
Haunt Comp 2025: The Cursed Gem's Wrath

House Logo by Maki Niikura
A Haunted Maze walk Through Concept Created For Haunt Comp 2025
Team 27:
Maya Batshoun: Layout & Drafting Lead, Concept Artist, Writer
Nathan Bowden: Lead Concept Artist, Elevations Lead, Writer
Tierney Brennan: Operations Lead, Concept Artist, Writer
Maki Niikura: Marketing Lead, Scare Actor Designer, Concept Artist, Writer
PLaced in top 10 overall
Deliverable Award: Best Layout
Producer’s Choice Award
High Concept
“Hearing rumors of a lost castle's cursed gem that reanimates the dead, a journey begins deep in the forests of Ravenhill where the past is never silent.”
Dare to seek the truth in The Cursed Gem’s Wrath, a haunting journey through forest and a castle where the undead victims of the cursed gem waits at every corner.
The village of Ravenhill carries many whispered tales. Between the twisting trees and among crystallized corpses, the quest to uncover the curse brings travelers to a castle steeped in secrets. It seems a promising shelter from the dangers of the cursed forest, but within its shattered halls lurk horrors beyond imagination.
Crystal-infested corpses stir, ghostly wails echo through the ruined chambers, and the dying don’t seem to stay dead. Each room tells a piece of the fallen kingdom’s tragic story – blood soaked armor, a princess impaled and pleading, and knights decaying at their posts. The deeper the journey, the louder the whispers grow until even the walls seem to breathe and bleed. In the end, the gem riddled rot that lives at the castle’s very core reveals the possessed queen, a mere pawn to the cursed crystal embedded in her crown – its power binding her reign to eternal ruin.
Is there a path to escape? Or will the cursed gem’s wrath claim another soul?