Calling all pygame enthusiasts! Get ready for the 7 scariest days of your life (in a good way), because Pygame Community is back with another game jam! Whether you are already a part of Pygame Community or just a renegade pygame enthusiast, or even a complete beginner, this jam is for you!

To fully participate, please join the Pygame Community Discord Server.

The theme is: Near Sighted / Blind

This jam is all about using pygame to create interesting and unique horror titles using pygame. While a "primary" theme will be announced along with the start of the jam, all games are strongly encouraged to get with the halloween spirit and produce something spine-chilling (or at least spoopy).

• Game Feel:
  How good does the game feel in each individual moment? This will be based on controls, game balance, framerate, etc

• Immersion:
  How immersed in the world does the player become? This will generally be based on atmosphere and mood. This is a halloween jam so extra points for something scary or something fitting the halloween spirit. This is primarily where graphics and sound come into play regarding ratings.

• Polish:
  How much extra effort has gone in to make the game just that little bit better? This will be based on things such as programmatical detail (e.g. effects or visual feedback), visual detail, level count/size/detail and easter eggs. Bugs or areas of the game which feel rushed will result in a lower score in this category.

• Theme:
  How accurately and creatively does the game follow the primary theme given for the jam. Average ratings should be given for general adherence to the theme, whereas higher ratings should be given for clever or subversive use of theme.
• Innovation:
  How different is this game to other games that have been developed (especially other games developed for this jam in particular)? This should be based on how unique and creative the ideas in the game are, not how well executed said ideas are (that is rated as part of game feel and polish)

Community Admin Baconinvader#2781 will be streaming his playing through of all the entries soon after the jam ends. The game which spooks him the most will recieve the BACON SPOOKINESS AWARD, a prestegious honor which will grant the winner(s) 1 Month Discord Nitro.

Everyone likes a good incentive.

1st Place - 1 Month Discord Nitro
2nd Place - 1 Month Discord Nitro
Scariest game - 1 Month Discord Nitro
(Note that for those working in teams, only a maximum of 2 Nitros will be given out for a given entry)

(Note: 3rd place prize has been removed, and other prizes have been upped from Discord Nitro Classic to regular Discord Nitro. This is because of Discord's recent removal of Discord Nitro Classic)

• All submissions must be created between the start and end of the jam. Games that were started before the start of the jam will not be allowed.

• All entrants must primarily use Python and the pygame library to create their submission. Additional libraries, pre-existing generic code/engine (i.e. code that can be used in any game) are allowed, but pygame must still be used to create the core part of the game.

• You MUST create all assets used in your entry during the jam. No premade assets are allowed, even if you have the rights to them. This includes creative commons works (even CC0).
  The exceptions to this are things in the public domain that are over ~70 years old (e.g. classical music pieces, old paintings, etc) and fonts (which you must of course still have license to use).
  Asset generators on the other hand, are perfectly fine to use.
  
• While this is a scary jam, please try and avoid things like realistic gore (cartoon/pixel gore is fine) and very NSFW/18+ content, and be careful with sensitive subject matter. If you want to know whether something is acceptable, ask Baconinvader#2781 on the discord server.

• Teams of 2+ are allowed for this jam. However no more than 2 Discord Nitro awards will be awarded per team.

• Upon submitting your game you will be required to leave a link to your game's source code as well as the Discord #'s of all team members.

• Have "fun" !