fanwork guidelines

[dreamofarcadia]

 

※Screenshots:

If other people can tell that it’s a screenshot from a game, there’s no problem. Uploading screenshots on blogs or other social media, to talk about the series, or using them as thumbnails for a youtube gameplay video is also perfectly fine. In other words, you're free to share screenshots of the game. That's perfectly fine. However, if you crop the sprites to use as your icon or header, that's not ‘a screenshot’, so this is prohibited. The reason for this is that some of the pixel art in this game was not made by STF, so please don’t use it as part of your work. Please also make sure to use appropriate discretion when posting spoilery screenshots. You can post what you'd like (but I'd like to ask that you not post heavy game spoilers right after a game releases) so I’d like everyone to use their own best judgement in regards to what to post.

※TRPGs

If you make clear it's fanwork, and follow the other guidelines I’ve mentioned, you’re free to make them. Please clarify both that it’s fanwork and that the scenario is original. If you do that, distributing and selling it is perfectly fine. Although, again, please make sure that you prohibit reposts or edits. 

(The reason I’m saying this is I don’t want it to go so far and be reposted so many times that no one can tell what it’s originally fanwork for.)

※OCs and Roleplaying

If you make clear it's fanwork, and follow the other guidelines I’ve mentioned, you’re free to do that. Please clarify that it’s fanwork and make sure it’s clear which characters are OCs. If you do that, there’s no problem. We also don’t want to put restrictions on people joining events like this, but again, please make sure you follow our guidelines and the organizer’s guidelines.

※Non-physical merch

(Within reasonable limits)

We do not prohibit this kind of content in the guidelines. 

We think that in addition to the material costs, the love people put in to make these fanworks also has value. So, like we mentioned above, selling for the amount required to cover production costs is alright— labor costs are included in that. 

So we have no problem with people asking a price for their fanworks that reflects that and compensates them for their time.

But, of course, within reasonable limits.

So, for example, if you’re charging something that goes past ‘compensating the people who worked on it for their time’ and into the realm of ‘commercial use’ I’d like to ask you to reconsider.

※Commissions

(Within reasonable limits)

We do not prohibit this kind of content in the guidelines. 

But this is what we’d prefer to have happen.

Please remember this is fanwork, and try not to charge more for commissions of these characters than would be appropriate. 

And, of course, make sure that it’s clear that these are not your original characters (like explaining it in a caption/mentioning the name of the series in the work itself)

The things listed in this section only apply to commissions- not any other types of fanwork. 

We did specify ‘within reasonable limits’ to give some room for creators to produce things, but if we see too many things that take advantage of this to go beyond “reasonable limits”, we’ll have to ban certain things completely.

Please try to follow these rules so we don’t have to ban any kind of fanwork.