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The results are in, but will every creator be receiving their feedback from the judges? That's what I was most interested in.

Most probably, no. If you look at the 2015 Game Jam, the judges will only give their feedback for the winners. 

While we would love to give creators this kind of insight from the guest judges we bring in each year from the visual novel industry it just isn't doable with the judges schedules, even if money wasn't an issue, they pretty much would have to put all their projects on hold just to provide critical feedback to every entry for that month. 

They are already investing so much time to do what they are now for the jam we really try not to ask any more of them and make things as easy as possible  since they are doing this as a service to the community.  And even now we get judges that have to turn us down  due to a release or heavy development period if it lands around the same time as our jam.

That being said if you want to reach out to a given judge personally and ask for feedback, twitter is our industry tool in the visual novel world and all of them have twitter handles you can reach out to them on and ask for feedback. 

@HanakoGames @SapphDragon and @sakevisual were the guest judges this year.

That makes sense. I guess that I'd just assumed they'd taken notes while reviewing each game to compile their choices for the winners.