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Fangame Awards 2025 Nominations
Happy New Year! We're excited to announce that the nomination form for The Fangame Awards 2025 is now open!
You will be nominating your personal favorite games for each month of the year + the 4 classic "golden" categories we've always had + our 4 beloved Community Awards! You are able to submit up to 4 nominees (graded as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places) you think best fit each category. We ask that you avoid leaving blank answers if possible, using the respective nominee's full title, as well as making sure to separate each of them with only a comma (for example: "I Wanna Be The Guy, I Wanna Be The Guy 2, I Wanna Be The Guy 3, I Wanna Be The Guy 4").
Here is the link to our form: https://forms.gle/jKyM8V9QExgSWkYP8
They'll be open for only 1 week, permanently closing on January 9th at 11:59 EST.
The forms are also available in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, thanks to our amazing translators! If you're unable to view it, This is another form in English and Chinese at this link: https://shimo.im/forms/2MrtzAbs0ONiplAz/fill
Finally, The Fangame Awards 2025 will take place on February 21st at 4pm EST, meaning that trailer submissions will close February 7th at 11:59pm EST! The show will be streamed live on the Fangame Marathon Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/fangamemarathon
We hope you guys are excited as we are in celebrating another great year for fangames, thank you all for the support and fangame makers for making peak every year, see you all soon!
Fangame Summer Feast 2025
Fangame Summer Feast (FASF) is a multi-day event organised by the Chinese community dedicated to Fangame showcases, speedruns and competitions. Now FASF2025 event is coming soon and will be held over two sets of dates: August 15-16 & 21-23 (EST). Although largely focused on IWBTG fangames, some other communities will showcase their fangames as well!
You can check out the FASF information (including the schedule) here: https://iwfasf.com/2025/
The event will be hosted at this channel: https://live.bilibili.com/7310386
A Twitch restream will also be available at: https://www.twitch.tv/fangamemarathon
Fangame Summer Feast 2025
Fangame Summer Feast (FASF) is a multi-day event organised by the Chinese community dedicated to Fangame showcases, speedruns and competitions. Now FASF2025 event is coming soon and will be held over two sets of dates: August 15-16 & 21-23 (EST). Although largely focused on IWBTG fangames, some other communities will showcase their fangames as well!
You can check out the FASF information (including the schedule) here: https://iwfasf.com/2025/
The event will be hosted at this channel: https://live.bilibili.com/5322
A Twitch restream will also be available at: https://www.twitch.tv/fangamemarathon
Fangame Marathon 2025
This year's Fangame Marathon is coming soon! This is the community's largest annual event that is livestreamed over Twitch, and features dozens of speedruns, blind game playthroughs, showcases, and various other special events.
You can view the marathon's schedule here: https://oengus.fun/fm2025/main
The marathon will be hosted here: https://www.twitch.tv/fangamemarathon
The event will be held from July 23rd to July 27th, See you all at the marathon!
Delicious Level Design Contest
Another contest is finally coming up! As revealed in the Fangame Awards, the Delicious Level Design Contest will challenge both old and new makers to create an IWBTG Fangame stage over the course of a month! A panel of 6 judges will be responsible for judging all the stages based on: Design, Creativity and Atmosphere.
Submissions must be made in Game Maker 8.2 as the final game will be based on a special version of renex² engine made just for this event! The submission/making period will go from February 14 at 1pm EST to March 17 at 1pm EST.
Here is the link to the DLDC Discord server: https://discord.gg/E7jPaG9z7f
You can find more info about the event in this server, as well as other channels to help you out with any issues regarding Game Maker 8.2. If you intend on participating in the contest, it is required for you to be in the contest's server!