SCREAM JAM 2024

During this time, you can use either our Discord or the itch.io community to find a team, if you so wish. If you want to join solo, that's perfectly fine.

Submission Period

Begins when the jam begins, and lasts for seven days.

You will use these seven days to build a game mostly from scratch.
Since this is your first game jam, I recommend coming up with a very simple idea. Write out an in-depth list of all the assets and game mechanics you think you'll need to make it work, and then simplify the idea even more. You want to have a really small scope, to be able to make a nice, tight final product.
On that note, understand that your game doesn't need to be finished! It's okay to submit an incomplete game, but it's even better if you plan the process so that you can cut things for time.
As early as possible, set up a new project page on itch.io (top-right menu > "Upload New Project". Contrary to the name, you don't have to add any builds to start setting up the page. Submit it to the jam as early as you want by going to the jam page itself and following prompts
As this submission period continues, keep filling out your game page. And try out uploading an early build. You don't want to be stuck messing around near the deadline.

Voting Period

After the submission period has finished, the voting period begins!

You have seven days to rate games by other people, and leave constructive comments. You'll want to do this, so that people rate your own game and give helpful advice.
You are not allowed to modify your game during this time, except to fix game-breaking bugs.

After the voting period ends, the results will be available.

Hope this helped!

Black Bun SuccubusSubmitted46 days ago

Hi! Have fun, eat well, and get enough sleep! Take care of your health, especially during these last days. Your primary goal should be to finish the game or at least make it playable. All the simple ideas often turn out to be too complex to execute in just one day, haha, so try to listen to your teammates and keep things simple. But a game jam is a great opportunity to experiment and test ideas, so go for it!

Personally, we try to plan to finish the game a day early, so we can use that time for music, fixing technical issues, and designing the game page to entice others to play our game. Have fun, and I wish you an amazing first horror game jam!

Vi3ions46 days ago(+1)

thanks for all of the support! So far the community around here has been nothing but helpful for me and my solo aspirations! I wish your project luck!

Marsh_Toast46 days ago

Keep scope like very small, extremely small, because your ideas may take weeks to make in reality.