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Revision as of 23:54, 15 July 2022

Statistics gathered from jams have multiple caveats, such as one VN submitted to multiple jams, not all team members formally joining the jam, various sizes of resulting VNs, varied parameters of jams, and more. The two simplest statistics are the number of entries and number of participants, which can be determined directly from the jam pages (on itch.io).

Some of these issues are described in more detail in a 2021 article by mikey called What VN statistics tell us.

For the purposes of statistics the numbers to take are the officially visible ones on the itch page, immediately after the jam is completed. There are multiple caveats to these numbers, such as:

  • itch page displaying a number that doesn't correspond with the amount of visible entries (usually 1-2 entries off, e.g. the page may have 3 VNs visible, but the counter states 4 entries
  • entries which don't follow the jam rules, but have been missed or are being tolerated by the jam hosts, which can lead to significant differences when counting "manually", e.g. 105 (official) vs. 91 (manual count) entries in NaNoRenO 2020 as appeared in the article "What VN Statistics Tell Us" by mikey
  • jams which allow the submission of pages without a link to a playable entry, these count towards the number of entries (at a later stage after the jam period they may indeed feature a playable entry)
  • over time creators may choose to delete their games and pages, leading to innacuracies when revisiting old jams
  • for any more nuanced statistics such as determining partial or full completion, and any qualitative features such as inclusion of voice acting, game length and similar, each entry must be examined and/or information gathered from the creator's pages, which will necessitate some level of editorializing and bias (e.g. what constitutes a "demo")

Below are the main VN jam statistcs:

Most entries in a single jam

Rank Count Jam
1 185 NaNoRenO 2022
2 112 Spooktober 2021
3 105 NaNoRenO 2020
4 96 O2A2 2021
5 88 NaNoRenO 2019
5 88 NaNoRenO 2021
7 77 WinterJam 2021
8 75 NaNoRenO 2016
9 71 NaNoRenO 2018
10 69 SuNoFes 2021
11 68 NaNoRenO 2017
12 66 YuriJam 2017
13 62 SuNoFes 2020
14 56 YuriJam 2016
15 56 OtomeJam 2022
16 55 YuriJam 2018
17 51 Valentine's Jam 2021
18 44 TyranoJam 2017
19 44 Spooktober 2020
20 37 YuriJam 2019

Most participants in a single jam

Rank Count Jam
1 *** SuNoFes 2022 (ongoing)
2 891 NaNoRen0 2022
3 678 SuNoFes 2021
4 535 Spooktober 2021
5 465 WinterJam 2021
6 450 NaNoRenO 2020
7 439 NaNoRenO 2017
8 394 NaNoRenO 2021
9 368 SuNoFes 2020
10 *** YaoiJam 2022 (ongoing)
11 330 NaNoRenO 2019
12 325 YuriJam 2017
13 320 TyranoJam 2017
14 259 Valentines Jam 2021
14 259 YaoiJam 2021
16 251 YuriJam 2018
17 235 NaNoRenO 2019
18 224 OtomeJam 2022
19 196 SuNoFes 2017
20 189 YaoiJam 2020

Cumulative VNs per jam (2021)

Rank Count Jam
1 651 NaNoRenO
2 306 YuriJam
3 183 SuNoFes
4 171 Spooktober
5 135 YaoiJam
6 116 O2A2
7 100 WinterJam
8 94 TyranoJam
9 47 NonbinaryJam
10 41 Otome Jam

Most participants per year

Year 1st 2nd 3rd
2022 SuNoFes (***) NaNoRenO (891) YaoiJam (***)
2021 SuNoFes (678) Spooktober (535) WinterJam (465)
2020 NaNoRenO (450) SuNoFes (368) YaoiJam (198)
2019 NaNoRenO (330) YuriJam (177) YaoiJam (84)
2018 YuriJam (251) NaNoRenO (235) YaoiJam (123)
2017 NaNoRenO (439) YuriJam (325) TyranoJam (320)
2016 NaNoRenO (178) YuriJam (166) YaoiJam (105)
2015 YuriJam (103) TyranoJam (41) NaNoRenO (39)

Most entries per year

Year 1st 2nd 3rd
2022 NaNoRenO (185) OtomeJam (56) YandereJam (21)
2021 Spooktober (112) O2A2 (96) NaNoRenO (88)
2020 NaNoRenO (105) SuNoFes (62) Spooktober (44)
2019 NaNoRenO (88) YuriJam (37) BarJam (19)
2018 NaNoRenO (71) YuriJam (55) Ren'Py Jam (27)
2017 NaNoRenO (68) YuriJam (66) TyranoJam (44)
2016 NaNoRenO (75) YuriJam (56) YaoiJam (19)
2015 NaNoRenO (34) YuriJam (33) TyranoJam (33)