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Looking for collaborators for jam entry - modern found footage horror

A topic by David South created Apr 08, 2026 Views: 349 Replies: 12
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Lets make a supplement for a modern surreal horror TTRPG that doesn't exist! 

I want the book to feel like you found a dusty old module for a game you haven't heard of behind the shelves of a local game store. The art is unnerving, but you feel compelled to bring it home, searching through the pages to figure out what sort of game this could possibly be for.

Here is an example of my work.

Design goals:

  • Zine sized pdf (probably 5.5in x 8.5in)
    • Somewhere between 12 and 32 pages.
      • Pages in multiple of 4 so it can be printed as a zine.
  • Modern found-footage surreal horror vibe throughout.
  • This book is the third module in a series.
    • Throughout the book it references rules, NPCs, events, and page numbers from the nonexistent core book and nonexistent previous two modules.
  • Gaps left in the module, leaving the reader wondering how this is supposed to be used.
  • Inspirations: Liminal Horror, Godhusk.

Important parts and where you can help:

  • Layout - I will do the layout using LaTeX.
  • Art - help needed
    • I have ideas of using grainy / blurry photos and putting them through a CRT filter to give them that found-footage vibe, but I am open to suggestions.
      • I could also take collaborator photos / art and run them through the CRT filter to keep the art consistent.
    • Cover art
    • Interior art
      • Ideally, at least one image per spread (2 pages)
      • Maybe one full page piece of art
    • Map(s)
    • Embellishments
      • Making the pages feel dusty, etc.
  • Writing - help needed
    • Lore
    • Rules text
    • NPCs
      • Factions
      • Different NPCs/factions have conflicting objectives
    • Locations
    • Items
    • Objectives
    • Cryptic GM advice
  • Editing - I will be the editor, keeping the writing and art consistent with the design goals.
  • Project management - I will facilitate this project.
    • The final PDF will be posted on my itch.io account, all collaborators will be credited.
Optional things:
  • It would be fun to mail a print copy to each collaborator.
  • There could be an advertisement for other products that don't exist.

Collaboration:

Please let me know if you are interested in collaborating! We can communicate through here as we get ready for the jam, then move to Discord once the jam starts.

Hi there, I’m interested in possibly collaborating. I’ve been toying with creating a corrupted/incomplete lorebook for a lost WH40K-inspired TTRPG related to an unfiction project of mine, with a dark and spooky title like “Fealty of Corpses” or something. That may or may not be something you’re into, but I’d love to hear more about what you were considering. What ideas have you had so far?

Submitted

Maybe we can combine ideas. I know almost nothing about WH40K, but I am open to taking your ideas for it and mashing it up with my modern surreal horror setting. 

The reason I want to do a modern setting in found footage style is it is one of the only genres where we can have blurry photographs as the art and it looks like it fits. It's much faster to make, I would guess (but I am not against having artists draw something either).

Maybe having the feeling of 40K modules in a modern setting could help with the discordant out-of-context feeling that fits this jam. We reference factions with tons of lore, replace space orks with something like a drugged up gang living in an abandoned gas station, and that could be a very interesting setting.

What do you think?

Also, what sorts of skills do you have? Are there parts you would like to work on? It sounds like writing parts of it might be up your alley?

I’ve actually been interested in incorporating contemporary technology into a project like this, less analog and more digital (DVD instead of VHS, and so on). What if the lorebook was a reprint of an older 40k-inspired game? So the modern setting and photographs are the “restorers” way of filling in the missing pieces, explained away as using an old TTRPG they found as a base for their new game. There’s probably a few ways to blend these two ideas together.

In terms of project skills, I’m an experienced writer. I’ve worked with Decker and Twine, and have practice in HTML/CSS from hand-coding websites.

Submitted

Your ideas seem quite interesting!

I am not sure how well a 40k style sci fantasy setting would work with the design goals of this jam entry. It seems like that could make it hard for the book to feel cohesive.

So I think that's probably not the direction I would like this project to go. But if you have other ideas and would like to still participate in this jam entry, we can try to figure out something that works! Otherwise, I hope you find a group that makes your idea, it sounds cool and I hope to see it as one of the submissions!

That’s totally fine: I’m not married to the 40k idea. But I am still down for writing as I’ve worked on an urban horror/liminal mystery-style story before. What idea specifically do you have about the modern setting? A more cryptids angle or something like the SCP Foundation?

Submitted

Basically anything that could be in one of the found-footage V/H/S series of movies would fit. That means rat monsters, freaky weirdos who live in the sewers, people who had their organs replaced with 90s old tech and are somehow alive, forbidden knowledge written on the walls of an abandoned building, all these would be great.

I want to detail weird locations, events. RPG mechanics that almost make sense. Similar to Godhusk, we could have several different potential endings based on which factions were helped, which items found, choices made by the player characters, etc.

That sounds amazing, I love the V/H/S movies, and found footage is my favourite movie genre/medium. As the jam is for a TTRPG that doesn’t exist, will we just be creating the setting/world, or are you hoping to pepper in context-less obscure mechanics about the game that cannot be played because, well, there is no game?

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Hello, I would be interested in collaborating. I've been wanting to do a found footage horror; I've had something planned correlating the found footage horror idea to a more Lovecraftian aspect. My expertise is writing, and thus I can only offer my assistance in the project through writing, but I could maybe help in the art department if need be. It would be awesome if we could brainstorm and see if we could pin a cohesive idea down, and let me know if it's ok for me to jump on board.

Submitted

That sounds great, we could use a writer! Welcome on board! 

Yeah once the jam starts we can do a brainstorming session, get a skeleton of what we want the book to look like. Then we can break that into chunks, figure out what parts each person is responsible for, and jump in!

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Hello! I'm interested in your project. I'm a digital artist who is experienced with creature & fantasy creature/character illustrations.

You can find my artstation portfolio here: https://snake48.artstation.com/

you can contact me through my email: ardadevrimunal17@gmail.com

Submitted

Your portfolio looks excellent, we'd love to have you on the team! I will start getting a discord server set up so we can all collaborate.

Thanks, I'm looking forward to it!

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