u/NaiDriftlin

Over the last year, we have seen a meteoric rise of low quality visual novel toolkits, engines and plugins proposing to make no code solutions, all of which inevitably have roots in Generative AI.

I do not want to purposely or inadvertently support the attempts to root generative AI into this community or in the general visual novel sphere. As such, I'm implementing this new rule.

If you are working on a visual novel engine, toolkit, or plugin slated on bringing generative AI to visual novel developers, kindly see yourselves out. Anyone else is welcome to send us a modmail to discuss any of the afformentioned post types for your tool kit.

The Spooktober Visual Novel Jam is coming soon, and our sponsorship drive is live now! If you have a business creating products or offering services to visual novel developers, I encourage you to take a look at the page to see this year's sponsorship offerings. We've helped numerous small and medium sized businesses, such as Naninovel, Vograce, JAST, Ratalaika Games, and in turn we've used their sponsorship contributions to fund our yearly operations, such as paying for hosting for the VNDev.wiki, paying artists for banners for our various jams, and funding special projects to bring more to the community!

In the mean time, you can check out the current jam page here:

https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2026

Tickets are still on sale for a little bit longer! Be sure to get your tickets and join our Discord for the talks! Tickets also entitle you to the recordings as soon as they're available!

Speakers include...

- Vimi from the Visual Novel Design youtube channel.

- Conway Sutton of Monster Prom fame.

- Jett Baker, a voice director and the co-author of the SAG-AFTRA Jam Waiver

.... And more!

Proceeds from our ticket sales will be used to pay the speakers and run the event next year!

Hope to see you there!