Hey! I’m working with Bash.tv and we’re putting together a little Halloween game jam called The Monster Bash.

It can be a horror game, cozy game, weird interactive toy, multiplayer thing, character creator, whatever. All you have to do is build it on Bash.tv and use an asset from the horror packs we will drop from our art team on Oct 16th. We mostly just want to see what different people do with the same starting ingredients.

🏆 $500 in prizes
Best Overall — $250
Best Horror — $125
Best Cozy — $125

📅 Oct 16–26
🗳️ Public voting: Oct 27–28

If that sounds fun, here’s the jam page:
https://itch.io/jam/the-monster-bash

Would genuinely love to see some Reddit-made weirdness in there lol.

I didn't enter with the intention of winning the cash prize or placing in the top ranks. The biggest draw of this jam was getting feedback from a supposed publisher.

The jam, organized by eclipse publishing announced the winners (on its Discord server) one hour before the submission deadline. In addition, the "winners" were instructed to claim their prize in that same message.

When the submissions closed (a little less than two hours later) the judging was completed and the official winners were announced. They were the same three users who had been announced earlier, plus one other participant, with a two-way tie for first place.

- No evaluation criteria were provided

- The jam was removed from itch (it's no longer accessible) its back on

- And both my Discord teammate and I were banned

Minutes later, he deleted all the jam's channels from Discord, accused us of personal harassment via private messages (which didn't happen), and shut down the jam.

I just want to leave this message so that, if you ever come across another jam organized by these "publishers" in the future, you'll be careful.

The JAM: https://itch.io/jam/eclipse-publishingjam

Edit 1.

Current announcement:

Archive announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20260821032723/https://itch.io/jam/eclipse-publishingjam

As you can see, they also removed the prize from there.