eclipse (over at the Lemmasoft forums, see below) has made an official thread for people wishing to enter in the NaNoRenO 2006. if you do not know what NaNoRenO is, she also has a page on her website with details concerning it (see below). among the things you should note are as follows:

1) START TIME FOR THE NANORENO IS AT MIDNIGHT ON MARCH 1ST. DO NOT BEGIN ANY PROGRAMMING OR SCRIPTING FOR A NANORENO PROJECT BEFORE THIS! (exception: practicing syntaxes and similar items, in this case, you cannot use the exact code [or script, for ren'py users] in your project)

2) THE END TIME OF THE NANORENO IS ON APRIL 1ST AT MIDNIGHT. (note: if you are near completion of your game when this deadline is hit, go ahead and finish it. Grey [who did Heikou for the NaNoRenO 2k5] was late when his (her?) game got submitted, but it wasn't off by more than a week... I think)

3) DEVELOPMENT TEAMS ARE ALLOWED (means you don't have to do all the work yourself). IF SUCH A TEAM IS FORMED AND SUBMITS A GAME TO THE NANORENO, PLEASE INDICATE AS SUCH WHEN IT IS SUBMITTED TO THE RENAI ARCHIVES FOR PROPER CREDIT!


If my guild gets established soon enough, there will be a help section concerning possible idea types and ren'py scripting help there.

links:
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/index.php - Lemmasoft forums

- http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=767 - official NaNoRenO entry thread

http://www.renaigames.net/nanoreno.html - eclipse's NaNoRenO info page*

http://www.bishoujo.us/ - American bishoujo; home of Ren'Py. (official forum at lemmasoft forums [above])


*- on eclipse's NaNoRenO page, she has me listed (correctly) as the creator of [mis]Tales of Zeta. this game was not released because of compatibility problems and a major save-game issue. the thread is still there, and it is still (occaisionally) updated with information concerning TOZSP (my remake in ren'py, also a director's cut version).