It’s time for our annual Halloween Spooktacular! We’re looking forward to featuring your spooky animation, games, art and music this month.
To participate, make something scary / creepy / horror-themed (funny or serious) and release it any time between now and October 31st. Include the halloween2025 tag!
As always, any music in your game or animation must be used with permission or from a source that has granted an open license / no copyright status. Here are some music resources! If you’re a musician who has made spooky music, you can post it in this thread and let people know it’s ok to use in their games and animation.
There are PRIZES and they increase with your help!
If you have the means and love Halloween, donate on our Supporter page and PM me a heads up you donated towards the Spooktacular. You can also specify which category. Our prize totals will grow and you’ll be added to the sponsor list below and to the winner announcement post.
Animation
1st - $300
2nd - $200
3rd - $100
Game
1st - $300
2nd - $200
3rd - $100
Music
1st- $150
2nd - $100
3rd - $50
4th - $50
5th - $50
Art
1st - $150
2nd - $100
3rd - $50
Thank you to our Sponsors!
@PuffballsUnited - $200
@orbitz - $120
@Framed51 - $120
@DrSevenSeizeMD 🎃 - $103.44
@Aalasteir - $100
@EmpathyIsPunk - $100
@TeffyD - $100
@53xy83457 - $66.6
@starcoryl - $50
@thatsSOremalicious - $50
@GirZiggler - $50
@TeffyD - $50
@SardonicSamurai - $50
@dahliaxblack - $50
@KagoDev - $45
@GreatSageZero - $30
@rtil - $30
@OozeBloom - $30
@JohnKill - $25
@VoicesByCorey - $25
@ZombieGhost - $20
@babygirlalaura - $20
@GrapheneKid - $20
@StitchMiss - $20
@tonyfinale - $15
NG - $400
If you’re curious about previous Spooktaculars, here are the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 winners.
Our promo banner and wall art this year is by @DoctorGrambo, inspired by Karel Thole, a Dutch painter who did a lot of sci-fi surrealist art back in the 60s.
Other Halloween Events
Villaingrounds is a daily art challenge inviting you to draw baddies from here on NG.
Witchtober is an every-other-day art challenge to create witch-themed art.
Spooktress is an every-three-dayish art challenge to draw female horror game protagonists.
Ahwham is organizing the third Shrieks and Screams Audio Collab.
Whimsical-wife is hosting a Pico Dress Up Collab.
Kolumbo is organizing the NGTV Halloween Special.
Cosmic-pixlz is hosting an STG Halloween Collab with a theme on Spiders this year.
Winners of the Trick or Treat Adventure Art Contest have been announced! Be sure to check out Trick or Treat Adventure on Steam.
If you're in Richmond, VA, October 25th is the 20th annual Richmond Zombie Walk. This event was originally started by @Mockery, who will be returning this year so say hi if you see him.
New Profile Picture Shapes
Supporters now have a batch of new options for profile picture shapes, including spooky themes like ghosts, pumpkins and skulls!
To change your profile picture shape, click the “Edit Profile” button on your user page and then the “Icon Options” button while in edit mode.
I’m trying to make the scariest pfp possible using this picture by AmazinLarry but I will probably keep tinkering.
