VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [Dr PinkCake]

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Jamez999 said:
Why did DPC chooses "School Setting" for his second game ?

I think that the main reason is probably the higher chances to make lewd scenes, and it would fit in the story perfectly. A horny freshman with a big club fucking around like a hound dog with teachers, lesbian couple, prostitutes restaurant, strip club girls... it's not shocking or surrealist. Either people (25+ years) had memories about college debauchery nor, younger ones wanting to live that (in same time going to college)

So, it fits perfectly, because most people went to college/ high school, so they have a background related to this topic.

Imagine, the setting is about a young doctor in the hospital, or a writer working for a journal, fewer people will relate to it. (like for acting lessons)

The second point is that in college, there's the most diversified cultures, peoples and mentalities. There are stereotypes, a lot, that's why it works perfectly in BaDIK.

I am sure that in the last episodes, there will be some consequences for the previous choices and behaviors of the MC, but it won't be dramatic as AL or as the players expect it.

This game is the best porn game (yes, it's a porn game) ever, and I'm sure it will be like this forever. DPC is at his peak of creativity, motivation and hardworking. That's probably why he's taking more and more time to create animations, deep down, he knows that the internal resources are not infinite.
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DPC gives the player the opportunity to play BaDIK the way the player wants. If the player wants a porn game then the player just has to give his MC a DIK affinity and fuck all he can.

The other side of the BaDIK coin is an adult game with sexual content. If the player chooses to have their MC only track a LI or JM as a throuple, then it is no longer a porn game as explicit sexual content will be severely restricted.

This is the reason why players perceive BaDIK differently. DPC serves two target groups by deciding how a player plays BaDIK. Therefore, one cannot generalize that BaDIK is a porn game.

Most players, I assume at least, will play all paths of BaDIK and thus BaDIK becomes a porn game for these players. I personally only play goal-oriented Josy and Maya. This doesn't give me the impression that BaDIK is a porn game.
 
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Jamez999 said:
Why did DPC chooses "School Setting" for his second game ?

I think that the main reason is probably the higher chances to make lewd scenes, and it would fit in the story perfectly. A horny freshman with a big club fucking around like a hound dog with teachers, lesbian couple, prostitutes restaurant, strip club girls... it's not shocking or surrealist. Either people (25+ years) had memories about college debauchery nor, younger ones wanting to live that (in same time going to college)

So, it fits perfectly, because most people went to college/ high school, so they have a background related to this topic.

Imagine, the setting is about a young doctor in the hospital, or a writer working for a journal, fewer people will relate to it. (like for acting lessons)

The second point is that in college, there's the most diversified cultures, peoples and mentalities. There are stereotypes, a lot, that's why it works perfectly in BaDIK.

I am sure that in the last episodes, there will be some consequences for the previous choices and behaviors of the MC, but it won't be dramatic as AL or as the players expect it.

This game is the best porn game (yes, it's a porn game) ever, and I'm sure it will be like this forever. DPC is at his peak of creativity, motivation and hardworking. That's probably why he's taking more and more time to create animations, deep down, he knows that the internal resources are not infinite.
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College (and obviously school in general) are definitely a relatable experience, but also it's a good age group for the girls (most people's firsts fucks would have been when they were around this age group or younger - but we can't get into the younger :eek:). If you consider the other powerhouse AVN in this genre (the one that's been sitting at the top of Patreon's AVN rankings for ears), it's clear it's a crowd pleaser.

But ultimately this was a genre that DPC said he enjoyed; inspired by many teen sex comedies of the past.

SirDawcio said:
Oh, I totally agree on some animations being totally unnecessary (never played Josy&Maya path, recently discovered Maya's pool animation took half of EP8 production time lol) but could you elaborate on how those animations and the focus on them, which prolongs development time, indicate DPC lost the plot? Many people regarded EP9 as worse than its predecessors in terms of writing because it didn't move the story forward, something I hope will be fixed in EP10. But I don't know how it is connected to the plot.
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"Lost the plot" is a phrase that means "lost focus". I'm not literally suggesting that DPC doesn't know what the plot of his own story is, but rather that he is deviating from what made his game so highly liked in the first place: It wasn't long-ass animations and never ending free roams, that's for sure.

But as far as the plot is going, it's progressing just fine, and even in episode 9 which delved into numerous broken flashback stories (even though the entire story is actually a flash back from the opening scene), the plot is still adequately evolving.

felicemastronzo said:
but look I'm not trying to convince anyone otherwise, but it remains that the most constant argument for praising BADIK's work is disdain for other similar works. that besides being a weak argument, I also find it quite counterproductive, if AVNs are such a dunghill, no matter how much BADIk emerges the stench will always be that.

if I then have to respond to your examples I find them really unremarkable and not particularly significant about the quality of writing. let's start with the fact that they are naturally very subjective, for example that the Jill cycle is coherent and well carried out is at least a controversial opinion...

American Pie, but like it many even worse comedies, have exciting moments, we are human beings, getting excited is easy enough, you just have to push the right buttons (as for example pixar movies do, even the less successful ones)

if I imagine Badik's transposition on paper I see an unreadable work, a concentration of characters who always react at the highest intensity (Mc drops out of college because he had a fight with Troy, Josy runs away from home to go to college, Sage goes to spy on her boyfriend with binoculars, Maya knows that her father has the keys to her room but is sure she will not use them without warning first, Bella stays over at MC's getting caught by all the DIks , Zoey asks MC to drop out of school a few months before it ends and again and again)

there isn't a single story arc that told really makes sense, that's not to say that there aren't funny moments (the poop and fart jokes still make me laugh) or exciting moments. there are qualities, but they aren't enough to hold Badik up as a story on foot
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I wouldn't suggest the plot is anything marvelous in this game, it's just a bunch of petty, often contrived, teenaged drama. But it's the way that it's delivered that makes it something special. The dialogue between the character is so comfortable to read; not once during any episode did I ever start to get bored and want to fast forward through the dialogue to see where the game is going.

The story direction / telling method is really a strong point for the game (kinda let down by episode 9 though - I hope the game doesn't continue doing flashback story telling anymore, where the mc relays important plot points out of sequence they way he did in episode 9). There is minimal narration and mostly the renders and dialogue steer the story. I love this method. I don't want to read verbose narration riddled with embarrassing high school quality descriptive language as utilised by most games in this genre.

But there is something interesting to note: Reading the dialogue works well, but if it was played in audio, it sounds terribly stilted. The original voice acting that was used for Bella and Jill before it was dropped just sounded garbage. Not sure if it's the dialogue or the delivery, but yeah, I think the dialogue works best when you're just left to read it.

phill_leotardo said:
Lastly, I always read your name as felice mastronzo lol. All this time. Only now I realized the philosophy behind your name Felice Ma Stronzo. Che cazzo, ma sta bene.
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This is a very important reveal!

Marcolion said:
Oh no, my fictional girlfriend who doesn't exist left me because of my decisions and started a relationship with another fictional character, I'm going to write a bible to DPC about what I think about it. You realize that people who think that way are mentally ill, their opinion should not be taken into account and DPC knows that.
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It seems that it's a huge number of players that feel this way though (or maybe it's just a vocal minority... :unsure:), but I don't think DPC handled it too badly. Apart from Jill being 100% a virgin, which was specifically part of her character development, every other character has had implied sexual experiences, but DPC doesn't rub the more sensitive people's noses in it.
 
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Marcolion said:
Oh no, my fictional girlfriend who doesn't exist left me because of my decisions and started a relationship with another fictional character, I'm going to write a bible to DPC about what I think about it. You realize that people who think that way are mentally ill, their opinion should not be taken into account and DPC knows that.
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For a dev not taking it into account he’s done a bang up job avoiding content that’d cause a reaction. Not a single girl Fuckface has a scene with has a scene with another male. The closest is Heather and she’s never had a scene with Tommy. In a game where Quinn, Camila, Riona, Lily and Nicole are literally prostitutes, I mean Zoey didn't have one scene in her own interlude that didn't include him. The game goes out of it's way to dance around and avoid anything that'd get people upset. It's not a coincidence that the only women that we see outright fuck someone other than Fuckface don't have scenes with him (Elena, Arieth).

It’s the most controversial kink it causes more arguments on this site than any other and it doesn't seem to be a few people. It's not really surprising DPC or any dev would just not want to deal with the headache of pissing off so many of his players.

Orgitas said:
What I find hilarious is that many people on this forum love a good Harem. But they hate NTR. Personally I find that rather ironic and I am all there for the irony.
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Typical F95. My kinks are ok, what I dislike destroys games. When I first joined I saw a guy in one thread drooling over a MC fucking their mum, on another thread they were calling foot fetish and cuckold disgusting. There's likely a scat lover on here somewhere railing against the evils of hand holding.

Where as outside the porn game audience saying you want a footjob or a threesome is going to be met with far less disgust and anger than saying you fantasise about shagging your mum.
 
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Joshy92 said:
I'm probably in the minority but I have not jacked off to this game ever
I have other lesser games for that
I have played a lot of games on here and I find this to have some of the best relationship building and writing around
That's why I think of this game as a work of art not just porn
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You're not alone out there buddy.(y)

... but I can not doink my soldier to anything 3D. My brain doesnt percieve it as real. It stimulates something in me, but the little big fella does not stir. Only real women move him.:HideThePain:

My wifey on the other hand hates real porn but loves to flip the nub on 3d or cartoonish stuff. _/¯ (ツ) ¯\_
 
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DPС started playing Starfield. Good thing the game turned out to be a typical Bethesda game, and as usual everyone will abandon it after 10-20 hours. Well the optimization sucks of course.
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The real gem of Bethesda games is the modding. There is a reason Skyrim and Fallout 4 sold exceedingly well for years aha. Give it a year and it will, undoubtedly, be awesome. However, with the amount of NASA tier PCs he has he can play games whilst rendering!
 
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A360 said:
For a dev not taking it into account he’s done a bang up job avoiding content that’d cause a reaction. Not a single girl Fuckface has a scene with has a scene with another male. The closest is Heather and she’s never had a scene with Tommy. In a game where Quinn, Camila, Riona, Lily and Nicole are literally prostitutes, I mean Zoey didn't have one scene in her own interlude that didn't include him. The game goes out of it's way to dance around and avoid anything that'd get people upset. It's not a coincidence that the only women that we see outright fuck someone other than Fuckface don't have scenes with him (Elena, Arieth).

It’s the most controversial kink it causes more arguments on this site than any other and it doesn't seem to be a few people. It's not really surprising DPC or any dev would just not want to deal with the headache of pissing off so many of his players.
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I've never understood it and I don't think I will.

Example 1 - your wife is cheating on you and openly declares it, but you haven't seen it in person. So everything is OK? We saw such a scene in Acting Lessons, for example.

Example 2 - your girlfriend/fuck buddy bangs with someone else besides you (because you have no obligations to each other) and openly declares it, but you haven't seen it in person. Is it ok or not ok? This is what MC and some other girls have been doing for the first 2 seasons.

Example 3 - a girl with whom you are not in a relationship, but would like to fuck with someone, and maybe you even saw it in person. But you hooked up with her and now she's your fuck buddy/girlfriend/wife. Is it ok or not ok? We have seen this countless times, including in the BADIK.

So what's the difference? To know that a fictitious character that you are interested and/or invested in emotionally fucks with someone else, but not to see it, or to know it and see it? For real? It's like someone is ok with everything girl is doing, until he see it personally, lol. It's like pretending that every girl is a virgin and don't fuck with everybody and you are always her first.

Let's think about examples, and then think about the reasons why we don't see "scenes" with someone else fucking MG/SG or side girls.

We have some blatant and explicit prostitutes in game, in the person of Riona, Camila, Sarah, Melanie and Quinn, at least. We clearly know that they are fucking with a lot of other people. But it doesn't stop people dreaming of them, "wife material", etc or just to be their fan.

Regarding scenes, for the sake of what DPC should waste his time, the game scenes and renders space, etc? Just to show us some scenes with MG/SG/side girls fucking with somebody else? In the past? Or currently? The cucks will be grateful, the rest of players are at least annoyed by the fact of wasting time and resources on completely useless scenes. Fans and white knights who can't imagine and handle having their imaginary girlfriend fucked (or oh my god!) fucking someone else will be furious. In short, the creation of such scenes will be approved only by the cucks, i.e. a clear minority. For the rest of healthy people, hints in scenes or words in dialogues are enough to understand what is happening. While white knights and just sissies can go and suck a dick, because DPC doesn't follow all of this "unspoken" rules. He keeps a good balance so as not to attract cucks, but also not to reject normal players. And I hope we, as MC, will be able to "help" some of MGs/SGs which we had rejected before to find a soul mate at the end. DPC made it in Acting Lessons before, so, why he wouldn't do it again in BADIK?

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Kpyna said:
I've never understood it and I don't think I will.

Example 1 - your wife is cheating on you and openly declares it, but you haven't seen it in person. So everything is OK? We saw such a scene in Acting Lessons, for example.

Example 2 - your girlfriend/fuck buddy bangs with someone else besides you (because you have no obligations to each other) and openly declares it, but you haven't seen it in person. Is it ok or not ok? This is what MC and some other girls have been doing for the first 2 seasons.

Example 3 - a girl with whom you are not in a relationship, but would like to fuck with someone, and maybe you even saw it in person. But you hooked up with her and now she's your fuck buddy/girlfriend/wife. Is it ok or not ok? We have seen this countless times, including in the BADIK.

So what's the difference? To know that a fictitious character that you are interested and/or invested in emotionally fucks with someone else, but not to see it, or to know it and see it? For real? It's like someone is ok with everything girl is doing, until he see it personally, lol. It's like pretending that every girl is a virgin and don't fuck with everybody and you are always her first.

Let's think about examples, and then think about the reasons why we don't see "scenes" with someone else fucking MG/SG or side girls.

We have some blatant and explicit prostitutes in game, in the person of Riona, Camila, Sarah, Melanie and Quinn, at least. We clearly know that they are fucking with a lot of other people. But it doesn't stop people dreaming of them, "wife material", etc or just to be their fan.

Regarding scenes, for the sake of what DPC should waste his time, the game scenes and renders space, etc? Just to show us some scenes with MG/SG/side girls fucking with somebody else? In the past? Or currently? The cucks will be grateful, the rest of players are at least annoyed by the fact of wasting time and resources on completely useless scenes. Fans and white knights who can't imagine and handle having their imaginary girlfriend fucked (or oh my god!) fucking someone else will be furious. In short, the creation of such scenes will be approved only by the cucks, i.e. a clear minority. For the rest of healthy people, hints in scenes or words in dialogues are enough to understand what is happening. While white knights and just sissies can go and suck a dick, because DPC doesn't follow all of this "unspoken" rules. He keeps a good balance so as not to attract cucks, but also not to reject normal players. And I hope we, as MC, will be able to "help" some of MGs/SGs which we had rejected before to find a soul mate at the end. DPC made it in Acting Lessons before, so, why he wouldn't do it again in BADIK?

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Maya reacts so calmly when Sage kisses her girlfriend.
 
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Status update Episode 10 (BETA TESTING PHASED)

Grab a cup of something and take a break. A large chunk of text without a tldr incoming.

It’s been a while since I do some update here, First off… Boom! The 5000 render milestone was reached this week. Now episode 10 has more renders than episode 9 – the previously biggest episode in the game. And because I reached this milestone, I had to try and estimate how much is left in terms of development.
I have been working on art and coding all week. I started by completing two smaller scenes and one free-roam event. The better part of the week was spent on creating the last free-roam event of the episode. Since it’s a new environment, there was environmental design to carry out first, and also preparation of the characters for it.

The dialogue for this free-roam event was written months ago, so it’s a matter of creating the art and coding the events and buttons. It’s a labor-intensive yet easy free-roam event to create, so I should be able to maintain a good speed without any speed bumps.
After the recent weeks of playing and polishing the game, my flowchart has been updated, and the following checklist is what the current state is like.
As I develop these episodes, I always ask you to take numbers with a grain of salt because the scene/render/animation count will change until the last few weeks of development. This is why it’s always hard for me to give accurate estimates.
As you will notice below, the scene count is larger than I reported earlier because of the addition of some scenes that were needed to make some branches feel whole.

Checklist Episode 10
This is the current checklist of what’s left to do before beta testing can begin.

Scenes
  • Three lewd scenes – One is written. Neither scene has any art.
  • Three free-roam events – One is almost complete, another has a few scenes left, and I’m ~70% through the last one. All writing is done. All need a different degree of testing and additional phone content.
  • Three normal scenes – One is written, one has partial writing, and one is planned. Neither scene has any art.
Art
Based on the scenes above, I estimate I must pose an additional ~600 static renders and 70-100 animations.
  • Current static render count: 4892 produced. 220 posed renders in the render queue. 5112 renders total.
  • Current animation count: 237 produced. 28 posed animations in the render queue. 265 animations total.
Sound
SFX work has been done as I play-tested parts of the episode; I estimate it’s ~80-90% done.
For music, it’s the same as with SFX. Most of the scenes that are complete have songs in place. 25 new songs have been added so far.

Testing
I haven’t played the episode from start to finish yet because of gaps in the episode and missing content near the end.
My personal tests and polishing remain. How long they take usually depends on how much I have played the episode during development and whether new features are involved.
Episode 10 is packed with new things for the game, meaning testing might take some extra time to ensure high quality.

My thoughts on the checklist.
The animations will be the most demanding part, but cannot be skipped or trimmed as the scenes are essential for the episode.
The static render estimation can change in either direction but is likely lower than stated. The code tasks are all fast tasks to complete. I estimate that I could get all of them done within 1-2 days of work, but they depend on the art content I need to produce first.
The remaining work on SFX and Music won’t take too long, 1-2 days here as well. Testing is another demanding part. I have lots of new features to test this time around. And we are talking about the five main branches on top of some very ambitious branching within them.
As always, there will be waiting time for animations near the end of the development, and this is when I plan to perform my personal tests and polishing.
Hopefully, I have covered all aspects of the checklist, but I may have missed something minor – all big tasks are accounted for.

My plan going forward.
I plan to work with art until I need to write the last scenes. Animations will be posed intermittently.
I plan to be done with my testing as the final animation frames are produced, thus minimizing the time between the PCs being idle and the start of beta testing/proofreading. As usual, at least two weeks will be allotted for private beta testing and proofreading before the episode can be released on Patreon.
Next up for me is to continue with art on the free-roam I’m working on and hopefully be able to move on to other scenes later next week and the next time I update here, all the previews for Episode 10 will be posted here also.
Have a nice weekend, and thanks for reading.
 
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