Post-TGIO messages

Hello, all! It was great to meet you at the TGIO party, and congrats to everyone! So many of us had finished, which was awesome. Even those who didn't deserve a hearty pat on the back.

Some of you were asking about the other NaNo I did, NaNoRenO. This is a NaNo-style contest to create a "ren'ai game" within the month of March: that is, a graphical story-driven computer game, where the player reads narration and dialogue, watches the characters, and makes decisions which influence the outcome of the story. They're a tradition which comes from Japan, and they often have a romantic element. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren'ai_game and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishoujo_game.

I've done NaNoRenO twice, in '04 and '06. '04 was the first NaNoRenO, and twelve of us started it, with four of us finishing within the month. I produced When I Rule The World, a conspiracy-theory story of a schoolgirl, Selena, who's going to be the future ruler of the world.
I didn't do it in '05 – I was too busy planning a wedding. But in '06 I knuckled down and used NaNoRenO to finish a game I'd been idly working on for four years, Elven Relations, a fantasy romance story. Both these games are free to download from the sites linked above!

Nina was asking at the party about clichés in the genre of computer role-playing games (RPGs), since my '06 NaNo novel, Ultimate Dream (which you can read online), is a parody of a stereotypical RPG. I referred to a list called the Grand List of Console RPG Clichés, which you can find here.

And when I write the final 1500 words or so of this year's novel, I'll decide whether or not I want to put it online. If I do, I'll link that from my homepage. :)
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NaNoRenO 04: Won - "When I Rule The World" (conspiracy-theory visual novel)
NaNoWriMo 05: Won - "Horizons" (sci-fi/fantasy, 50k words, story unfinished)
NaNoRenO 06: Won - "Elven Relations" (fantasy romance visual novel)
NaNoWriMo 06: Won - "Ultimate