Year of the ZABAL - Day 172
GM ZM, and happy Sunday in the Year of the ZABAL.
Week three was the long week - eight sessions, the most we have run yet. We went from bounties to a brand-new app, under the hood of Empire Builder, across Farcaster culture, into learning to build with AI, through fractals, and out to community and onchain merch. Every one recorded, transcribed, and kept - miss something live and you have missed nothing.
Miss week two? Catch up on the Week 2 recap first:
New here? ZABAL Gamez is The ZAO's three-month build event:
June is workshop month, July is the open build, August is the Finals.
Free, open to anyone, and you can bring any harness.
Three tracks, pick your lane: artist (musical or visual), builder (developer or aspiring), creator (media and distribution).
The build is the application. Start here: https://zabalgamez.com/info
Only have a few minutes? Start here:
If you build: Adrian (@diviflyy) on Empire Builder V3 - the endpoints and the leaderboard, the technical map for anyone building on Empire Builder.
If you create: Minted Merch (@mintedmerch) on selling merch onchain - how it works in plain terms, and what it opens up for a creator selling to their own audience.
If you are finding your lane: Meta Mu (@metamu) on how to add value as a community member - find the gaps, fill them, become someone a community cannot do without.
Everything that aired
Eight sessions last week, every one recorded, transcribed, and kept here: https://zabalgamez.com/recordings
Kenny (@kenny) on POIDH and the ZABAL ad bounty, Chris Dolinsky (@1dolinski) on the Vini App, Adrian (@diviflyy) on Empire Builder V3, Jub Jub (@jubjub) on Farcaster Batches, Ali Tiknazoglu (@alitiknazoglu) on Previbecoding, Dan Singjoy (@dansingjoy) on Eden Fractal, Meta Mu (@metamu) on adding value as a community member, and Minted Merch (@mintedmerch) on selling merch onchain.
Catching up from the week before: Aziz (MotoMoto) on going from non-dev to shipped with Baraza Protocol - https://zabalgamez.com/recordings/11
New on the site this week
Three upgrades shipped. One: a press and media kit page - boilerplate, a fact sheet, the by-the-numbers, and the brand assets in one place for anyone writing about the season. https://zabalgamez.com/press . Two: every recording transcript now has in-transcript search and jump-to-time, so you can find the exact moment you remember and the video seeks right to it. Three: the homepage season clock is now phase-aware - it counts to the July build, then to the August Finals, with no dead hardcoded dates. https://zabalgamez.com
Tap in live - this week
The week ahead, free and recorded:
ZABAL GAMEZ AMA w/ The Farcaster Intern, open mic - Mon Jun 22, 5pm EST: https://luma.com/swwffz0h
Growth through foundations with Dr. Jake - Tue Jun 23, 6pm EST: https://luma.com/6svi31dy
Harness and Bankr with Saltorious - Tue Jun 23, 8pm EST: https://luma.com/vo204kbu
Making Music with Generative AI in Ableton with Teresa Marrin Nakra - Thu Jun 25, 5:45pm EST: https://luma.com/hwz9men2
AZKAL on FlowStage, scale your content without losing your taste - Thu Jun 25, 8pm EST: https://luma.com/r1148jip
Building Warpee.eth with Adrienne of GM Farcaster - Tue Jun 30, 11:30am EST: https://luma.com/jlv50mcu
The whole calendar is on Lu.ma: https://luma.com/zao
Miss one? Nothing disappears here. Every session is recorded, transcribed, and kept. Watch them all: https://zabalgamez.com/recordings
Insert Coin today: claim the ZABAL Gamez collectible - https://collect.zabalgamez.com
What is next - July is the open build
June is the warm-up. July is the open build: anyone ships something real for the ZAO ecosystem, in public, and the build is the application. Three tracks, no waitlist, any harness. How it pays out: the top 8 finalists share a $500 USDC pool, the top 16 get $ZABAL token rewards, the top 3 take a Champion commemorative collectible, and every finalist who ships keeps a Finisher collectible. The strongest builds get curated into the August Finals, each paired with a ZAO mentor.
Get ready now:
The Playbook - the full guide to building and shipping your project: https://zabalgamez.com/playbook
How to enter, then register your build and watch the live builds board fill: https://zabalgamez.com/enter
Projects to adopt - more than 40 real, started repos that just need a builder: https://zabalgamez.com/projects
The Finals and how the prize pool settles: https://zabalgamez.com/finals
The June schedule, with more workshops landing all month: https://zabalgamez.com/#schedule
Get involved this week
Built something worth teaching? Lead a workshop: https://zabalgamez.com/lead
Want to back a builder? We are recruiting mentors for the August Finals: https://zabalgamez.com/mentor
Know someone who should teach? Nominate them: https://zabalgamez.com/dream-leads
Looking for something to build? Adopt a started project: https://zabalgamez.com/projects
Come hang in the /zabal channel: https://farcaster.xyz/~/channel/zabal
Insert Coin and grab the season collectible: https://collect.zabalgamez.com
The week at a glance: eight sessions, the biggest week of the season, from bounties to a new app to Empire Builder endpoints to Farcaster culture to learning to build with AI to fractals, community, and onchain merch - transcripts landing across all of them, three new site upgrades, more sessions plus the Monday AMA on the calendar, and a $500 pool plus collectibles on the line for July.
To everyone who taught, asked, watched, or shared this week - thank you. The build is the application. Three weeks down, and the busiest one yet. See you at the AMA.
BetterCallZaal from the ZAO Team