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

[allanl9020142]

I just did a speedrun CHICK single route for CHICK Zoey content and the male teacher (forgot his name) turned up for work after getting beaten up at the chess competition, this is the first time this came up for me on multiple playthroughs, what changed for that to happen?

If you went to Derek instead of Sage or Bella at the end of the episode where Josy comes to campus and there's that whole spiel about doors. (Can't remember the actual episode number but you know what I'm talking about)
In one of the free roams, the fat guy who was shaking down the soda machine is contemplating whether he should join the chess club. If you tell him to do it, he subsequently goes into a rage fit and beats up the professor after the professor beats him in a chess match. I think it was actually in the newspaper in the scene before that class.

 

[allanl9020142]

I could be extremely dumb and ignorant of what machines are required to efficiently render and process games of this quality cost, doesn't DPC make BANK? If he/they are being bottlenecked by something so silly as subpar equipment wouldn't that be such a lay up of an area to improve? Doesn't really check out to me.

Again though, I'm not going to run from allegations of me being an idiot, lol.

DPC's just one guy btw if you weren't sure whether it was just one developer or a team. In fact, him refusing to hire people is a point of contention that's been brought up multiple times.
(As a disclaimer I don't have a strong opinion one way or another about him hiring help.)

 

[shazba]

I could be extremely dumb and ignorant of what machines are required to efficiently render and process games of this quality cost, doesn't DPC make BANK? If he/they are being bottlenecked by something so silly as subpar equipment wouldn't that be such a lay up of an area to improve? Doesn't really check out to me.

Again though, I'm not going to run from allegations of me being an idiot, lol.

Yes, he makes plenty to upgrade. There is some argument for him waiting, until the newer tech has more stable drivers, and Nvidea stop their cables melting. He can probably increase efficiency a decent amount with new rigs all tuned up.

When he last upgraded his equipment, the rendering was no longer the bottleneck, but his intention to include longer animations resulted in the animation rendering dragging the development time on.

Supposedly he's running 8 x RTX 3090 GPUs, so his gear is definitely not sub par.

There's a fair bit to the process of creating the game:

• storyboarding scenes
• writing the dialogue
• posing each render
• posing the animations
• rendering stills and animations
• designing minigames
• selecting music
• coding
• testing
• hunting down dissidents and cancelling their subscriptions

And most of this is done in parallel. So while things are rendering, he's working on all the other manual processes. As long as he can keep adding things to his rendering queues so they aren't idle, it sounds fairly efficient.

But yeah, the animation rendering blew the project out by about a month (meaning it still would have taken 8 months even if the animations weren't a bottleneck!) because it takes so long for pretty much fuck all. Note there are less animations in this episode than there were in ep8, but the overall runtime of the animations is very likely to be longer. Some of the animations for this episode will be longer than a minute (his longest animation in previous episodes was only 30 seconds).

Anyone feel free to correct me here, but from simple research, it seems it could take more than a week to render a 1 minute animation (depending on the number of frames per second).

So yeah, hopefully he probably learnt a bit of a lesson that animations are his new bottleneck, and he has stated he really likes adding them (I agree they do elevate the game a bit - I'm talking about non-lewd animations here). So maybe he can cater better for it in the future.

But just buying more and more powerful hardware isn't really a solution for him, he'll just make the episodes even longer...

 

[Jimayo]

But just buying more and more powerful hardware isn't really a solution for him, he'll just make the episodes even longer...

Oh no. Anything but that. A fate worse than death for sure.

 

[Bubba McSmith]

Oh no. Anything but that. A fate worse than death for sure.

You joke, but if he makes these episodes any longer there will be some of us that will be dead before he finishes the game.

 

[allanl9020142]

Oh no. Anything but that. A fate worse than death for sure.

You know that's exactly what he's going to do.

 

[Deleted member 4725210]

Heyyyy everyone.So when is the update gonna drop?

 

[c.mork]

Heyyyy everyone.So when is the update gonna drop?

Friday next week.

 

[always86]

When he last upgraded his equipment, the rendering was no longer the bottleneck, but his intention to include longer animations resulted in the animation rendering dragging the development time on.

Supposedly he's running 8 x RTX 3090 GPUs, so his gear is definitely not sub par.

There's a fair bit to the process of creating the game:

• storyboarding scenes
• writing the dialogue
• posing each render
• posing the animations
• rendering stills and animations
• designing minigames
• selecting music
• coding
• testing
• hunting down dissidents and cancelling their subscriptions

And most of this is done in parallel. So while things are rendering, he's working on all the other manual processes. As long as he can keep adding things to his rendering queues so they aren't idle, it sounds fairly efficient.

But yeah, the animation rendering blew the project out by about a month (meaning it still would have taken 8 months even if the animations weren't a bottleneck!) because it takes so long for pretty much fuck all. Note there are less animations in this episode than there were in ep8, but the overall runtime of the animations is very likely to be longer. Some of the animations for this episode will be longer than a minute (his longest animation in previous episodes was only 30 seconds).

Anyone feel free to correct me here, but from simple research, it seems it could take more than a week to render a 1 minute animation (depending on the number of frames per second).

So yeah, hopefully he probably learnt a bit of a lesson that animations are his new bottleneck, and he has stated he really likes adding them (I agree they do elevate the game a bit - I'm talking about non-lewd animations here). So maybe he can cater better for it in the future.

But just buying more and more powerful hardware isn't really a solution for him, he'll just make the episodes even longer...

Yes he might make episodes longer, but there is a certain cut off with that if he wants to maintain his preconceived structure. The difference between the upgrade to 3090s and this is that all of the key system components have had an upgrade, better ram, better CPUs, better MoBos, better GPUs, it would probably cost him $10-15,000 to fully upgrade and build 3 top end rigs, two for rendering one for work.

Thing is he could always keep his current rigs running in addition to the new ones. That way he could have a couple dedicated to long form animations chugging away in the background while the others could focus on the other stuff. Given that he won’t hire any help, it’s the only way to use the money he earns to increase productivity.

 

[znar25]

Heyyyy everyone.So when is the update gonna drop?

 

[Deleted member 5121513]

Not long till best boy returns.

 

[Regadius]

Is it safe to assume that Quinn is one of the LIs now? Or is she still considered a "side girl"?

 

[felicemastronzo]

Is it safe to assume that Quinn is one of the LIs now? Or is she still considered a "side girl"?

there will never be a change in the hierarchies, the LIs are and will remain those 5

but the question is whether or not as a side girl she will have an "ending," because in the end that's what matters

 

[Tadpol]

We can be reassured (about the duration of development of the EP9) by saying that this episode will deal with a lot of things:

- The MC's decision regarding M and J (continue or stop).

- Zoey's return.

- The Halloween party, preparation and the party itself.

- The meeting with Sage's parents and what will follow.

- Make the decision taken at EP8 concerning LI tangible.

All this is not going to be settled in one scene. If in addition we add everything else (which should be discussed after EP8), as well as the classic sequence of an episode, and finally possibly new intrigues, we arrive at a lot of things to tell in this episode.

I have the impression that it's more than in the previous episodes in the sense that this time, certain intrigues must advance immediately from EP9.

So, I tell myself that that can explain the delays, and give hope that then it can return to a rate of two episodes per year.

 

[Lovetities]

Is it safe to assume that Quinn is one of the LIs now? Or is she still considered a "side girl"?

Officially? Probably not but you can consider her li alongside Sarah, lily, Nicole, zoey from the other group

 

[felicemastronzo]

We can be reassured (about the duration of development of the EP9) by saying that this episode will deal with a lot of things:

- The MC's decision regarding M and J (continue or stop).

- Zoey's return.

- The Halloween party, preparation and the party itself.

- The meeting with Sage's parents and what will follow.

- Make the decision taken at EP8 concerning LI tangible.

All this is not going to be settled in one scene. If in addition we add everything else (which should be discussed after EP8), as well as the classic sequence of an episode, and finally possibly new intrigues, we arrive at a lot of things to tell in this episode.

I have the impression that it's more than in the previous episodes in the sense that this time, certain intrigues must advance immediately from EP9.

So, I tell myself that that can explain the delays, and give hope that then it can return to a rate of two episodes per year.

I would take it for granted that there will also be rejection management for Jill, regardless of Bella's involvement.

While the consequences related to Jade I don't know if they will manifest themselves immediately

 

[Ottoeight]

Is it safe to assume that Quinn is one of the LIs now? Or is she still considered a "side girl"?

You got your answer when a bro posted here DrPinkCake's Xmas card: there were all the 5 LI in it. No Quinn in it, of course.
But I guess this is not the answer all the QuinnBoys wanna hear.

We can be reassured (about the duration of development of the EP9) by saying that this episode will deal with a lot of things:

- The MC's decision regarding M and J (continue or stop).

- Zoey's return.

I wonder whether you really played episode 8. Dude, you as MC have already made these decisions at the end of episode 8.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Is it safe to assume that Quinn is one of the LIs now? Or is she still considered a "side girl"?

Not officially yet, but it looks like we're getting close to having Quinn on the LI list from Season 3.
Here, take a look on the final preview:

All the Main girls are here and Quinn. On this preview, DPC puts an equal sign between them. The conclusions speak for themselves.

 

[Tremonia]

All the Main girls are here and Quinn. On this preview, DPC puts an equal sign between them. The conclusions speak for themselves.

The conclusion is that Quinn stands for the others branch. DPC could use Lily, Riona, Jade, Nicole, whoever. I think DPC just take her because she has the biggest fan base for whatever reason.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

The conclusion is that Quinn stands for the others branch. DPC could use Lily, Riona, Jade, Nicole, whoever. I think DPC just take her because she has the biggest fan base for whatever reason.

I don't see any contradiction in what you said and that the "Others" path will get an official points system and status.
For example, even in Season 2, side girls have their own requirements for the player and story events where their route begins.
For example, for Quinn you need to be DIK, not being in a relationship with Josy/Maya or Jill.
To interest Lily, you need to protect her from the jock. I have an assumption that from the third season, the path of "Others" will greatly expand the side girls story, making them the main ones.