This jam is now over. It ran from 2025-06-01 04:00:00 to 2025-07-14 04:00:00. View 206 entries

💉🤕VISUAL NOVELS 😈💔

FOR GIRLTHINGS WITH SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM


After prolonged deliberations, the panel of judges has at last selected the following VNs as the winners, listed in award stream reveal order below:

Thank you for everyone who took part in the community. Every amazingly talented artist, writer, musician, developer and even the Posters. It is with our combined power that this wonderful jam came to be.

We are incredibly proud of everyone who set out to make a visual novel, regardless if you completed it or not. Because we look forward to see you make a visual novels in the future, too. See you there!


(The original jam description follows below.)

Hewwo, and thank you for your interest in the the toxic yuri vn jam! This is a jam for stories that really dig in to tackle trauma and problematic relationships. Stories that show despair, jealousy and rage. Stupid girls that make each other worse. Sadistic girls being manipulative on purpose. You know, all that stuff. Basically, we love it when girls suffer, yaaaay!

We will play through all the submissions and pick FIVE of our favorites which will receive a $501 paypal headpat. There will be no first place, instead there will be 5 judge favorites. Due to payment and theme reasons, every member involved in the jam must be legal adults.

Please note that, in addition to the overall quality of the works—writing, art, music, etc.—one of the primary criteria in determining which entries will be granted an award is being on-topic.  In other words, while the individual elements of a work are important to their overall composition, a work with a conventionally "bad" component (e.g. very amateurish art) will not lose points on those grounds alone. Intention and sincerity are the most important parts of our judging criteria, so try and make something representative of your heart more than anything!


🩸THEME🩸

~ Toxic Yuri ~


✍️❤️RULES FOR STORIES:

  1. We want gay shit!! The entries must focus on toxic queer relationships between women or toxic queer female experiences. Any identities are permitted as long as you personally feel like it is part of the queer female experience. We ain't gender cops.
  2. Toxic yuri can be interpreted as anything from idiots navigating awful inexperienced romance to intentionally abusive violent criminal relationships. There isn't a strict criteria for what counts as toxic and it is a very vibes based interpretation. The jam is still created with the expectation that we can have a place for people to submit games leaning further towards the more intense themes.
  3. We want to see stories about girlthings in complicated relationships. For example, this can involve conflict due to trauma or mental health, selfish or cruel people making it someone else's problem, people in awful circumstances without a single good course of action, or simply people who make each other worse intentionally or not.
  4. Graphic and sexual themes are permitted, and given the theme, to some extent expected. Your story can be happy or sad or whatever else, the tone is up to you. All we ask is that you tell a story that's meaningful to you, one that we hope will resonate with the reader.
  5. Be mindful of harmful stereotypes regarding gender, sexuality, mental illness or games that come off as malicious towards the reader; There are no specific things that are off-limits, however we may disqualify entries based on our own judgement. (E.g., a game that treats suicide or self-harm as cheap shock value instead of telling something interesting with it.)
  6. While the stories themselves can have characters or interactions that are bigoted, we do not want entries that promote bigotry! BE NICE.


🖥️🤓TECHNICAL RULES:

  1. Ren'Py is HIGHLY PREFERRED, however any engine/framework which can create visual novels that are playable for all win, linux and mac are permitted.
  2. All members involved in a team and the game jam have to be legal adults.
  3. This is an unranked game jam, however we will be picking five of our favorite entries and reward each with $501.
  4. There will be no ETA for when the judging will be complete. It will depend on how many entries we get. Estimating a month minimum.
  5. Any team size is permitted, the person who submits the game will be responsible for splitting the potential prize money. Be sure to have a plan for distributing the prize! Team size will be considered in the judging in an effort to make things fair for every jam participant.
  6. No paid games as submissions. Once the judging has concluded you are free to do what you want with your submission.
  7. We accept entries with NSFW, heavy and uncomfortable themes, but they are meant to be tagged appropriately.
  8. While development should take place within the jam time frame, the usage of pre-existing free to use, public domain, creative commons, etc. resources is allowed and encouraged.
  9. The usage of generative AI for your submission is forbidden. If you personally don't think you're very good at a particular artistic endeavor (e.g., art, music, writing), we would still rather see your best and most sincere attempt than generated assets.


✨example games that we like. BECAUSE THEY'RE OURS.✨

we are the organizers and judges btw. hi.

discord here: https://discord.gg/AwY3hxHpcq