GuffoChallenges
The GuffoChallenges are a 2-weeks-long Fancade event created by Guffo (TonoCia0n3). Initially conceived as a collaborative game jam, it's become a solo event, in which a character (found in an editable kit on Fancade) is given to the participants, who then have to make and submit a game involving said character model. Editions last 2 weeks by default, but can be extended by 2 more weeks, which happens quite often.
You can join the event in this server and you can visit the official GuffoChallenges website to learn more about the event and to check out every past submission!
History
The GuffoChallenges (or GCs) have a pretty long and intricate background.
It all started in 2021, when on November 9th the first server led by Guffo (originally called "Fancade with Guffo" and then renamed to "Guffo Garden") was created. As the server grew in size, new activities were introduced for the members, including a relatively short series of server events related to Fancade called "GuffoChallenges", more commonly referred to as just "Challenges". These were simple Fancade tasks given to the members, usually about making certain scripts and voxel-arts or reaching highscores in games. In the following period (mostly in the second half of 2021), many modifications happened, which ultimately brought the GCs to their current version. During that time, the transition from the now-archived "Guffo Garden" to the new server called "GuffoChallenges" was being planned out. On 30/10/2022, the latter was officially opened, around the 8th edition of the new series.
After the 12th (and last) edition of the beginning series, the counter was reset and the new series began. The little Challenges were changing to something greater: members had to make a game together in collaboration, under a set theme. The event was renamed "Collab Challenges", and it was a very ambituous idea, which lasted for only a couple of editions (up until edition 5b of the new series). From the following edition on, it was decided to group the members in teams and have each make their own game. That was still difficult to manage, and so the Collab Challenges changed again soon after: the participants chose one other person to create a duo, instead of 4 people teams like before, and the time limit was reduced to the current 2 weeks. All the collab and duo games that were submitted back then are still pubished under the official GuffoChallenges account on Fancade.
With this last alteration (on the 9th edition of the new and current series), the event version closest to the present one can be spotted: the Collab Challenges were over and soon the old name "GuffoChallenges" overtook all the others. The GCs kept the 2-week-long time limit of course, but they simply became solo game-jams due to the management issues. All the plans that seemed fine at first glance had to be rewritten and restrained, but these limitation brought to life a new and interesting idea, which then stayed in the current edition: a complete change to the main challenging task. It was decided that the themes had to be put in kits, easily accessible to everyone on Fancade, to then let the participants make games based on the block given in said kits. The effects of this last drastic modification were surprisingly positive: the event continued with that format, very stable for the aforementioned reasons, and so it didn't change a lot. On 28/09/2023 the GuffoChallenges server got more community recognition as the roles "FanEvent Coordinator" and "FanEvent Winner" were suggested and then introduced in the Fancade Discord server. There, Guffo managed to get his coordinator role and with that the opportunity to write in the newly-opened "fan-events" channel. There, new theme announcements and results are regularly published for all the community to see.
Themes
Beginning Series - "Challenges" (on the old server)
- Scripting Challenge: sokoban movement with Set Velocity scripts
- High-score Challenge: on "Puffin Road"
- Voxel-art Challenge: "Halloween"
- Game Challenge: from R3DZ3R's "BolaLilo" kit
- Game Challenge: "Platform" (X-mas Big Challenge)
- Voxel-art Challenge: "Technology"
- Sound-design Challenge: "Locomotive"
- High-score Challenge: on "Paintcade"
- Game Challenge: from Sounak9434's "Pivot" kit
- Kit-Making Challenge: "Number"
- Game Challenge: from Bricked's "123" kit
- Kit-Making Challenge: "Log"
New Series - "Collab/GuffoChallenges" (on the new server)