Danganronpa: Antebellum

The content below contains **spoilers** for **Danganronpa: Antebellum**. Proceed with caution.

## Production

### Platform(s)

* Windows
* Mac

**Danganronpa: Antebellum** is an in-progress British Fangame created by **Rippilie**. As of July 31, 2022, *Danganronpa: Antebellum* has a prologue, and two fully released chapters. The most recent release, the daily life portion of the third chapter, premiered on October 28, 2022.

## Premise

> "16 students wake up in a strange, seemingly abandoned ancient laboratory- a strange haze appears to fill the entire building... but slowly and surely it becomes unnoticeable. This 16 students have all committed a crime sometime in their life and have been on the run from it for a while... not like they'll let their fellow students know it. Soon enough they find themselves thrown into a killing game in this strange laboratory and one by one start to get punished for their crimes..." **━ Official Premise**
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## Cast

* Main
* Side Characters

## Videos

Danganronpa Antebellum- Official Trailer (A Danganronpa Fangame)**Trailer**
### OST's

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## Creation and Production

### Creation

Danganronpa: Antebellum was announced through the projects Instagram account on July 30, 2020.

### Production

Production for the prologue and first chapter started during and throughout 2020. During the months of July and August, profiles were published for the characters, and by November 1, 2020, the sprites for every character were complete. On March 6, 2021, a trailer for the game was premiered through the games channel and to date has 12,000 views, five days later the prologue officially premiered through Gamejolt. After the prologues release, silent playthroughs were uploaded through the channel. Five months later on August 7, 2021, the daily life portion of the first chapter was premiered, and the deadly life portion was soon released on February 18, 2022. Silent playthroughs were premiered for both portions, and received approximately 25,000 views combined. In between production, during the first two weeks of pride month, 2021, the creator revealed a majority of the casts orientations and identities through Instagram. In addition to this, From the end of the year updated profiles were released for the characters, and several previously unseen side characters were revealed.

Production for the next chapter started soon after the completion of the first chapter, as soon as just a week later. It was announced through the games Gamejolt and YouTube that every sprite would be remade for the upcoming chapter. Several of these new sprites were previously shown through the updated profile cards, released just a few months earlier. Throughout the next few months fanmade OST's for the game were uploaded through the games channel, and were composed by several music creators, including: Before Flight, Yeecho, and Grief. On May 13, 2022, the release of the daily life portion for the second chapter was announced through the projects Instagram. It was later premiered for download on May 20, alongside a silent playthrough. The deadly life portion of the second chapter was premiered for download on July 31, 2022, also released alongside a silent playtrough.

During development for chapter two, short videos featuring Lillith and the previous chapters deceased were premiered through the games YouTube channel. Soon after chapter three was fully written, a poll was hosted on the official Discord server to decide the future schedule for the upcoming chapters, unsatisfied with the prologue and first chapter and wishing to remake them. The third option 'C' received the most votes. 'C' intends for the fourth chapter to alternate releases with the remade prologue likely coming after the completion of chapter three, and the daily life for chapter four after the prologue.

The daily life portion of the third chapter was released through Gamejolt on October 28, 2022, announced two days prior with an illustration of the games protagonist and Lyra. The daily life segment of Chapter Three was released through Gamejolt and YouTube on October 28, 2022. Later, on September 29 2023, an update was released for chapter three, featuring new scenes, two new endings, and other changes.

## Downloads

*Danganronpa: Antebellum* Downloads
 Chapter One
 Chapter Two
 Chapter Three

## External Links

* **YouTube**: Danganronpa: Antebellum
* **Gamejolt**: Rippilie
* **Instagram**: @Danganronpa\_Antebellum
* **Twitter:** @DanganronpaAnte

## Trivia

* The game was originally planned to be set on a cruise, a greek temple, an airship, and later a doll house. These ideas were later scrapped in favour of an abandoned laboratory, as it fit Mononeko better, as they are a cat killing off the 'lab rats'.

### Scrapped Content

* Several characters were scrapped before the final cast lineup was decided.
	+ In early outlines of the game, an Ultimate Girl Scout was created. She had a fleshed out personality and backstory before being replaced with Emilia Carmine.
	+ In very early outlines of the game, there was an Ultimate Director who was intended to be the mastermind. When the plot was completely reworked mid-2019, he and his role as the mastermind was scrapped.
	+ There was a scrapped character, 'Kanon, who was created by a member of the team. She was scrapped from the final cast lineup however and replaced with Ismene Circe. If a sequel is created, Rippilie stated it would be 'highly likely' that Kanon would appear in it. Her design was shared through the Fangan's Discord.
	+ There was originally going to be an Ultimate Makeup Artist who used their abilities to create paintings with makeup. Despite their talent, they cared very little for physical appearances.
	+ Initially Mint and Emilia were part of a trio with a water motif character, originally planned to be either the Ultimate Scuba Diver or Ultimate Marine Biologist, based on 'fire, water, and grass'. She was later scrapped as Rippilie struggled to find a suitable personality for her, and due to there already being a lot of characters with a blue colour scheme.
	+ There was originally an Ultimate Gamer character who was scrapped around 2018-2019. Little is known about him.
	+ There was originally another character with an unknown talent. They were either a beta design for Takiko Ushina or scrapped in favour for Asuga Hino.
* Very early in development the original purpose of the 'haze' gas was to give each patient a unique almost magical ability pertaining to a single word. This was based on Epipthet from Epipthet Erased.

## References

1. ↑ https://gamejolt.com/games/Danganronpaantebellum/595478
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSrk6rnVEE&feature=youtu.be
3. ↑ https://gamejolt.com/games/Danganronpaantebellum/595478
4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CDQrbwNFqdb/?hl=en
5. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDNaUtJlww/?hl=en
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNA1G4uBWBk
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=368GBTrq9-s
8. ↑ https://gamejolt.com/games/Danganronpaantebellum/595478
9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3QupcHk4rg&t=1s
10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq-PWKdOwO8
11. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q6lCzEFV94
12. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CPkbwTKNOJC/?hl=en
13. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CYINivOtC1W/?hl=en
14. ↑ https://gamejolt.com/p/https-youtu-be-igvekcouj4g-just-a-preview-of-some-of-the-new-spr-xjvkdni3
15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGVeKcOUJ4g
16. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0icNrWYso4
17. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Po\_NbbRvQ8
18. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO6hJl1-v18
19. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CdgiCtFNQqR/?hl=en
20. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVRHs926fjY&t=1021s
21. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSrk6rnVEE
22. ↑ **Voice Actress.mp3**
23. ↑ **Dungeon Master.mp3**
24. ↑ Danganronpa Antebellum, Chapter Three: **Release Announcement**
25. ↑ **Danganronpa: Antebellum:** Chapter 3 Update