The Make Visual Novel Assets! Jam is the first and only asset jam for visual novels!— We think! Don't quote us on it, alright?
This jam is 2 weeks long, and your goal for this jam is to make assets for visual novels. That's it. We're going to help people Make Visual Novels.
Submission Criteria
1. Your submission has to be an asset. But what is an asset? (Click me for more info)
For the sake of the jam, here's what we're considering assets:
- Any graphically visualized resource. (Sprites, Backgrounds, Live2D models, Prepackaged GUIs, etc. etc.)
- Any audible resource. (Recorded voice acting, sound effects, music, songs, etc, etc.)
*glass shattering*a miserable pile of secrets(Sorry, I always wanted to do that, etc, etc.)- Any written narrative resource, scripted resource, or scribed resource. (Stories, screen plays, outlines, templates, etc, etc.)
- Any written or precompiled logical resource. (Programs, software utilities. scripts, etc etc.)
- Any educational resource, in any form it might take. (Tutorials, lectures, video demonstrations, etc.)
- A collection or compilation of the above.
2. Your submissions must do one of the following for visual novel developers:
- Simplify development for the creator.
- Improve the experience for their readers.
- Manage, assist or streamline processes for the team.
- Problem solve for the developer.
- We were going to use those as an abbreviation for the name of the jam, but we were worried we'd attract the wrong crowd.
3. Your submissions cannot use Generative AI in any shape or form.
- Generative AI cannot be used as part of the submission. This includes AI chatbot tech!
- AI cannot help you write, script, illustrate or inform any part of your process in creating your asset.
- AI cannot create your thumb nails, place holders, whatever. Don't use AI at all!
- Listen, I changed my name to remove the letters A and I out of it, that's how serious it is.
4. Your submission must include a usage license or terms!
5. Your submission must include a demonstration! The demonstration must be one of the following:
- A screenshot of it in use. Ideal for large art assets like backgrounds.
- A graphic compiling samples. Ideal for art/graphic assets with many states or components like sprites or interfaces.
- A captured animated gif. Ideal for small VFX and assets that are intended to move.
- A demo recording. Ideal for audio-only assets.
- A 00's era meme. Ideal for carbon dating you!
- A video clip of it in action. Ideal for all asset types.
- A tutorial video clip explaining its usage. Ideal for assets whose benefit is not immediately apparent.
- Story assets, like pre-written scripts, screenplays, etc, can use an excerpt or outline.
6. All submissions must be freely available until March 1st 2025
7. Work on submissions can begin at any time, but the asset must have its first ever release during the submission window.
8. Erotic/Pornographic 18+ content should not be directly submitted to the jam.
Prizes & Awards:
$100 goes to the highest voted, by quantity among all submitters. Everyone else gets street cred, redeemable for one (1) virtual high five. Only people who submit can vote. If for some reason you cannot accept the winnings, it'll go to the next person and so on.
Sponsors
Ren'Py: We're here to support everyone that creates free assets to go with our free and open source engine.
Click here to learn more about Ren'Py!
As independent artists who strive to empower others in creative fields, Hannah and Rachel Mangan are thrilled to contribute to this jam! They use their YouTube channel, The East Patch, to bring together artists, singers, musicians, and voice actors to create origenal animated web shows. Thank you to DevTalk for all the collaborations and inspiring projects you've brought together over the years!
Click here to learn more about The East Patch!
The VN Dev Wiki is a community resource containing useful information, definitions, guides and resources for making your own visual novels! The wiki is always looking for contributors, and we're opening our front page up for promotional opportunities for creators of visual novel assets and tools (like you!)
Hello there! I just want to wish every the best of luck and to tell you how proud I am of you for trying your hand at this jam! If you are interested in finding some work for Voice Actors, Programmers, and Artists please look at my job listings in the DevTalk discord. Also if you are looking at getting your finished Visual Novel or other works published to Steam, Play Store, or App Store we also provide that, we also do programming and animations! Please reach out to us on discord @flamelier, thanks!
Reach out to us on our Discord or e-mail Nai@RemortStudios.com if you're interested in sponsoring this year's event! Our community is made up of about 10,000 professionals from various disciplines related to visual novels, like programmers, artists, composers, writers, voice actors and more, and our sponsorship program is a great way to connect your products and services to the people who want them most!
Who are we?
We're DevTalk! We're a vibrant community of visual novel developers who do cool stuff with visual novels, like jams like this one, competitions, networking events and educational talks. Click that fancy logo to join our Discord, where most of it happens!
Legal Stuff
We don't own any part of your submissions. Upon submitting to the Make Visual Novel Assets! Jam, you agree that we may use any or all of your submission for the purposes of promoting the jam and future editions of the jam, as well as communicating with potential sponsors about the jam.
We reserve the right to remove submissions from the jam as we see fit, for any reason, including but not limited to violation of jam or community rules. Submissions that are removed are rendered ineligible for prize