The Halloween 2023 Hardcore Jam

The Halloween 2023 Hardcore Jam is a contest hosted in the NormalBoots Hardcore Discord server on September 29th, 2023 by Soda, and is a sequel to The Summer 2023 Hardcore Jam. Contestants had until November 3rd, 2023 to record and create a one-episode Hardcore project that met the following conditions:

-It must be under 30 minutes in length.

-The host must say "Spooky kabooky halloween special, GO!" at the start of the intro. (Not strictly enforced, though)

Unlike the previous jam, there are no prizes for anybody who places in the Top 3.

A poll for the winner of the contest was started on November 8th. The top three five voted jams were announced on November 17th, and can be seen down below.

Top 5

1. Yives Oddysey: The Creeps (by Yives)

2*. hcjamentry.mp4 (by Hammy & JackP)

2*. Hardcore: Investigators (by Sylvette)

4. Crooked HC - The Witching Hour (by Crookedhw)

5. LIGHTS OUT (by Nyeck)

*These two entries tied for second place.

Player names like this denote an unfriendly element that they play as in the jam.

Submissions

Season	Cast	Goal	Result
Phen's Halloween Special (by Phen)	Phen, Nyeck, Puffin, Paon, Silver, Reggie	Complete the Monument	Failure
Black Ops DS Trick or Treat Gameplay! (by Superbop)	Superbop, Shroomish	Survive to Round 11	Failure
Scary Block HC Jam - The Nightmare (by May/FBIrb)	May, Galaxies, Splat, Wisely, Squiddy, Khana, Orca, Gorbachev	Survive a full night of Epic Siege	Success
Quickdraw: The DOOM Mini (by Skyfire)	Skyfire, Kashino, Kleppy, Gavin	Beat Doom	[REDACTED]
Crooked HC - The Witching Hour (by Crooked)	Crooked, Johnny, Rosebuddy, Trig, Soda, Gavino, Worse, Trent, Genesis, Zapow	Kill the other team	Purple team wins
Amethyst Escape The Backrooms HC (by Amethyst)	Amethyst, JackP, JacobSC, Raven	Escape the Backrooms (?)	Failure
As Twilight Falls (by Elly/Studkid)	Frog the Jam, Nullifi, Sylvette, Aurelia, Kashino	Defeat the Ur-Ghast	Success
hcjamentry.mp4 (by Hammy & JackP)	Hammy, JackP, Audio, Crooked, Zapow, Snail, Gavin, Dile, Jam	Gather the six pig heads	Failure (Jam wins)
d MineZ (Corrupted) (by OrcaHedron)	Orca, Wisely, Pixelup, Poyo, Short, FBIrb	Reach the top of Insomnia Tower	Success
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (by Genesis)	Genesis, Worse, Trent, Green	Escape the Sawyer Family	Round 1: Worse and Trent win Round 2: Green wins
Yives Oddysey: The Creeps (by Yives)	Pupzel, ImJustJR, Bread, Whisk, Piggy, Torin, Cri, Mikey, Ethan,, Drew, Alec, Soda, Wack	Innocents: Hunt the Ghosts in the mansion Killers: Kill all Innocents	Innocents: Failure Killers: Success
Last Minute Heroes 2 (by Waluigi, Dawn 💜, Eggert, Ontari, Winter & Jack Xiao Long) (Ineligible for voting: More than two editors)	Quintt, Winter, Waluigi, Jack Xiao Long, Dawn, Ontari, JT Money, Eggert, Lynn	Build Freddy's Fazbear's Pizza	Failure
STARBOUND SPOOKS (by BlueLego)	Lego, Aidan, Fletch, Kieran, Skyfire, Velvet, Squiddy, April, Kashino, Pepe	Defeat Asra Nox in the Grand Pagoda Library	Success
Halloween Shortcore (by Cratetma)	Cratetma, Jervy, Orca, Ian, Squiddy, Thoomas, Lego, JT, Crooked, Ontari, Velvet	Defeat the Wither	Failure
Sapling Separation (by TJ)	TJ, Quote, ConfusedSoul, Kyoger, Lusyelia, Nyaanachi, Lorelai, Tahmis	Find Ceres Fauna	Failure (Tahmis lives)
LIGHTS OUT (by Nyeck)	Nyeck, Sketch, April, Fletch, Nappy, Lego, Reggie, Zeke	Defeat the Eye of Terror	Success
The Expedition Halloween Jam: Slender (by Kyoden)	Kyoden, Moonie, Aubrey, Koopa, Brendon, Ori	Collect the 8 Pages	Rounds 1 and 2: Failure
MURDER MYSTERY! - Elkcore: Jam Edition! (by Pupzel) (Ineligible for voting: Length)	Pupzel, Yives, Mikey, Drew, Matt, Soda, Jacket, Torin, Yives, Kleppy	Defeat the Wither	Failure
Aubrey's PUMPKIN PANIC HC (by Aubrey)	Aubrey, Kylie, Pandora, Koopa, Neptune, shroomish	???	Failure?
Horror Show: Rickey Rat's Halloweed Special! (by Jamie)	Jamie, Basil, Robyn, Tosh	Complete "Rickey Rat chapter 1"	Success
Ennui HC: The Mercenaries (by Ennui)	Jum, Hammy, Soda, Yhouse, Logan, Penguin, Strato, Null, Ennui	Get to the Helicopter and escape	Failure
Autumn's Bone Golf HC Jam! (by Autumn)	Autumn, Pinecone, Crooked, Trent, Gavino, Genesis, Worse	???	Pinecone wins?
FALL GUYS MINECRAFT HARDCORE NIGHTS!!! - GETTING SCARY (feat. fall guys) (by Khana)	Khana, Soda, Alec, Lilli, Goose, Zodile, Mario, Bootlick67, Rukir, Don	Get the crown	Goose wins
Kashino55's Spooky Kabooky Halloween Special Go! (by Kashino)	Aesker, Lego, JackP, Kashino, Pepe, Satire, Sailor, Veocc	Retrieve the 5 items	Success
ScaryCraft Ep 1 (by LilliB)	Lilli, Lilli, Lilli, Lilli, Lilli, Lilli, Lilli, Lilli, Great King of Evil Ganondorf	???	???
Shellshocked Jam (by Koopa Enray)	Koopa, Riley, NotImmortal, Skullkid, shroomish, Kylie, Pandora	Complete the Adventure Map and defeat the Wither	Failure
HC Spooky jam Final draft (by Aidan)	Aidan, Aubrey, Kylie, Skullkid, Pandora, Trig, Cody	Complete the Adventure Map and defeat Herobrine	Failure
The Outlast Trials - BobblyBob HC Lite (by BobblyBob)	Sam, Logan, Rhu, Luke, Kieran, Tom, Chimii, Sani	Complete the Trial with more alive players than the other team	Team 1 wins (4 alive to 0)
Our Cemetery | Halloween Jam (by Pandora)	Pandora, Soda, Paddy, Nappy, Skyfire, Neverbacon, Snail, Laozi, Orca	Kill three Mutant bosses	Success
Hardcore: Investigators (by Sylvette)	Auto, Dawn, Aurelia, Thoomas, Lego, Robert, Vix, Sylvette, Kashino, Elly, Kleppy, Lucca	Explorers: Find the artifact and escape Detectives: Investigate the Explorers' deaths	Explorers: Failure Detectives: Success