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

Time Loop

Background

Anomaly horror meets the mind-bending concept of a time loop in this unique game jam theme. With the latest update to the horror game template, including the new Screen Effect Package, you're empowered to craft a deeply unsettling atmosphere that captures the eerie and unpredictable nature of anomalies. We encourage all creators to experiment with these new tools to enhance their horror games.

In this game jam, you’ll create a horror game where players are trapped in a relentless time loop, plagued by a series of bizarre and reality-defying anomalies. Each time the loop resets, the environment changes in subtle and disturbing ways, amplifying the sense of unease and terror. The player must explore this disorienting world, face constantly evolving horrors, and piece together clues to find a way to break the loop—if there is one.

Key Features:

• Anomaly Horror Aesthetics: Use the Screen Effect Package to introduce visual distortions, glitches, and audio disturbances that create an atmosphere of unpredictability and dread, as if reality itself is unraveling.
  
• Story Background: Please create your own storyline that fits the theme.
• Exploration and Puzzle-Solving: Players must navigate through a world where time resets with each death or at regular intervals, and every loop brings new anomalies and horrors to confront.
• Dynamic Environment: The game environment should change slightly with each loop, adding new challenges, puzzles, and scares that force players to adapt and think on their feet.
• Psychological Horror: Build a sense of escalating tension and paranoia as the player becomes more aware of the looping nature of their reality and the anomalies that haunt it.

Hints:

1. Research the concept of anomaly horror to understand how to use reality-bending elements to evoke fear and discomfort.
   
2. Utilize the Screen Effect Package to create a distorted and unsettling atmosphere that enhances the feeling of being trapped in a loop.
3. Design puzzles and story elements that evolve with each loop, rewarding players who pay attention to the changes and learn from each cycle.

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$

Best Decoration * 1 - 10USD$

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 #Time Loop #Anomaly Horrorand #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