It's hiding somewhere! You'll need to thoroughly read this Jam Page and then fill out this Five Question Quiz on Google Forms to find where it is. This is to make sure you understand what kind of Jam you're signing up for.
https://forms.gle/iuEWf2rS4CS1vVU56
If anyone shares the answers to the Quiz or the location of the Join Jam Button then they'll be Removed and Banned from the 2025 Jam.
A My Wolf is a categorization used to describe various Furry Visual Novels. For the purposes of this Jam we are going off of the following definition:
Any Furry Visual Novel where the only love interest(s) and/or character(s) that the MC is most intimate with is/are (a) wolf/wolves.
The definition of this trope is not unanimous and is continuously debated.
In 2023, me (Unagi) and an artist named Cody teamed up to organize a Furry Visual Novel Game Jam in order to “see what the community can do, under a time limit with a hot wolf”.
18 Visual Novels were submitted and qualified in 2023.
Last year, 38 VN's were submitted and qualified.
We're (as in me, a committee of Administrative Assistants and new artists) continuing this format but making some changes based on feedback from 2024.
If you have any questions that need to be asked in private or some other reason, then here is the contact information for everyone involved except the Artists.
In order to keep this Jam Page condense, we urge you to ask any questions regarding these rules in the COMMUNITY Tab under the "Further Questions About Rules" Category.
For each of the 8 Rules, we have made Flowcharts detailing the consequences of breaking each rule:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XPU-zQXrpTSPOsIjNmLcU-cgmEF0YbuX?usp=sharing
If you obtain three or more strikes, your submission will only be Permanently Disqualified if there is no reason for further action.
Only look at these Flowcharts if you're worried about breaking a rule.
There will be a Jam Theme and it was publicly suggested by people and then publicly voted too in October of 2024. The results will be announced two weeks before the Jam Starts in May via email and Social Media.
How you interpret the Jam Theme is up to you. The only thing it affects is one of the criteria for Rating.
The only late submissions that'll be fully accepted and qualified will be those that can prove that they uploaded before the submission deadline. If you need more time to make your submission in June, you'll need to contact Unagi to ask for up to a two week Extension with the drawback of the submission being Permanently Disqualified.
We're providing .PSD's each containing a different customizable character you can use with the various layers.
In regards to the licensing of the sprites: you're allowed to use, monetize and commercialize the designs and sprites only if your entry becomes successfully submitted to the Jam. You must put a link to the Artist(')s(') Socials on the itch.io page and/or in the Credits/About in the VN if you use their art.
Each artist will make a different wolf while the other two characters’ species will be completely up to each artist. The artists will be encouraged a theme for the Wolves' designs which will be Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This Wolf Theme was publicly suggested by people and then publicly voted too in October of 2024.
We don’t want to trouble too many artists for art so we'll have public voting to see who is the best fit for this year. The basic designs of the characters will be uploaded here as they are finished by the Administrative Assistants but the .PSD files will be uploaded when the Jam starts in May.
A Photoshop Document, is the standard file format that is used across numerous art programs that retains layering information. If you have no budget then I would recommend GIMP or Photopea.com.
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Besides joining the Jam on this page, nope. This Game Jam was discussed and organized on the Furry Visual Novels Discord but you're under absolutely no obligation to join it for this jam. The COMMUNITY Tab can be a helpful resource if desired.
There is no prize. We'll be doing a public judging here on itch.io for at least one month after the deadline. New this year, we're using the Rating Queue System to see if that has any positive effects on the Rating Phase.
We're going to be having Superlatives for the following categories via a public Google Forum that'll be linked at the top of this page: