Description

First and foremost, thanks to Archeia_Nessiah for the wonderful event page CSS!

Make the spookiest Halloween game ever for your chance to win a 100-dollar Steam Gift Card and other prizes!



All Hallows' Event 2013 is upon us! You have until October 31st at 11:59 PM UTC to make a complete game in any engine based on one or more of the following themes:

- Ghost Stories
- Survival Horror
- Monster Attack
- Halloween Comedy
- Nonfiction Horror

Each of these themes is fairly broad, and you can combine one or more themes! Just please let us know in your game description which theme(s) you are focusing on.

A panel of judges will play each game and rank the top three entries. Users may vote for their favorite game once the contest is over; voting will be handled through this page. Results will be announced via podcast.


Step 1: Sign up for the contest in the "Registration" section below this event description. You can enter this event solo or as a team. Additionally, you may submit as many games or join as many teams as you'd like.
Step 2: Create your game page. Normal submission rules apply.
Step 3: Post your download to the game page once it's approved.
Step 4: Submit your game download to the contest by using the commands on the upper-right corner of this page.



1st Place: A 100-dollar Steam Gift Card from Deckiller!
2nd Place: A copy of the RPG Maker DS+ Resource Pack, sponsored by RPG Maker Web!
3rd Place: A Steam Key for A-Train 8, sponsored by Degica!

and...

Peoples' Choice: Anything from the RPG Maker Web store, sponsored by RPG Maker Web!

Achievements

1st Place: 100 Makerscore Achievement
2nd Place: 80 Makerscore
3rd Place: 70 Makerscore
Best of each theme: 60 Makerscore
Voters' Choice: 100 Makerscore
Participation: 50 Makerscore

Achievements coming soon...



  • The game must be relate to at least one of the five themes: ghost stories, survival horror, monster attack, Halloween comedy, or nonfiction horror. Unsure if you game meets the theme? Just ask!
  • You may use ANY game development engine.
  • Only completed games are allowed! NO DEMOS!
  • Preexisting resources may be used, but no games that were started before the beginning of the event are allowed.
  • No late submissions; the deadline is strictly 11:59pm UTC on Halloween (October 31, 2013). Exceptions may be made if judges find a game-breaking bug.
  • No team limit.
  • You may submit as many games and join as many teams as you'd like.
  • Judges' entries will not be ranked, but they will still quality for the voters' choice achievement.
  • All necessary files must be included in the download.
  • Only one of each prize is available - please take this into account if you're on a team.
  • If the winner does not want a prize, s/he will pass it to the 2nd place winner, and so on, until we find a person who wants it.
  • All of RMN's normal policies apply.
  • If you have any questions, ask in the comments section or PM Deckiller.

Details

  • 10/01/2013 03:46 AM
  • 11/01/2013 12:59 AM
  • 11/25/2013 12:00 PM
  • Any
  • Caz
    Fomar0153
    StarSkipp

Registration

You must be logged in to sign up for All Hallows' Event 2013.

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Teams Members Entry Votes
I must have a Death Wish
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WombatRPGs
  • 0
Tiny Tale Games
  • 0
Jomarcenter Studio - Project Illusion
  • 1
  • 0
Owls owly owl
  • 2
BOO!
  • 0
Team Somebody
  • 1
Richthofen
  • 1
Dragons_fire
  • 0
Classwork that happens to fall into the same timeframe as this
  • 0
Crawling Eye
  • 0
Team Abysstree
  • 1
Grandma's House
  • 0
  • 0
Stron9est Studios
  • 0
Dark Pupil Productions
  • 0
Moga
  • 0
The Final Sin
  • 0
Scarebear Countdown! 5-4-3-2-1!
  • 1
Demonfly Studios
  • 1
Stiven202Team
  • 0
Spiders are scary right????
  • 0
I MU
  • 1
RM Coalition presents: Zombies
  • 1
Indrah and the "last minute entries are totally a thing"
  • 0
Thirdmuse
  • 0
Story tellers
  • 1
XLawrenceX
  • 0
Team we want to work on games but no time
Ooooh, scary!
Dibs on Judge Dredd!
The Z is for Spooky Ghost Girl
??X, ?????, ?????, ?????, ?????
Halloween Wars
Uhhh...
Rainbow Brite, Murder Empress
Killer Machines
Awakening
Team AestheticGamer
Rational Fears
Cubic NorthStar
Yesno's Undecided Munchkins
Ghost in the Machine
The Darksters
GamesVTS
SMC Games
I love John Carpenter
BleedOut
Shall I show you dis pear?
JJester
Scary Chocobos~
Team CorrosiveDude
Scorn
Let's Let Gourdy Win Because He's a Cool Guy
Pagan Blood
sanggameboy's Team
Various Artists
MaMa is back and at it once more~
Buju Mystery
Just for fun
Xtheme Core Dev
Pomerane
i am hiromu656
Spoopy
Dark Brotherhood
Wise Productions
Me, myself and I
Krimson Games
Team Cheesecake
DawnSeeker Studio
Games in Time
Solest Games
Team Grape
Something is Bubbling in the Cauldron
Tricky Avian
The Bard
FlyingSolo
The Conspicuous Bananas
Jet and the Stewards
The god of horror
Phantasia
RyanAvx - HappyCatMusics
Black Swallowtail
Mustache Cash-Stache x Infinity
Mike Gidop
poosickle
Serial killers are monsters yes?
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Posts

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jomarcentermjm
2472
10/22/2013 09:24 AM
Extend the deadline please. It impossible for an 2 people team to work on a month. Even for developers with a large story to deal with. Even i have to cut some unnecessary scene and move to the episode 2 just to make it to the deadline.
psy_wombats
13315
10/22/2013 09:43 AM
author=thatbennyguy
author=psy_wombats
Our game will make the deadline, even if our gamepage is dead.
So what actually happened? You linked to a blog post that didn't exist. Did your gamepage just get accidentally deleted? Why can't you make another one?

The content of the blog post was so subversive the admins forcibly removed it. They're worried it'll come back if we make another.

EDIT: On the plus side, I'm legally allowed to tell you that it improved RMN security by 90%!
Liberty
RTP Princess
24266
10/22/2013 09:44 AM
@jomar: ...I made a complete game in 24 hours. Something short over a month is more than enough time. Hell, a week is enough to get something neat out. Look at some of the weekend events we've had - we got some great pieces out of them.

Time is what you make of it, buddy~
MISTER BIG T
1320
10/22/2013 09:56 AM
author=jomarcenter
Extend the deadline please. It impossible for an 2 people team to work on a month. Even for developers with a large story to deal with. Even i have to cut some unnecessary scene and move to the episode 2 just to make it to the deadline.

I was able to make the game alone, even with my other projects and my school and having social life. If you're running out of time, cut the game shorter and just take out stuff instead. To extend the deadline now would be rude to people who have been able to work on the deadline and have made constraints and even maybe already finished their games. (There have been several games already posted and shared!) If you're not able to make the deadline, you won't make the deadline. To extend it so late into it, would be a slap in the faces of those who are able to abide to it, including me since if there would have been more time, I would have made my game in entirely different direction but it's way too late now. Deadline extensions in contests like these always have been the worst idea ever and only serve to poison and ruin the whole thing. Besides, it wouldn't even make any sense why the halloween contest would still be going on AFTER Halloween was already over...


Speaking of my game, check out the bitching title screen.

Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15170
10/22/2013 11:21 AM
is that your own art, MBT? if so, you've really improved over the years. nice job!

jomar: lol i made wine & roses in three weeks for last year's halloween month-long event and it won 1st place popular vote/2nd place judge vote. like liberty said, time is what you make of it.
thatbennyguy
1612
10/22/2013 11:54 AM
author=Craze
is that your own art, MBT? if so, you've really improved over the years. nice job!

jomar: lol i made wine & roses in three weeks for last year's halloween month-long event and it won 1st place popular vote/2nd place judge vote. like liberty said, time is what you make of it.


Well, to be fair, three weeks is almost a month. I still play Wine & Roses on occasion though. I have a feeling you're only about to up the ante this time round, though. I'm ready to get pwned.
MISTER BIG T
1320
10/22/2013 12:13 PM
author=Craze
is that your own art, MBT? if so, you've really improved over the years. nice job!


Even though my art has immensly improved, I'd be lying if I'd say I've drawn that.
NOACCEPTANCE772
And the ability to summon the "Office Whores" to deal damage to the enemies.
553
10/22/2013 01:03 PM
What the f*** are my doing? lol
Just sitting here and thinking, "Pimps versus monsters?....nah..." LAWL!!xD
I know I wont make it to the dead line.
jomarcentermjm
2472
10/22/2013 01:29 PM
author=thatbennyguy
author=Craze
is that your own art, MBT? if so, you've really improved over the years. nice job!

jomar: lol i made wine & roses in three weeks for last year's halloween month-long event and it won 1st place popular vote/2nd place judge vote. like liberty said, time is what you make of it.
Well, to be fair, three weeks is almost a month. I still play Wine & Roses on occasion though. I have a feeling you're only about to up the ante this time round, though. I'm ready to get pwned.
Specking of deadlines. @thatbennyguy Hey I didn't received the Grammar corrected file what gives?
I thought you say you going to work on it this week?
Well I only be available online until Tuesday so this is really giving me a huge disadvantage in this competition.
edchuy
You the practice of self-promotion
1624
10/22/2013 01:40 PM
I hope we don't get a whole bunch of dead developers whose submission to this event becomes their legacy ... And I agree with MBT, a deadline should be a deadline since all potential participants had fair previous notice when they signed up. Perhaps some people just got too ambitious and carried away with their ideas, so as he suggested, maybe it is time to downsize or pull all-nighters. Take your pick.
thatbennyguy
1612
10/22/2013 01:49 PM
my bad jomarcenter, i'm also working on my own game. i'll do it right now. the translated files will be uploaded in 15-30mins.

edit: meanwhile my game is getting the prune treatment, chopping off anything that's unneeded. i have a feeling it's still going to be a bit of a mess, though, but it's a mess i'd play ;)
jomarcentermjm
2472
10/22/2013 02:01 PM
author=thatbennyguy
my bad jomarcenter, i'm also working on my own game. i'll do it right now. the translated files will be uploaded in 15-30mins.

edit: meanwhile my game is getting the prune treatment, chopping off anything that's unneeded. i have a feeling it's still going to be a bit of a mess, though, but it's a mess i'd play ;)
Forget the yesterday file. I already found a ton of bugs and mess and already fix it. Can you translate the new file that was being uploaded. Thanks.
And also for some of you interested. You may try the incomplete file today.
As it was being developed. Just pm me with your Google username to access the public file. I want to see if I really improved since the past.
BurningTyger
Hm i Wonder if i can pul somethi goff here/
1289
10/22/2013 02:02 PM
author=Liberty
@jomar: ...I made a complete game in 24 hours. Something short over a month is more than enough time. Hell, a week is enough to get something neat out. Look at some of the weekend events we've had - we got some great pieces out of them.

Time is what you make of it, buddy~
Though it doesn't always work out- look at our current Map Madness.
Liberty
RTP Princess
24266
10/22/2013 03:39 PM
True, but part of that is the loss of incentive brought on by people working on their own submissions instead of maps. Is okay, I've adapted it, but it won't make the deadline for this event. :/
SnowOwl
5188
10/22/2013 04:00 PM
One week left and people have already started to give up?
kentona
Bunnyhug
21027
10/22/2013 04:02 PM
author=SnowOwl
One week left and people have already started to give up?
I haven't even started yet :>
Redd
Memento mori
3108
10/22/2013 09:30 PM
author=edchuy
I hope we don't get a whole bunch of dead developers whose submission to this event becomes their legacy ...


THIS!
Housekeeping
3571
10/22/2013 10:40 PM
I finished my entry:

http://rpgmaker.net/games/5659/

Also, hi, I'm new here. I've posted on rpgmakervx.net and, to a lesser extent, rpgmakerweb. I actually didn't even know about this place until someone from rpgmakerweb linked to the Halloween contest here, and it looks like this is kind of THE website to post on, so I figured I should enter and show off my chops since I'm a bit of a horror buff anyway. I have a completed full-length game called A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky that you can play now on the aforementioned websites, but I'm holding off on making a page for it on this site until the contest is over. Good luck to everyone!
AestheticGamer
2714
10/23/2013 01:34 AM
People need to learn for these contests to make sizable, manageable games that can have multiple points one can cut off development. I have only worked on my game for four days so far in the month and I'm certain I'm meeting the deadline.

Don't give up, we still have over a week, and you'd be surprised what you can manage in only a few days.
Biggamefreak
1799
10/23/2013 01:55 AM
My game is only one room, but I tried new things, so it will take longer than I thought.

If I work on just the mechanics, the gameplay will be finished, but having in the animations and other little things will make it take longer. Another month will do it.
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