Are you tired of making good visual novels? Dont you want to go ape shitt?

No need to wait, because now you gotta make the worst visual novel ever created!

Never made a visual novel before? Want to try a new engine you haven’t been able to try yet? Are you a perfectionist who is having a hard time completing things? Or you just wanna make something weird and essentially unmarketable? Then this is the perfect jam for you to start learning and make something without the pressure of making something good! 

Based on the game jam run on the Lemma Soft Forums from 2012 and 2013! This is an unranked jam because we have no clue if you succeeded or failed on making a bad visual novel if you got a high or low rating lol.

Rules and things to keep in mind!

• Games must be a visual novel/kinetic novel! It can have as many or as little endings as you like and it can be in any engine!
• Games must be made within the jam’s run time! No premade games or WIPs before the jam starts! You are free to brainstorm, sketch ideas out, and plan, but no work that would go into the VN itself!
• Gameplay must be at minimum 3-10 minutes! For reference, a 1000 word micro visual novel typically takes 3-5 minutes depending on  reading time and gameplay. There is no limit as to how long to make your game. Heck, it doesn't even need to be finished!
• Only one main project per account allowed! If you submitted something as the head or lead dev, you are still free to work on other teams submitting their own projects provided you’re not leading those projects too.
• Please use content warnings responsibly! Yes, even if the content warning is a spoiler. Failure to do so or misusing content warnings can result in your game being rejected from the jam.
• No explicit NSFW content! You can get racy, horny, gross, and weird, but no explicit gore, sex, 18+ content, or anything that would warrant your game to be marked as 18+. Keep it PG-13!
  
• No content  that promotes bigotry (including but not limited to transphobia, racism, etc).
• No AI generated assets or AI generated writing! No exceptions! Okay sure, the crappiest visual novels use AI generated stuff, but also why the hell would you want to force an AI generator, something that tends to churn out “polished”-looking art, to make something that intentionally looks bad? It's easier and more fulfilling to make something bad with a mouse and your own two feet.   
• No using assets or content that are not yours and are copyrighted! Assets made by you or a friend, stuff you have bought, and assets licensed under something like Creative Commons etc. are all good, as long as you follow any eventual terms (like attribution and such).
• It is NOT recommended to submit your game to other concurrent game jams, unless the game jam is also centered around making bad games! The main reason is because we’d feel super bad for the hosts of other game jams witnessing intentionally bad games being submitted to their game jam’s feed lol. Not that we can really stop you from submitting to other jams, but at the very least follow the respective jams' rules and remember you're intentionally making something that's not meant to be a "good" visual novel!
• Include a disclaimer! Add some sort of indicator, preferably in the game itself and the game's page, that this game is bad on purpose and was made for a jam. This will save whoever randomly stumbles upon your game a lot of confusion.
  
• This jam is based on the understanding that sometimes you just gotta make bad and really goofy stuff and to get away from the confines and pressure of making good stuff all the time. Feel free to be as parodic and satirical as you like, but also please be mindful.
• No harrassment allowed! Be as weird as you want but that's no permission to be a dick to others.
• If you made a visual novel that's actually good, that's also great! Feel free to submit it to a different jam or work on it after the jam ends! Don't submit it here!
  

NO GOOD VISUAL NOVELS ALLOWED! 

NOT EVEN “it’s so bad, its good”! 

MAKE THEM THE WORST YOU CAN GET!

If someone says they liked your visual novel, 

THEN YOU HAVE FAILED THE WORST VN CHALLENGE!

By the way! There will be jam after this for fixing the vns submitted to this game jam. If you’re interested in submitting your game to be “fixed” in the future Fixit VN Jam:

• Add a neon green wrench on the top right corner of your game's thumbnail! 
• If you don't want to submit your game to be fixed, that's okay too! Just don't add the green wrench!
• Please use a Creative Commons license or similar license for the game and all assets and list them somewhere easy for future devs to find, like a README in the game’s files and even on the game's page itself! 
  
• We suggest you use a Creative Commons license that you're comfortable using and also allows others to remix your work. No Derivatives means no one can make things derived from your work, so be mindful! 
• Remember that once a Creative Commons license is used, you cannot revoke it in the future!
• For a list of Creative Commons licenses you can use and how to use them, check out this link!
• Remember and most importantly: please give credit where credit is due!