Are we allowed to include a very long author's note outside the project, in the project description area? It's longer than the game.

To be honest, PortableDocumentFormat. If I could I would be writing an entire 1990s style game manual. You, know, with pictures, graphs, isoramas and a freaking comic book embedded as Introductory booklet! :hearts:

Yes, an author's note is allowed! The 500 word limit only applies to text of the game itself. If it doesn't affect the story, it doesn't count towards your total word count.