My VN is about a conversation between two “characters” that fit the other rules for that, but I wanted to know whether the name label in Renpy that shows up above the text to signify which character is speaking counts against the 1k word limit or not.

I saw in the explanation of rules that it said name tags didn’t count against the word limit but I just wanted to check & make sure name tags were what I thought they were & not just like, an illustrated name tag on a sprite’s uniform so I didn’t accidentally break that rule lol

Hi there ashleecraft, thanks for asking! We can confirm that the name label/speaker names indeed does not count towards the word limit. In the future, please be sure to direct all your questions to the main FAQ thread so we can keep track of who we've already answered. Happy jamming!