Description

It's that time of the year again~ Halloween month! Yay! Now, usually we tend to have a fairly open game making event where everyone just makes a game that may or may not have to do with horror, but this time around I figure let's go hardcore into that goodnight.

It's time to create a frightening time~

This event is all about creating a horror game!

What is a Horror Game?
By definition horror as a genre tends to follow the Survival Horror trope - drop your hero into the middle of something terrifying and horrific and force them to try and survive. There may or may not be allusions to various myths, legends and classic horror tropes, and a lot of the time there's different endings (even though most are split into good/bad/death/death/death ones).

A good horror game leaves the player guessing when the next scare is coming, gives hints as to what the scare is and what should not be interacted with, but also allows for not showing the horror too closely. They use sound direction, music and atmosphere over cheap dark-screen tactics and can leave you worried about whether you should check that table or not.

Some games don't include gore. Some do. Some horror games focus more on story or characters, whilst others drop you down as a nameless, faceless person striving to fight against the mysteries of the dark (think Slenderman). Either way, they're often quite short games in comparison to normal ones, and quite a few have a lot of replay value.

Event Rules
In this event you will be creating a horror game, using some of the provided choices below.

You must pick ONE (or more) of the list below to be in your game:
- Fading Dreams
- Bloody Smile
- Twisted Memories
- Mysterious Present
- Broken Future
- Hopeless Tomorrow
- Forgotten Past

You must also include at least TWO (or more, if you wish) of the following:
- A red balloon
- Empty picture frames
- Broken glasses
- Demonic Possession
- Cloves of garlic
- An iron sword
- An old music box
- Golden key/s
- A cursed cellphone
- An eyeless teddy bear
- Blood-stained wedding dress
- A poisoned cup


Submission Rules
The submission rules are as follows:
- Full game or demo is fine. Demos should be over 10 minutes long, though.
- You may start on October 1st!
- Time ends Midnight of the 30th of October. Games must be submitted to this event page by then! Please plan ahead by having game pages created by that point. (To make sure you see the right time on the page in your time zone, go to account settings and change your hour offset to fit your area. This will change site time to be your timezone and the dates in the top-right corner of the event page will reflect this.)
- Games should be stand-alone and not require extra additions (like downloading RTP files or the like).
- Games should follow the event rules.
- You may use a team if you wish, but it's not necessary.
- Any engine allowed.
- Games MUST abide by site rules.

Judging
Those who managed to submit a full game or demo at the end of the event will get a participation badge.

Games will be judged by a group of judges who will decide the top three games. Those top three games will get a badge each, from 1st place to 3rd place.





FAQS

Does it have to be a straight horror game? Does it have to be scary?
Well, the main idea is to make it a bit scary, but there are games out there that blend cute and scary quite well, so if you can do something like that I see no reason you can't make a blended horror. It doesn't have to be straight horror genre, either. It's fine to make a mix of genres, just make sure that horror is the main one.





Third Place


Cara by Edus1998



Second Place


Xenos by markofthewind28


First Place


A Ghost's Lullaby by Lucy_Fox



Honourable Mentions (in no particular order)
_ (underscore) - Best Use of Sound and Demon
Halloweeb - Best Use of Animu
Polixiuhs - Best Facade of Normality
A Night at Hotel Deuce - Best Quick Time Events Against Creepy-Ass Sprites o.O;
Red Balloon of Happiness - Best Frogge is Not Actually a Girl BTW
Super Girl Squad - Best Dungeons and Dragons Rip-Off ;p
Mom - Best Game that Didn't Make it in Time


Background art by Mezamero of deviantart

Details

  • 10/01/2016 12:00 AM
  • 10/31/2016 04:00 AM
  • 10

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Teams Members Entry
The Ghost of Christmas Kloe
Team Scary
this'll be my first horror game... best game on here!
Team Scream
it's been halloween since july 5th
Wanna see real horror? Check out my gam mak!
A Ghost's Lullaby - The one that isn't scary at all
Team Name
OzzyChanz & MioTheOne
blathnat the impaler
Team Jumpscares Sucks
Monster Mash!
Made a Horror game in less than 4 days.
The scary thing is how much other stuff I SHOULD be doing.
HopefullyFinishing
Hey guys I've been here for five minutes what's going on
Somewhere or Bust!
Sure, why not
cesber the friendly ghost
HELLO YES THIS IS FROGGE HERE TO MAKE A GAME WHERE EVERYONE DIES
Donald Wins the Presidency
team spoopy
Team get notifications
Probably Halloween Game
Do nothing or die trying
Because Survival Horror can still be RPGs!
TwoD Studios
Teem Zeebree, it's a demo.
Team Vengeful Sols
hIROMU
The doll maker
Totally not making a game
Punkk makes a Surreal Horror Game!
The Music box
NoBody´s MagiK
AfroSoft
aHH Project
H16
Should be working in main game but
forest overlay == instant win
Marshmellow
Rainbows and Unicorns
Get spooped, plebs
Bats in the Belfry
#goingtofail
No game, no team, only candy corn
I might try this
Sup Bro
I like working under pressure, haha! -faints-
10 days to try beat SnowOwl :(
RWBY
Hossi Games
Mummy help me project
Irregularity
ManiacMax's Team
Manacade

Posts

That's fine. I'm just saying in case anyone got the idea that they could put forward a game they'd already started.
Frogge
I wanna marry ALL the boys!! And Donna is a meanc
18536
Vaccaria
You'd think MZ would use a dictionary for switches/variables by now?
4936
I have an end in mind for you.

/\
(Subtle spoiler)
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
Random idea that's probably going nowhere: Lock Ness... Mobster?

Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
author=Liberty
Nah, resource choices are up to you. Just... put a note somewhere so LPers know whether it has copyright music or not (we should make that a thing. The amount of times I've been hit on hour long videos just because one game had one song that was copyrighted... >.<; )
Oh... I was already gathering some songs.

Anyone knows of a good place to find free music that youtube won't flag? Music in general not just videogame music. Ambiance would be nice. The newgrounds audio portal was my first thought but i don't know of others that offer all kinds of genres for free.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
As I understand it, there's nothing Youtube won't flag. If someone makes a DMCA report, it doesn't matter if you're in violation or not. Youtube checks nothing. They just react.
Cap_H
DIGITAL IDENTITY CRISIS
6625
author=Mirak
author=Liberty
Nah, resource choices are up to you. Just... put a note somewhere so LPers know whether it has copyright music or not (we should make that a thing. The amount of times I've been hit on hour long videos just because one game had one song that was copyrighted... >.<; )
Oh... I was already gathering some songs.

Anyone knows of a good place to find free music that youtube won't flag? Music in general not just videogame music. Ambiance would be nice. The newgrounds audio portal was my first thought but i don't know of others that offer all kinds of genres for free.


i would recommend freemusicarchive.org
it contains mostly cc licensed stuff.
Will there be another one like this in about 3 years? I'm currently battling with three different games that need to be finished, so I'm afraid I'll have to pass for now. The third game I'm working on would be perfect for this, since those two list pretty much sums up the game in a way.
It's likely.


Youtube has a special algorithm for flagging songs that have been registered by certain groups. That said, there's no problem with using copyrighted songs, just make sure to put somewhere that they are in the game so that people who do LP know to group all the copyrighted ones in one video. ^.^)b
Frogge
I wanna marry ALL the boys!! And Donna is a meanc
18536
Presence of music has some awesome horror music
http://www.presence-of-music.com/
I'd love to compose some horror stuff for you guys, but I don't want to get too sidetracked at the moment. I usually get extra stressed out when I work on many things at once.

I'd love to make a horror music pack or something later in the future, though.
I'm going to try this event, and see if I can make a decent horror game.
I always wanted to make a horror game... but never was sure if I could create a good atmosphere xD
Anyways... I'll give it a try! ^o^
OldPat
OrudoPatto, kisama!
5107
Never got a chance to try and make horror games.
It could prove to be useful training. I'll do my best!
I'm in!
Does anyone know who we contact if we have any questions? i have a few
thank you for any help~


btw goodluck everyone, i cant wait to see the games everyone makes ^-^/~
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
Talk to Liberty.
author=pianotm
Talk to Liberty.


thank you ^-^~
Oh man yes. I suppose doing a parody horror game is out of the question? That's the one thing preventing me from going all-out "2spooky4u" on this joint. Also, man, some of these themes are just perfect for a dark Gravity Falls fangame. Can we submit more than one game?
I joined specifically for this contest.