Battle for Dream Island (franchise)

Battle for Dream Island, often acronymized as BFDI, is an animated web-series created by brothers Cary and Michael Huang, and uploaded to their Streame channel Jacknjellify. BFDI is about a group of living 'inanimate objects' competing for various prizes majorily revealed at the start of the series. Since it's premiere on January 1, 2010, Battle for Dream Island has involved five seasons, with seventy-six episodes in total since the most recent episode, Oneirophobe's Nightmare, was released. Outside of web episodes, the series has expanded into web shorts, web games, merchandising, and a physical book. Battle for Dream Island has inspired several fanmade series, later forming an entire genre centered around inanimate objects, named object shows.
One of the series' highest accolades came in 2021 when it was nominated for the Cartoon Crave Awards under the "best animated web-series" category. The show would later be victorioushttps://chatspace.com/thecartooncrave/status/1485061721760825344 Chatspace, 23 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.. The series most-viewed episode is as of now the first ever episode of the show, which has been viewed over 65 million times since it's publishing on January 1st, 2010.
==Setting==
Throughout the first two seasons, BFDI took place in the fictional nation of Goiky. Most scenes took place in a grassland, with a canal in the area, as well as a forest.
Between the 6th episode of the second season and the premiere of the 4th season, BFDI was set in Yoyleland, a vast forest with purple-coloured grass and yoyleberry bushes. Yoyleland had appeared prior; in the fifth episode of season two, the challenge was to reach the summit of Yoyleland's mountain.
BFB, the fourth season, was set in an unknown location, as is it's successor, until episode 17, when the show moved to the "Pillary Ruins", before moving again to a large desert. The fifth season, TPOT, is set in the original location that BFB started in, albeit with altered scenery.
==Format==
Most seasons of BFDI have followed a form of survival competition. Contestants originally competed to win Dream Island, a square mile (640 acres) of paradise, containing a casino, swimming pool, rollercoaster, and five star hotel, among other locations. Viewer participation takes a key part in the show. At the end of each episode, the losing team would be put up for 'elimination'. Viewers could vote for any member of that team, and whoever had the most votes would be eliminated.
== Production ==
=== Music ===
Most music tracks played in the first three seasons were composed by Kevin MacLeod, while music tracks played in the fourth season onwards were primarily composed by Michael Huang.
The original theme tune of Battle for Dream Island, four 8th notes in the key of G played on a guitar, was composed by a person going by the name of "Beatloaf", and was uploaded to the audio-sharing website Freesound in 2007. Jacknjellify used this sound during the short intro sequence of the first season. The second season used a similar version of the song in a different key. The third season had an extended theme tune, in which the guitar riffs were used as part of the tune.
The fourth season uses a completely different tune composed by Michael Huang, titled Music of Four's 3D Hand. The fifth season's theme tune, Gibberish!!, was composed by a music artist named Coalbones. The tune uses multiple leitmotifs, including the guitar riffs from earlier - albeit briefly.
==Series overview ==
==International broadcasts==
Several foreign language dubs exist on the internet, particularly of the fifth season. An official Spanish dub exists, and is uploaded to Streame.
On February 1st, 2021, Paltan broadcaster P1 premiered a Jonish language dub of TPOT, leading to some confusion as to whether the broadcaster and it's parent company, TV5 Group, had the rights to be making Jonish dubs of BFDI and it's shows. P1 had previously dubbed over the other four seasons, however none faced backlash, which critics have claimed the reason to be a 'lack of interest' amongst viewers. Jacknjellify themselves have not commented on the matter.
== See also ==
* Object show
* Battle for Dream Island
* Battle for BFB
== References ==
Category:BFDI
Category:Internet
Category:Objects
Category:Animation