Lol geezus guys, I'm guessing dart is in bed so Ill field these but I'm going to bed after:
Final phase? No more scenes, the official release will just have 1-9 as well as any bugs sorted out.
I would very much guess he does write his own jokes, but I'm with you on that. Most of them come across as a guy that's just trying way too hard be too funny but that's just my opinion. Some people actually enjoy it though. There's just way too many zingers and half of them don't land, and wouldn't land if you weren't heavily into American pop culture.
Kompas use a save given here (dart posted one quite a few pages back) and when you load it just sleep to a new day and the new chapter should start.
Finally, I think before he posts the official release he should also go back through and throw the name variable in place of a lot of hard-coded "sterling"s because it really takes you out when the name just up and switches on you like that.