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

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Ennoch said:
You put that into the save folder. In the AppData variant.
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put 3-1 save and persistent files from 1 page in appdata folder plus in game/save folder, nothing in gallery unlock except that i did in my old save. Any ideas whats wrong?
 
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my old saves includes only half of a gallery. pls tell me whats wrong with "full save" from 1 page, it didnt help me
 
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Walter Victor said:
Here is a post and response from DrPinkCake on Patreon:

Poster A
Can't wait to see how the HOTs'll react with the MC living with them!

DrPinkCake
Sage's branch is indeed interesting. ^^

Then there was this one:

Poster B
Please don't take this the wrong way because your game is probably the best of its kind. But if the free roam events take up so much time why not ditch them in favour of creating additional characters, scenes, and story lines? I can't speak for everyone but I personally find the free roam scenes don't add anything to the experience except frustration. This is because you often have to play the game through several times to get all the scenes and they're so time consuming.

DrPinkCake
Because it's an important part of the game. Everyone likes different and I respect your opinion, but I'm making the game of my dreams not anyone else.

Free roam events elevate the game, gives you a breather, allows you to use the phone which has a big purpose in the game. They make a Visual Novel into something different and fresh.
Simply by removing the free roam events, wouldn't get you the update faster. Renders (animations) will always be the bottle neck. Besides, you're asking to add other content instead of free roam. That is not speeding up an update either, that's just shifting content.

If you don't enjoy replaying the game, you could hack renpy and use the console to unlock what you missed.

Poster B
I suggested ditching them in favour of creating addition characters, scenes, and story lines. I didn't suggest ditching them to cut down in development time. Yes you're the developer but to say you're making this exclusively for yourself is offensive to everyone contributing their money to your game. You don't have to do as I ask but at the very least don't insult me for making a suggestion.

DrPinkCake
I'm sorry if you took that as an insult Mark, it wasn't meant to be that.
This sentence has been on my front page since day one of doing this "I create these games for myself, but I love to share my creations with you." and I will always stand by it.

Every day since I started doing this, fans/players/haters want to change things with the games I make. While I appreciate feedback and ideas, there is simply no way to satisfy 100% of players. That's why I've settled for making myself happy with my creations, because if I'm not happy creating them there would be zero motivation for me to work so hard on this game, giving up a huge part of my life to do this. There's nothing that burns a creator out faster than not loving what they do.

I understand that I get huge support from patrons and you collectively make this possible for me to do. But that support doesn't mean that my creative freedom can be bought; no one is forced to donate. I've received plenty of offers to change things in my stories and games, some have offered me a lot of money for it. I've declined every single one of those offers.

To be perfectly clear, I'm not cutting/skipping content/scenes with other characters in favor to add free-roams. I'm still making every single scene and piece of dialogue that I intended for each episode. If I removed free-roams, the episode would look the same minus the free-roam.
I hope you understand and accept my apology.

Needless to say this little discussion generated quite a bit of commentary, both positive and negative.

By the way, the free-roam sections are my least favorite parts of this game. Makes it too sandboxy for me. Personal preference. Although I will admit that some of the most amusing scenes come during free roam, especially the chats and Rooster sections.

Also, I need to say that I fully agree with DPK's paragraph above about making a game that pleases himself. I hate it when developers try to appease the multitudes. It only leads to burnout and abandoned games. When those games are not abandoned, they just turn into cookie-cutter imitations of each other.
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What i take from this is that Mark is a moron with a paper thin ego. "Please don't take this the wrong way" but as soon as the author explains why he isn't going to ditch free roam events the guy tries to act like a victim. :FacePalm:

No wonder Dr.Pinkcake doesn't even bother to walk around here when even some of his patrons like to act entitled.
 
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Walter Victor said:
Here is a post and response from DrPinkCake on Patreon:

Poster A
Can't wait to see how the HOTs'll react with the MC living with them!

DrPinkCake
Sage's branch is indeed interesting. ^^

Then there was this one:

Poster B
Please don't take this the wrong way because your game is probably the best of its kind. But if the free roam events take up so much time why not ditch them in favour of creating additional characters, scenes, and story lines? I can't speak for everyone but I personally find the free roam scenes don't add anything to the experience except frustration. This is because you often have to play the game through several times to get all the scenes and they're so time consuming.

DrPinkCake
Because it's an important part of the game. Everyone likes different and I respect your opinion, but I'm making the game of my dreams not anyone else.

Free roam events elevate the game, gives you a breather, allows you to use the phone which has a big purpose in the game. They make a Visual Novel into something different and fresh.
Simply by removing the free roam events, wouldn't get you the update faster. Renders (animations) will always be the bottle neck. Besides, you're asking to add other content instead of free roam. That is not speeding up an update either, that's just shifting content.

If you don't enjoy replaying the game, you could hack renpy and use the console to unlock what you missed.

Poster B
I suggested ditching them in favour of creating addition characters, scenes, and story lines. I didn't suggest ditching them to cut down in development time. Yes you're the developer but to say you're making this exclusively for yourself is offensive to everyone contributing their money to your game. You don't have to do as I ask but at the very least don't insult me for making a suggestion.

DrPinkCake
I'm sorry if you took that as an insult Mark, it wasn't meant to be that.
This sentence has been on my front page since day one of doing this "I create these games for myself, but I love to share my creations with you." and I will always stand by it.

Every day since I started doing this, fans/players/haters want to change things with the games I make. While I appreciate feedback and ideas, there is simply no way to satisfy 100% of players. That's why I've settled for making myself happy with my creations, because if I'm not happy creating them there would be zero motivation for me to work so hard on this game, giving up a huge part of my life to do this. There's nothing that burns a creator out faster than not loving what they do.

I understand that I get huge support from patrons and you collectively make this possible for me to do. But that support doesn't mean that my creative freedom can be bought; no one is forced to donate. I've received plenty of offers to change things in my stories and games, some have offered me a lot of money for it. I've declined every single one of those offers.

To be perfectly clear, I'm not cutting/skipping content/scenes with other characters in favor to add free-roams. I'm still making every single scene and piece of dialogue that I intended for each episode. If I removed free-roams, the episode would look the same minus the free-roam.
I hope you understand and accept my apology.

Needless to say this little discussion generated quite a bit of commentary, both positive and negative.

By the way, the free-roam sections are my least favorite parts of this game. Makes it too sandboxy for me. Personal preference. Although I will admit that some of the most amusing scenes come during free roam, especially the chats and Rooster sections.

Also, I need to say that I fully agree with DPK's paragraph above about making a game that pleases himself. I hate it when developers try to appease the multitudes. It only leads to burnout and abandoned games. When those games are not abandoned, they just turn into cookie-cutter imitations of each other.
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It's a good thing DPC is accepting critcism but at the same time standing their ground. They are already giving patrons some say about what content will be in the game, but keep complete ownership of the core elements.

I personally agree with DPC about the feeling and purpose of the free roam segments, they also offer a little more freedom than what is usually in a virtual novel.

That DPC assumed poster B was after faster releases, was telling to me. They seem to be somewhat pressured into creating content faster than currently possible. I hope they don't burn out.
 
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.ox said:
I'm so sad ...

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I wonder if that's how she felt after the MC left her dorm room

michael1984 said:
Imagine that every ten seconds in the coming episode of this game something like that pops up but then a DPC error wait 30 seconds caus of fap overload :LOL:
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That would be pretty much the killing blow for his game but I reckon those interruptions more than makeup for it.
 
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Mormont said:
Women like that are great who would do anything for the man they love very stubborn, yeah Sage has her Chad flaws but she will get over that soon hopefully I'm not sure how much longer we should be running around for her keeping tabs on him I'd rather she just confronts him and breaks up with him. I think you have been playing to much AL with that killing part :p
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I agree with your thoughts about Sage, and this may come off as a shock but I haven't actually played AL yet. I saw it on the Steam store and bought it around the same time Being A DIK came out. So I prefer to just take in DPC's newest work with a fresh mind without comparing it to anything prior. But after season 1 ends I'm definitely going to play it.
 
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