Happy Sunday, everyone! It's my first time making a blog post of this kind... Please be gentle (lol) and let's get right into it!

Admin Upkeep

• Regarding the Aura Task "Donate five decks of a specific element", there was a little big of confusion how that would interact with decks from Eli's Deck Donation Center. In summation, whoever compiles the images gets the credit for the task; I donated Zundamon for Mint for example, but Mint is the one who gets credit for a potential Aura, not me.

• Several minor errors, such as a broken image when you hit the back button on Coin Flip, and several blank pages, have been corrected. We're hard at work squashing bugs, but please speak up if you happen to see one.

A Notice About Availability

Until Next Week!

• If you donated to firstsounds, you can take the card(s) you donated as a separate pull from the rest of the release as well.

New Releases

Click here for your deck release pulls.

Hi everyone, happy update day! Hope you have been enjoying the games on both the site and the Dreamwidth community so far.

You can see this in the table above, but we've already had our first deck mastery! Congrats to Yujing for mastering hatsunemikuv4x! Fitting that the first deck mastered is a Miku deck hehe :miku_party:

Admin Stuff

• Game updates: We had a question about this this morning, so just as a note - please wait for this weekly update to play the on-site games each week! It's not really a huge deal if you play them before the update is posted since they're auto-updated either way, but you'll miss out on any applicable wishes for game rewards or new decks in the randomizer for release weeks.
• Error fixes: Thanks to everyone who has submitted corrections and edits, they should all be made now. A major change is that the deck previously known as astrofest has been corrected to astrofes. The new cards with the corrected filename have been added to the site. Please make sure you update your card post with the new cards! You can grab a full zip of the updated cards here if it's easiest for you. This is also the place where we'll upload zips of all new released cards per update.

Deck Donation Updates

Deck pseuds and translations: After some discussion yesterday, we've decided to include pseudonyms and official English translations for songs on the site. Please still donate songs under their transliteration (i.e., Suna no Wakusei, not Sand Planet or DUNE), as this is what will be used for the filename and card image/deck name. If you need a yardstick for how the song should be donated as, check the Romaji they are named with on the song's Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki page title or URL. However, if a song has an official, commonly-known translation, you can also submit that with the donation and we'll include it in the new "deck pseudonym" database information. You can see it in action with sunanowakusei above; the translation will be included as an AKA under the title.

Pseudonyms are also searchable with the deck search bar on the main sets page. They are not yet filterable in the released decks table since the table can only filter for information that's written on the table, but I'm looking on ways that we can include that in a way that makes sense.

Deck donations for August are open, so if you haven't donated for the month, make sure to do so! Slots are set back to the usual 4 for the month and will reset on September 1 with the monthly update, but since we opened in the middle of the month, you can use the August deck claims comment for an extension to count toward your August donations. Claims submitted here will be valid until September 5, and the monthly update will include a reminder. And if you don't have anything in mind to donate for this month, check out Eli's Deck Donation Center and submit some decks people want to see in the game!

A few reminders!

• Prejoin games on the DW community are still open for a few more hours! They will close August 17 at 11:59 PM EDT, you can view that in your timezone here or on the sidebar. If you post past that point, you won't receive rewards for playing.
• If you joined during the prejoin period and haven't submitted yet, you can apply for a prejoiner milestone on the community. There's no deadline for this, but feel free to post whenever you have an image you want to use.
• Wishes will be (generally) granted during non-deck release weekly updates, so make sure you claim them or wish for what you want to see from the Shooting Stars game! You can claim the first submitted wishes below. Please be sure to take only two cards per deck for choice cards unless otherwise specified!

See you next week!

Phew - I think that's all for this week! Please enjoy the games on both the site and the DW community - we'll see you August 24 for the second deck release!

Shooting Stars

Please only take 2 cards per deck if no other restrictions or limits are listed.

1. PhiPhi — I wish for 10 random cards!   
2. Yujing — I wish for choice cards spelling HAPPYOPENING!