#Spooktober VN Jam

[bobzora]

My submission to the Spooktober 6th Annual Visual Novel Jam is now out! Please give it a look :) it's a point-and-click bodyswap comedy featuring the worst guy ever

[brightoakgame]

Midwinter Update - Burdock is now Voiced!

Hello, dear friends—

I hope you all are keeping warm and well! After having such a lovely time working with the actors on Tell It Slant for this year's Spooktober jam, I spoke with Remnantation and the wonderful EeeCee and decided it was worth revisiting Burdock as well. 

What's in the update:

All characters now are voiced!

Additional art (including two CGs by the talented Remnantation)

Some minor quality-of-life tweaks 

Voice Cast:

The Fairy: CobaltKobold

The Deer Woman: Vanessa Benoit 

The Woodsman: Chase Via

The Pixies: Melissa Carrington 

The Spider: Georgie Hale 

The Merrow-Man: Dylan Keeler 

The Wisp: Aiden Childs 

Helper: Emily Morse-Lee 

Vengeful Spouse: Josephine Barger 

Voice Direction: EeeCee

I hope you enjoy revisiting our fae-touched woodland; may the coming new year treat you all with kindness!

B.

[qveiis]

BEARY THE HATCHET 🎸🪓

(psst! I worked on a game recently! you can play it here ) ^_<~

[coffeecakecatt]

Last month myself and some friends, including @diademscales made a visual novel for the Spooktober game jam! It's a horror anthology, and we'd all super appreciate people checking it out! I did the anthology stories' sprite work and wrote the frame narrative alongside the third story in the game! I hope everyone has fun with it!

[xxmissarichanxx]

What Grows in the Night

If you love that feeling of dread just creeping up on you and creepy but cute-looking characters, and if you're okay with a little body horror and animal death, What Grows in the Night might be for you!

About

A lone scarecrow is visited by a stranger clad in black. She's tall and beautiful, she says some strange words and shoves her hand into Scarecrow's straw-filled body, bringing her to life. The stranger commands Scarecrow to watch over and tend to her crops and leaves. What will Scarecrow do now that she's relatively free?

Thoughts

This game and story is still so so special to me. I had such a wonderful experience working on this project. It was so fun to design the UI and draw characters in a style far different from my usual style. I really tried to make them look like they came from a Tim Burton project.

The story itself can get pretty creepy depending on your choices, of course. But Scarecrow gets to make some special friends along the way. I especially love her relationship with Amaranthine. I lowkey ship them together u///u I still dream of returning to these characters one day to see how they're doing and what they're up to...

Where to Play

You can download and play What Grows in the Night from Itch or from the Google Play store!

[rottenmondays]

🏆 Best Boys Love Submission — Spooktober 2024 🏆

Story

Yoyo attends a Catholic university, but he's not religious, which is awkward. Especially since his best friend, his #1 best bro, his guy on the inside, his heterosexual life partner-to-be—his super cool and popular and beloved BFF4L—is starting to get real weird with the proselytizing.

Features

The RISING ACTION of Yoyo & Nathaniel's story!

10k+ WORDS (about 1 hour play time)!

FULL voice acting!

LIVELY cinematography!

ORIGINAL soundtrack!

Download Act One of Our Lamb Amidst Mortals right now on itch.io!

ACT TWO COMING SOON

[vndev]

Somehow our little spooky competition turned into a monster in its own right, something people have been making plans over for months.

You know who you are.

When we first started the Spooktober VN Jam 5 years ago, it was little more than a handful of entries I played by myself. The next year was too many entries for one person to read in a month. Last year in 2022, there were over 150 visual novels, with as many shortlisted submissions as we had total submissions in the first year, and over 20 of which had voice acting.

The scariest thing about Spooktober isn't even the freaking entries. It's the sheer volume of fanatics waiting to get started.

But!... I'm not judging this year and I enjoy torturing other people, so feel free to join the competition this year and help me bully Ari.

[seraphimslum]

you see her approaching you from a considerable distance. wyd

[bnig97jr]

I made a lil visual novel/ point-and-click game in a month! I'd love it if you could check it out!

Content warnings for mild body horror and mild gore! (Like, a skeletal ghost)

[doublefreegames]

A sneak peek at Lydia's Labyrinth... Mwah Darlings!

It's day 2 of the Spooktober VN jam! Here's a quick image drop to show off the look we're going for in Lydia's Labyrinth!

As always, royalty free photos from pixabay are doing the heavy lifting for backgrounds and graphic design. I add a lot of colouring and effects to make it look more vampy.

I've also started the coding in Renpy and Robert is working on the writing, maze design and sound effects. So it's all go and I hope we can get this dangerous labyrinth finished!

Hope your all having a great Spooktober and keep healthy during the jam!

[melancholy-marionette]

UnderHolo OST [YouTube Release]

One of the awesome projects I had the privilege of working on during this year's Spooktober VN Jam was UnderHolo, a horror, yuri, VTuber management sim that you can play for free here :D Making part of the original soundtrack alongside Manit .K was an absolute blast ^-^ I managed to make some funky videos for YouTube that contain all of my music tracks featured in the game :3 You can find them all in a playlist here! (14 tracks total)

!!! But please be careful with your eyes as the videos contain FLASHING/SHAKING images !!! For a few tasters, here is the title theme [Cyber Survivor]

1 version of an anthem for the baddies [UnderHolo - mysterious mix]

A panic attack in a track x3 [Murder Dox - mega dox B mix]

And some lo-fi chillout vibes for scheduling streams for your team [Hazy Daze] <3

If you're looking for Manit .K's side of the OST, that can be found here :3

And if you haven't already checked out the game for free, what are you waiting for? x3 Go play it, ya silly sausage!!

[arimiadev]

I played (another) 50+ visual novels in 1 month (NOT CLICKBAIT) (REAL) and here's my advice to other visual novel developers!!

it's been a long month but Spooktober Visual Novel Jam is now over and here's my wrap up for it!

🎃 read it on my website 🎃

[brightoakgame]

Burdock Available Now!

Stick closely to the path, my dear, don’t wander and don’t stray! The mists are full of secrets, the woods are full of fae; And many careless mortals they’ve spirited away— So do not go a-wandering, but on the path please stay!

Game Now Live!

When you've lost your way and nearly lost your life, will your name be enough to buy it all back?

Burdock is a dark and atmospheric fairytale with fae creatures, riddles, and danger abounding. Will you be able to navigate the perils you face and reclaim your life? Or will the mists swallow you up for good...?

Features:

Nameable Protagonist (gender left undefined)

24,000 words (roughly 2-3 hours playtime)

Four Full Endings—and multiple Bad Ones

Original Soundtrack

It's free!

Content Warnings: violence, blood, and potentially disturbing imagery and sound effects. There are no intended jump scares, and no animals are harmed—though the same cannot be promised of the protagonist!

Created for the 2023 Spooktober Visual Novel Jam by:

Character Art and Design: Remnantation

Original Soundtrack: John Åhlin

Coding: Windchimes

Logo and UI Design: ingthing

Direction, Sound Design, Backgrounds, and Writing: B.L. McDarragh

[evillittlebug]

i've got a new game out! Model Employee is a short, corporate horror visual novel. get through life in the same-hour-delivery shipping warehouse of the cyber-flavored near future. And maybe find love with your AI boss/companion/work-wife...

it's a perfect balance of weird, scary, funny, and kind of deep. made this with nth circle and a very talented team.

you can play FOR FREE on itchio for PC and Mac. Download it here!

[suntann]

Have you ever done something you regret?

I’m participating in Spooktober VN Jam 2024!! Can’t wait to see what everyone is cooking up!! 🍩

[glaistigs-garden]

YOU

want to play our Spooktober Jam entry and meet her. A very normal woman.