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One-liner
ZABAL Gamez is The ZAO's 3-month Build-A-Thon for the Farcaster ecosystem: June workshops, July open build, August Finals. Free, open to anyone, any harness.
Boilerplate
ZABAL Gamez is The ZAO's free, 3-month Build-A-Thon for the Farcaster ecosystem - workshops in June, an open build in July, and Finals in August.
ZABAL Gamez is The ZAO's 3-month Build-A-Thon for the Farcaster ecosystem. June is a month of recorded workshops from builders and digital creators; July is an open build where anyone ships a project for the ecosystem; August is a curated Finals that crowns the season's best builder. It is free, open to anyone, and harness-agnostic - bring whatever tools you build with.
ZABAL Gamez is The ZAO's 3-month Build-A-Thon, built for the Farcaster ecosystem and run by The ZAO, a 100+ member decentralized impact network for the creator economy. It runs across three tracks - artist, builder, and creator - over three phases: June workshops (a recorded library of sessions on the tools and context of the ecosystem), July's open build (anyone ships a project in public), and an August Finals (a cohort curated from July, each paired with a ZAO mentor, ending in a live winner reveal). Every session is livestreamed, transcribed, and kept, so missing it live never means missing it. It is free, open to anyone, and works with any build harness.
The facts
- What: a 3-month Build-A-Thon (a build event, not a video-game contest).
- Who runs it: The ZAO - a 100+ member decentralized impact network for the creator economy.
- Host: BetterCallZaal (Zaal).
- When: June workshops, July open build, August Finals. Season 1, 2026.
- Tracks: artist, builder, creator.
- Cost: free. Open to: anyone. Harness: any.
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Brand assets
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Fonts: Syne (display), Outfit (body), JetBrains Mono (mono), Press Start 2P (the arcade mark). Usage: no emojis, hyphens not em dashes, "100+" for member count, and "ZABAL Gamez" with a Z.
Links
- Site: zabalgamez.com
- Recordings: zabalgamez.com/recordings
- Calendar: luma.com/zao
- /zabal channel: farcaster.xyz/~/channel/zabal
- Newsletter: paragraph.com/@thezao
- Collectible: collect.zabalgamez.com
For partners + sponsors
Audience: the Farcaster ecosystem and The ZAO - builders and digital creators who ship.
Ways to support: sponsor the season or prize pool, host a workshop, mentor a Finals builder, or co-distribute the recordings.
Why it compounds: Season 1 is a recurring format - mentors and alumni carry across seasons, and the builder network plus the body of shipped work grow each season.
Contact
BetterCallZaal on Farcaster: farcaster.xyz/zaal - or join /zabal.