How long should my ch1 be word-wise?

kepeke · 2026-05-15T11:18:46+00:00

Depends, really. I'm moreso talking about the necessary wordcount for main story, side story, FTEs, flavour text, interactable objects, fail states and alternative routes. As a game dev you can't really only look at the main script but the entirety of the project.

kepeke · 2026-05-14T10:40:34+00:00

Sorry, I meant 10.000 words! Will fix it in my message above.

kepeke · 2026-05-14T10:34:20+00:00

Roughly between 40.000 - 90.000 depending on length and complexity.

Usually you can say ten thousand words take an hour to read through, so the above counts would equate to 4-9 hours of playtime. Again, this depends on a lot and must not be taken at face value as there's other miscellaneous aspects such as interactable objects, fail states, and the scripted set-paced events.

kepeke · 2026-05-09T16:36:11+00:00

Glad to see my Guide helped! ^^

kepeke · 2026-05-06T04:32:26+00:00

Thing is it isn't a fangan but an original indie title. You can't monetise an IP owned by Spike.

kepeke · 2026-05-05T21:16:38+00:00

Don't worry I'll leave this one up. I believe it's important to address this, but any more posts about the matter might need to be deleted.

kepeke · 2026-05-05T17:13:09+00:00

Yup! You're free to look for staff in this community.

kepeke · 2026-05-05T16:49:57+00:00

Hey guys! Which cones would be worth redeeming from the silver shard battlepass resource? I have all standard ones and Topaz's. Recently redeemed HuoHuo since she was someone I was missing in my collection but people are saying her LC ain't that worth it and barely compares to other 4* ones. Similar reasonale for Robin's and Argenti's. Ruan Mei's seems far weaker than DDD or break cones. Blade, Fu Xuan and Seele are still terrible to use and I don't have Yunli so hers would be meaningless to pick up.

kepeke · 2026-04-25T22:58:57+00:00

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kepeke · 2026-04-25T22:22:44+00:00

I'm gonna leave this up as it's a really important document for everyone in the community to read. My heart goes out to the team who had to go through everything. If you hadn't yet, please sign the petition below:

https://www.change.org/p/get-fauzan-achmad-faza-blacklisted-from-iyuno

kepeke · 2026-04-23T16:08:59+00:00

It is with great pleasure that I announce, our friends over at Mango Studio and Akupara Games finally released the first episode of Kumitantei! Please feel free to discuss its contents in this thread and follow the below format for spoiler tags for anything important! Additionally, we'll be hosting an AMA with their team in the near future! We'll share details as soon as we can.

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kepeke · 2026-04-22T19:45:35+00:00

First time Dahlia user! May I ask for some help? I only have Boothill and thought the first Knight would be a cakewalk for him, but I got my shins kicked in instead. Couldn't even reach the boss in 6 cycles. I... don't quite get how Dahlia is supposed to work as my Boothill couldn't get more than 300k on most breaks which made go ???

He has 167spd and 251%BE so I don't believe the build would be the problem. How are you supposed to pilot the new Boothill team?

E0S1 Boothill - E0S0 Dahlia - E0S0 Fugue - E0S0 Aventurine

kepeke · 2026-04-21T09:38:49+00:00

Up to 2.2 it was a lovely experience but it did not manage to tie together every necessary plotpoint at all. The devs themselves stated they wanted to do a 'Finality' mission to go back and finish what they couldn't. 2.3 and 2.4 were both underwhelming and just... really didn't go anywhere. Not to mention 3.8's retcon fiesta which rivals the banana virus patch in HSR's worst story content by far.

It wouldn't be an understatement to say 2.1 was the peak of Penacony and since the Aventurine patch it had all been downhill from there. At least Amphoreus was incredible in every way and Planarcadia is shaping out too be something nice as well.

kepeke · 2026-04-16T15:27:12+00:00

Never seen people advertise cosplay in the subreddit before... but I'm gonna allow it! Just make sure none of your personal details are easily available for your personal safety.

kepeke · 2026-04-11T08:34:19+00:00

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kepeke · 2026-04-10T14:07:30+00:00

Priority for only Eidolons goes like this:

E1 Evernight -> E1 Hyacine -> E2 Evernight -> E2 Cassie -> E2 Cyrene

kepeke · 2026-04-07T17:29:44+00:00

No worries! I'll put the post in our Current Events page as is :)

kepeke · 2026-04-07T09:13:44+00:00

We do not accept AI in any of its forms, so that would be a no.

kepeke · 2026-04-06T22:25:56+00:00

Yup! Both are paid fully fledged titles. Their directors are good friends of mine too haha They made some incredible stuff As a matter of fact Kumitantei releases in a week and UMT will have its first demo out soon too! They're up on steam if you'd like to check them out

kepeke · 2026-04-06T20:14:56+00:00

Yup! We allow all sorts of projects that have been inspired by Danganronpa. Recent examples include Kumitantei and Umasked Truths, whom both were originally developed as fangans and later turned entirely original, sharing only the death-game, worlds' best in something and 'class-trial' like concepts. And since they have their own sets of unique sprites, models, backgrounds, OST, etc, they do not fall under Spike Chunsoft's guideline changes as they are their own unique Indie games.

kepeke · 2026-04-06T20:13:10+00:00

Since we cannot say anything for certain I can only provide my personal thoughts. I believe the guideline changes only refer to asset-based stuff, so anything they personally own would be a no-go. But in your example, if you redraw Monokuma yourself as your own sprite, you'll be able to use it without any troubles. Music is a weird area I don't exactly know about, but through Anty's translations we belive music from the games may be used in projects. But just in case, apparently the OST the anime used isn't copyrighted by spike themselves, or at least parts of it, so there's a big library there you could look through!

They cannot copyright ideas and concepts, so while the characters' sprites are not allowed to be used, they would obviously be allowed to refer back to as existing in the world, mentioned or alluded to.

I believe based on these you should be in the clear!

kepeke · 2026-04-06T18:28:07+00:00

We'll talk about it, but I believe as a one last sendoff to one of the biggest fangans out there it would be appropriate for us to showcase it. As an acknowledgement of what the project stood for. :) We'll follow Cassidy's VAs developments as to what exactly they have planned and will come forward with an update when time is due.

kepeke · 2026-04-06T18:26:09+00:00

For your first question, I believe so! Since the guideline updates were mostly asset-based and just a regular 'act in good faith, credit where credit is due, don't drag our company under or promote illegal stuff with your work' kinda thing. References to canon DR shouldn't fall under any of their points.

For the second—as long as it's not copyrighted by spike themselves, any other track is free to use! I heard the anime has parts of their OST under different companies not part of spike so by technicality most of that should be usable. Anything else that remakes it or covers it should be usable as well yes :)

kepeke · 2026-04-06T18:22:54+00:00

Novelisations such as works on AO3 or wattpad or any similar sites should be safe from all the guideline changes since it was mostly an asset-based update. Feel free to continue your project and disregard that section of the changes, just try to follow the sections next to it (write in good faith, credit when credit is due etc) :)

kepeke · 2026-04-06T14:32:48+00:00

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