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

[JavCh]

Some developers and players think that "people" should go to patreon and fund these devs that never completed a VN, has no reputation or reliability. (...)

If you are a new developer, don't expect people to fund your work for you, because none of us are your mom or dad. Specially if you have no finished VN and is always reworking something that we will never see the end. (...)

I do think we should pay to play their completed games/VNs or if they already have a reputation (...)

I'm quite sure lots of great beloved games wouldn't even exist if everyone did exactly what you said.

There is always a first VN for any VN developer, and if you have to dedicate time you have to earn some money to be able to don't need another job.

It's one thing to try not supporting a developer that is clearly fucking around all the time, but there're also serious people doing things for the first time that need to have the support at the moment or the final game would never exist.

DPC started Acting Lessons in 05/2018, ended in 08/2019 (I'm guiding by the dates of thread creation and release date, so maybe the last one could be a bit later considering it would include bugfixes and things like that), before ending it there was already a Patreon (there's someone saying he already supported it there in 05/2018, when there was only the first episode available). With zero support probably AL wouldn't have been finished and BADIK wouldn't exist.

 

[Deleted member 5767739]

wait... Cathy´s incident is before the video reach the DIK´s, i think Rusty started to tighteng up the security after the incident with Cathy, no? i think Cathy´s incident is chapter 4? while the DIKs learn about the video in chapter 5? or was it chapter 3 and 4? anyway . I also though that Viny´s scene of him trying to open up the safe, was to proof that Rusty did upgrade the security, we dont see if he fail or not but... doesnt he tell MC that the only one knowing the combination of the safe will be him and Tommy and MC?

Shit you're right, got my timeline mixed up, and yes Rusty states that only he, MC, and Tommy know the new safe combination, but if there's a camera (with a microphone I guess) in Rusty's room he'd still know what the new combination is, since Rusty has MC repeat it to him.

I think there is a camera in Rusty's room btw, I posted this just earlier in the thread:

I think I figured out where the camera in Rusty's room is located:
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It's the same kind of light as in Derek's room:
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When the MC questions Jacob about the existence of a possible traitor among the DIK's, Jacob adopts an extremely defensive posture, stating that he "prefers not to point fingers".

Wait, when does MC ask Jacob about there being a traitor among them?

 

[saynotoNTR]

Wait, when does MC ask Jacob about there being a traitor among them?

FROM EP.04

MC "Hey, about that Rooster post. What the fuck was that?"
Jacob "It's bad, dude. Rusty has a laptop in his room, which he likely left while being logged in."
Jacob "Someone at this party must have stolen it and posted that cluck, trying to frame us."
Jacob "Unless Rusty can smooth things over with Cathy on Monday, it looks like it was successful."
MC "Who do you think did this?"
Jacob "I don't point fingers. Nothing good comes from that."
Jacob "All I know is that it wasn't a DIK."
MC "Are you that sure about it?"
Jacob "Family comes first."
Jacob "Keep your eyes and ears open."

 

[HumperDoo]

i hope there's some gimp suits for some of the hots and PR girls cuz man would sandy and quinn would pull it off, and not j full body but assless ones as well

 

[captcha69]

wait, but that would mean that "in ur face!" Vinny, the same guy who enter the mansion and flash u a gun cause he want, is also a sneaky son of bitch that is installing mini cameras and audio devices in the mansion? well if Nick is the rat it would make sense, and i guess Nick and Vinny were friends so maybe Nick staying in the DIK mansion was Vinny´s plan all along...but that is some game of throne shit right there, Vinny doesnt sound like a mastermind, unless the mastermind is Nick... but cameras and microphones, doesnt that sounds more like Burke? maybe the one installing cameras and microphones inside the campus is Burke, i mean he will have the coin for it, and the motivation, he is a control freak after all, i duno, but why would he send the pictures of Arieth and the DIK´s to the joks dou, cause u can see that one of the hidden cameras took the photo of Arieth and Jacob inside what is now Derek´s room, i mean "dumb dumb" point at it, right? what´s his name?... doesnt matter, "the photos look like selfies" is what he say, exept for Jacob´s.

 

[saynotoNTR]

Wait, when does MC ask Jacob about there being a traitor among them?

In episode 6, one more time Jacob takes a defensive posture:

Rusty "I told her I was sorry and how I wished it could have been undone."
Rusty "And then I told her I accepted full blame for it."
Tommy "Wait! You what!?"
Tommy "Full blame!? Are you stupid!?"
Rusty "Dude, I had to. It's my computer. I'm the president."
Rusty "I have to own up to my mistakes."
Tommy "But you didn't post that shit! None of us did!"
Tommy "Right!? This is the time to speak up about this or I swear to fucking God I will kill the DIK who did it!"
Jacob "Fucking stop it! No DIK did this."
Jacob "Trust your brothers like they trust you."

 

[Lethal Flourish]

In episode 6, one more time Jacob takes a defensive posture:

Rusty "I told her I was sorry and how I wished it could have been undone."
Rusty "And then I told her I accepted full blame for it."
Tommy "Wait! You what!?"
Tommy "Full blame!? Are you stupid!?"
Rusty "Dude, I had to. It's my computer. I'm the president."
Rusty "I have to own up to my mistakes."
Tommy "But you didn't post that shit! None of us did!"
Tommy "Right!? This is the time to speak up about this or I swear to fucking God I will kill the DIK who did it!"
Jacob "Fucking stop it! No DIK did this."
Jacob "Trust your brothers like they trust you."

so you remember the exact lines or had all this prepared already?

 

[saynotoNTR]

so you remember the exact lines or had all this prepared already?

I have the game files extracted on my PC, I just used CTRL + C and CTRL + V in the dialogs.

 

[Celestaric]

Rematch of the slap


Prez vs Rookie

1. Riona
2. Sage

 

[colt000]

So the last round of the tournament is over. But for now I'm not gonna declare the results yet. I said I had a plan for the tampering election fraud justice for the slap incident, and I'm working on it. In the meanwhile vote for these matches...or don't and I just make Rio the champion

Rematch of the slap
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Prez vs Rookie
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Rio and Sage

 

[BigBlundino]

Hey guys, got a question. I put the S1andS2 persistent file and start of episode 7 files (where I want to start playing froom) into my BaD folder>game>saves. The saves are there but none of the photos or scenes are unlocked. I tried putting them directly into the renpy game BaD folder, didn't work either. Do I have to go through the entire game to get the scenes again? All of this in on the 0.8.3 version btw.

 

[BigBlundino]

Got it working, thanks

Persistent tracks acheevies
Pics
Scenes
Etc
Things that go bigger than one save or play path
Or at least it should, uncertain why yours is bugged.
There is a mod to unlock all if you say "fukk it"

The dialogue read versus unread is tagged elsewhere so it does not know what to skip

You can put it on "skip unread" and it will skip anything.
If dialogue scenes was what you meant.

Got it working thanks

 

[c.mork]

So the last round of the tournament is over. But for now I'm not gonna declare the results yet. I said I had a plan for the tampering election fraud justice for the slap incident, and I'm working on it. In the meanwhile vote for these matches...or don't and I just make Rio the champion

Rematch of the slap
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Prez vs Rookie
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I'm closing the voting now. I usually do it with the results. But I'll make a bigger post this time, and recounting votes (and might have to step away for work ). And I don't want to be like half way done with the post then a vote comes in that upsets the whole ranking and I have to start again

I'll post the result of the tournament in a few hours.

 

[ChipLecsap]

since it was falsely deleted for Trolling I will say it again.
MY opinion about Mr DPC recent Q/A session, is that: If We would have no evidence of his Simps existence, I would have Assumed he wrote those Question by himself just to shine his own EGO.

I leave out the laughing emoji, just to makes sure and understandable for "certain rulers" That I don't mean it for Trolling

 

[PastyCake]

About that ep10 preview...

 

[dalli_x]

I really don't know why Quinn, who can't be trusted about practically anything, should be trusted precisely on that. I've known a fair share of people offering drugs saying "it's nothing, it's practically nothing, just try it" to know addicts cannot be trusted. One of those drugs was cocaine, in the 2000's, so I think there was plenty of info about cocaine addiction.



Also, not that unusual that an addict considers other addictions worse than what they do, doesn't consider his own drug so addictive specially at the beginning of consumption... Nothing new in my book.

Anyway, my best guess is that it could be DPC trying to replicate older stories from the 70's in the 2000's. I mean, he's trying to mimic older College movies, series... when something like heroine probably wasn't so widely known and people could consider it that way. But if he does it know with the exactly same drug it won't be believable. He would need a drug with no history.

So the people who's saying it will be a DPC invented drug could be right, something that in the end was closely related to what heroine (i.e. a hard known drug) was but that we could believe people would trust in that time BADIK happens.

That's my guess too, so times there are already 2 references to the 70s. Once in EP5 Quinn told Josy to dance like in the 70's and in EP9 Jade told Stephen to insist on that 70's seat pit. This is interesting in that at that time heroin and cocaine were spreading as new hard drugs.

It does make me think about the game though. In EP2, when the MC was his father, Neil greeted the MC with hello dad. The MC told Neil that was funny, to which Neil replied so he will understand one day. In the 70's, Neil would have been a toddler and not directly involved with drugs. But with Neil's parents, it might have been different.

Actually, many grandparents of BaDIK students would have been 20-30 years old in the 70s. What if DPC left us a clue so that the family linkage, mistakes and parallels is not with the parents, but with the grandparents.

 

[Roundell]

Buddy was in business with Quinn's dad Rox, so they go way back in the drug world, they most likely have well established connections with larger players, and are as such able to get access to all sorts of drugs.

Rox was another junkie living in a crack house, with his intelligent mind finally fucked up by coke abuse (probably that's why Quinn feels repulsion for that drug), not a criminal mastermind. Usually that kind of people that deal in the street doesn't sell all kind of drugs because aren't so well connected. They know a guy that grows weed in a basement in a drug house, or a middleman who knows another middleman who knows another middleman that has connections with a drug cartel, and sells them one kind of drug, either weed or coke, or heroin, or crack... Not everything, specially not both illegal and prescription substances.

A fucked up scumbag like Buddy selling more variety of drugs that a pharmacy, is weird. That's why I think that, for the principle of narrative economy, there could be only a mafia that controls both the ring of underaged prostitutes in B&R, and the ring of drugs in B&R and outside, being Buddy, Vinnie, Quinn and Burke only some of the pawns of a network that extends to several towns and universities, because just with the amount of business Quinn is doing in B&R, there is no way the benefit overweighs the risk. In that case, we can expect that at some point of the narrative, the FBI and DEA are going to enter in B&R full force, and is going to be a storm of shit for everybody.

Or maybe DPC hasn't thought about it. Maybe all the operation is just Buddy's small scale drug dealing from a crack house, with Quinn, Buddy and a few more junkies as pawns. Buddy gets that variety of drugs because... don't know, a wizard did it, for example, and that's all.

 

[BorgiaBou]

I'm not bothered by the long development times; I treasure them. They allow me to do big things. I know how hard I work and that the game will be completed eventually. My main goal is to milk Being a DIK as good and much possible.

Fixed this for him cuz is shy to say it...

I've been contacted by multiple AAA developers, showing impressive CVs and offering their knowledge to work with me. It's very humbling, but as many of you know by now, I have no desire to add anyone to my projects, regardless of experience – I love doing this alone.

Well i think this seals it once and for all guys with the "hire help" thing soooo good luck with your life span to see this game finished...

Nothing really noticeable in this Q&A so yeah...

 

[Lovetities]

Fixed this for him cuz is shy to say it...


Well i think this seals it once and for all guys with the "hire help" thing soooo good luck with your life span to see this game finished...

Nothing really noticeable in this Q&A so yeah...

I don't think DPC is milking his patreons but he is sure adding random minigames and animations to increase the development time. I could consider it milking when we get 15 mins contents after 3 months. (I particularly didn't enjoyed episode 9 but it was kind of bigger and longer than most games here)

 

[BorgiaBou]

I don't think DPC is milking his patreons but he is sure adding random minigames and animations to increase the development time. I could consider it milking when we get 15 mins contents after 3 months. (I particularly didn't enjoyed episode 9 but it was kind of bigger and longer than most games here)

I mean me playing only one route (Bella) it wasn't that long, not much longer than a i dunno 3 months content game... and let's be honest here it may seemed long cuz of the f'in' chore this update was...