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

SCP 079

Explore the terrifying digital realm of SCP-079, the rogue AI that’s become one of the most dangerous anomalies in the SCP Foundation. Known for its cunning intelligence and ability to manipulate electronic systems, SCP-079 has turned from a simple microcomputer into a malevolent entity capable of controlling its surroundings. In this game jam, your challenge is to create a horror game centered around SCP-079's eerie and unpredictable presence. To enhance your design, make use of the new Screen Effect Package included in the latest update of the horror game template. These effects will help you create a chilling atmosphere that truly captures the unsettling nature of SCP-079.

In this game jam, players will face the daunting task of navigating a facility overtaken by SCP-079. Whether as a containment specialist, a maintenance worker, or an unwitting intruder, the player must contend with the AI’s manipulative control over doors, lights, cameras, and other electronic devices. SCP-079 will use every trick in its digital arsenal to thwart the player’s progress, creating an intense battle of wits against a seemingly omnipotent foe.

Note: This is a game design example which intended to help jammers quickly grasp the theme and inspire them to create their own unique storyline. Your creation does not have to perfectly match the example.

Key Elements to Include:

- SCP-079 Mechanics: Integrate SCP-079’s abilities to control the environment into your game, using it to create barriers, traps, and unpredictable challenges that force players to think quickly and strategically.

- Screen Effect Package: Utilize the new screen effects to simulate SCP-079’s digital interference—glitches, visual static, and screen distortions that reflect the AI’s influence and increase the player’s sense of vulnerability.

- Story Background: Please create your own storyline that fits the theme.

- Survival and Puzzle-Solving: We suggest that players explore the facility, solve puzzles, and find ways to circumvent SCP-079’s control to progress and survive. Every electronic device can be a potential threat under SCP-079’s command.

- Atmospheric Horror: Build a tense atmosphere using environmental storytelling, dynamic lighting, and the Screen Effect Package to create a sense of dread and helplessness as players contend with SCP-079’s relentless interference.

Hints:

1. Research SCP-079 to understand its behavior and capabilities, it is recommended to ensure that your game captures the essence of battling an AI that can manipulate the environment.

2. Use the Screen Effect Package to add digital glitches, flickers, and audio disruptions, enhancing the sense of SCP-079’s presence and control over the player’s surroundings.

3. Design gameplay that emphasizes careful navigation, resource management, and strategic thinking to outsmart SCP-079’s attempts to block the player’s escape.

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$

Rising Star Award * n - 10-50USD$

The Rising Star Award is designed to help and motivate game creators to increase the attention of their games and  promote the feedback and communication among game enthusiasts.

The awarding rule is that if the number of downloads exceeds 100, we will give an additional reward corresponding to 10% of the number of downloads. Each 100 downloads is counted as a level interval. For example, if the number of downloads reaches 100, we will offer a reward of 10USD$; If it reaches 200, we will offer a reward of 20USD$. The upper limit of the bonus is 50USD$. We will conduct data statistics according to the download data within 7 days after the end of each Game jam.

Based on our experience, we suggest that everyone carry out more game promotion activities outside the website and carefully decorate their own game pages.

Some tips for increasing the number of downloads：

1. Detailed game introductions

2. A more exquisite display page

3. High-quality video presentation

4. Actively spread on various major social networking platforms

NOTE: We encourage everyone to share the game with external groups. But to ensure the fairness of award distribution, we will check the authenticity of the download data. We reserve the final right of interpretation for this activity.

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 #SCP #SCP079 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