Welcome
To celebrate the launch of Horror Game Kit 1.5, we’re bringing you a new type of challenge! We’re providing detailed theme settings to help you enhance your game development skills by incorporating popular elements in horror game design.
Plus, you'll learn to promote your game by completing a video creation task.
Theme
Museum in the Midnight
Background
Analog horror collides with the eerie stillness of a museum in this unsettling game jam theme. With the latest update to theYahaha horror game kit, including the new Screen Effect Package, you're equipped to create a haunting atmosphere that draws players into the unsettling world of forgotten artifacts and eerie phenomena. We encourage everyone to experiment with these new tools in their games.
Imagine a museum filled with ancient statues, each one a testament to lost civilizations and forgotten gods. By day, these statues stand proudly in the grand hall, their faces frozen in time. But as night falls, something strange happens—the heads of the statues vanish, leaving behind a chilling, headless silence. As an intrepid explorer, you’ve been drawn to this mysterious museum, tasked with uncovering the dark secret behind these disappearing heads. (Please feel free to unleash your imagination and create your own story.)
In this game jam, you’ll create a horror game that combines the unsettling atmosphere of analog horror with the mystery of a haunted museum. Players will explore the museum’s darkened corridors, piecing together clues from distorted video feeds, eerie audio recordings, and cryptic notes. The story unfolds through fragmented media, revealing the terrifying truth behind the vanishing heads and the curse that haunts the museum.
Key Elements to Include:
- Analog Horror Aesthetics: Utilize grainy visuals, distorted audio, and retro media elements to create a sense of dread and unease, as if the player is experiencing a nightmare through old, corrupted footage.
- Story Background: Please create your own storyline that fits the theme.
- Exploration and Puzzle-Solving: Players must explore the museum, searching for clues and solving puzzles to uncover the mystery of the disappearing heads and the sinister force behind them.
- Psychological Horror: The game should focus on building tension through subtle, unsettling changes in the environment, with the headless statues serving as a constant reminder of the dark power at play.
Hints:
- Research the analog horror genre to understand how to use atmosphere, implication, and fragmented storytelling to create fear.
- Experiment with the Screen Effect Package to add layers of visual and auditory distortion, enhancing the feeling of being trapped in a nightmarish reality.
- Design puzzles that reveal the museum's dark history, with each solved puzzle bringing players closer to the horrifying truth.
Special Task
1. We have prepared a tutorial on how to replace Hiding Place , and now we invite you to try replacing it in your own game!
2. Take a screenshot or record a video of the Hiding Place in your game and put it on your game itch submission page.
3. We will give you additonal 10 points to your game if you do 1&2!
4. Looking forward to seeing your puzzle!
Awards
1st place * 1 - 100USD$
2nd place * 1 - 70USD$
3rd place * 1 - 50USD$
Participation Prize *n - 30USD$
Horror Game Kit 1.5
Horror Game Kit 1.5 is a comprehensive template that empowers you to craft spine-tingling horror games with minimal to no code. The newest version 1.5 brings exciting updates, including a new package system, enhanced prefabs, and upgraded smart assets. This all-in-one solution includes a robust template packed with essential features, a curated selection of assets and tools, pre-built systems to streamline development, and a demo game to spark inspiration. Plus, with the new SDK framework as the foundation, you'll soon be able to take the fear to the next level with multiplayer horror games.
To see the difference between HGK 1.0 and HGK 1.5 →Horror Game Kit Overview
How to Join
Official Jam
1. Sign up for the challenge by joining the jam on this page.
2. Submit your game project on this itch.io page.
3. Record the most exciting part of your game (less than one minute) or capture some exciting moments during your development process and upload it to YouTube as a short video. Make sure to mention us by @yahahastudios to submit the video, and use the hashtags #Museum in the Midnight #analog horror and #horrorgaming. (Please make it public, or we cannot receive your video).
Rules
To be a valid submission, please follow these requirements:
1. Create and publish an original project. (AI tools, including the YAHAHA AI scene generator and 3D model generation, are allowed and not prohibited at any stage of the creation process.)
2. Your submitted games should be made with the Horror Game Kit within YAHAHA Studio.
3. Get a score over 60 and submit all the required materials (project + video) to qualify for the participation prize.
4. When editing the itch page, enter "yahaha" & "horror" in the tag field.
5. Send the co-author to HorrorHatch (https://horror-hatch.itch.io/) before uploading.
Rating Rules
| Criteria | Definition | Score | |
| Gameplay mechanics | Plot | Coherent and thematic game story, with multiple triggers and guidance methods to ensure that players do not feel monotonous. | 20 |
| Highlight | You have fully showcased the game idea that you most want to highlight in this game | 20 | |
| Audiovisual game elements | Game art | Includes all visual elements in a game, such as landscapes, animals, animations, special effects, and user interfaces. | 20 |
| Game music & Sound effects | Game music refers to background music that plays continuously and loops throughout the game, typically unrelated to player actions or game state. Game sound effects are triggered based on specific scenarios or actions and only play when the triggering conditions are met. | 20 | |
| Youtube Shorts | Video Record | Record a short video (less than one minute), upload it to YouTube and mention us by@yahahastudios and use the hashtags #Museum in the Midnight#analog horror#horrorgaming. | 20 |
How to Submit Your Game to Itch
What is YAHAHA
Using YAHAHA Studio empowers creators with little or no coding experience to bring their imaginative game ideas to life. YAHAHA has significantly reduced the barrier to 3D game creation through this exceptionally user-friendly creator tool, designed with all the principles of the Unity development environment. This tool could be your gateway to a new life as a creator in the metaverse. Accessible through the YAHAHA App, it provides an opportunity to reach an audience of thousands of players worldwide every day.
NOTE: We'd love to hear your opinions and any suggestions you might have for enhancing our future game jams. If you wish to provide feedback, please send an email to creatorservice@yahahastudios.com and use the subject line "GameJam." If you use any other subject line, we may not catch it!
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