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

[dalli_x]

Well, if you are a Patreon supporter, let me ask what is the general mood on the comment section after this announcement?!. are they at least start to get impatient?.

It's nice to be your own boss, but even in that way, you should set up a personal deadline at least, and not the: "it take ass long as it takes ". In the past, he at least had a reasonable development circle, with proper progress. Even Interlude was more Focused.
He knew what he wanted, what he needed to achieve, it was productive and visible, progress. EP9 is off the rail.

I agree with you on a lot of things. But I think to myself that he is also very focused in EP9. Over-focused might be a better word.

He will be so focused on turning mysteries and consequences into a coherent picture story. His focus will be on the end result, but he wants to achieve that end result too precisely and perfectly, so he's inserted new images every now and then to better explain the story.

I also expect that there will be a lot of consequences. I was playing EP7 again yesterday and something Tommy said struck me.

Tommy: "Haha! I am a motherfucker! That MILF bar is the bomb."

With sentences like that, I always wonder if we should take DPC at their word. In the bar is Nicole (Envy). There's an EP9 preview with her. The MC also sees Jade and Cathy. In EP9, the MC will probably meet Jade, and Cathy is seen in the EP8 recap. Nora is also seen in the bar, in the credits of EP8, and in a preview.

The number of bar consequences alone would have made the paths very unmanageable, and DPC has built so many possibilities for consequences into the story that it is very confusing to create a detailed picture story for them.

 

[felicemastronzo]

"Being a DIK" is arguably the best game on this site and is certainly the most popular, all because DPC follows his instincts and builds the game as he sees fit. Suddenly people are second guessing him and his decisions. If DPC feels the episode requires additional scenes to flesh out the story (why does it have to be a sex scene or "major plot" step?), then he should add the scenes. I've been a patron of DPC's for two and a half years now. At my level of support, this means that "Being a DIK" is the most outrageously expensive game (or porn) I've ever purchased. It is worth every penny so far and I want that to continue. So I am content to let DPC create the game he wants. He hasn't let me down yet; in fact, for me each episode just gets better and better.

As of today, DPC has almost 12,600 patrons. If that number starts dropping rapidly, no doubt he'll reconsider his approach. Thankfully, it seems pretty clear that his other patrons feel more or less as I do.

I meant that I don't think he's about to add anything particularly important to the scene, anything significant. then he can also devote himself to Bella's route for the next 10 years, and considering what happened to other developers, he probably wouldn't starve

but what does it have to do with the number of patreons he has? so if the number dropped automatically we change judgment on BADIK?

it's been 7 months since interlude and he still doesn't know how long he has left to finish, and that should be good news...maybe I'm weird

 

[BorgiaBou]

It’s pretty much what you would expect:


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OMG, he could take two years per update and the comments will be the same...
Look at that guy with the classic "take your time with it"... dude he's taking his time from march the fuk much time you want him to take...

 

[Darkwen]

It’s pretty much what you would expect:


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They must think DPC has a really big dick because that a pretty big group blowjob

 

[DrSoong]

I hope before that we will not die in an nuclear war.

Nucular, It's pronounced nucular.

 

[ChipLecsap]

"Being a DIK" is arguably the best game on this site and is certainly the most popular, all because DPC follows his instincts and builds the game as he sees fit. Suddenly people are second guessing him and his decisions. If DPC feels the episode requires additional scenes to flesh out the story (why does it have to be a sex scene or "major plot" step?), then he should add the scenes. I've been a patron of DPC's for two and a half years now. At my level of support, this means that "Being a DIK" is the most outrageously expensive game (or porn) I've ever purchased. It is worth every penny so far and I want that to continue. So I am content to let DPC create the game he wants. He hasn't let me down yet; in fact, for me each episode just gets better and better.

As of today, DPC has almost 12,600 patrons. If that number starts dropping rapidly, no doubt he'll reconsider his approach. Thankfully, it seems pretty clear that his other patrons feel more or less as I do.

I started to second guessing him when he created 3 fucking lewd scene for Madam. When he introduced the mother dairy, and when he brought back a forgatable, ex girlfriend and created a whole episode to her, while even some actual main love interest are not fully fleshed out properly.
more content is always good but quality over quantity.
and in the end of the day, the story can't be fundamentally different based on the different girls, otherwise the Narrative will lose its rail , and everything end up as a chaotic mess.

episode 4 back then was perfectly balanced with the different starting point, branching. How ep 9 will handle it, remain to be seen, but he need a tighter grip now, because it's seem episode 9 lost it's track.


Lostanddamned said it best. When even I start to get annoyed by DPC , you know he fucked up

 

[Thekingofdope]

Man chill with all the "its been a year" Play something else until it comes out.

 

[Darkwen]

Man chill with all the "its been a year" Play something else until it comes out.

When you fuck the best you can't go back to average

 

[ffive]

They must think DPC has a really big dick because that a pretty big group blowjob

Clearly DPC has modeled Fuckface's dick after his own.

 

[Thekingofdope]

When you fuck the best you can't go back to average

Which is why i dont understand peoples issues with this man, cause this is BY FAR the best game, and the reason for that is, he does what ever the fuck he wants with the game.

 

[HumperDoo]

DPC is probably banning Patreons who complain about the wait times.

yeah like G4tv's hate mail pile up lmao

 

[1200]

Which is why i dont understand peoples issues with this man, cause this is BY FAR the best game, and the reason for that is, he does what ever the fuck he wants with the game.

He's getting paid 6 figures, it's perfectly reasonable to expect more because of it. Yet the more patrons he gets, the longer the updates take. Generally quality AND speed increase with size of business, but only quality has with DPC

 

[italianstallionxxx]

the interlude was a totally waste of time

 

[Ottoeight]

As of today, DPC has almost 12,600 patrons. If that number starts dropping rapidly, no doubt he'll reconsider his approach. Thankfully, it seems pretty clear that his other patrons feel more or less as I do.

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You're welcome.

He lost 1.000 patrons since december 2021. November 2021 doesn't count because it was ep. 8 release: since then, he's constantly and slowly losing patrons.

 

[Tremonia]

the interlude was a totally waste of time

Yeah, artistic freedom of authors sucks a lot. How could DPC dare to tell a story like he wants to? He should ask you next time. Where will we end up if devs produce the storys in the way they have in their mind?

 

[Ottoeight]

I'm also looking past that into ep 10. Will that actually be the last episode and if not, is the general trend from now on going to be 1 update per year or was this just an odd year due to multiple factors?

Bro, the plan is 4 seasons, 16 episodes. Draw your conclusions. Mine are that we will never know what was Lynette's family name / who posted Cathy's picture / who blackmailed Chad / what happened to Bella's marriage (you can bet your ass that we still won't know after the end of episode 9).

 

[Thekingofdope]

He's getting paid 6 figures, it's perfectly reasonable to expect more because of it. Yet the more patrons he gets, the longer the updates take. Generally quality AND speed increase with size of business, but only quality has with DPC

i dont know, if i payed 15 USD per update than yeah i would agree, but you and me are getting them from free here.

 

[ename144]

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This week I worked on and completed a big and tricky scene and some smaller scenes.
I have started working on the remaining lewd scenes of the episode now, posing both static renders and animations for them.
Art for 8 scenes remains, and three of those scenes need writing. I might need a couple more scenes after playtesting the episode if I feel something is missing.
I playtested Isabella's branch this week. It took me over 3 hours to complete it, without mini-games and without being able to test everything, as the final free roam event is still a bit of a mess regarding the code.
I felt that some parts of this branch needed a bit more content, while other parts of it were perfect and unique.
And this is an example of how I will work after finishing the art for the remaining scenes. I will playtest and then polish and add any additional content I feel is needed.
I have to do this for five branches and all possible combinations of choices and consequences therein. Each branch is of similar length, meaning a single playtest of all branches will require at least 15 hours of playtime. I always do this many times, over and over.
While there is plenty of joint content, there is also plenty of unique scenes for each branch; this makes quality control a big task.
But I'm very much looking forward to playing the episode. There are many scenes I haven't even seen in-game yet, even though the art has been finished for months - it's crazy, even more so than usual.
I'm up to 4524 renders, and now that I started animating again, I will know how many more animations I need within a few more weeks.
I don't have an accurate estimation of the release date; everything will depend on the remaining animation render times and how smooth the last stretch of development goes.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Huh. From the context it's entirely unclear if the 4524 renders he sites is posed or completed. The former suggests he rendered about 410 statics in a single week (a very high number), whereas the latter tells us nothing about how many were completed. I'm going to assume the latter since that's more conservative, he's switched to reporting posed totals recently, and it also lines up with the rate at which he's been adding statics to the queue. Unfortunately, that means there's really nothing new to add to the charts. Here's last week's charts again, though, for old time's sake:

Spoiler: Last Week's Charts

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Realistically, even if he did complete all 4524 statics, they're still not the part that matters. animations are, and the radio silence over them continues. It feels like we've been stuck in a holding pattern since that ultra-difficult animation finished rendering. That was supposedly slowing down the process, but with no additional data we can't tell how much. That really confounds any effort at prognostication. We're clearly not getting an October release if DPC is still "a few more weeks" away from knowing how much is left to do, but that's not exactly news. We're just going to have to settle in for the long haul and hope it ends sooner rather than later.

 

[Lightaces]

If there isn't much content for Riona and Lily

Well, we've already seen a preview for what sure looks like a Lily lewd scene, and if Riona in that cat suit doesn't end up back in the MC's room, I'll be shocked!

 

[Lightaces]

Art for 8 scenes remains, and three of those scenes need writing. I might need a couple more scenes after playtesting the episode if I feel something is missing.

I felt that some parts of this branch needed a bit more content, while other parts of it were perfect and unique.
And this is an example of how I will work after finishing the art for the remaining scenes. I will playtest and then polish and add any additional content I feel is needed.
I have to do this for five branches and all possible combinations of choices and consequences therein.

I started animating again, I will know how many more animations I need within a few more weeks.

- Yeah, absolutely no reason for Panic, or more properly for disappointment. after all, after all this time, He still dont even know how many thing he need to add, to finish it.

Not a writer, are you? You can plan all you want, but you never really know how things are gonna go until you've written it. The story only really starts to take shape when you start rewriting it. Before that, it's just a collection of....stuff. But for things to really be connected, you need more than just....stuff. Hell, most of the time you don't really even know it's done until after it is done. You usually have to start making it worse before you realize, "oh, nope, that was already done."