FanJam is a Fancade event that happens every 1 to 3 months. It is hosted in the Fancade Discord Server by one of moderators, Sounak9434. Everything about FanJam is announced in the #fanjam channel.

Mechanics

Sounak9434 announces an upcoming FanJam including the set of rules about a week prior to the event.

FanJam consists of 3 phases:

Development Phase
Voting Phase
Announcing of Winners

There are also 3 categories:

Overall - The best games overall
Art - Games with the most beautiful art
Innovation - The most innovative games

There was a Kit category for games made with kits, but it is now eligible for the 3 categories.

Development Phase

On the start of the event, a selected theme will be announced, then all the participants can finally start to build their own games depending on their depiction of the theme. This phase usually lasts for 3 days. Creators can publish and update games during this period.

When submitting games for FanJam, creators must send it in #showcase, with "#fanjam" on its message. Only one submission is accepted.

After the time period is done, there is an extension for non-published games that has not been able to reach the deadline or games that has a critical bug.

Voting Phase

During this time, all people in the Discord server can see all submissions, and it will be posted with their direct links for easy access. People can vote on games by sending ".vote". Creators cannot update games in this period or they will be penalized.

Announcing of Winners

This marks the end of the current FanJam. Participants ranked Top 3 in each category are announced. Additionally, participants will also get a reward depending on their position of each category:

A. Best Overall

1st: Forever ad-free + 1500 gems
2nd: One year ad-free + 1000 gems
3rd: Six months ad-free + 500 gems

B. Best Art

1st: One year ad-free + 1000 gems

C. Most Innovative

1st: One year ad-free + 1000 gems

Alongside these, the 1st place winner of every category will be awarded with the @Fanjam role.

Winning multiple categories only gives the reward with the highest prize.

History

2020

FanJam I

Event Period: 3/3/2020 - 3/11/2020
Theme: You Only Get One

FanJam II

Event Period: 4/1/2020 - 4/9/2020
Theme: The More, The Worse

FanJam III

Event Period: 5/3/2020 - 5/13/2020
Theme: Control More than One

FanJam IV

Event Period: 6/9/2020 - 6/17/2020
Theme: Control the Environment

FanJam V

Event Period: 7/31/2020 - 8/14/2020
Theme: Gap

FanJam VI

Event Period: 10/5/2020 - 10/16/2020
Theme: Bad is Good

FanJam VII

Event Period: 12/18/2020 - 1/6/2021
Theme: Christmas Special - Secret Santa

Special Mechanics:

Special phase (6 days): 12/18/2020 - 12/24/2020, every participants should submit a theme of their choice before this phase ends, the submitted theme then will be in the date 12/25/2020 given to another participant randomly and will be their theme for their game.

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