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

Hospital

In this game jam, participants will explore the unsettling environment of a hospital, where the boundary between care and chaos blurs. Hospitals are places of healing, but they can also be filled with tension, fear, and uncertainty. Strange occurrences, eerie patients, and dark hallways can turn a once-safe place into a nightmarish labyrinth. Whether it's a haunted facility, sinister experiments, or supernatural entities lurking in the corridors, players must uncover the horrifying truths that lie within the hospital's walls.

Please note: The content provided in this background is intended to help jammers understand the theme. You are free to interpret and develop the theme as you wish. The final game does not need to strictly follow the background story.

Key Features:

- Haunted Hospital: Create a chilling atmosphere in a hospital setting, where something is terribly wrong—be it unnatural beings, haunted patients, or malevolent spirits.

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

- Exploration and Survival: Players will explore the hospital's dark hallways, eerie patient rooms, and strange laboratories, uncovering clues to survive the terror.

- Medical and Psychological Horror: Blend elements of medical horror (e.g., unethical experiments, unsettling medical equipment) with psychological tension to keep players on edge.

Hints:

1. Utilize the sterile, cold, and impersonal atmosphere of a hospital to build tension—empty waiting rooms, flickering lights, and distant sounds of medical machinery can all heighten the sense of dread.

2. Think about how the hospital staff and patients might be involved in the horror. Perhaps they're not what they seem, or they're hiding dark secrets.

3. Design puzzles and challenges that require players to interact with medical equipment or explore hidden parts of the hospital to escape the horrors within.

Special Task

1. We have prepared a tutorial on how to replace Lever Puzzle, and now we invite you to try replacing it in your own game!

2. Take a screenshot or record a video of the Lever Puzzle 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 #hospital 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