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

My First Meta Horror Game

Background

Many people have played The Stanley Parable. In the game, the player is constantly guided to do certain things and gradually faced with multiple choices, aiming to stimulate their rebellious mentality. As a result, the subsequent plot and development of the game will be vastly different.

In this game jam, we encourage participants to design a game with uncertainty and branching narratives. The player's choices will affect the direction of the game, guiding them to explore different outcomes. This design can allow players to be more deeply engaged in the game, experiencing the different results of their own decisions.

We hope this introduction can provide some creative inspiration for your game jam. We wish you the best of luck with your game development!

Key Elements to include:

Use the Horror Game Kit to create your META game.

Hints:

1. Google “Meta Game” and "The Stanley Parable" for inspiration.
2. Start by setting a scene for the story and then expanding upon it to create the game.

Example Games:

Overtime pay https://obazu.itch.io/overtime-pay

Unreliable https://www.yahaha.com/app/spaces/274897164748

Feel free to have a try and get some inspiration for your game.

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 #meta 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" in the tag field. 

5.  Send the co-author to HorrorHatch ( https://horror-haatch.itch.io )  before uploading.

Rating Rules

Awards

1st place * 1 - 100$

2nd place * 1 - 50$

3rd place * 1 - 5000YOS

Participation Prize *n - 2000YOS