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

I should have my game done in a few days time. I won't have much time after sunday so I probably won't do much gam mak after that.
Edit: How do you change the background for this little bastard?
author=OzzyTheOne
Thanks! But please use the edit button mext time. Double posting is a no no in the forums.
author=Liberty
Yup, if you want to reply to different people, just quote both posts and they'll both be in the textbox when you go to respond. Otherwise, just hit the edit button to add more to your post if no-one has posted in the meantime. Thanks! ^.^


A reminder to double-check your gamepages for spelling/grammar errors and length issues. At least a paragraph of PLOT-centric description (you can always use this article if you can't find enough words: http://rpgmaker.net/articles/1270/ ) and this thread is always open to help if you're not sure about your grammar/spelling: https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/13072/

And don't forget that while you can show custom artwork, it won't count for one of the 3-5 different images you need to show. Might as well also add that you need in-game images of gameplay that is in the game - mock-ups and in-editor shots don't count unless you already have the necessary 3-5 images. >.<)b


I'm also adding games that show up in the queue to a Playlist for the event so I'll post a link to that in the main event body.


;_; Ahh sorry about that guys...
I'm very new to all of this so i'll make sure it doesn't happen again...
Oh, don't worry about it too much! Even those used to it make mistakes. You just resubmit when it's done - there's not a limit to how many times you can resubmit (as long as you don't, you know, resubmit right after being denied without changing anything). It's a fairly common thing (and the post wasn't all about your page, don't worry! It was a mix and match of a few pages. ^.^ )
Oh you have no idea how much I wish I could jump in on this. x_x

Sadly, school has broken my back and I don't have the time to give this the attention it deserves. I wish you all good luck, and hope some great games come out of this event.
I completed my game, for anyone interested in an early game to try out. Hopefully everything works fine, I've tried it like 5 times so it should.
https://rpgmaker.net/games/9273/
author=SnowOwl
I should have my game done in a few days time. I won't have much time after sunday so I probably won't do much gam mak after that.
Edit: How do you change the background for this little bastard?


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author=SnowOwl
I completed my game, for anyone interested in an early game to try out. Hopefully everything works fine, I've tried it like 5 times so it should.
https://rpgmaker.net/games/9273/


yay! im looking forward to this c; the mapping looks so cool

dont forget to put the download on the event page o; it should be submit~
Question! °O°/)
I have some random scary events in my game. And one of them is one of the required things the game has to have.
But it's random... so some players maybe will never see it... is this legit? :)
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
2 weeks away and I have barely much more than when I started. Making games is really hard.
I'm thinking of scrapping my current idea and just going with ON NO HAUNTED SKOOL LETS NOT DIE
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
Yes my project is starting to weigh heavily on me i'm thinking about going the kloe route and using 2k3's rtp to make anything.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
Finally, my pain is at a low enough level that I can actually focus on what I'm doing, and enjoy it, and I'm back to work.
author=Liberty
That's fine.
Okay, thanks. ^o^

I think I can finish the game for the deadline... One secret ending is done, some random events are done. A small puzzle and keys are scattered.... °u°d

*Gives pianotm a good mood sticker and a box full of free hugs*
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
I'm still thinking on how to tell the story of my game properly, other than that, I've been doing gam mak like crazy! I also have a very nice riddle for the people that want to play the hidden segment of my game. (Hidden segment of the game might be added after the event, depending on how much time it takes me to finish the main part of te game)
Frogge
I wanna marry ALL the boys!! And Donna is a meanc
18536
author=Liberty
ON NO HAUNTED SKOOL LETS NOT DIE


sounds good enough to me
So i'm having trouble doing a flashlight effect, I don't have any money to buy the s00perHawesome lighting script, and me doing it myself just makes the light 30 feet away from the character, or it just won't move.
If anyone would like to help me with that, that would be greaaat~
AND if anyone is still needing to be on a team, I would love some help c:
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
Yay! Most of the castle (or should I call it a mansion?) is now traversable. I'll probably start adding in all the proper spooks and story elements soon, halloween is just two weeks away!
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
Finished the elevator, it's now working both ways, after you repair the broken lever.



Woops, double post