I've been thinking of having a help:fangames/fanworks wiki so that we can have a guideline written somewhere about whether they should imply the main tag or not.
The wiki could also be a list of fangames with a disclaimer at the top but do you want to constantly edit that?
Note: list of yume nikki fangames and list of touhou fanwork tags already exist.
What I believe the guideline should be
- Does this fangame/fanwork exclusively or overwhelmingly feature the original copyright's characters?
- Yes
It would need to have the main tag anyways so it's ok to imply.
Examples with present implications:
- A large amount of Touhou fanworks (Touhou Mystia's Izakaya as an example) (topic #26138)
- Undertale AU games (Underfell, Underswap etc have an amount of smaller fangames)
- Red vs. Blue implies Halo (forum #404348)
- Fate fangames (topic #32208) Seem to have some OCs but most of their posts are about fate-originating characters
- No
No implication is best.
Examples:
- Most Danganronpa fangames (Danganronpa Another, Project: Eden's Garden)
- Yume 2kki and similar games. (list of yume nikki fangames)
- Cookie (Touhou) isn't a fangame, but it's a good example. Despite having Touhou in the name, there's posts with no Touhou characters and thus no Touhou tag. "count for cookie_(touhou) -touhou: 966"
- Some current implications that could go against this
- Pokemon fangames (topic #32595). I don't entirely agree with the implication, but even if you have all-original characters, it's impossible to have a pokemon fangame without pokeballs, and pokeballs would cause it to have the pokemon tag anyways. It's a "fair enough" from me.
- Undertale Yellow. Flowey and minor characters are from Undertale but most of the cast is original. Main character is a personification of the Yellow Soul.