I was a judge for the largest Visual Novel Game Jam to date, and many novice developers fell into the same mistakes and pitfalls. I compiled seven lessons that VN developers could learn from to not only make their game jam games better, but make their own games better as well!
0:00 How I Judged 200+ Visual Novels
0:33 The Important Lesson
3:39 The Hard Lesson
6:33 The Tricky Lesson
9:08 The Underestimated Lesson
12:00 The Labor-Intensive Lesson
13:34 The Unheeded Lesson
15:20 The Fun Lesson
https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2023
https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-vn-jam-2022
https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-vn-jam-2021
https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-visual-novel-jam-by-devtalk2
https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-visual-novel-jam