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Visual novel jam statistics/maintenance

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< Visual novel jam statistics
< List of ongoing visual novel jams
< List of discontinued visual novel jams

Add or update a jam

Add/edit an occurrence Add/edit a jam series

If documenting a new jam series:

  • Create the jam series before creating any jam occurrences.
  • When creating the series, use the longest/fullest name of the jam.
  • After creating the instance(s), refresh the jam series page as described in #Troubleshooting.

Changes likely won't be reflected immediately. See #Troubleshooting.

Jams likely needing update

Ended, needs final stats

Jams occurrences that have ended, but have not been modified since before their end date. These occurrences should be updated with their final stats from the itch page.

Jam End Date Mod Date Itch URL
Amare Games Festival 2025Mar 15 2025Mar 10 2025https://itch.io/jam/amare-games-festival-2025

If no results are shown, no jam occurrences have ended & need updating. However, you can still update the stats of #Ongoing jams.

Jam occurrence may be missing

The most recent occurrences of these jams started at least 9 months ago. It's probably time to look for the most recent Itch page and input it as a new occurrence.

 Latest start dateLatest Itch URL
Disabled Rep VN Jam27 April 2024https://itch.io/jam/disabled-rep-vn-jam
Menhera VN Jam19 May 2024https://itch.io/jam/menhera-vn-jam
Battle Action Fantasy Visual Novel Jam1 June 2024https://itch.io/jam/baf-jam-2024
Light.vn Festival1 June 2024https://matsuri.lvnstory.com/2024
Fixit VN Jam7 June 2024https://itch.io/jam/fixitvn
Mythology VN Jam15 June 2024https://itch.io/jam/mythology-vn-jam

If no results are shown, no jam occurrences are detected as potentially missing. Please note: this is not a complete list - jams that occur more than once per year will be missed here. Perform manual checks for those jams.

Series now ongoing, needs status update

These jam series are currently listed as "Planned", but at least one of their occurrences has started already. They should be adjusted to an "Ongoing" status.

If no results are shown, no jam series need updating.

Series may be discontinued, needs status update

These jam series' last occurrence began more than a year ago. If there are no publicly-announced plans to run another edition, they should have their status changed to "Discontinued".

If no results are shown, no jam series have been detected as needing updating. However, there may be jams that meet our other criteria for being listed as discontinued.

Ongoing jams

 StartEndModifiedParticEntriesItch URL
NaNoRenO 2025Mar 1 2025Mar 31 2025Mar 10 20257293https://itch.io/jam/nanoreno-2025
IntRenAiMo 2025Mar 1 2025Mar 31 2025Feb 13 2025
Road Trip 2025Jan 23 2025Apr 23 2025Mar 10 20252,43629https://itch.io/jam/road-trip-game-jam
Ossan 2025Mar 1 2025May 1 2025Mar 10 2025180https://itch.io/jam/ossan-jam-2025
Mecha Trans-Yuri-BL Jam 2024Jun 19 2024Jun 19 2025Mar 14 2025362https://itch.io/jam/mecha-yuri-bl-jam
Interactive Fiction Showcase 2025Jan 1 2025Dec 31 2025Jan 25 2025https://itch.io/jam/interactive-fiction-showcase-2025

Upcoming jams

 StartEndModifiedParticItch URL
Worst 2025Mar 22 2025Apr 12 2025Mar 14 202516https://itch.io/jam/worst-visual-novel-ever-challenge-2025
Blossom Jam 2025Apr 1 2025May 15 2025Mar 14 202584https://itch.io/jam/blossom-vn-jam-2025
Mystery 2025Apr 4 2025May 5 2025Mar 13 2025149https://itch.io/jam/mystery-game-jam-2025
Velox Formido 2025Apr 25 2025Apr 27 2025Mar 14 20255https://itch.io/jam/velox-formido-2
Otome Jam 2025May 1 2025Jul 1 2025Mar 11 2025162https://itch.io/jam/otome-jam-2025
Short Circuit VN Jam 2025May 1 2025Jul 31 2025Mar 11 202557https://itch.io/jam/short-circuit-vn-jam
Josei Jam 2025May 1 2025Aug 1 2025Mar 11 202577https://itch.io/jam/josei-jam-2025
Love is Unconventional 2025Jun 1 2025Aug 15 2025Mar 12 20255https://itch.io/jam/love-is-unconventional

Recently ended jams

 StartEndParticEntriesItch URL
Amare Games Festival 2025Feb 1 2025Mar 15 202511939https://itch.io/jam/amare-games-festival-2025
Magical Girl Game Jam No. 11Feb 7 2025Mar 9 202521535https://itch.io/jam/magical-girl-game-jam-11
Black Visual Novel Jam 2024Oct 1 2024Mar 3 2025293https://itch.io/jam/black-visual-novel-jam-2
Yandere Jam 2025Feb 1 2025Mar 2 202521065https://itch.io/jam/yanjam25
Aro Jam 2025Feb 1 2025Feb 28 2025429https://itch.io/jam/aro-jam-2025
Queer Vampire Jam 2025Jan 10 2025Feb 25 20257418https://itch.io/jam/queer-vampire-game-jam-2025
Trans Joy 2025Feb 1 2025Feb 23 202520646https://itch.io/jam/trans-joy-jam-2025

Troubleshooting

When you make changes to data, it likely won't update everywhere immediately. Semantic MediaWiki caches data to prevent constant calculations from overwhelming the web server. Changes should be reflected across the wiki no later than 24 hours after they're made. You can hurry this process along by visiting relevant pages (such as the jam occurrence, jam series, and stats pages) and adding &action=purge to the browser URL. Do this in order from most specific to most general for best results.

Templates used for jam stats are organized in Category:Jam data templates.

User:Ironnori originally created the jam data structures and leaderboards. She is happy to answer questions and assist with troubleshooting, upgrades, or learning how the system works.