Visual Novel Development

[New Tool] Beach Theme VN GUI by OTOJANG Games

This theme requires some UI customization knowledge to use it.

Get it on itch.io

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The Only One of Any Asset VN Jam returns! [July 11th - July 21st]

O2A2 is a visual novel jam in which your VN may only have 1000 words, and you may only use one of each asset (1 sprite, BG, SFX etc.).

Sign up here

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A game jam for visual novels featuring shonen and seinen tropes!

[Guide] Visual Novel Direction Guide by Raven

A retrospective guide on making visual novels as director and manager

Read it on itch.io

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[Guide] A clown girl breaks into your computer and...teaches you how to make visual novels?! by Arimia

An interactive beginner's guide on visual novel development, made for Clown Jam by Arimia. Play here.

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Registrations for NarraScope 2025 are open!

NarraScope is a hybrid conference centred around narrative games running from June 20 - June 22nd. You can get an online ticket for as little as $5.

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All Visual;Conference 2025 Talks are published!

Here's the playlist

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A non-competitive game jam where participants make bad VNs on purpose! It'll run from March 22nd until April 12th. An ideal opportunity to shut up your inner perfectionist for once and just try stuff out :D

VN AJO3 will start on March 15th and end on March 31st, running for two weeks. It's a chill, non-competitive jam, and you're allowed to submit assets that you've already started working on before.

Really love this quote:

"I think the most important thing is to figure out exactly what ideas really interest you," Tony said. "Figure out exactly what story you want to tell. People can tell when a project really comes from the heart, and they love that. At the end of the day, art is about connection. It’s about communicating with other people. So you have to know what you want to communicate.

Also there's some nice advice on writing horror in there!

[Guide] Free VS Commercial Visual Novel Development by Arimia

Read it on Arimia's blog

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Sign-ups for NaNoRenO are open! [March 1st - April 2nd]

It's a yearly month long visual novel game jam inspired by NaNoWriMo!

Sign up here

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The Make Visual Novel Assets! Jam has concluded! (voting ongoing)

There are over 100 submissions, including backgrounds, sprites, GUI packs, music, plugins and tutorials. All assets are required to be free until March 1st so check them out soon!

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New VNDev Community!

c/VNDev is a new Lemmy community centred around general VNDev discussions and sharing progress updates on your projects. It's supposed to be a federated alternative of sorts to r/vndevs.

Users from the microblog side (Mastodon, Misskey, etc.) are encouraged to participate as well by tagging the community in their posts! (in fact, please do!! It's free additional reach! Here's a guide)

What kind of discussions would you like to see here? Feel free to offer suggestions.

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Signups for the Otome Game Jam 2025 are open now!

The game jam will run from May 1st 2025 until July 1st 2025.

Check it out here

(Also there's a brand-new VNDev Lemmy community!)

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