ENA Day

**ENA Day** (also referred to as the **ENAversary** or **Ena-versary**) is an annual event that occurs in the Newgrounds community. It is celebrated on February 23rd, the day Ena was initially revealed on Joel Guerra's Twitter.

## 1st anniversary

For ENA Day 2021, Joel G. shared references and inspirations in a Twitter thread, showing early designs of Ena as well as inspirations for different aspects of the series. The following was revealed:

* Early concept art of Ena's face and hair design, showing that her blue side was originally white and some different eye designs.
* The aesthetic for the first episode, *Auction Day*, was inspired by the game *The Town With No Name*.
* The Hourglass Dog was based on Joel's dog Dona when she was a puppy.
* Ena's movements while drunk in *Extinction Party* were inspired the movements of Jackie Chan in the film *Drunken Master*.
* The aesthetic for the second episode, *Extinction Party*, was inspired by the game *Middens*.
* Gabo's line "DRINK THE BLOOD AND SMOKE THE BANANA, YES" is a reference to a quote from the game *Space Funeral*. The original quote is "I like to drink blood...and smoke the weed!".
* Most of the entities are inspired by paintings by Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński. One comparison is made between of Beksiński's works and The Great Runas's transportation device.
* The first-person adventure aspect of *Extinction Party* and *Temptation Stairway* is inspired by the game *LSD*.
* Some of Ena's movements are inspired by Osamu Sato's movements in his film *THE ESOTERIC RETINA*.

Alongside this, pre-orders for the Hourglass Dog plush were made available.

## 2nd anniversary

For ENA Day 2022, a short animation loop was released on Joel Guerra's social media, featuring Ena glitching into her four original yellow-and-white designs shown off on the first ENAversary. A larger version of the animation adding Moony, a Headtomb, Robert's UFO, and Merci was released on YouTube with the song "We're Only Human" by Graham Kartna playing. Several other events also occurred:

* Four new avatars were released on Joelgc.com featuring Ena's four yellow-and-white prototype designs from the released concept art, one of which a user can choose from. Every user's name was also changed to "ƎNA" for the day.
	+ It was also confirmed that another one of the four avatars would be collectable during the next ENA Day event.
* A Twitch stream was held featuring the *ENA* team, with the *Dream BBQ* game being the primary topic of discussion. Upcoming mechanics and concept art pertaining to *Dream BBQ* were shown live on the stream.

## 3rd anniversary

For ENA Day 2023, a livestream on Joel Guerra's YouTube channel occurred, featuring the *Dream BBQ* development team revealing various pieces of *Dream BBQ* concept art while answering questions about the game/episode from fans.

* The four avatars on Joelgc.com featuring Season 1 Ena's prototype designs, which were originally released on ENA Day 2022, were made available again for the day. Users could choose from one of the four, with the others planned to be available again on subsequent ENAversaries. Every user's name was also changed to "ƎNA" for the day, similarly to the second ENAversary.
* New *ENA* merchandise was revealed to be coming to Fangamer in the future. Some of the upcoming merchandise that was revealed included enamel pins, sticker sheets, a T-shirt, and lenticular items.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/JoelGuerraC/status/1231746194780688384
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/JoelGuerraC/status/1364371153540812801
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/JoelGuerraC/status/1496508514281340932
4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CaU4T9rla0h/
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/TanyaHastur/status/1496365171920547840
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/TanyaHastur/status/1496609567060500494
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/JoelGuerraC/status/1496508516340797442
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmkix2A0Rlc
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/JoelGuerraC/status/1628856917375188993
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/TanyaHastur/status/1628619477981052929