This jam is dedicated to celebrating voice acting in visual novels by connecting voice actors of all skill levels with visual novel developers! If you are a voice actor looking for experience, join our Discord or make a post in the jam's community tab for opportunities to be cast!
Raise Your Voice is part of the Visual Novel Developer Network's mission to elevate visual novels and storytelling games by making professional skills like casting, directing, and producing voice acting accessible to everyone. We want to help developers build confidence in working with actors, preparing scripts, and adding performances that make moments unforgettable; we also want to help voice actors build their experience and confidence by offering them opportunities in original narrative games.
No rewrites allowed! This jam is specifically about adding voice acting to a finished script.
When casting, developers must share the following with prospective actors:
Visual novels and narrative hybrids are welcome. Commercial releases are not — games must be released under itch.io’s "free" or "pay what you want" option.
We want this jam to be accessible to all audiences, and some participants may be minors in their regions.
Humans must voice act, illustrate, write, and program your submission. AI-generated voiceover, art, writing, and code are strictly prohibited, including in any third-party assets you choose to use.
Please follow the ESRB’s content descriptors as a guideline for what to include.
There are no restrictions on how early you begin work, recruitment, or recording. The jam period is merely for the submission of projects. Anything in 2026 is welcome!
Developers will reach out to voice actors they want to work with. Either post in DevTalk's voice-recruitment forum or the jam's community tab with your reel and/or demonstrations so the developers can find you!
Keep an eye out for projects that suit you and take the initiative when the developer indicates that they want interested voice actors to reach out. You'll never know what might fall into your lap when you take that first step!
We have public voice chat channels! Come to chill-stream and get to know
the DevTalk community and wider world of VN development. If that seems too forward, keep an
eye out for the Meet & Greet event for this jam, hosted in the Discord server!
Only contact developers who have indicated that they are participating in the Raise Your Voice Jam, either via DevTalk's recruitment forum or the community tab. Cold calling, or reaching out to someone without this denotation, is against DevTalk's community rules.
Casting directors, Voice Directors, Sound Engineers, etc. are all important parts of the "Voice Acting in Video Games" pipeline. Make a post in our recruitment forum advertising your services, attend the Meet & Greet event, and keep an eye out for interesting opportunities!
Not required, but strongly encouraged:
