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Dear Creator Letter: Press Start 2021
Jul. 5th, 2021 03:05 pmPress Start Letter for CorpseBrigadier on Ao3
Dear Creator,
Let me thank you in advance for undertaking to create for me and congratulate you on your great taste regarding whichever canon it was that provided the basis for our match! I'm stoked for this exchange, as video game fandoms are generally near and dear to my heart, and all of the canons I've requested in this sign up have--in some way and at some time--been my favorites.
I've tried below to explain what it is about each game I love, and to provide some prompts for the characters, relationships, and mediums I've requested, but I want to emphasize that I'm very interested in you feeling free to flex your creative muscles. If the prompts listed aren't quite doing it for you, I am a genuine believer in optional details being optional, and I would love to see whatever creative production you are inspired to make out of these canons.
[NOTE: This letter is functionally complete at the time it was posted, but it may be tweaked through the end of sign-ups.]
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | Dance Dance Revolution | Final Fantasy Tactics | killer7 | Minesweeper | Ultima
Dance Dance Revolution is probably the video game that has had the biggest impact on my life overall. I received a copy of DDR Extreme around the time that it came out, and I have steadily played that exact copy on my immortal fat PS2 for the better part of two decades. The game pretty much redefined the way I feel about physical activity, and it is absolutely the first thing I think of whenever anybody waxes eloquent about the concept of "flow." I love the joyous, exhilarating feel of thrashing around to so much synthy Euro and J-Pop, and I adore the vibrant, 00s feel of all its visuals.
( Read more... )
This 1998 tactical RPG by Square-Enix has been my major fandom for a few years now. I love how immensely unrepentantly bleak it is, how it's full of Church-flavored horror, and how it is just filled to the brim with unhappy families. I'm entirely here for political backstabbing and endless misery 24/7 in this sad little world of grid-based warfare. I love pretty much everything within it, and I would frankly be happy to receive almost anything for this fandom.
( Read more... )
killer7 is a game that hit me like a ton of bricks, and while I haven't done a replay in forever, I am absolutely haunted by how well it pulled off subverted mechanics and using gameplay as an effective narrative device. I love its weird, hyper violent, surreal aesthetics and the general sense of style that oozes out of every polygon. I also just love shooting things into an explosion of blood while watching whatever two note badass I'm playing as look cool as they spout off one liners.
( Read more... )
Minesweeper is meditative for me. It is restful. While there is some element of chance when you're face with certain configurations where a guess must be made, it doesn't carry with it the panic of losing at tetris or the anticlimax of losing at solitaire. There's something very satisfying about trying to logic your way through large blocks of grey squares without the threat of a timer, and the game unfolds in a fashion that feels exploratory; you are--in the end--creating a map. Of all the mindless games I've played to kill my thoughts and sooth my brain, Minesweeper is the one I seem to come back to most.
( Read more... )
Ultima is a game I loved from my childhood through my teenage years and beyond, and the whole series is just a very "comfy" canon for me. I love how it is a fantasical world of self inserts inviting your self insert to be the most special self insert of them all! I love how the games acknowledge that you are just a loser on earth who goes to a bizarre high fantasy land to do quests. I love how some installments (ex: Ultima VII, pt 1) do cool little deconstructions of fantasy tropes and how some installments (ex: Martian Dreams) are just complete revels in weird imaginative worldbuilding and I love how some installments just let you go on quests and fight dragons. There's a great breadth of genres and storytelling styles this series allows for, and I'm a fan of all of them.
( Read more... )
Dear Creator,
Let me thank you in advance for undertaking to create for me and congratulate you on your great taste regarding whichever canon it was that provided the basis for our match! I'm stoked for this exchange, as video game fandoms are generally near and dear to my heart, and all of the canons I've requested in this sign up have--in some way and at some time--been my favorites.
I've tried below to explain what it is about each game I love, and to provide some prompts for the characters, relationships, and mediums I've requested, but I want to emphasize that I'm very interested in you feeling free to flex your creative muscles. If the prompts listed aren't quite doing it for you, I am a genuine believer in optional details being optional, and I would love to see whatever creative production you are inspired to make out of these canons.
[NOTE: This letter is functionally complete at the time it was posted, but it may be tweaked through the end of sign-ups.]
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | Dance Dance Revolution | Final Fantasy Tactics | killer7 | Minesweeper | Ultima
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins, Etc...)
( Read more... )Dance Dance Revolution
[Requesting ART]Dance Dance Revolution is probably the video game that has had the biggest impact on my life overall. I received a copy of DDR Extreme around the time that it came out, and I have steadily played that exact copy on my immortal fat PS2 for the better part of two decades. The game pretty much redefined the way I feel about physical activity, and it is absolutely the first thing I think of whenever anybody waxes eloquent about the concept of "flow." I love the joyous, exhilarating feel of thrashing around to so much synthy Euro and J-Pop, and I adore the vibrant, 00s feel of all its visuals.
( Read more... )
Final Fantasy Tactics
[Requesting ART or FIC]This 1998 tactical RPG by Square-Enix has been my major fandom for a few years now. I love how immensely unrepentantly bleak it is, how it's full of Church-flavored horror, and how it is just filled to the brim with unhappy families. I'm entirely here for political backstabbing and endless misery 24/7 in this sad little world of grid-based warfare. I love pretty much everything within it, and I would frankly be happy to receive almost anything for this fandom.
( Read more... )
killer7
[Requesting ART, FIC, or VIDs]killer7 is a game that hit me like a ton of bricks, and while I haven't done a replay in forever, I am absolutely haunted by how well it pulled off subverted mechanics and using gameplay as an effective narrative device. I love its weird, hyper violent, surreal aesthetics and the general sense of style that oozes out of every polygon. I also just love shooting things into an explosion of blood while watching whatever two note badass I'm playing as look cool as they spout off one liners.
( Read more... )
Minesweeper
[Requesting ART, FIC, or VIDs]Minesweeper is meditative for me. It is restful. While there is some element of chance when you're face with certain configurations where a guess must be made, it doesn't carry with it the panic of losing at tetris or the anticlimax of losing at solitaire. There's something very satisfying about trying to logic your way through large blocks of grey squares without the threat of a timer, and the game unfolds in a fashion that feels exploratory; you are--in the end--creating a map. Of all the mindless games I've played to kill my thoughts and sooth my brain, Minesweeper is the one I seem to come back to most.
( Read more... )
Ultima
[Requesting ART or FIC]Ultima is a game I loved from my childhood through my teenage years and beyond, and the whole series is just a very "comfy" canon for me. I love how it is a fantasical world of self inserts inviting your self insert to be the most special self insert of them all! I love how the games acknowledge that you are just a loser on earth who goes to a bizarre high fantasy land to do quests. I love how some installments (ex: Ultima VII, pt 1) do cool little deconstructions of fantasy tropes and how some installments (ex: Martian Dreams) are just complete revels in weird imaginative worldbuilding and I love how some installments just let you go on quests and fight dragons. There's a great breadth of genres and storytelling styles this series allows for, and I'm a fan of all of them.
( Read more... )
