🏆👻Meet the winners of the Spoopy Jam presented by Game Jolt, ...

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🏆👻Meet the winners of the Spoopy Jam presented by Game Jolt, AWS and Beamable! Every day is Halloween!🎃

Ooh, that was spoopy!
From spooky to silly, and everything in between, our judges loved playing all the spoopy games you made in just 15 days!! 👏 It wasn’t an easy choice! Here are the ones that spooked and delighted most of all.

Great job!

🥇 1st Winner

Holy cats, it’s Meow at the Pumpkin Moon by @Slingerus ! The Pumpkin Moon raises - no kitty is safe! Mr. Charming and Stella have been abducted by a monster, and their owners form an unlikely alliance to save their furry companions!

👥 Local co-op multiplayer for 2 players.

🥇 2nd Winner

History makes awesome & spoopy party board games, as you can see in The Habsburg Project by @darkelectrongames . The winner with the most keys in the end is freed from captivity, and the rest never get to see the light! Play the game to see how it’s related to the Habsburgs expanding influence all around Europe!

👥Online multiplayer for 4 players.

🥇 3rd Winner

One game, two scariest things ever: in Clown Meltdown by @SwagShaw! A Clownspider has been let loose and is running around a factory. It’s good the night shift janitors will have to take it out with makeshift firearms!
Wait... YOU are the night shift!

👥 Online multiplayer for 4 players.

🌟GameLift Winner

Not all that’s cute is safe! In Ghosts of Dracushima by @bulbandrei try surviving in Dracushima’s Mansion while collecting candy, solving puzzles and capturing ghosts!

👥Online multiplayer for up to 4 players.

🌟Honorable Mention

Your fave childhood game gets a spoopy twist in Spooky Hide by @ParamoGames . One is a ghost hunter, others are ghosts hiding to avoid being captured.

👥 Online multiplayer for 2 - 5 players.

What's next?

On November 29th, the 3 winning teams will receive a mentoring session from TinyBuild on how to pitch a game to publishers and investors.

November 30th: streamer DeeJayKnight will play the 3 winners’ games on the front page of Twitch!

December 1st: the 3 winners get an additional mentoring session!

December 3rd: practice time! The 3 winners will pitch their spoopy games to a panel of publishers and investors.

Follow along the above schedule and stay tuned for additional announcements + dates for the NEXT game jam!

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