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I'm glad you liked it! :D Thank you so much for playing!

Thank you so much for the kind words! :D

Thank you so much for playing and thank you for the kind comments! I really appreciate it! :D

I'm sorry for the late reply, but thank you so much for playing! I always appreciate your vids :D

I'm sorry for the late reply, but thank you so much for playing and the kind comments! :D

As in time loops because MC is stuck in one. You'll know you've reached the end of a loop when the game crashes. When it crashes, hit Ignore and start the game up again to do another loop!

Oh no that's intentional lol

The initial due date was July 5th 2024, but we decided to extend the jam to be a little longer to help everyone get those finishing touches in! The deadline is now on July 14th 2024 at 11:59 PM PST.

As a reminder, you don't necessarily need to 100% complete the game you're fixing. We accept submissions for incomplete games, though we do encourage you to post somewhere that it's incomplete.

Good luck with getting those games fixed, and hope to see y'all make! :D

Thank you so much Heiden!! 😊

Thank you so much for the kind comment~! :D

Thank you so much for the kind comment! :D It's funny how a good portion of us grew up with these book, huh?

Thank you so much! :D

Lmao hope you enjoyed(? Should I even be saying this lmfao) the game! Thank you for the kind comment! :D

I truly appreciate the kind comment (thank you! :D) but I absolutely refuse to believe this is a good game lmao

Omg thank you for the kind words! Now I'm kinda curious how my ramblings in this postmortem comes across since I know I make pretty niche games in a niche genre and the game in question here is pretty out there lol, but I'm glad you enjoyed the postmortem! :D

You got it! It's added to the list now

I won't lie, when I saw you post this before you made the edits I was like :). With your current edits I'm grinning like a cheshire cat lol

Your game is BrainRoute, right? I'll add it to the list if you like!

If this is goty for specifically terrible not-good games then Hell Yeah!!!!

I refuse to believe that lmao 

(but thank you regardless)

OH NO I am genuinely really sorry about the loud music busting your ears. Thank you for bringing that to my attention, I'll put a bigger warning about the sound volume on the game page. Thank you for the kind words regardless, I appreciate it!

Updated the main post with a few more games!

Added it to the list! :D

Below is a list of all the game submitted with a green wrench for the Worst VN Jam! These games are listed in no particular order.

If we included your game on this list when you didn't want to be, or if we accidentally skipped your game and you want to be on this, feel free to tell us!

For the best effect and to help decrease decision anxiety, we recommend using a random number generator to select the game(s) you want to work on! Remember to be mindful of the jam's rules and to respect the licenses the games and assets are under. There are 30 entries total!

Happy fixing everyone!

1. CHerry bears
2. BrainRoute
3. The Final Throw
4. Cool as a Cucumber
5. The FIRSST ASMR VIISOOAL NOVELLLLM (very realxiing zzzzzz romp picne ronpiche snore am aslep bc its soo relaxin g)
6. MyGF 2: GF Harder [SEQUEL] [GONE WRONG]
7. Capesy Academy: The Final Highest High
8. Fenicks Rong
9. Ace in Another World
10. Alpha: Return of the Alpha: The Quest to Find Amanda
11. Hilltop Academy
12. In Another World with my Shotgun: That time when I Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adip
13. Not Another Villainess Otome Isekai
14. The Exhibition
15. World Without Effort
16. Tomato Tomato
17. Norman Door
18. Why Is This Weird Guy Letting Me Touch His Chest (In The Backrooms)
19. Drive
20. Y0UR P3RF3CT WA1FUck IS UR UGLY PLUSH13?!
21. Tennis of Phantasia
22. rtgfyhjukl
23. Fun at Parties
24. seven (break out robot girl!!!!!!!!!)
25. This Visual Novel Isn't Like Other Visual Novels
26. Dungeon and Dices
27. Snail Society 
28. Exquisite Word Euphonic Boogie
29. Chasing the Light
30. I Don't Want to Go to the Dance with You, I Just Want to do my Fucking Homework

So that was an actual bug and not intended to be like that lmao. It should run normally now!

:)

Dang, huge kudos to you for managing to get through the worst parts of the game. You are a braver and more resilient person than I

That's the spirit! :D

I refuse to believe this game is good 

(but thank you for the kind comment regardless haha)

Yes, the game crashes are intentional! :)

Sounds like a fun challenge! I'd say do it and see if it works. The jam lasts for 3 weeks after all, so you got time if you need more time to figure out RenPy

If it helps, having a finished game isn't part of the rules! Unfinished games are welcome, and could, in fact, enchance how bad your VN is ;D

its really hard to turn off that side of your brain! youre not alone in this because even some pals I've talked to who are interested in this jam are having a tough time turning that off too.

i agree with catsket's advice! i want to add to their points too: make it extremely low effort. examples include: make that sprite in 10 seconds with your non dominant hand! trace over your old drawings in ms paint! base the story off a shitpost! keep all the typoes in! the most important thing i hope youre able to take away from the jam is having fun learning something new and having fun making something :D

There's no limit! You can make the game as long as you like~ 

1000 words is used as an example because I personally have done 1000 word VNs and played plenty too. I recommend checking out the VNs made for the Only One of Any Asset Jam (O2A2), because they're perfect in terms of what we think of a minimum for this jam. We'd rather have some low effort games than no effort games (as in, the dev makes the game immediately crash or unplayable), hence the minimum rule.

For the Fixit Jam, we are thinking of assigning participants a random game so all games have a chance of being fixed, though devs do not need to abide by what they are assigned and can choose something they prefer to work on. The idea is for someone else to fix the game you submit to Worst VN Jam, so you can fix your own game, but it would kinda defeat the spirit of what we were going for with the Fixit Jam.

The thing with Velox Formido compared to NaNoRenO is that the game has to be completed in the time allotted: no demos, no prologues, and it has to be a self-contained and finished game. Unfortunately I built my game's idea and visuals on having images of the flowers as choices, so no matter what, the flowers would have to be visuals, be it drawn by me or photo edited, both of which takes time orz.

I was thinking of publishing it after the jam for Blossom Jam, but I had a thought that it seems like it can be a part of another story I was kicking around in my brain, so I'm just gonna shelve it for then because it seems better suited to that story than a standalone piece imo.

That story will have its day in the sun, and maybe I'll be able to do a two day jam someday~ When I have better luck and less priorities, that is lol

God, I've been thinking about this for hours since I read it. I even read it twice and thrice even! And every time I do, I also think about the child I knew long ago thinking these same thoughts that Ewelina did.

Since growing up from being that child, it's also bothered me how some authors treat suicide as shock value. I have a planned game that's centered around suicide and dying and I'm always constantly worried about whether I should go forward with publishing it because I fear im not giving the subject matter the gravitas it deserves. I'm grateful for games like yours that capture and emphasize the reality of how exhausting and terrifying it is to be numb like that and not be able to get out of feeling like no matter how hard you try. It gives me more to think about how to handle this subject in my work.

Thank you for making this, and I'm glad you're still here. I also hope the food you cook is always delicious.

Oh absolutely, and it's a terrible thing to go through! 

And thank you for playing! :D

Thank you Bez! :D I felt like there ain't no Way I can make a game based on the time I grew up in and not include how I actually used to draw then too lol. Luckily I still have all my old art!

Aww thank you! :D I'm feeling a lot better now too, so hopefully no setbacks from here on out! 🤞