This jam is now over. It ran from 2022-04-29 14:00:00 to 2022-06-08 21:59:59. View results

Are you just starting out with game development or are you already an experienced game developer? Do you want to create a horror game? Are you looking for a game jam to motivate you to finally finish something? Are you willing to follow a certain theme, in order to find inspiration and maybe try something else you wouldn't normally consider? Whether you plan to make a serious, dark horror masterpiece or a B-movie style game about typical horror movie protagonists going into spooky places where no sane man would ever dare to tread, this game jam is for you! Hopefully, at the end of the game jam you will have something playable you can be proud of!

Theme: Among the Stars

Bonus Challenges: Unlike the Theme, these are entirely optional. Feel free to do one, two, all of them or ignore them completely.

For this game jam, the optional challenges are the following three:

1 - In Space: The game is set in space, on an alien planet, on a spaceship, space station or a similar setting.

2 - Aliens: The game features aliens in some way.

3 - Constellation Puzzle: The game features a puzzle that's based around constellations in some way.

Length of the Submission Period: 5 Weeks

Discord: Here's the link to the Discord server!

Rules:

- You can only start working on the actual game project after the submission period starts, but you can start planning and creating/gathering assets and other resources before that time.

- There's no restriction on the Engine, Libraries or Framework you can use to develop your game. Feel free to use Godot, Unity, Unreal Engine, Game Maker Studio, Construct, Pixel Game Maker, Adventure Game Studio, RPG Maker or anything else you want.

- Your game must be a horror game, or atleast have horror elements. It doesn't have to be outright scary, so long as it can even remotely be considered one.

- You can use premade assets, so long as you have the rights/license to use them, abide by their Terms of Use and give credit.

- Your game must incorporate the Theme in some way.

- Abide by itch.io's Terms of Service.

- Provide content warnings for your game if needed.

Suggestions:

- Try to include a Browser version of your game if you can. It's not a requirement and you don't have to do so, but you will get a lot more people to play your game if it can be played in a browser.

Submissions(38)

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A tragic incident happened in an Alien World, what will the Detective do?
Interactive Fiction
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A deadly game of hide-and-seek
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A scavenger uncovers the dark secrets of a doomed starship.
Adventure
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Escape the Space Station using the Scuttle Protocol as the sole-survivor of this Horror Survival Sci-Fi Metroidvania
Platformer
A short psychological horror.
Puzzle
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Short Sci-fi FPS Horror
Shooter
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You serve alien customers aboard the Hubble Convenience Store. You translate their requests for "Earth Specials."
Puzzle
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Explore a mysterious object from outer space
Adventure
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Adventure
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Platformer with mini-game logic puzzles about the horrors of being stuck in the university library
Platformer
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Lowpocalypse is a survival horror/stealth game set in a lowpoly world, scene of an apocalyptic alien invasion.
Survival
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In space only ANISH can hear you SCREAM!
Shooter
Horror in space #ThemedHorrorGameJam
Adventure
Strategy
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Can you escape if the lights never turn back on?
Puzzle
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Find the constellations
Puzzle
Retro 3d space horror
The Decayed is an FPS shooter. Take back what's yours.
Shooter
Caring for a pet isn't easy...
Adventure
A FPS where you can kill spiders
Action
As the Dragon incarnation, will you be able to accomplish your duty towards the Universe?
Adventure
A game made for the Themed Horror Jam #6
Interactive Fiction
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Explore the unknown
Adventure
Become a kidnapped astronaut.
Find 8 pages and survive
Survival
3d shooting game
Shooter
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If space is always expanding, what's it expanding into? (a chase horror game at the edge of space)
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an astronaut explores mars, but some doesn’t seem quite right
Puzzle
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A horror game where you try to escape the pyramid that you are trapped in
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Classic Space X Among the stars Platformer
Adventure
Survival
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AI wrote the text, human produced a visual novel!
Visual Novel
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