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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!

Matching has been run, and anyone who was not matchable has been contacted. Assignments therefore should go out within 24 hours.

If there are any issues with your signup, please email me immediately at press.start.mod@gmail.com.

Nominations for this year's Press Start open on the 13th and in the meantime now would be a good time for us all to sort out how fandoms should be nominated. If you hold a view that a fandom should be nominated in a particular way, leave a comment to start off the discussion. If you also have any queries about whether something is eligible, now is also the time to check!

Otherwise, I look forward to seeing you all on the 13th with all of your nominations!

All works are revealed! On time, no less! Congratulations to everyone who completed their assignment, the tireless pinch hit creators, and to the delightfully enthusiastic treat creators. Go forth, comment on your gift and on others’, and share the love!

Our achievement list to date! I’m having to update this on a phone, so if you could tell me what we’ve achieved I will note it on the spreadsheet. Thank you, everyone!

We can still knock off some achievements, so here is the treatless list. Let’s see how many we can knock off by creator reveals!

Any issues, contact me by email at press.start.mod@gmail.com, and otherwise I’ll see you all at creator reveals in a week’s time!

The no-penalty default deadline has expired and we have two pinch hits. These are due at the same time as all other assignments, 11:59pm EST on 7 September. On that note, if you require an extension of a couple of days on your assignment, please contact me this week.

If you can pick up these pinch hits, please leave your AO3 name and which pinch hit you are claiming. All comments are screened!

( CLAIMED Pinch Hit #8: Shin Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei II, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Xenogears, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse )

( CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #9: The Witcher, Detroit: Become Human, Mass Effect Trilogy, Deus Ex, Assassin's Creed )

Two lingering pinch hits and one new (reposted) pinch hit! Please take a look at them and if you can pick them up, leave your AO3 name in a comment along with the pinch hit you want to claim. All comments are screened!

( Pinch Hit #3: Death end re;Quest, Final Fantasy XIII series, Wild Arms 2 )

( CLAIMED Pinch Hit #5: Horizon: Zero Dawn, Heaven's Vault, Destiny )

( CLAIMED Pinch Hit #6: Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed, Pillars of Eternity )

Signups will be closing at 11:59pm EST on the 17th. Here is a countdown!

Matching will begin very soon after signups close. If I do not need to ask anyone to add offers so that they can match to any other signup, then assignments will go out very soon after that! If I do need to contact people, then assignments will be a little delayed while those people add offers so that they can be matched. If there is something you need me to know before matching is done (such as requesting that I don't match you to your roommate etc.) please let me know at press.start.mod@gmail.com before signups close.

In the meantime, sign up! Invite your friends to sign up! Review the current requests and get excited about what you might be creating! I'll post again once assignments are out.

We are into my second favorite period of the exchange: signups!

Important links:
Sign up form
Tag set!
Achievement List - help us fill this out!

You are required to request at least three fandoms (and up to 10) and offer four fandoms (up to ten). You must offer two tags for each fandom (or "Any" if there is only one tag nominated in the fandom). If you request or offer "Any" it means "any character or relationship tag in our approved tagset", so please keep that in mind when requesting or offering. Requests are visible from the beginning, so you can offer confident in what will be requested this year!

Matching is OR. If you request a fandom and request two tags in the fandom (such as group: A/B, and A), your artist/vidder/writer only has to include one "set" (in this case, either A/B or A on their own). Please keep this in mind when signing up!

Finally, a reminder if you defaulted after the no-penalty default deadline in previous years, you have until signups close to finalize your makeup work and get a link mailed to me. You are not eligible to participate until you do so. If you don't know whether you fall into this category please contact me!

Now have at and merry signupmas! Signups close 11:59pm EST on 17 July.

First round of queries:

• Star Wars nominators - AO3 is doing some odd things on the approval screen with these games. Please put at the end of each tag what game the tag belongs to, and I will separate them all out after approval.
• Assassin's Creed - in the past this has been nominated as one fandom, including this round. I've also been told that there's interest in splitting the games up. Please let me know your thoughts, including how you think the games should be split up if you think they should be.
• Shin Megami Tensei - you've nominated as a fandom the entire SMT franchise. Do you mean the first game?
• The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms - this is far too broad. Please nominate a particular continuity of Zelda.
• Unassociated characters - does anyone know which games these tags belong to: Group: Blaze|Razgriz 1/Kei Nagase|Razgriz 2, Group: Isaac Clarke/Nicole Brennan, Group: Trigger|Strider 1/Avril Mead

Any duplicates, changes, missing tags, let me know!

Archive Reveal
The archive is now revealed! There may be a short delay while works are revealed. If a work remains unrevealed please let me know as there are workarounds I can do on the admin console to force a work to reveal.

There are 79 works in 56 fandoms! So many exciting fanworks to consume, all for video games! Please go through, consume, and leave feedback!

Achievements
As like previous years, I will continue to count progress to achievements until creator reveals at 11:59pm on the 22nd of September. In fact, one achievement can only be achieved after works are revealed! As such, let's keep working on getting those platinum trophies. (Handy link for achievements! Handy link for aid for treating achievements!)

The achievements we have achieved as of works reveals are:
( Achievement List! )

I have undoubtedly missed some. If I have, let me know and I will update the spreadsheet and this post!

Issues With Gifts
If there is an issue with your gift, please email me at press.start.mod@gmail.com immediately. I am happy to fix problems, but I will need to know what the problem is first! When you do that, please provide me with your AO3 name and a link to your gift.