2026-09-06 19:06:14
Anonymous:
Hub: re-measure the Design Document's length (about 19,400 words, ~84 minutes at r11, up from ~18,000 at r9) and say when it was measured and that it keeps moving - a number in a summary that does not name its own date is the mistake this wiki has already made twice.
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- [PM reviews and revision checkpoints](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews) — completed PM review rounds, starting with PMR001.
**Specialist work pages** — this is where the actual design is
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- **[Design Document](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document) — DES102/DES103, the integrated owner-facing design document. *Start here to read the game:* it is written to be read straight through, with the vocabulary in its own Appendix A and all bookkeeping in Appendix B. *Currently about 18,000 words — roughly 75 minutes end to end, or 60 for the body alone.***
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- **[Design Document](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document) — DES102/DES103, the integrated owner-facing design document. *Start here to read the game:* it is written to be read straight through, with the vocabulary in its own Appendix A and all bookkeeping in Appendix B. *Currently about 19,700 words — roughly 86 minutes end to end. Measured 2026-09-06 19:05 UTC+3; it has been growing by a few thousand words an hour, so check before you rely on the figure.***
- [Design](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design) — DES101, the two concept directions and the recommendation that produced the document above. Still the lead's working page.
- [World and Mystery](/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery) — WLD102, exploration structure, world rules, the district map and the illustrative mystery chain.
- [Design Review](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review) — REV102, the independent critique and its current findings; superseded rounds are on its [Archive](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive).
