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

[RC-1138 Boss]

Beta testing will start before the end of October.

The release date will be sometime in the first half of November.

I'm not setting a final release date yet, because if testing fares good, it's going to get released earlier.



It's time to start preparing for the release, even for you.

The best way you can do this is by having a clean install of your game ready and then download the new patch upon release.

That will help a lot to reduce the stress on the servers.

If you need a fresh version of the game, you can

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If you want to download the entire full version on the release date, that's fine too. But be advised, servers will likely be slower due to the high demand and the full version is ~11GB.

The patch on the other hand is ~3.0 GB.

For uploading, I will be using multiple hosts as always, to give you alternate mirrors to download from.



I promised you a changelog for this week's status update and here it is.

It's subject to marginal change due to testing and in case of any additional/scrapped content.


-- Changelog v0.6.0 --

• Added Episode 6 that includes
• 3334 renders
• 162 animations
• 34 songs
• 25 sound effects

• Added a fast travel system for free roam events. It can be turned off in Preferences and is only active for a subset of free roam events starting episode 6.
• Updated code for affinity and DIK status calculations.
• Added an optional text box mode with an opacity slider to the preferences menu. Text legibility is improved by enabling this mode, but you will get centered text and a low opacity black text box when playing the game.
• Removed the option Rollback side from preferences, due to redundancy.
• Fixed bad variable names, episode 1-5, overriding a python library.
• Your affinity will now be displayed in conjunction with major choices.
• Fixed a bug with the number of scenes displayed in the Stats app that could be unlocked in episode 5.
• Fixed a misalignment issue of the gallery for an Episode 5 mixed special render.
• Revamped the episode title and ending overlays for episodes 1-6.
• Made cosmetic changes to the episode stat report for episodes 1-6.
• Revamped the Reward app.
• Revamped the Scenes app.
• When unlocking a special render, the character you unlocked a render for will have an exclamation mark in the Rewards app.
• Fixed a bug where writing on Maya in episode 5 would register almost any word as being cute.
• Fixed a faulty button placement of Maya #4 special render in episode 5.
• Corrected typos

I estimate the playtime for the update to be somewhere between 4-6 hours for one proper playthrough.

Soon, DIKs.

Dr PinkCake

That is quite a lot of play time for one update.

 

[Jimayo]

it does not seem to me that they have ever fought for this relationship:

She's a teenager.

Dad: You stop this relationship or you're out on your ass and I won't pay for college.

I mean what is she supposed to do? Be homeless?

 

[Matt2012021]

i don't remember the the last time i was hyped for a update to a game maybe the first heist dlc for gta online

 

[p00nhandler44]

Time to give dr.pinkcake some money. Well earned imo

 

[Remplier]

I consider myself a thorough player, but I can't believe I missed out the option to call Sage during the party, after Cathy's cluck is leaked. What a pleasant surprise, to stumble into something new after playing this game many times...

 

[MyNameIsAssEater69]

Wouldn’t it make sense if Bella’s husband died during a tour in the army/military, that she would be the first to be informed because Bella is his wife??

 

[Vordertur]

She's a teenager.

Dad: You stop this relationship or you're out on your ass and I won't pay for college.

I mean what is she supposed to do? Be homeless?

Love will keep her warm when she's stuck sleeping on park benches.

Love will keep her fed when the soup kitchen runs out of chicken noodle.

Why are you against love?!

 

[MyNameIsAssEater69]

Episode 6 - Preview #9: Maya, Josy, Camila, Lily

If that preview doesn’t lead to MC showing them his jacket, it’s probably just him running around the HOTs house butt naked

 

[MyNameIsAssEater69]

I consider myself a thorough player, but I can't believe I missed out the option to call Sage during the party, after Cathy's cluck is leaked. What a pleasant surprise, to stumble into something new after playing this game many times...

You could also call Josy and Maya if you chose the Triangular relationship, it’ll just lead to the same scene with same dialogue

 

[EHFaR]

His games are so well done!!! Holy shit!

 

[Luvsgettinghd]

the visit?

Maybe Man of the House.

 

[felicemastronzo]

She's a teenager.

Dad: You stop this relationship or you're out on your ass and I won't pay for college.

I mean what is she supposed to do? Be homeless?

i also wrote this:

no one is always fighting, and some of these battles they couldn't win, but they didn't fight any.

the scenario you describe is not fighting, but asking and accepting to submit to a threat, there is quite the opposite of fighting.

but even assuming there has been an important clash with the father (we don't know anything about it and it is not said, I have quarreled with my parents hundreds of times, rightly and wrongly and I did not end up like a homeless person) at the limit we could say that Maya has "fought". but as a couple they also gave up on that point

and I repeat many battles cannot be won, but they should at least be fought

instead we are talking about a couple who do not even know if they are still together or not

 

[felicemastronzo]

Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to your results! I just want to be ready for the long march to Episode 7, assuming we somehow survive 2020.



I think it might be more accurate to say neither has ever fought effectively for the relationship. Maya's whole odyssey to get free tuition started as a way to protect the relationship from her father. She clearly put herself through things she would never have done ordinarily as part of that.

Is this a smart way to go about it? I would say no, even given porn-game logic. But it does convince me that Maya was willing to metaphorically bleed for the relationship, at least at first. We don't know if Josy did anything similar. The revelation that she knew full well the MC had a crush on her when she went on that first date doesn't speak well to her motivation, but it's possible she was near her limit by then.

In any case, I do agree their relationship is extremely fragile. It took the MC to get them to really address what had happened to them, and even then they are STILL keeping secrets if the MC goes the friendship route.

Personally, I'm hoping this is simply a mechanism to make it possible for the MC to date them individually without having to break them up himself. If he encourages them to work through their problems and start working together (with or without him in the mix), they can patch things up and learn to trust each other properly. If he keeps his distance, their relationship will eventually collapse and he'll be left to help each girl pick up the pieces (again, with or without him in the mix).

Hopefully we'll be a big step to seeing how this will unfold soon. <knock on wood>

Maya's personality shown so far makes me doubt that she has clashed so hard with her father. her father imposed an ultimatum on her and she accepted it hoping for providence.

then we are in the non-sense, whereby Maya gives up the money for the college thinking of not seeing Josy anyway, which should be the reason why the father refused to pay her the tuition...

but the point of my reasoning was not to talk about Maya and Josy yet, but to explain why I don't think their couple can last with and without MC.

if MC is just a friend I don't understand why he should bump into them to keep them together, it would be really uninteresting in a game where at that point he will obviously be interested in another LI, if he were interested in one of the two girls then it would make even less sense to stand there at be supportive of their lopsided relationship.

if MC is in a relationship with both of them, unless he makes wicked choices that lead the two girls to hate him, it still seems very likely to me that it is one of the two girls to leave the relationship. I don't know if the plot will take this into account but I would like to remind you that MC can be in relationship with both even having had a clear preference towards only one of the girls in choices and actions

 

[MyNameIsAssEater69]

A real question is why doesn’t John Boy never wear his jacket? John Boy is literally Derek’s twin, they both never wear shirts

 

[Jimayo]

Love will keep her warm when she's stuck sleeping on park benches.

Love will keep her fed when the soup kitchen runs out of chicken noodle.

Why are you against love?!

Right?

 

[Jimayo]

but even assuming there has been an important clash with the father (we don't know anything about it and it is not said

Yes, it was. She talks about how her conservative religious father lost his shit when she came out of the closet and forbade the relationship.

And why do you think she is so fucking desperate to get into the hots and get that free tuition? To get out from under his thumb so she can go back to josey, obviously.

 

[felicemastronzo]

Yes, it was. She talks about how her conservative religious father lost his shit when she came out of the closet and forbade the relationship.

And why do you think she is so fucking desperate to get into the hots and get that free tuition? To get out from under his thumb so she can go back to josey, obviously.

we know that Maya's father is against her story with Josy and therefore refused to pay her tuition.
we know that her father used harsh words towards Maya (that she was worthless).

therefore it is the father who certainly attacked Maya, what Maya did to defend her relationship we do not know.

the plan to go to college with a dubious free tuition is desperate, then if it's to live with a girl you think dumped you it's crazy

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Maya's personality shown so far makes me doubt that she has clashed so hard with her father. her father imposed an ultimatum on her and she accepted it hoping for providence.

Indeed, I can't imagine Maya and her Dad having particularly fierce shouting matches or anything like that, more likely that he would have exerted his will on her and she would have become emotionally distraught, but she hasn't accepted his ultimatum.

In the first episode she mentions the ultimatum but the fact that she's trying to get in to the HOTs because of the promise of free tuition would suggest to me that she hasn't accepted it as it's likely that the conditions of the ultimatum are to give up her relationship with Josy and/or get over her "phase" of being interested in girls, and if she does this then she'll get her tuition money. So not having her tuition and wanting to join the HOTs would heavily suggest she hasn't accepted her Dad's ultimatum.

then we are in the non-sense, whereby Maya gives up the money for the college thinking of not seeing Josy anyway, which should be the reason why the father refused to pay her the tuition...

Well, as I said, if a condition of the ultimatum is also to stop being gay, then she can't agree to that because, at the time, that's what she believed she was. So her not accepting may not entirely be because of Josy since, as you say, she couldn't guarantee seeing her as she might not have got in to B&R.

but the point of my reasoning was not to talk about Maya and Josy yet, but to explain why I don't think their couple can last with and without MC.

if MC is just a friend I don't understand why he should bump into them to keep them together, it would be really uninteresting in a game where at that point he will obviously be interested in another LI, if he were interested in one of the two girls then it would make even less sense to stand there at be supportive of their lopsided relationship.

if MC is in a relationship with both of them, unless he makes wicked choices that lead the two girls to hate him, it still seems very likely to me that it is one of the two girls to leave the relationship. I don't know if the plot will take this into account but I would like to remind you that MC can be in relationship with both even having had a clear preference towards only one of the girls in choices and actions

The MC can be made to have a clear preference if he's gained a lot of RP with one but not the other, you're right, and there are moments like staying with Josy and staying with Maya for their respective sex scenes where, again, he could choose one but not the other. Maybe that will have an effect on the throuple relationship, but it could also be more to do with the decision mechanic we saw in Ep 5 where you had to choose between going to Maya or going with Josy, and if we get more choices like that and you choose one girl more than the other, then that might be what has an effect.

In a way, it would be somewhat reflective of real world realtionships because by spending more time with one of them then he's showing more interest in them and in their relationship, whilst essentially ignoring the other one makes his feelings for them not seem the same since they don't spend a lot of time together. Therefore, if he spends an equal amount of time with each, let's say there will be 6 of these choices throughout the game, and the player chooses Josy 3 times and Maya 3 times, then perhaps this will be the path to an endgame relationship with both of them since he split his time equally between them.

I just wouldnt say that it's hopeless or even a sure thing that their relationship will break up no matter what path you're on, yes because that's my preferred path and I wouldn't want it to be hopeless so perhaps I'm a little biased, but also because the game is at least presenting the possibility that it can happen and not that it can't.

we know that Maya's father is against her story with Josy and therefore refused to pay her tuition.
we know that her father used harsh words towards Maya (that she was worthless).

therefore it is the father who certainly attacked Maya, what Maya did to defend her relationship we do not know.

the plan to go to college with a dubious free tuition is desperate, then if it's to live with a girl you think dumped you it's crazy

Of course it's "crazy", a) because it's a story made for dramatic purposes, but also b) she's a teenager and rational thought is something generally gained with age whilst emotional thought is generally what rules teenage life.

 

[ename144]

Maya's personality shown so far makes me doubt that she has clashed so hard with her father. her father imposed an ultimatum on her and she accepted it hoping for providence.

then we are in the non-sense, whereby Maya gives up the money for the college thinking of not seeing Josy anyway, which should be the reason why the father refused to pay her the tuition...

but the point of my reasoning was not to talk about Maya and Josy yet, but to explain why I don't think their couple can last with and without MC.

if MC is just a friend I don't understand why he should bump into them to keep them together, it would be really uninteresting in a game where at that point he will obviously be interested in another LI, if he were interested in one of the two girls then it would make even less sense to stand there at be supportive of their lopsided relationship.

if MC is in a relationship with both of them, unless he makes wicked choices that lead the two girls to hate him, it still seems very likely to me that it is one of the two girls to leave the relationship. I don't know if the plot will take this into account but I would like to remind you that MC can be in relationship with both even having had a clear preference towards only one of the girls in choices and actions

But my point is Maya wasn't hoping for an act of providence, she was taking an active role in bringing it about. That's one way of fighting for the relationship. The fact she didn't go about it the way you would have preferred (challenging her father directly and refusing to back down) doesn't change that. Maya gave up too quickly and didn't convey her feelings to Josy very well, but she was trying to keep them together.

As far as the relationship going the distance the second time (with or without the MC), that's entirely up to what DPC wants to happen. The people involved are inexperienced and the relationship is fragile (especially if it's going the polyamory route), but it's not impossible. IF DPC wants it to succeed and shows the girls (and the MC, if applicable) learning to make healthier choices, it can credibly succeed. If DPC wants it to fail because he hates making his audience happy, he can show the girls continuing to hide their feelings behind fear and indecision, and it will credibly fail.

Obviously, I am hoping for the former.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Obviously, I am hoping for the former.

You and me both, brother.

But my point is Maya wasn't hoping for an act of providence, she was taking an active role in bringing it about. That's one way of fighting for the relationship. The fact she didn't go about it the way you would have preferred (challenging her father directly and refusing to back down) doesn't change that. Maya gave up too quickly and didn't convey her feelings to Josy very well, but she was trying to keep them together.

As far as the relationship going the distance the second time (with or without the MC), that's entirely up to what DPC wants to happen. The people involved are inexperienced and the relationship is fragile (especially if it's going the polyamory route), but it's not impossible. IF DPC wants it to succeed and shows the girls (and the MC, if applicable) learning to make healthier choices, it can credibly succeed. If DPC wants it to fail because he hates making his audience happy, he can show the girls continuing to hide their feelings behind fear and indecision, and it will credibly fail.

I really do hope DPC allows this relationship to work somehow. Even if they are happy with how AL went, which they do seem to be, consistently dashing people's hopes by subverting their expectations like this, offering up a particular relationship path then taking it away, is not a good thing to do.

Just imagine the rage if an endgame relationship with Sage was impossible no matter what choices you made, and that's what it would feel like for players who want a M&J endgame relationship and feel that the game is promising this.