combinations are eligible. There are some basic rules though so that I don't cry a lot.

When nominating a crossover, the fandom is Crossover Fandoms. I have already nominated Crossover Fandoms 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);
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
This year the test for whether a game is part of a series and should be nominated as one is as follows:

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

Feel free to comment to discuss! At the moment:

Dragon Age (Video Games) is the correct tag for any nominations for Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and Dragon Age Inquisition;
Final Fantasy games are separate to each other, except for the ones that are explicitly in continuity with each other
Kingdom Hearts is a separate continuity from Final Fantasy;
The Star Ocean games can be nominated separately;
I am open to discussion for the Kiseki series (Trails in the Sky, Trails of Cold Steel etc);
Fallout can be nominated separately;
I haven't made up my mind about Avengers Academy (Video Game) as I don't know anything about it, so if you want to nominate it please tell me about it in the comments!

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!

Now have at! Nominations close at 11:59pm EST on 1 July 2017, though the post for tag set cleanup could be a bit later on the 2nd because I have a concert for video game music at around that time.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Hi!

First and foremost thank you for running this exchange again!

A quick questions: according to this year's rules how should TES series be nominated? It's the same world, but most of characters differs between games and any of them could be played as standalone completely - but on the other hand, it's the story of the one world and some background figures&info are relevant to every installment of the series.

As for Avengers Academy - I'm not sure if I'll nominate it, but it feels like a standalone game, not a part of bigger comicsverse to me. It's happening in it's own part of multiverse, has separate plot and is mostly crack-ish and meta, full of battling via dance and poor evil minions hiding in the bushes. OTOH, it still have the same comics characters, just in different, more lighthearted version.

It's anecdote, but I'm playing it despite not reading a comics in my life and seeing just a few Marvel films and have no problems with understanding what's going on.

I have never played an Elder Scrolls game in my life (I have Skyrim in my depressingly large backlog but that's as close as I have come) so I don't know! How significant are the background figures to the main story (if you removed them, would there be a coherent story or would there be no real story at all, I suppose)?

I'll have to think (or play) Avengers Academy as on the one hand it sounds pretty crack-tastic, but on the other I don't want a situation where this becomes an avenue to allow people to request the MCU at large, for example.

Thank you for your quick answer!

I have Skyrim in my depressingly large backlog but that's as close as I have come
I know the pain! My tower of games-to-be-played-someday is probably taller than me... and I still can't persuade myself to stop buying games and book (le sigh).

Re: TES
Background figures are more easter-eggs/lore level, I think - they're not relevant to mine story, unless in some distant "they were the political figure behind event X" way. Political&historical events&figures have some impact throughout all games, but the main characters and the plots are different.

Comparing to KOTOR, the games in TES series are definitely much less connected - more like SW's EU series, I think. There's basically one universe and the universe shares the history, mythology etc., so big events from game X would be mentioned in another part of the series, but the installment Y itself would be usually about something totally different and with different characters - and there's no "main plot" connecting all these parts.

Either way is fine with me - keeping them all in one fandom tag would spare me wondering "how should I nominate the diety, which plays the most important part in game C, but, as a diety, is of course mentioned and worshipped in all other games, too, and I'm interested in particular in its relationship with X, and we are told about it in game D" or similar problems. ;) But I can easily imagine that someone more interested in main stories, not lore, would prefer to have all canons separated - so I feel it would be a little unfair to insist on 'one tag to rule them all' solution.

I'll have to think (or play) Avengers Academy as on the one hand it sounds pretty crack-tastic, but on the other I don't want a situation where this becomes an avenue to allow people to request the MCU at large, for example.

I understand! Personally, I feel MCU-fying it would be rather hard (characters are eternal teenagers, their relationships and adventures look very different etc.), but I guess there's no limit to people's... resourcefulness, sometimes.

I think I'll go with having the games nominated individually, if that helps, from what I've read about TES.

Leave Avengers Academy with me - I'll see if I can get it on my phone.

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