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

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This will be my final status update for episode 8. It took a while to get here, but here we are.

Currently, there are 11 animations left in the animation queue. I expect them to finish rendering during the following week.

I've been playtesting and polishing the game all week.

Yet, I've only played the entire episode meticulously two times, in two different ways. I have several more playthroughs to complete, and I have yet to see everything the episode has to offer.

While playing, I wrote a checklist with 300+ things to fix and polish; this is common for every episode. I've been working on fixing everything on that checklist. I've added and fixed dialogue, renders, scenes, code, phone content, animations, and more during this week.

Next week I will continue to polish the episode and perform my personal playtests. I will also ensure that the save transfer between Season 2 and the upcoming Season 3 works as intended.

My beta testers and proofreader have gotten a heads up, and I will send them the episode as soon as I finish polishing it.

Before my inbox gets full of beta testing DMs: Thanks to everyone who offers help, but I do not need more help with beta testing.

After my team has started work and made progress, I can give an ETA for the Patreon release.

We are down to the nitty-gritty details of development, and that's also where the devil is.

I will post information regarding beta testing and release dates as soon as I know something more.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Minimal numbers, but the news is still pretty good! DPC completed a minimum of 11 animations and 0 static renders this week; it sounds like any additional animations or renders from the polishing process would have been negligible. If so, DPC's overall rate is approximately 13.4 animations and 156 statics per week. No big change in the charts, but might as well post them anyway:

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As he said, DPC should finish the final animations by next week, at which point beta testing should begin. That means we're still just barely in the running for a November 5 release, but that's a very optimistic scenario. My guess is Episode 8 release will either be November 12 or November 19, depending on how long beta testing takes. It's probably better to assume he'll take his time with testing given how important the new save system is, but maybe we'll get lucky.

Finish line is definitely in sight now. Sadly, we may not know exactly where it is until the last minute if DPC doesn't say when testing actually begins. Better start clearing out the calendar for mid-November so we can be ready!

 

[Deleted member 1784858]

You mean Jill's friend not sister. Bella is only her friend. Jill's sister is dead. And it wasn't meant to be comical, it was meant to be an insight on Bella.

About the internal monologue, i disagree, i find it a nice feature. In general i like them. As a note, they dont need to be necesary, most of the time they are not. But that doesnt mean they should be removed at all. In a book you dont need a description of the place where the action happens, yet they make the book better.

In particular I specially like Jill's inner thoughts. For two reasons. First, this one was meant to be comical. It's a clasic joke, where we seen a character struggling with himself by doing the oposite of what he/she wants. Not the best joke of the game, butnot bad neither.
Second, since it's a porn game, and Jill is a platonic relationship, thats her charm. We dont need Sage inner thoughts couse we have her pussy (the "real" thing). With Jill (for thoose who like her) we get a different thing. Platonic relationships work with fantasy. They are two people fantasising with each other. It happens only in the mind.

After all Jill's inner thought's included something like this:

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Now, i am not fan of platonic porn. But there are a lot of Jill's fans. I bet at some degree they like that. And if i was a Jill fan that would probably my favorite scene. And i dont meant couse that's the first time we actually see her pussy.

You started off disagreeing with me by agreeing with me, but that's ok because I still like you more than the denialist narrowminded defeatist edgelord who will probably be miserable for a very long time. I think an option to toggle the inner monologues on and off would be a nice thing to add for the people who identify with the various female characters... I don't really think it's healthy, but whatever. As for everything else you said i'm not really all that interested in that part of the game, i'm more interested in seeing some actual character growth considering it's been 7 chapters and a lot of these characters are still static.

 

[SpearOfReigns]

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This will be my final status update for episode 8. It took a while to get here, but here we are.

Currently, there are 11 animations left in the animation queue. I expect them to finish rendering during the following week.

I've been playtesting and polishing the game all week.

Yet, I've only played the entire episode meticulously two times, in two different ways. I have several more playthroughs to complete, and I have yet to see everything the episode has to offer.

While playing, I wrote a checklist with 300+ things to fix and polish; this is common for every episode. I've been working on fixing everything on that checklist. I've added and fixed dialogue, renders, scenes, code, phone content, animations, and more during this week.

Next week I will continue to polish the episode and perform my personal playtests. I will also ensure that the save transfer between Season 2 and the upcoming Season 3 works as intended.

My beta testers and proofreader have gotten a heads up, and I will send them the episode as soon as I finish polishing it.

Before my inbox gets full of beta testing DMs: Thanks to everyone who offers help, but I do not need more help with beta testing.

After my team has started work and made progress, I can give an ETA for the Patreon release.

We are down to the nitty-gritty details of development, and that's also where the devil is.

I will post information regarding beta testing and release dates as soon as I know something more.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

I'm going to be full delusional and believe DPC is going to pull an old trick like when he was developing Acting Lessons. "Beta testing was quicker than I thought. October 31th it is"

 

[felicemastronzo]

I'm going to be full delusional and believe DPC is going to pull an old trick like when he was developing Acting Lessons. "Beta testing was quicker than I thought. October 31th it is"

in my memory, the testing phase always takes less time than expected, even the last time when problems were announced, the time did not get longer.

 

[mpa71]

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Updated BigTable™ with the recent informations.

Spoiler: Big Checklist Progress since 27 August and 8 Oct

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• Out of 28 animations left to render, DPC managed to produce 17 (60%) with 11 left; meaning an other week.
• Basically, seems like it still have about 2 weeks of polish and cooking before betatesting.
• Checking the last 3 EPs, the betatest period before a release is about 7 to 10 days.
• Seems like we are now indeed in the 3-Weeks™ period. And with all optimism, October window is dead.
• 11-16 November seems to be the more valid estimate as today. 18-25 November if catastrophic.
• We had 6 out 8 or 6 out 12 rooster preview, who steadily release about each 3-4 days. One might drop tomorrow.

____
Trivia: as today EP8 ring a 6 month development time; 26 weeks.

Episode	Renders	Animations	Music*	Size	Release Date	Development Time
Episode 1	1301	51		≈1.1 GB	07 Feb 2019	000 days
Episode 2	1709 (+31%)	77 (+51%)		≈2.3 GB (+1.2 GB)	04 May 2019	087 (2 months, 28 days |≈12 weeks)
Episode 3	2289 (+34%)	99 (+29%)		≈4.1 GB (+1.8 GB)	16 Aug 2019	105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)
Episode 4	2532 (+11%)	134 (+35%)		≈6.1 GB (+2.0 GB)	10 Jan 2020	148 (4 months, 26 days |≈21 weeks)
Episode 5	2456 (-3%)	157 (+17%)	17 (3.4K$)	≈8.0 GB (+1.9 GB)	29 May 2020	141 (4 months, 20 days |≈20 weeks)
Episode 6	3336 (+35%)	162 (+3%)	24 (4.8K$)	≈11.1 GB (+3.1 GB)	13 Nov 2020	169 (5 months, 16 days |≈24 weeks)
Episode 7	3723 (+12%)	250 (+54%)	18 (3.6K$)	≈14.5 GB (+3.4 GB)	23 Apr 2021	162 (5 months, 11 days |≈23 weeks)
Episode 8	4065 (+9%)	359 (+44%)	36 (7.2K$)	>18.1 GB (+3.6 GB)	in development	183 (6 months, 00 days |≈26 weeks)

Complete Table with the help of Holy Bacchus† previous post. — Being a DIK in development since 2 years, 8 months, 16 days (32 months / 141 weeks / 989 days / 23,736 hours)
*199$ Premium Licensed Music

> Release Date Estimate:
Growing Scenario: Mid November 2021 (29 weeks) — Technical Difficulty Scenario: Late November 2021 (30 weeks)

Thumb up to well made Casiope's DIK Walkthrough

 

[hakuna-matata]

Shittt .... It means most likely the next episode comes out June/July.

 

[walker188]

That's the most awkward-looking folded arms pose I've seen. Is Maya cradling an invisible baby? Keep practising sweetheart, the real thing is coming soon.
#NotPullingOut

I wish, right? When Maya tells you to pull out because she isn't on anything, the appropriate reply is, "Don't worry, babe. You'll be a great mommy." Then FLOOD her womb.

Barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, please.

 

[D2M3]

My fear is being realized. BaDIK is gonna release on Endwalker week!

 

[StopMeIfYouCan]

I got 2 quick questions.

1- Swyper will be ever comeback?
2- Last time i played this game with cheat mod and you can change some variables. And there is a tab for Rose. With all my playthrough it was empty. Is there anything with strip club favorites?

With best regards, Thanks.

 

[SpearOfReigns]

Oh well, I guess Scream Porn Parody will have to do the job this Halloween. Again.

 

[PashafromRussia]

Yet, I've only played the entire episode meticulously two times, in two different ways. I have several more playthroughs to complete, and I have yet to see everything the episode has to offer.

So we are waiting for 2 parallel paths. The separation of the ways of diks and chicks was also in previous episodes, but it was insignificant. Most likely, the ways of hots and third-party girls will be blocked for chick. And Dik will lose Jill and someone from M/J.

 

[Dante19901024]

Updated BigTable™ with the recent informations.

Spoiler: Big Checklist Progress since 27 August and 8 Oct

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• Out of 28 animations left to render, DPC managed to produce 17 (60%) with 11 left; meaning an other week.
• Basically, seems like it still have about 2 weeks of polish and cooking before betatesting.
• Checking the last 3 EPs, the betatest period before a release is about 7 to 10 days.
• Seems like we are now indeed in the 3-Weeks™ period. And with all optimism, October window is dead.
• 11-16 November seems to be the more valid estimate as today. 18-25 November if catastrophic.
• We had 6 out 8 or 6 out 12 rooster preview, who steadily release about each 3-4 days. One might drop tomorrow.

____ View attachment 1463633
Trivia: as today EP8 ring a 6 month development time; 26 weeks.

Episode	Renders	Animations	Music*	Size	Release Date	Development Time
Episode 1	1301	51		≈1.1 GB	07 Feb 2019	000 days
Episode 2	1709 (+31%)	77 (+51%)		≈2.3 GB (+1.2 GB)	04 May 2019	087 (2 months, 28 days |≈12 weeks)
Episode 3	2289 (+34%)	99 (+29%)		≈4.1 GB (+1.8 GB)	16 Aug 2019	105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)
Episode 4	2532 (+11%)	134 (+35%)		≈6.1 GB (+2.0 GB)	10 Jan 2020	148 (4 months, 26 days |≈21 weeks)
Episode 5	2456 (-3%)	157 (+17%)	17 (3.4K$)	≈8.0 GB (+1.9 GB)	29 May 2020	141 (4 months, 20 days |≈20 weeks)
Episode 6	3336 (+35%)	162 (+3%)	24 (4.8K$)	≈11.1 GB (+3.1 GB)	13 Nov 2020	169 (5 months, 16 days |≈24 weeks)
Episode 7	3723 (+12%)	250 (+54%)	18 (3.6K$)	≈14.5 GB (+3.4 GB)	23 Apr 2021	162 (5 months, 11 days |≈23 weeks)
Episode 8	4065 (+9%)	359 (+44%)	36 (7.2K$)	>18.1 GB (+3.6 GB)	in development	183 (6 months, 00 days |≈26 weeks)

Complete Table with the help of Holy Bacchus† previous post. — Being a DIK in development since 2 years, 8 months, 16 days (32 months / 141 weeks / 989 days / 23,736 hours)
*199$ Premium Licensed Music

> Release Date Estimate:
Growing Scenario: Mid November 2021 (29 weeks) — Technical Difficulty Scenario: Late November 2021 (30 weeks)

Thumb up to well made Casiope's DIK Walkthrough

NICE

 

[ArcherB]

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This will be my final status update for episode 8. It took a while to get here, but here we are.

Currently, there are 11 animations left in the animation queue. I expect them to finish rendering during the following week.

I've been playtesting and polishing the game all week.

Yet, I've only played the entire episode meticulously two times, in two different ways. I have several more playthroughs to complete, and I have yet to see everything the episode has to offer.

While playing, I wrote a checklist with 300+ things to fix and polish; this is common for every episode. I've been working on fixing everything on that checklist. I've added and fixed dialogue, renders, scenes, code, phone content, animations, and more during this week.

Next week I will continue to polish the episode and perform my personal playtests. I will also ensure that the save transfer between Season 2 and the upcoming Season 3 works as intended.

My beta testers and proofreader have gotten a heads up, and I will send them the episode as soon as I finish polishing it.

Before my inbox gets full of beta testing DMs: Thanks to everyone who offers help, but I do not need more help with beta testing.

After my team has started work and made progress, I can give an ETA for the Patreon release.

We are down to the nitty-gritty details of development, and that's also where the devil is.

I will post information regarding beta testing and release dates as soon as I know something more.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

There should be a thread only for this kind of posts. When people comes to this kind of popular games looking only for some information about release dates have to dive into dozens of post of theories, discussions and things that are not useful information. It would be good two separated threads: one for useful information only, with posts like this one, and another one for debate and theories.

 

[sorco2003]

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This will be my final status update for episode 8. It took a while to get here, but here we are.

Currently, there are 11 animations left in the animation queue. I expect them to finish rendering during the following week.

I've been playtesting and polishing the game all week.

Yet, I've only played the entire episode meticulously two times, in two different ways. I have several more playthroughs to complete, and I have yet to see everything the episode has to offer.

While playing, I wrote a checklist with 300+ things to fix and polish; this is common for every episode. I've been working on fixing everything on that checklist. I've added and fixed dialogue, renders, scenes, code, phone content, animations, and more during this week.

Next week I will continue to polish the episode and perform my personal playtests. I will also ensure that the save transfer between Season 2 and the upcoming Season 3 works as intended.

My beta testers and proofreader have gotten a heads up, and I will send them the episode as soon as I finish polishing it.

Before my inbox gets full of beta testing DMs: Thanks to everyone who offers help, but I do not need more help with beta testing.

After my team has started work and made progress, I can give an ETA for the Patreon release.

We are down to the nitty-gritty details of development, and that's also where the devil is.

I will post information regarding beta testing and release dates as soon as I know something more.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Almost nothing to show, lots of data to read.17 animations in the last week, 11 to conclude, we could suppose that these will be ready for Tuesday or Wednesday, and if the final adjustments run the same luck, Thursday for betatesting start?
If luck is with us, 12 November is still a solid bet. (but we would have to prepare for the 19th in case something is delayed).

 

[SpearOfReigns]

There should be a thread only for this kind of posts. When people comes to this kind of popular games looking only for some information about release dates have to dive into dozens of post of theories, discussions and things that are not useful information. It would be good two separated threads: one for useful information only, with posts like this one, and another one for debate and theories.

Weekly status updates & previews up to $15 tier are always posted N7. Status updates always arrive on Friday, so you if you're only interested in development status you can visit N7 posts on his profile on late Friday.

 

[mpa71]

There should be a thread only for this kind of posts. When people comes to this kind of popular games looking only for some information about release dates have to dive into dozens of post of theories, discussions and things that are not useful information. It would be good two separated threads: one for useful information only, with posts like this one, and another one for debate and theories.

This forum need a Sticky Post function, so mods/staff can stick them on top of all pages

 

[Ennoch]

Maybe a sub-thread that is locked (only uploaders/mods/staff can post) and only houses weekly updates, other patreon posts, etc. ?

 

[seniorboop]

Up to what'll likely be 6.5 months moving forward with no end to that growth in sight

Excited for the update like everyone else as a long time player but yeesh.

Wonder what episode 10 and beyond will look like

 

[89898hh]

November seems likely. We got GTA remastered coming plus this ? November could be a goood month

 

[goldenrule91]

There should be a thread only for this kind of posts. When people comes to this kind of popular games looking only for some information about release dates have to dive into dozens of post of theories, discussions and things that are not useful information. It would be good two separated threads: one for useful information only, with posts like this one, and another one for debate and theories.

You think the theories and discussions are bad, wait until the episode actually comes out and there are hundreds of posts asking for links and saves and help with bugs related to the game and mods If you just come here to see status updates, you have it easy. People who actually want to talk about the game can't do it in this thread for weeks after a release without getting their posts buried by the same requests over and over. So yer, there should be another thread for discussion and theories no doubt.