This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-05-19 21:00:00 to 2024-06-30 21:00:00. View 48 entries
Menhera (メンヘラ) is an abbreviation of “Mental Healther”, meaning “someone who does mental health”, and refers to a subculture centered around a certain style of vent art as well as fashion featuring it.
After prolonged deliberations, the panel of judges has at last selected the following VNs as the winners, listed in alphabetical order below:
Let it be known, however, that there are many other excellent VNs among the jam submissions outside of the aforementioned winners—so much so that it proved extremely difficult for us to select only five of them! We very strongly encourage you to read through them all~
Additionally, we'd like to extend a tremendous thank you to all of the amazingly talented artists, writers, musicians, developers, and other members of the community who participated in the jam, as well as for your patience during our extended deliberation period! We're all incredibly proud of the submissions to this jam, and we very much hope to see more works from you all in the future!
(The original jam description follows below.)
Hello, and thank you for your interest in the very first Menhera VN Jam! This is a jam for games about living and coming to terms (or not) with unseen burdens, whether they be mental, emotional, physical, psychological, or otherwise.
We will play through all the submissions and pick FIVE of our favorites which will receive a $250 paypal headpat. There will be no first place. There will just be 5 judge favorites. Due to payment reasons, all members of teams involved must be legal adults.
Please note that, in addition to the overall quality of the works—writing, art, music, etc.—one of the primary criteria in determining which entries will be granted an award is being on-topic. In other words, while the individual elements of a work are important to their overall composition, a work with a conventionally "bad" component (e.g. very amateurish art) will not lose points on those grounds alone. Intention and sincerity are the most important parts of our judging criteria, so try and make something representative of your heart more than anything!
✍️❤️rules for stories:
🖥️🤓technical rules:
✨example games that we like. BECAUSE THEY'RE OURS.✨
we are the organizers and judges btw. hi.
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