Signal Boost: AreYouGame

This may be of interest to many of you in various video game fandoms.  areyougame is taking prompts right now for the July round. Prompting closes at 8pm EST on June 15th.

Here is the call for prompts.  And here is information on how to prompt.

I am in the process of dreaming up an ocean of prompts for a range of different video games, including FFXII and DA plus others.

Please prompt!   \o/

Prompting doesn't commit you to anything. It just leaves food for folks who will claim.  (although consider claiming because communities like these are fun.)

DW Communities + Prompts/Exchanges == Creativity Rocket Fuel

I am currently compiling a list of DW communities that host multi-fandom or video game prompt challenges, fic exchanges, meta discussion, and other video game fannish activities. 

Anything from bingo prompt communities to very specific game+format communities (like drabbles for FFVIII) are welcome.

If you know of anything specific, please leave a comment? I'm searching manually through DW using the interests features.

Dead communities that might be revivable are also going on my list.

Meanwhile, I am think about video games fandom communities I would like to see on DW. Please comment with your own idea?  

Feel free to signal boost a link to this post. 

starting an ideas list

Will post my current list of active prompt and video game communities on DW when I get home this evening.

Until then (and based on what I did not find), things I would be interested in seeing on DW if others are interested:

1.  Dragon Age specific - A weekly prompt community for wardens, hawkes, and inquisitors.  Sort of like those ephemeral 30 day memes on tumblr a while back but focused more on fic/art/fanworks with thematic prompts for developing your OCs. Weekly schedule but allowing people to go back and do old prompts too, maybe as a friday free for all?

2.  Dragon Age specific - ThedasCharacterFest - each week an established major or minor character from the DA franchise is nominated for a character fest:  post new fic, art, meta, vids, etc., plus recs and self-recs to older fic/art/meta.  To give people a heads-up, a schedule can be created. Alternatively, a random algorithm can be used to order 52 characters for 52 weeks of fest.  Could also include clusters of minor characters and/or cultures like "Dalish NPCs" or "The City Elves" or "Circle NPCs" or ... something like that?

3.  Final Fantasy specific - FFCharacterFest - same as above, different multi-game franchise, perhaps with a slightly different format to cover all the games more fairly? A few characters per week?  Would also need chocobos week, moogles week, and Gilgamesh week. ;)

4.  Video games - Weekly or fortnightly prompt community celebrating female characters in video games. Art/fic/vids/meta accepted.

 

2015 Resource List for Video Games Fandoms on Dreamwidth

In-progress list of DW communities that are of interest to people in video games fandoms. This list is not complete. If you want to suggest something I should add, please comment! A bunch of challenges have begun on June 1 or are beginning very soon. 

= Multi-fandom prompt & exchange communities =

- Participation open now/soon -

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= Video game specific communities =

- General communities for video game fandoms -

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- Prompt communities for specific video games -

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- Inactive / Quiet -

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= Other DW Communities of interest =

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