Post by MintGlow in !READ THIS! Rules, Interpretations, & FAQ

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Hello hello! Thank you guys for hosting the jam :D

I have a few questions regarding parts of the rules:

We can "provide additional information on the VN's website including separate character drawings, backstory info, banners and cover images, provided they don't make diminish the VN-only experience"
Question: Can I do this same thing on the "About" section of my VN (as some people don't look at the website)? The player won't be forced to look at the About section.

The single sound effect "cannot be looped continuously (if yes, it counts as background noise per the last section)" and the voice actor "can be replaced by sound effects / beeps processed to act as voices (this does not count as the sound effect)"
Question: It sounds like it (pun intended), but could I use a keyboard sound effect as an indication of someone speaking and consider it a sound effect and NOT as a voice? It is *partially* looped continuously... And I would have a separate voice actor.
In other words, can I have one sound effect and one voice actor as indications of who is speaking? (These personally help me as a reader.)

Just making sure of everything before I start!!

PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé2 years ago(+1)

Hello!
For the first question you may do that if you wish, but it would count towards the 1000 word limit, as it would be considered "author's notes". We understand some people may want to release that information for the player, and so that's why we allow you to put that info in the game page. I'd assume you would want to use your 1000 words in the story instead of your notes, so I'm going to recommend you leave those out of the game and post it on the game page.

For the second question, this would not be allowed. The "beeps" ruling has been added for the times when one does not want to have a VA but still some "voice". So it's meant to be either one or the other, you can't have both, or try to replace the voice effect for a secondary voice. Effectively they are doing very different things, so it'd be bending the rules too much. However, thank you for asking!

This has an easy solution, though: You can have a VA doing different voices!

- can use use variations of voices
- can have their voice modulated and processed to create completely different sounding voices

So hopefully this should solve your problem.

Happy jamming!

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