# ZABAL Games Season 1 - Launch Kit > The public launch announcement for ZABAL Games Season 1. Drafted 2026-05-21, reworked 2026-05-22 after the Tyler call (research Doc 714). ZABAL Games and ZAOstock announce as SEPARATE posts - this kit is the ZABAL Games post. Goal of the launch: announce the event, drive workshop-lead signups for June, point people to the Farcaster spaces session this weekend. No emojis, no em dashes per brand rules. Paste-ready. > Sign-up: bettercallzaal.com/zabalgames.html. Channel: /zabal on Farcaster. Entry (opening end of month): the Zabal connector on Magnetic. --- ## 1. Farcaster - launch announcement (/zabal) ### Main cast ZABAL Games Season 1. A Farcaster vibe-coding challenge for the ZAO ecosystem - streamer games crossed with a hackathon. Three months: June - workshops. Builders across the ecosystem record sessions on the tools they have built. July - open build. Anyone ships a build for ZABAL, ZAO, or WaveWarZ, against one machine-readable context file. August - the Finals. The strongest builds get a ZAO mentor embedded as a teammate, then a live reveal. I am going live on Farcaster spaces this weekend to walk through it - and DJing some old ZAO music for the lore. Come hang. First thing I need: workshop leads. If you have built something, you have a session to give. bettercallzaal.com/zabalgames.html ### Thread **2/** Why it runs this way: the build is the application. You do not pitch, you ship. June seasons you with context and tools. July you build in the open. August the best builds collaborate with a ZAO mentor for the Finals - and every finalist wins. **3/** Home base is two surfaces. A Magnetic portal holds the full workshop library plus entry and submissions - one place, all the context. A Farcaster mini app is the explainer and the front door. Entry is the Zabal connector: collect it, you are in. Both open end of month. **4/** June is workshop month and I am recruiting leads now. Record one session on what you know - Empire Builder, agents, Claude Code, tokens, governance, music infra, festivals, whatever your edge is. One recording, watchable live or after. **5/** Sign up: bettercallzaal.com/zabalgames.html. Spaces session this weekend. This is Season 1 - get in early. --- ## 2. X / Twitter ZABAL Games Season 1. A Farcaster vibe-coding challenge for the ZAO ecosystem - streamer games meets hackathon. June: workshops. July: open build-a-thon. August: the Finals, with ZAO mentors embedded. Going live on Farcaster spaces this weekend to break it down. First ask - workshop leads. Built something? You have a session to give. bettercallzaal.com/zabalgames.html --- ## 3. Telegram + group chats ZABAL Games Season 1 is happening. It is a Farcaster vibe-coding challenge for the ZAO ecosystem - think streamer games crossed with a hackathon. Three months: - June: workshop month. Builders across the ecosystem record sessions on the tools they have built. - July: open build-a-thon. Anyone ships a build for ZABAL, ZAO, or WaveWarZ. The build is the application. - August: the Finals. The strongest builds get a ZAO mentor embedded as a teammate, then a live reveal stream. Every finalist wins. This weekend I am going live on Farcaster spaces to walk through the whole thing - and DJing old ZAO music for the lore. Come through. Right now I need workshop leads. If you have built something, you have a 30-minute session to give - Empire Builder, agents, Claude Code, tokens, governance, music infra, whatever your specialty is. One recording, watchable live or after. Sign up: bettercallzaal.com/zabalgames.html Casts go to the /zabal channel on Farcaster. --- ## 4. Newsletter / Paragraph ### ZABAL Games Season 1 ZABAL Games is the ZAO ecosystem's Farcaster vibe-coding challenge - streamer games crossed with a hackathon. It runs three months: June to learn, July to build, August to compete. June is workshop month. Builders from across the ecosystem record one session each on the tools they have built, and the whole library lands in one place. July is an open build-a-thon - anyone ships a build for ZABAL, ZAO, or WaveWarZ, pointed at a single machine-readable context file describing every ZAO project and where it stands. August is the Finals, where the strongest builds get a ZAO mentor embedded as a teammate, followed by a live reveal stream. Every finalist wins. We are recruiting workshop leads now. If you have built something worth teaching - Empire Builder, agents, Claude Code, tokens, governance, music infrastructure, festival operations - you have a session to give. One recording, watchable live or after. Sign up at bettercallzaal.com/zabalgames.html. This weekend, catch the launch on Farcaster spaces. Casts go to the /zabal channel. --- ## 5. Share card - image generation prompt > Paste into ChatGPT image mode / DALL-E. Target: 1200x630 OG card. Brand fonts: Syne (headings), Outfit (body). ``` Design a 1200x630 social share card for an event called "ZABAL GAMES". Style: dark, premium, web3-native. Background near-black (#070709) with a faint fractal-noise texture and a soft off-center radial glow. Headline: "ZABAL GAMES" in a heavy geometric sans-serif (Syne-style, weight 800), large, centered in the upper half. Render "ZABAL" in off-white (#e4e2dd) and "GAMES" in a left-to-right gradient running orange (#ff6b35) to pink (#ff3d6e) to cyan (#00e5ff). Subhead directly below, smaller, wide letter-spacing, in muted gold (#f5c842): "SEASON 1 - A FARCASTER VIBE-CODING CHALLENGE". A thin single line near the bottom, in cyan (#00e5ff), evenly spaced: "JUNE PREP / JULY BUILD / AUGUST FINALS". Accent: one subtle purple (#a78bfa) gradient orb or a few faint geometric lines, low opacity, not busy. Generous negative space, high contrast. No emojis. No people. No logos other than the "ZABAL GAMES" wordmark. Clean, confident, modern. Landscape, 1200x630. ``` Square 1:1 variant for the Farcaster feed: same spec, 1080x1080, headline stacked. --- ## 6. Zabal connector - NFT image generation prompt > The Zabal connector is the anchor magnet - collecting it is entry/RSVP to ZABAL Games, and it auto-drops the road-to-ZAOstock entry. The mechanic is set; it needs art. Generate this and send the file to Tyler for the Magnetic magnet. ``` Design a collectible NFT artwork for the "ZABAL CONNECTOR" - the entry token for ZABAL Games. Concept: a connector / hub / node - something that reads instantly as "this links you in". A central glowing node with luminous lines radiating out to smaller nodes around it (the connector is the general channel that links to side channels). Style: dark, premium, web3-native. Background near-black (#070709) with a subtle fractal-noise texture. Central node in a warm-to-cool gradient - orange (#ff6b35) through pink (#ff3d6e) to cyan (#00e5ff). Radiating connection lines in ZABAL purple (#a78bfa) and cyan, thin and glowing. The word "ZABAL" small, off-white (#e4e2dd), heavy geometric sans (Syne-style). Optional tiny "SEASON 1" tag in muted gold (#f5c842). Square 1:1, 1080x1080. Clean, iconic, reads well small as a collectible thumbnail. No emojis, no people, no photographic elements. Geometric, glowing. ``` --- ## Notes for Zaal - ZABAL Games and ZAOstock go out as separate posts. This kit is ZABAL Games only. - Timeline grounding: workshop-lead signup is live now (the site form). The Magnetic portal + Zabal connector entry open end of month (~May 30) - the announcement says "end of month" so it is not overpromising. - Farcaster spaces session is the weekend hook - launch the post, then go live. - Open call + seeded asks: these posts are the open call. DM specific people for specific topics (Jordan on Empire Builder, kmac on zlank, Tyler on Magnetic - Tyler already confirmed). - For the share card and connector art: run the prompts, or share an OpenAI API key and I generate the files directly.