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The lack of hype in this thread about how DPC basically said that with a bit more than 1 month of development, with a high estimate, the update could be already 50% done is outrageous.. 
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I personally feel like the free roam events take more time than its worth. I prefer an approach without or smaller free roam events maybe it will take less time and make things easier to be released quicker. Just my opinion love the game either way this is just one of few critiques I have of this game.
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I was being serious haha. the pixel-hunting is a bit annoying, but the freeroams can be skipped if you dont like them.Not sure if sarcasm or not, as the font we use on this forum is poor in conveying feelings and emotions.
But since ep 5 we have mostly fanservice and pixel-hunting free roams. The story barely progressed.
I usually just check my phone for rooster and texts, then I explore around to interact with characters and eventually progress through the freeroam. I don't particularly care if i miss one or two minor scenes.
The story is definitely progressing though, A lot of backstory of the DIKs was added, about Rusty, Tommy and the other guys. New events surrounding cathy, your new leadership-ish role in the DIKs, power conflicts, and the new direction of trying to save the future of DIK. Almost everyone's story progressed in a significant way. Sage is single, Quinn is dealing drugs, Bella has the hots for you, a little of Jill's backstory was revealed, and the first real romance scene with her got added in.
The episode is centered around picking up the pieces after everything that went down with Hell Week, and I imagine that this sets things up nicely for next episode. Tying up many loose ends.
I'm looking forward to where the story goes next. Only DrPinkCake knows, and if Acting Lessons is anything to go by, he isn't afraid to create some massive drama.
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- May 17, 2020
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The lack of hype in this thread about how DPC basically said that with a bit more than 1 month of development, with a high estimate, the update could be already 50% done is outrageous..
we do not want to delude ourselves ...
however, always not before the end of March it will come out, if he completes it first he will add / improve something.
I don't really mind the size of the game or updates, just wish a torrent was there for the updates as the host sites fail quite a bit. If the uploader could do a torrent, then folks can pitch in to seed for each other.another time ... another 10 gigabytes ....
- Mar 20, 2018
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yeah I agree with the others about not letting the hype get to me, 30-50% is great if true but, I dont want to be disappointed if a delay happens or something.
Hah, ya that is definitely encouraging. It hasn't even been 2 months since Ch 6 released and we're already 1/3 to 1/2 done with Ch 7...that's pretty awesome. I like that speed of development a lot better than 5-6 months for completion.The lack of hype in this thread about how DPC basically said that with a bit more than 1 month of development, with a high estimate, the update could be already 50% done is outrageous..
Agreed completely. Some of the free roams are cool, but I personally prefer them to be a lot shorter - thinking like the free roams in our dorm to start the game where it's just a few brief changes of scenery versus say Episode 5 with the Prep Mansion or Episode 6 with the DIK mansion...just too much "busy work" IMO. I'd prefer to just have the visual novel story continue progressing.
- May 17, 2020
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the first time takes a lot of time, especially if you are interested in finding all the renders, but from the second time on they are done really fast.
certainly in the sixth chapter between the game of restructuring the DIKs' home and that of putting the books in place for Bella (the latter, among other things, cannot be skipped even excluding the minigames) free roams have become more intrusive
i think the free roam events are brilliant when you have a clear goal to reach, like your infiltration missions at the preps house
they're still cool when you can tour the HOT house or during the DIK party, because the mansions are crowded and they feel alive
they're kinda wasted when you're just searching for renders, and feel annoying when some parts of the mansions have a counter-intuitive navigation system that doesn't help
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I agree I loved exploring all the areas, specially on the DIK route in the HOT House.
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DPC was clearly not idle over the holidays. He went into the break with 37 animations in the render queue, but came out of the break with a whopping 55 shiny, new animations added. That suggests he was rendering nearly 27.5 animations a week, way above his previous average of ~17/week. His overall rate is now around 18.6 animations/week. We even got an update on static renders, though it only works out to ~83/ week since his last datapoint. That gives him far less impressive 167.5/week overall average on statics. To put it in graphic form:
Happy new year!
I hope you're feeling well today and that 2021 brings good things for all of us.
Let's kick off the new year with a status update!
It's been two weeks since the previous one and there's been considerable progress. I did take a few days off, but I've been working a lot as well.
PCs have mostly been rendering animations but also some static renders.
I've been doing bits of everything, and I will have to focus on writing and coding in the near future.
I've reached a point in the development where the PCs will intermittently be idle and not rendering.
Earlier, I've mentioned how manual labor will be the new bottleneck, as I've upgraded my GPUs, and that's exactly where we are right now.
It's a good thing, really. It means that I can produce the content I want without having to worry too much about rendering time.
I haven't posed every animation in the update yet, so the PCs will soon be working hard again, but I need to write more of the script before I know for sure what remains in terms of animations.
So, the current state of the development is that:
149 animations and 1340 static renders have been produced.
9 licensed songs, 2 CC0 songs, and 7 sound effects are added thus far.
Despite the high animation and render count, I have a lot of manual work left on this update.
As you can see, I have been focusing hard on posing animations, which means that other areas of the development have been left for later.
Writing, coding, and posing static renders will be the time-consuming tasks for development starting now.
I cannot accurately estimate how far along I am with the script, but the main script has 6125 lines of code, best compared to episode 6 with ~11000 lines of code.
I have also made good progress on an updated feature that I vaguely mentioned in the past and will reveal it a bit later in the development.
This week I started on a huge and fairly complex free roam event, and it will take a long time to fully code and complete it.
All in all, great progress has been made and the episode will be a meaty one once it's completed.
I estimate that the overall progress for the update is early to mid-development (30-50% complete); I can't estimate it better than that.
I have some other good news for today.
I'm not sure how many of you have noticed this, but there's been an increasing amount of lag in the game as it is growing in size.
It's been most noticeable during animations with choices.
After spending some time debugging this and even getting insight from RenPy Tom, I'm really happy to announce that I've fixed it for the entire game.
This fix will roll out together with the next update.
Poll news
There was a poll for 2D art that ended during Christmas and the winning combination was a frontal shot of Sage in lingerie + nude. I have ordered this art piece for episode 7.
There will be more polls to come during January.
Have a nice weekend and a great start to 2021!
Dr PinkCake
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To that end, DPC also mentioned he thinks Episode 7 is between 30 and 50% complete. It's been 8 weeks since Episode 6 launched, so that means we have between 8 and 18.7 weeks left. 8 weeks would correspond to February 26; 19 more weeks would be May 14. (If you're curious, my March 12 hypothetical would indicate we are 44% complete.) It's unclear if DPC was including time to debug and playtest or purely time to write the episode, so we could potentially need to add two weeks to that time table.
So, for those who were wondering when the next update will be, you have the answer: sometime between 2/26/21 and 5/28/21. Mark your calendars now!
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- Oct 24, 2018
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Will 2021 have 26 or 28 months?
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I dont know that a year have more than 12 months
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- Sep 20, 2018
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Bah, you non-Yanks with your consecutively ordered date formats and your consistent metric systems. You suck all the fun out of arbitrary historical conventions!I dont know that a year have more than 12 months
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Why America does the MM/DD/YYYY format, I'll never know, because the whole rest of the world does DD/MM/YYYY which makes so much more sense.Bah, you non-Yanks with your consecutively ordered date formats and your consistent metric systems. You suck all the fun out of arbitrary historical conventions!
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