Relic Castle's 9th Anniversary

[catwithnojob]

Today is January 20th, which means Relic Castle is nine years old! Happy birthday, Relic Castle!

2024 will also be the the year of our TENTH summer game jam! Crazy how time flies, it feels like just yesterday I was joining the fifth game jam as a judge! In fact, it's been six years since I joined the site!

In 2023, we went through a lot! Creating a new Discord server, finding a new host for the website, and as equally important, a Relic Castle dark theme! We also hosted a winter game jam in January and a summer game jam that June. Aaaand, a Christmas-themed map event last month! So many great releases in the fangame realm, too! Hop on Pivot!

Let's use today to share your favorite memory of Relic Castle. It doesn't have to be from the past year, but this is the perfect time to reminisce about that sort of thing! Relic Castle only exists because of the community that binds us all together, so I hope you'll all stick around with us and help to strengthen our community.

 

[WolfTaiko]

Man, my favorite memory of Relic Castle... It would probably have to come from the beginning and what has shaped me a lot into who I am today.

I joined the Summer Jam 2020, the year of our lord, and released a little ol' fan game called Pokemon: TRAPPED. It... Wasn't good. And instead of dog-piling on it, like it probably deserved, I got a lot of well-meaning feedback and way less crap thrown at it than way better fan games! Which is... Still weird to me to this day. It showed me just how positive the community overall was and no one ever threw anyone down, and the support only continued from then on. Almost 4 years later I have now completed 8 Pokemon fan games all hosted on this site, and everyone got well-meaning feedback, and every one I took into consideration and tried to improve for the next one. Finally, I got a Spotlight this recent Summer Jam with Pokemon: Abstract Version!

I met so many people and made so many connections that have way outlasted the in-person connections I made at the same time. I can't wait to see what the future of this wonderful community has in store! See you all the in 10th Summer Game Jam!!!

 

[omega]

Can i get a "hell yeah" in chat guys.

 

[Adel's Brother]

Can i get a "hell yeah" in chat guys.

Hell yeah

My favorite time in Relic Castle was the 2022 Game Jam when I released my first finished game. It was such fun chaos in the discord channel and I hope to jam it up in the future.

 

[CelestialFearow]

Hell yeah! RC is an epic website!

 

[b00mhilda]

my favorite relic castle memory was @Xeru plucking me out of thin air and turning me into his spreadsheet packing horse that obsesses over base stats and which Pokemon get access to specifically leech seed

 

[Abdoulgaming]

I still remember when i'm enter the Relic Castle as a weirdo and congrats relic castle for it's 9th year. My fav timelime was between end 2020 and mid 2021

 

[KennyCatches]

hop on pivot (rest in peace )

 

[Haunted Ditto]

Happy Birthday, Relic Castle!
Thanks to the great RC community which are the reason why this site is the best place for Pokemon fangames since 2015.
Pretty much every game I worked on is a great memory and shoutouts to all the amazing people who I had the pleasure to work with.
The best memory is probably the first ever Winter Game Jam. I participated with Pokemon Pandora which was my first major release and the reception from the community was insanely supportive. Nowadays this might not be my best work, but it lead to many more great projects like Outbounds, Nightmare and Outburst to name a few.

Many more great years will be ahead!

 

[Mega Greninja]

Happy birthday, Relic Castle!
Thanks to this forum I've met so many great people, and had the opportunity to play so many great games! I also fulfilled my dream about making my own Pokemon Games!! (with more to come obviously)

 

[Karthik_]

Happy Birthday, Relic Castle! Your platform has been the catalyst for my game development dreams. Working with such incredible people and creating several games has been an amazing journey. Here's to more jams and countless more games in the future! Cheers to the fantastic community!

 

[omega]

Being in the community for what nearly 7 years at this point I feel happy to see Relic grow and evolve over the years from the slow periods to the more recent boom in games and activity it's been wonderful being apart of it all in some shape or form.

 

[King_Waluigi]

Dang, I remember learning about Relic Castle via Thundaga videos...
It's crazy to think about how much I've grown to be a part of this community. Asking questions, making games, creating resources... I got to be a part of Game Jams, win spotlights, judge a Game Jam ahaha. And meet so many awesome people such as Cade, Cat, ranko, Anon, lichen, Tech, Vendily, Andy, Chase... More specifically Jelo and Lux. I actually got to meet them in person last May, it was so sick. Last year I completed my first commission because of relic castle lol.
I could spend 30 hours typing out all of my great connections and conversations I've had, but instead, I'll leave a list of other awesome people I met through relic castle:

• ribbit
• ekat
• sauce
• kenny
• golisopod user
• enls

rip enls, we miss him so dearly, i can still hear his presence in the discord server, as if he was never taken from us... taken too early...

 

[TheGamingPaladin]

Happy Birthday RC!

 

[ZeT0ken]

Happy birthday RC! Thank you for being here and awesome!

 

[lamington]

Happy birthday!

 

[TheMentalOrder]

Happy Birthday Relic Castle!

 

[lichen]

Happy birthday RC! And nothing but love for all the insanely talented people on here :)

 

[safr]

happy birthday. i hope the website keep bustling with new post and stay healthy everyone in here

 

[ImZero]

Haven't been around here for terribly long, but it's always nice to be here for another year. Happy Birthday RC!