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what a wonderful bullet rebuttal

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im curious. how many people do u think will play the game? (this sounds like asdfasdf hhh passive agg or sth??????? but u know)

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oh man. like, as a prediction? tough question to answer this early on and tougher still to be honest about.

i think in the end, i'm happy if even a half dozen people end up playing it to completion down the line. so, 6ish 7ish. not that i think A WONDERFUL DANGANRONPA will be bad, of course. or low quality. quite the contrary: i believe fully in its story, and any future team member's skills in delivering an amazing experience! it's just a very personal project, and thus very niche.

i am also, to be very blunt, unlucky with projects gaining traction, so i don't know if this one will, either. but i'm making it for me first and foremost, and so no one else has to care. don't get me wrong, though! if AWD gets any kind of fanbase, i will be honored. hell, when folks tell me they already love certain characters, i am, presently, extremely flattered and honored.

thank you for the ask!

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if theres no junko enoshima, is there no mukuro ikusaba either (as in, is that not her name? does she get to be an otonashi too?)

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great question!

the most i can give without spoiling much (i've rewritten this post about 40,000 times) is...Mukuro's birth name wasn't Mukuro Ikusaba. she just arrived at HPA with that moniker. however, she was indeed born an Otonashi. perhaps with a different first name?

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i'm sorry but it needs to be asked. does melvin wear underwear or is he full greco-roman?

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unfortunately, unlike Fubu, i think Melv may be going commando under there. but like maybe some of his classmates are into that. maybe some of you are into that. (?)

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Veritas Enjoyer Anon, back at it again with some more general questions! (also Hikari’s outfit is so pretty oh my god like THE INTRICATE PATTERNING HELLO)

- Is the death order completely set in stone? If yes, did you write the characters around their predetermined fates, or did things just fall into place as you established their other aspects? If no, is there anything in particular that makes figuring it out tricky?

- About how long will each chapter be (either in terms of gameplay time, or length in days as the characters experience them, or both)?

- Will there be a soundtrack/music of any sort?

- Lastly, because I have a self-assumed title to defend as the Veritas Enjoyer: how tall is he? And do you have heights set for all the Wonders, or is that still in development?

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oooh! some really fun questions here!! thank you for giving me A Chance To Blab.

Is the death order completely set in stone?

death order is like 99% set in stone, so we'll go with yes. ha. the 1% is like, if we come up with an insanely good idea that blows our current order out of the water thematically or narratively. i'm always open to that. but we're liking where things are sitting right now, even if it took us a thousand years to hash out trials 2 and 4 in particular. (can't wait for you all to experience them.)

it helps that we plan on attaching a "nice AU" mode/"friendship/dating sim" mode as free DLC later, so if we feel shitty about killing a character early, we know we can write a lot more content about them in a better world. (and, hey, isn't the point of a good DR character to want more of them when they go...? Kodaka even said the same thing...about Rantaro, i think, in particular.)

If yes, did you write the characters around their predetermined fates, or did things just fall into place as you established their other aspects?

ooh, i want to talk about this, but so much of it is big spoilers, so excuse the sort of roundabout way i'll discuss it...

definitely "things fell into place as i determined aspects of the characters" WITH THE EXCEPTION of two characters who were doomed from their conception in my silly brain. i will not say who, but they are our narrative tent poles, and i refer to them as such when my beloved Writing Consultant throws ideas at me. go go theorycrafters!

but, yeah, beyond those two? i built the murders and trials around the characters after said characters more or less came into full fruition. even then, some of them got switched around in the last six months as we solidified the outline. quite a few characters had differing roles in my original plan until my consultant made cases for (or against) them. go go theorycrafters again!

About how long will each chapter be (either in terms of gameplay time, or length in days as the characters experience them, or both)?

too early to tell precisely, but if i were to guess, the gameplay itself, if you skipped every optional bit of content i have planned, would be a little longer than V3. if you sat and did everything, it'd be muuuuch longer.

from the start, i decided that what we may lack in "new" gameplay, we'd really make up for in total word count. if you like to read, if you like to spend time in a different world with its people, this will be your game. there will be lots of (optional, skippable) (but i don't recommend it) content to get to know the characters and this strange timeline. total immersion, even if we can't quite make the debates work the way you all are used to them working!

in-universe, like most DR games, i think the plot takes place over maybe two weeks tops. of course, the backstory stretches back 400 years...

Will there be a soundtrack/music of any sort?

absolutely. in my Grand Master Plan, this is one thing i intend to fund, and i have (probably too many) notes about what i want down the line.

it's still way too early to talk much about it, but what i can say is that...mostly, it'd be remixes of existing Danganronpa tunes, since this game is so intertwined with DR as a whole, and since we know precisely where a lot of Takada's samples come from.

there are two characters in particular that i intend to have original themes, though. speculate!

Lastly, because I have a self-assumed title to defend as the Veritas Enjoyer: how tall is he? And do you have heights set for all the Wonders, or is that still in development?

right now, Veritas is the tallest boy at 5'11" or around 180cm. he's the second tallest character in all, with only Yuwa beating him (6'3" or 190cm). and, just for fun, the person underneath him is Senju (5'10"/178cm).

funny you asked about heights, because we set them just the other day! as we're still in super-duper-alpha design stage, so the usual disclaimer that anything could change suddenly, even things i've shared here on the blog, but we're feeling good about where the heights are now.

and as an aside, other measurements are still in flux, as we're still picking over body types. but! i expect to have those to show you all by the end of summer. fingies crossed

thank you again for all the cool questions!

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One of the things I love most about this fangan is how many Weird Women there are. none of them are remotely normal and that gives me infinite happiness

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this is a fangan for Weird Bitches Only!!!! our class normie is a dude this time around and even then he wears a fucking kitsune mask. we're out here. thank you for the Very True Observation and ask

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who is izuru kamukura?

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚜𝚘 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚛. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍.

𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚍.

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚜𝚘 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.

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hello!! i saw you wre excited for the new Danganronpa game. will this effect your fangan at all?

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yes yes!!! i am very excited, yes! The Hype Is Real.

to answer your question, no, it won't affect AWD much. AWD is already an AU from the mainline games, so any new information we get from this DR2x2 AU should not change much on our end.

now...we might get some small overall gameplay ideas from 2x2. easter eggs. etcetera. i can't deny that. but otherwise, AWD is solidly planned and not much is going to drive it off course...even more official games!

if the other official games are remastered in the same way, our style will remain with the "old school" games, e.g. we're not going to be making moving sprites because that is way Out of Our Budget, as cool as they look.

thanks for the ask!!!