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Iron
@ironnorivn.bsky.social
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Visual novel dev, editor/proofreader, higher ed nerd, punster extraordinaire.
Admin of https://vndev.wiki/ & VN jam statistician
she/her 🏳️‍🌈 日本語OK
https://ironnorivn.wordpress.com/
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Discord screenshot. aine: “anime girls with volcanos on their heads playing uno?” Iron: “yes aine. and they’re giving me an existential crisis”
October 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Editathon time!! The #VNDevWiki is hosting an editathon TODAY till midnight Eastern! Stop by at 8am (a few minutes), 2pm, or 9pm to help us improve this community resource for all #VNDev s! No wiki experience or VN expertise required. @vndev.bsky.social @makevisualnovels.itch.io

discord.gg/devtalk
The VNDev Wiki logo. One of the DevTalk mascots, Cherry, smiles in front of a library background. Next to her is white text that reads "VN Dev Wiki". Cherry has dark red hair, blue eyes, light skin, a purple shirt, and jack-o-lantern earrings.
July 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Lots of new followers lately, so hello! I'm Iron (she/her). I'm a visual novel editor/developer with a passion for stories that touch on the fundamentals of what it means to be human. I'm an admin for vndev.wiki, where I curate & create resources for VN developers!

See my latest/current projects ⬇️
Key art for visual novel "Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon" from Crystal Game Works. A woman with long, red-blonde hair is standing in a green field of grass and flowers, arms crossed and eyes peacefully closed. She's wearing a red Victorian dress with white sleeves. Around her are three men, the love interests from the visual novel. They are each wearing formal Victorian clothes - one in blue, one in green, and one in purple. They all have brown hair in various shades & styles. Logo for the visual novel "Spring in Her Step". Green bubble letters are on a pick background with white polka dots. The dot on the letter i in the word "Spring" is a small pink flower. A green leaf sits outside the background on the left, as though it's resting up against the rest of the logo. A screenshot of a CG from "Spring in her Step". A brunette woman with medium skin tone is excitedly twirling in an olive green dress, while a man stands behind her, giving a thumbs up and a goofy grin. He is wearing a dark blue collared shirt, and has medium-short red hair and freckles. The textbox reads: "Ty: Every cute girl needs a cute prom dress! What d'you think!?" The VNDev Wiki logo. One of the DevTalk mascots, Cherry, smiles in front of a library background. Next to her is white text that reads "VN Dev Wiki". Cherry has dark red hair, blue eyes, light skin, a purple shirt, and jack-o-lantern earrings.
April 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Eevee is shown with its evolutions around it in a circle, but several other nouns are added - they all end with “-eon”, making them sound like Eeveelution names: Surgeon, Neon, Simoleon, Patreon, Pantheon, Pigeon, Nickelodeon, Napoleon, and AMD Radeon.
March 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Latest in #VNJamStats! Now you can find detailed information about any visual novel jam by clicking its "view detailed stats" button on the wiki. You can see trends for entries and participants, and even compare statistics to the average! #vndev #indiedev

Check it out at vndev.wiki/List_of_ongo...
Screenshot of the described details page. Under a "Participants" heading is a line graph labelled Participants Over Time. It shows a steady increase from Aug 2018 to May 2023, with a large increase in May 2024. Below the graph, text reads: "Otome Jam has had 272.33 participants on average, across 6 occurrences. This is higher than 79% of jam occurrences."
March 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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This was my holy grail as a kid
Product photo of a Crayola Telescoping Tower. It contains 150 crayons in various colors. They’re arranged into a clear plastic tower with three layers, decreasing in size, which can either be displayed on top of each other or collapsed into a single layer.
March 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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See why Spring in Her Step is ranked #1 new and popular under @itch.io's #transgender tag! Play our earnest & lighthearted coming out story for free, no download required: gemmysystem.itch.io/spring-in-he...

#TransJoy #TransJoyJam #VisualNovel #VNDev #GameDev #IndieDev
A screenshot of itch.io. Heading says "New & popular Games tagged Transgender". Underneath some filter options, Spring in Her Step is listed in the first position, with Lilacs in the Breeze in the second position. Spring in Her Step. "Change is scary, but she'll choose to...". The game image shows a medium-light skinned person with a brown bob haircut wearing a hoodie. It also has a logo with green text on a pink polka-dot background, featuring a leaf and a flower.
February 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Upgrades went well, and now I get to implement them on the front end! Here's a sneak peek. Hint: this table is auto generated...!
A table showing statistics for each year's occurrence of Ace Jam.
January 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Google books screenshot. Papaya: Biology, Cultivation, Production, and Uses. Lal Saran et al. 2016.
January 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Big #VNJamStats news!! Yuri Jam 2024 wraps with record-breaking 552 participants, 106 entries. These stats catapult it onto leaderboards for most participants & most entries in a single jam year, taking 11th and 14th places! Congrats @sabrinatvband.bsky.social @nadianova.fi and the community! #vndev
Yuri Jam 2024 key art. Anime girl in orange jacket & pink crop top which reads "girl kisser". Logo text says "Yuri Jam 2024. a gay vn game jam. oct 1 - dec 2".
December 8, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Want to know which visual novel jams occur when? Check out this nifty Schedule of Jams I just put together on the VNDev Wiki! Feedback & contributions welcome :) vndev.wiki/index.php?ti...

#visualNovels #vnLink #vnJam #vnDev
Screenshot of table showing VN jam schedule
November 29, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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Set up a grow light for my plants, which happen to be right in front of my desk - side effect is that I’m very well lit in video calls, now! 😂
Aloe plants with two small grow lights above them. Windows and a couch are in the background, and the top of a laptop screen can be seen in the bottom left corner.
November 18, 2024 at 3:56 PM