Hello once again, everyone!

I've been holding off on this one for a little while, since I wanted to have Chapter Three pretty well wrapped up before I made my next update. It's not quite there yet, but I think it's close enough to the point where I can make an update in good conscience. Approximately an hour ago, I finished the final scene of Chapter Three's trial! Huzzah! Quite a milestone. Chapter Three itself isn't quite finished yet. There's a (relatively) short sequence of scenes I have to write following the trial (every chapter has this) as well as a (again, relatively) short scene that bridges the gap between chapters (again, each chapter has this). But these should take a handful of days to write at most. In fact, my current personal goal for myself is to get the chapter out to my beta testers in three days. This is a lot more work than it sounds like, since I have to edit/polish up the ENTIRE chapter in ADDITION to writing and polishing up those final few scenes, but I think I can do it. So, heck, I'm going for it!

By the way, this would be far from the first time I've spoken about it, but I've been keeping track of how long the game is as I've been reading through each scene for my first time. And as of right now, according to my overinflated developer count, Danganronpa Team is over 20 hours long! That's right, Chapter Three is freaking LONG. It's longer than Chapter One and Chapter Two in every single area! I don't plan for this! I don't know how these chapters keep getting longer and longer! Chapter Four will probably break that trend, though. Chapter Three is in many ways one of the most important chapters in the game in regard to various characters' development and the overall narrative. So it makes sense for it to be a bit on the longer side.

But for those of you who speak the language of words rather than numbers, or I suppose I should say words in the guise of numbers, I have started keeping track of Danganronpa Team's length in another way! I've started using a script to export the text in each and every scene into text files, then compile them together into one file, and check the word count. Now, I'm holding off on compiling these numbers again until I'm completely finished with Chapter Three, but back when I was about halfway through the trial of Chapter Three, I worked my magic and came up with the number of words comprising the game thus far. That number was roughly 283,000 words, which is roughly 566 pages of text or something like that. Keep in mind, this number was from like a week and a half ago when the trial was only halfway finished, so the script's probably broken the 600 page mark now, or it's going to by the time Chapter Three is finished. That's pretty cool!

Now I do want to say a little something about the future of updates on this game page. I'm honestly considering going silent for a while, because I simply don't have much of interest to put in these updates anymore! Unless you guys want me to spoil the murder of Chapter Three or something! So I'm thinking of going the route of radio silence until the game is closer to being finished. Maybe then I could post some more creative, interesting updates. But for now, I really don't have anything I can share in good conscience.

So that's all for now. Whether or not we see each other anytime soon, thanks for your continued support, and I will keep plugging away at Danganronpa Team! Have no fear of that! Marche, out!