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We have one new pinch hit! Please take a look at it and if you can claim it comment with your AO3 name. All comments are screened!

CLAIMED - PH 5 - The Arcana (Visual Novel), The Outer Worlds (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Octopath Traveler (Video Game), Bravely Default (Video Game) & Related Fandoms, Fallout 4

Assignments have gone out! Everyone had at least one possible match, so thank you everyone for making sure you were matchable.

App of all requests - thank you to karanguni for coding this! Trophies will be created over the next week now that I have a handy list of all requested fandoms.

We also have three initial pinch hits. If you can pick these up, please comment with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number you are claiming. All comments are screened.

CLAIMED - PH 1 - Tales of Vesperia, Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Crestoria

CLAIMED - PH 2 - ライザのアトリエ | Atelier: Ryza Series (Video Games), Code Vein (Video Game), Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest Gift (Video Game), Octopath Traveler (Video Game), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games)

CLAIMED - PH 3 - Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Mass Effect Trilogy

Nominations have closed, and here is our tagset for 2021!

Please take a look at the tagset and let me know if there are any tags that have migrated, are not for video games, or need correcting in some way. Corrections will go on until the 2nd, and then signups will begin. See you soon!

Tagset nominations will continue until 11:59pm EST on the 29th! Get your nominations in!

In relation to nominations:

• SMT IV and SMT IV: Apocalypse - Please nominate as separate games.
• Assassin's Creed - AMT - Press Start accepts nominations for this series by individual sub-series and not as one overarching nomination. Is it possible to split this nomination into a subseries?

Nominations are open! You may find the tagset 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 (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!

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 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);
• 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;
• 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 is separated in Compilation of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII Remake.
• 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 collection is now revealed!

Creators will be revealed in a week's time. If there is a problem with your gift, please email me at press.start.mod@gmail.com. Otherwise, go forth, consume, comment, and rejoice!

At the moment we have one pinch hit with an extension and two unclaimed pinch hits. It seems improbable that we will be able to reveal at the usual time of 12:01am EST on the 14th. Consequently, I am moving the reveal date to 6am EST on the 19th to allow pinch hitters more time to create works.

The pinch hits will therefore be due at 11:59pm EST on the 18th. Please look over the pinch hits carefully and if you can pick one of these up, comment with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number. Comments claiming pinch hits will be screened.

If, however, you have a link to a let's play, or a video walkthrough, or a summary of what the game is about, drop a link or the summary in the comments and I will unscreen that comment!

( Pinch Hit 10: fault, The House in Fata Morgana, Ni no Kuni )

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #14: Death end re;Quest, Long Gone Days, Wild Arms 2, Ar nosurge, Trails of Cold Steel, The Legend of Heroes VII, Atelier: Dusk Series

A reminder! Works are due at 11:59pm EST on the 7th. At that time, your work should be complete. You are able to edit in things or improve things, but at the due date it should be completed and able to go live on the 14th. Please check your work, as I will be checking after deadline!

If you need an extension, please get your request in to press.start.mod@gmail.com by 5pm EST on the 7th. The request should contain who you are, who you are creating for, and how long you need. No extension will be granted for requests emailed after 5pm!

Pinch hits will be going out early morning on the 8th, so please keep an eye out for those.

Good luck everyone, and I'll see you all at deadline!

First up: A reminder that works are due at 11:59pm EDT on 7 September.

Second: We have one new and one outstanding pinch hit. Please look over them and, if you can pick one of them up, comment to the post with your AO3 name. All comments will be screened.

( Pinch Hit 10: fault, The House in Fata Morgana, Ni no Kuni )

( Pinch Hit 11: Death end re;Quest, Long Gone Days, Wild Arms 2, Ar nosurge, Trails of Cold Steel, The Legend of Heroes VII, Atelier: Dusk Series )

We have a new pinch hit! Please comment with your AO3 name if you can pick this one up. All comments are screened!

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit 9: Ghost Trick, Kentucky Road Zero, Mutazione, Pyre, Shenmue, The Silver Case, Dark Souls