The Janjira Project

The Janjira Project, due to being the pet-project of founding user NeoBioHazardus, is currently the most well-documented games throughout all of its forms throughout the years. There are 4 versions of the game so far. Version 1 was hosted on 8chan, a splinter board from the /evol/ board called /janjira/. The 2nd was a concept for a Reddit-based system of inter-connected worlds, version 3 was an actual subreddit, and version 4, the current one, is hosted in Discord. (put link in later)

The name Janjira probably comes from a mutation of the name "Pangea" but stylized to look and sound more "Japanese".

Janjira Version 1
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The first version, simply named "janjira" rather than "The Janjira Project" was hosted on the /janjira/ board on 8chan. It splintered off of the /evol/ board and enjoyed some activity. The first post, and the start of the project, was on 06/11/15, the 6th of November, 2015. It only ended up getting 10 evolutions in total. The last post on /janjira/ was 10/11/15, only 4 days after its conception.

The First Post: -

The First Step NeoBioHazard 11/06/15 (Fri) 00:47:53 9dd1da No.3

The sea is calm… the vents have started up recently, signaling a change in tectonics.

The planet has come back to life.

After tens of thousands of years, Janjira has found a new star to orbit. The cold, desolate icy plains are replaced with oceans full of potential.

Out of the melting of the ice, emerges a simple creature, the J.

The J used the heat of the planet as nutrients before they too became frozen. Now the have emerged, and have to adapt to a vastly different environment.

On a planet with such untapped potential, what could await this micro organism?

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Janjira V1 Transcript:

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Janjira Version 2
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Janjira V2 is probably where the idea of calling it "The Janjira Project" came from, as instead of it being a single world, Janjira V2 was intended as a concept for a whole subreddit where users could get a sort of pre-fabricated map where they would have a table of square tiles that they could draw a map onto and have them zoom in on specific tiles to have life evolve there specifically. This was likely brought about as to would be like a more specific version of the /evol/ board, as the /evol/ board had multiple biomes that anyone could make, but this would allow for greater context. The map template was quite detailed, giving a legend of colours to use for different materials, and erroneously using a "day counter" instead of a more accurate "million year" counter.

This version was eventually dropped for being too complex, and was scrapped in favour of using the /evol/ system but having only 1 person who could make more posts.

- The recovered images of V2:

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Janjira Version 3
Janjira V3 ran from the 5th of March 2016 to the 26th June 2016. V3 is the closest to what modern Janjira became, as many of the same systems and events happened in V3 and early V4. The subreddit for Janjira V3 is actually still up and the posts can be viewed from there. The original account attached to the V3 has been deleted, so some of the comments are no longer retrievable.

Janjira Version 4
Janjira Version 4 is the current, ongoing version of Janjira. It's been active for about 3 years, starting around the 13th of August 2019. As with many evogames, it goes through slumps and activity booms. Currently has over 400 individual evolutions.

Janjira is also the only pixel evogame of which has (intentional) spin-offs, that being the Disdsawpocalyspe/Disdsaw Paradise, an alternate earth alien planet evogame where the Disdsaws, of which are often the subject of memes and ire, are the most successful organisms on Janjira. The other one, and the one that's considered a part of the overall Janjira canon, is called HEAE-58. HEAE-58, while taking part in the same universe, is entirely separate, and takes place inside of an asteroid roughly the size of Japan's main island. HEAE 58 is sometimes referred to as Janjira 4b. Notably, Janjira 4b is a slight revival of the V2 concept of having multiple inter-connected evogames that would take place in the same universe.

(To do: Add new page entirely for Janjira V4, as it is just as expansive as a normal wiki)