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

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The Glorious LIME

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liberatorus said:
It's not that deep, it's porn game. DPC does a lot of feminist bashing as well. I won't sit here and claim that DPC hates women.

Tybalt is a comic relief character, that's it. There is no deep social commentary behind poor people or welfare or whatever. He is just a snobby rich asshole. Again, not that deep.

And despite it being 2023, there are still people (not just christians) that think "gay is unnatural" and behave pretty much like Maya's dad does. DPC choosing to portray that doesn't mean he has something against "conservatives" or "christians" for that matter.

And there are so many cliches in this AVN. It's a porn game after all. Like Quinn, despite being so many people's fav is pretty cliche as well. Bad girl with a soft side that she reserves for some cute interactions with the protagonist? Like that's original.
You just hate some specific cliches that's it.

And also while I agree that gay themes are pretty niche, the fact that you chose a single example and then claim that it "proves" something is hilarious. Maybe it's just a bad movie and it's flop has nothing to do with "gay themes"?
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Geralt_From_Rivia said:
Derek just got reprimanded by Jade, he wouldn't get off so easy in the real world right now.
I agree that the gay theme is a cliche used by media corporations to make money, but in the case of BaDIK it was presented well, unlike what we are fed today by all sorts of Netflix and others.
DPC creates interesting characters and stories instead of boring stuff, and he's very good at playing with emotions. The result was that I believed in this story - Patrick makes me antagonize him, and I want to help Maya (Haha, although this may be my saviour complex, i usually trying to save everyone in videogames :LOL: ).
I understand your position about the conservatives, and it's good that you met only adequate ones. Where I live there are still crazy clichéd fanatics, as Patrick has been presented.
And I'm still surprised, I met people like Tybalt in my life - usually they are young people whose parents are in an "important position" and they are involved in corruption. Mentally poor people who seized upon the golden trough. Especially a lot of such "golden teens" on the roads, who consider themselves the kings of life, because dad bought them a Range Rover.
Of course I understand that Tybalt was made quite caricatured for comedic effect.
Slightly off topic, this is quite an interesting point: DPC has made the routes very different, I have not yet met a person who likes everything. Someone has a route that he hates or thinks is badly written. DPC certainly has problems with writing and I see that these are typical problems of a writer-architect.
But a lot also depends on our personalities and temperament. For example, I do not like Jill's route and I think that many things in it are written incorrectly and adjusted to the "plot".
Speaking of which, my favorite characters are Sage, Quinn and more recently Zoey. Coincidence?
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I agree that there are a lot of cliches in BaDIK, hell, it's a compilation, but DPC manages to make it into a fun ride overall.
No one enters an AVN with the intent of enriching himself on a social and philosophical level. But DPC manages to mix a lot of stuff and make it stick. It's mostly a highly enjoyable and replayable game.
 
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QuixoteTheDon said:
Anyways...

It occured to me today that DPC may be a fan of one of the best RPGs of all time: Baldur's Gate. Because I see a lot of the similarities between characters from those games...

Quinn seems to be inspired by Viconia D'Vir, an evil dark elf that can be turned into a true neutral in the end
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Young virgin that turns into a badass powerful woman seems to be Jill as Aerie
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you can make Aerie the virgin pregnant by the end of the game, something tells me that a similar thing may happen with Jill...

Isabella seems to be emulated from the mature and wise Jaheira
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Even their aligments match (neutral), and Jaheira looses her husband (he gets killed) in game before the MC can jump in her bed...

These three seem to me that were definitely spiritually influenced the most with BG counterparts.

There are other similarities :D
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Josy the halfling has some similarities with Mazzy the hobbit paladin... yeah, they are both short.:ROFLMAO:

Maya as Imoen...maybe...
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Sage as the rich Nalia D'Arnise...
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Derek as Minsc? :KEK::KEK::KEK:
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Or maybe I'm imagining things? What say you old timey RPG fans that played Baldur's gate?
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Where the hell is Boo!!!
 
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TheGloriousLIME said:
I agree that there are a lot of cliches in BaDIK, hell, it's a compilation, but DPC manages to make it into a fun ride overall.
No one enters an AVN with the intent of enriching himself on a social and philosophical level. But DPC manages to mix a lot of stuff and make it stick. It's mostly a highly enjoyable and replayable game.
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I agree with everything you said but here's my hot take on this as a whole:

Many great stories in fictional has political & social view, themes that match up with realism of the world.

Look at how big Game of Thrones is, at the end of the day it's Political Mediaeval Era series with interesting characters & conflicting world views.

Another example how the Boys is just modern-day of the Watchmen.

The Boys comics were pretty meh but the show pretty took some of the elements from the comics & mixed with the Social elements from Watchmen.
 
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EunBi said:
It's all coming together :illuminati:
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John Ness said:
Yeah, good idea actually.
But if you think about it, Jill is perfect for the role of a saint, she is hated, scolded, and at the same time she is the most decent, kind and innocent character in the game. The strongest saint! :ROFLMAO:
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Roundell said:
Of course DPC is biased against conservatives and Christians. The only characters that aren't delinquents but don't have a single good trait are Maya's father and Tybalt, both a caricature of conservative people. I don't think that he hates conservative people, but for sure he's biased, even if he doesn't knows.

I chose a single example of gay themes being niche because it's a big one. It's a big budget Hollywood movie (22 million dolalrs, a lot for a romantic comedy) with a lot of marketing and good critics, with a box office of 14 million dollars. If one LGTBXYZ movie was destined to be a success, is this one. And it's a big failure.

I don't know where you live, but where I live, Christians don't try to ruin the lives of their sons and daughters. No more that any other social group. And of course there is people prejudiced about homosexuality. And? It's not a real problem in western countries since decades ago.

In Brazil, there was a recent case of two feminist lesbians than castrated their son because they wanted a daughter, and killed him. Do you think it would be justified to make Maya and Josy feminist lesbians that hate men because indeed there are feminist lesbians that hate men? Or would you say that that would be a biased depiction of lesbianism and feminism?
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There is still a prejudiced against homosexuality in southern US states so that story lines feels very real. Josy isn't a feminist really her views aren't fully known but she never said anything to make you think she is one. What it comes down to you just hate Josy and Maya. Maya isn't a social justice warrior she is a justice warrior:Kappa: MC will get both Josy and Maya pregnant:love: and force Maya father and all those that keep them apart to pay for it:ROFLMAO:
 
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I've been sick for the better part of the week - stupid flu - but I'm almost back to normal now.
I've been writing and working on mini-games during the week, and the PCs are rendering animations as usual.
I have already prepared the backend code for all special renders, 2D art, and gallery. I usually leave this bit until late development, but I wanted to have it done early, making it easy to add collectibles and lewd scenes as I develop the episode.

Mini-games
I wanted to talk briefly about mini-games today and likely at another time during this development cycle.
With Season 3, I wanted new ones and also to see over the existing ones.
The English mini-game has been fun and challenging, and when I thought about whether I should replace it or not, I decided to keep it. But I have updated the design and functionality for Season 3.


You can now type the words, as I know many of you always have wanted. You also type "cheat" or "quit" for their functionalities, and a simple press of the spacebar will shuffle the letters.
You can type any 6-letter word freely and even use backspace; it feels fast and responsive.
I streamlined the backend code while I was at it to make it easy to add new tests without having to rewrite stuff in the future.
And don't worry; I didn't spoil the actual letters for the episode 10 mini-game with this preview. ;)
On the other hand, the Math class is getting replaced by a new mini-game. I have completed the development of it, and I love what I created.
I don't want to show you the entire thing or spoil the gameplay, but I will tease a subset of it with this image.


On top of these, I have two other completed mini-games, one almost complete mini-game, and two planned ones that I'm working on.

Walkthrough
The walkthrough was updated this week, in case you missed it. You can find it
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Q&A
I also posted a Q&A post where you can submit your questions
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I have been reading your questions and writing answers to them this week. Given the many questions in the post, I have enough to write the Q&A session. So, if you have more questions, now's the time to enter them. I will remove the post next week and later post my answers for all patrons.

Polls
The first poll for Episode 10 will be live this weekend. I figured we start with a bang and do the popular special render poll for the main girls.
Like Josy and Jill got a special render series in Episode 9, this time, it's either Isabella, Maya, or Sage who will receive one in episode 10.
Sign up as a DIK tier ($10) patron or above to participate.

Have a nice weekend
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