Found Footage - Turn Your RPG Into A Horror Game

FOUND FOOTAGE — Horror Overlay for RPG Maker MZ

Turn any RPG Maker MZ game into found-footage horror. Drop in one plugin and your whole game is "being recorded" — VHS grain, rolling scanlines, chromatic aberration, a handheld camera that sways and jolts, and tracking glitches that tear across the screen on cue. A burnt-in camcorder HUD sits over everything: a blinking REC dot, a live recording timecode, a ticking wall-clock stamp, and a battery meter that can slowly die for that perfect "the camera cut out" beat.

No art assets to import, no spritesheets, no shaders to write. Flip a switch and it's on.

Features

• Three switchable looks: VHS (90s camcorder / Blair Witch), DIGITAL (clean modern handheld), and NIGHTVISION (green-tinted scope with heavy grain).
• Real-time GPU effects: chromatic aberration, scanlines, film grain, static, vignette, and a tracking-distortion band.
• Handheld camera: constant subtle sway plus randomized jolts.
• Glitches on demand and ambient self-firing glitches — great for scares.
• Camcorder REC HUD: blinking dot, recording timecode, wall-clock date/time, and a draining battery meter.
• Battery can auto-disable the overlay at 0% (a built-in "camera dies" moment).
• Controlled by a game switch, plugin commands, or one-line script calls.
• State (mode, battery, timecode) persists through save/load.
• Works across all scenes. Adjustable master intensity for lower-end hardware.

How it works

The plugin applies its effects as real-time filters over the whole scene using RPG Maker MZ's built-in renderer, then draws the camcorder HUD on top. Everything is data-driven, so switching modes eases in smoothly and you can dial the whole thing up or down live.

Quick start

1. Put FoundFootage.js in js/plugins/ and enable it in the Plugin Manager.
2. Set "Control Switch ID" to a spare switch.
3. Flip that switch ON wherever you want the horror to kick in.

Control it your way

• Switch: toggle your control switch with a Control Switches command.
• Plugin Commands: Enable, Disable, Set Mode, Glitch Burst, Set Intensity.
• Script calls:
  • FF.enable(); / FF.disable(); / FF.toggle();
  • FF.setMode("NIGHTVISION");
  • FF.glitch(2.0, 90); — a strong glitch burst on a scare beat
  • FF.setIntensity(40);

Compatibility & terms

Requires RPG Maker MZ with WebGL (the default). Free for commercial and non-commercial projects; credit appreciated, not required. Full docs are in the included README.txt.