MAKE A VISUAL NOVEL, GET COOL PRIZES!

FOR TEENS 18 AND UNDER...
This month's challenge ends August 31, 2025

Track your art and coding hours, create a visual novel based on a new genre every month, and get cool prizes

Raccoons talking about joining Hack Club Slack

thinking emoji (about story obviously)

locking in on storyboarding (haha get it) and art

locking in out on coding through Ren'Py

Publish the visual novel on itch.io!

Project Submission link to get your prize

THEME OF THE MONTH: CLICHÉS WITH A TWIST

Depending on the number of hours spent and quality of product, you can get different prizes!

APPRENTICE

Spend 3+ hours making a visual novel, get this month's custom stickers

SPELLCASTER

Spend 10+ hours of quality work, get a BIG Ikea plush!

MAGE

Spend 30+ hours of quality work, get a STEAM LICENSE

ARCHMAGE

Spend 50+ hours of quality work, get a DRAWING TABLET

Here's a step-by-step, super easy guide to creating a visual novel!

#1: WRITING A STORY

#2: TRACKING YOUR HOURS

1. Track your time spent on art/writing through OUR JOURNAL TEMPLATE
2. Track your coding hours with our HACKATIME EXTENSION

#3: CODING WITH REN'PY

New to coding? Ren'py makes it super easy!
Check out RENPY QUICKSTART for a non-slideshow tutorial

#4: PUBLISH & GET PRIZE!

1. Publish on itch.io
2. Post playable URL on Tumblr or Reddit
3. Submit link to your post
4. Get your prize!

All made with Ren'Py!

SLAY THE PRINCESS

GENRE: HORROR

INSTEAD OF SAVING THE PRINCESS, YOU HAVE TO KILL HER.
EVERY CHOICE IS A DIFFERENT ENDING. CHOOSE CAREFULLY.

CHECK OUT THE GAME HERE

photo of Floorboards, game by Chuqi Zheng

FLOORBOARDS

MADE BY: CHUQI ZHENG
(storyboard participant)

THERE'S BEEN A MURDER... UNDER YOUR FLOORBOARDS. INVESTIGATE THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS TO FIND THE MURDERER.

CHECK OUT THE GAME HERE

DOKI DOKI LITERATURE CLUB

GENRE: HORROR

IT'S A DATING SIM. ...OR NOT?

FREE DOWNLOAD! CHECK OUT THE GAME HERE

Questions? Contact renran@hackclub.com
This website is also open source

MADE BY TEENAGERS FOR TEENAGERS

photo of renran

renran sun

photo of alisa

alisa ren

photo of kat

kat wang

photo of sophia

sophia duan

photo of yunfei

yunfei shuai

photo of shyla

shyla singal

photo of susan

susan zheng