hell yeah. all good manifestos. as someone who hates the way conventional visual novels look and tries their best to make interesting-looking ones, the VN manifesto spoke to me particularly.
i feel i need to address the one about game jams as the host of this jam–the week-long jam time for this is itself a concession i made, previous ones were way shorter than a week. the other thing is i simply don’t have any interest in ‘fostering an online community’ beyond hosting the jam and encouraging people to write something. of course, ideally i would like any jam to be a prompt for anyone to make something and for conversations and ‘communities’ to organically form out of that; ultimately i think it’s healthier for any of that to happen outside of the (relatively) rigid framework of The Itch Dot Io Game Jam.
also i just like the kinetic energy of a short jam time. it’s just personal preference lol. i appreciate the manifesto for forcing me to formulate these thoughts.