The aim of this jam is to bring together people with knowledge about UPBGE game development and encourage you to do your best to demonstrate the potential of this excellent engine, I want your help to increase the catalog of this amazing engine, which unfortunately has a catalog small, but can you help me change that, of your "bits and blood" in this competition and help us improve the catalog and show you what you are capable of doing within UPBGE, how far will you go? join my jam and go for it!!

The jam theme is: Survival Horrors Like 2010 - 2015 games

Between 2010 to 2015 there was a spike in simple horror games launched in the indie market, games inspired by the classic "Slender: The Eight Pages" our "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" the theme of this jam is basically to be inspired by the essence of these golden times and innovate, create new mechanics and creative, but keeping the theme of making a simple game, with a simple objective, innovating is important precisely because it was this genre that contributed to the saturation of our market, having until today games that literally copy what Slender was and relaunch in nowadays, of course we don't want to do the same, remember to create something new based on the theme to escape this negative stigma, basically your game should have the following elements to fit the jam theme:

• A frightening enemy that we cannot kill or fight directly, the fun is in feeling helpless
• Objectives or Puzzles to complete before you die
• History, and it must be told directly or indirectly within the game, this was a crucial factor for this style of game, the stories guaranteed immersion, and many of them even transcend the media of digital games, becoming part of the digital culture with time
• It must be in first person, and we must use flashlights, cameras or any items that illuminate the environment, but avoid leaving the game too dark, thus referring to the classic style of indie games of the time

Why did I choose this theme?

I chose this theme because Slender was the game that made me migrate from RPG Maker to 3D, it was the game responsible for my interest in 3D, and for having a well-focused industry, thanks to this game I work with Blender today and support myself doing what I love, and I'm sure it had the same impact on many other young people at the time, motivating us with the exciting idea of having the game played by a Youtuber and seen by millions of people, as slender did, Slender was a milestone in the history of video games, at the time everyone understood that they could create their own games by themselves, nowadays with the advancement of technology it's even simpler to be inspired by this game and improve your idea, I hope it's fun for everyone, and thanks for participating!

How to avoid performance problems in indie projects?

Most indie developers have problems with performance in their projects, most of these problems only exist because we tend to skip study steps when we haven't worked in the area yet, to avoid problems, treat assets correctly, learn UV Mapping, Bake the textures, use LOD, remove the collision of non-moving objects and add custom collision boxes, avoid unnecessary use of lamps, polish scripts to avoid unnecessary use of processing, put configuration menu in your game, customizing the resolution on weak machines already solves most of the performance issues, clean up unnecessary Keyframes and avoid shader abuse, but without a doubt the most common is Scaling UVs, avoid this by learning to bake your textures: how to bake: shorturl.at/wMY09 UV Unwrapping tutorial: shorturl.at/sLQV9, use the community tab if you have performance issues and I'll try to help you.

• You can start the game from scratch or adapt some project you've been developing for a while, but remember that you must strictly adhere to the theme, games outside the theme will be removed from the jam.

• Submit any type of game until the end of the jam, then we will open voting and the judges will choose the best game in their respective categories.

• Your project must be playable, it doesn't need to be something giant, time is short, make a demo with a simple idea that's fun, or take a risk and make something big, but remember that if it's not playable it won't be valid for voting

• You should only use UPBGE as a game engine, the version doesn't matter, you can even use BGE if you want, external tools like Gimp, Substance Painter, Fuse... and others can be used without restrictions.

• Work alone or in a team, but we don't recommend you join large teams, it's more of a hindrance than it helps on small projects.

• Assets are allowed, but you need to make sure you have legal rights to them.                                                                                                      
• I won't remove any entries for excessive violence or gore, it's a horror jam, that's to be expected, it's adult games made by adults, if there's a narrative sense for something controversial like racism, xenophobia, homophobia or derivative dialogue, I don't I will remove it because I understand that you are just building a more realistic narrative, but there is a however, the big problem is expressing hatred against someone or some group without there being any narrative sense, so I will understand that you only want to encourage violence and I will remove it your entrance, I will be intolerant of intolerance.

All games will be judged by judges of my choice (long-time developers on the engine), the criteria are:

• Gameplay
• Visual Design
• Narrative
• Sound Design
• Soundtrack
• Performance
• Originality

The best project presented, guarantees 3 steam keys for the best horror games of all time: Outlast, Outlast 2 and Amnesia the dark descent

I haven't created a community yet, maybe I don't, as the purpose is to promote the engine's advancement, below are links from the UPBGE project itself, which are enough to clear any doubts about the engine.

Official website of the engine: https://upbge.org

Official Engine Discord: https://discord.gg/DsTJ8Ga