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

[felicemastronzo]

Actually She is not. Its a placebo effect. Quinn herself probably the least interesting, most cliche character of all, especially now, since she is the main Tsundere.
but she herself, is nothing extraordinary, What she does is what makes you believe she is better, but that is just purely because of the Main Storyline, her actions directly affect everyone, and it's always others who suffer the consequence. Remember when she was mugged, yeah that lead nowhere because Lily showed up like a "deus ex machina", and resolved her problem. It was not even Quinn herself who get out of the situation, it was just all mighty God Dpc blessing.
so Yeah she herself as a character, no more interesting than the main five, She just given a better Quest, than the rest.

the distinctions you make i don't understand them so much. which characters would be less stereotypical than Quinn in BADIK? it's not a question of originality, in a setting where essentially there is none. whenever there is a crisis situation involving one character it is usually another who "solves" the issue, often MC, but sometimes others.

it's a story, and in a story whoever has the best "quests" is the most interesting character, it's not as if there are so many other criteria. and the fact that his quests are hardly ever personal (as, for example, Jill's and Bella's often are), but nevertheless touch directly or indirectly on other characters is an additional quality that makes the character interesting.

 

[ChipLecsap]

it's a story, and in a story whoever has the best "quests" is the most interesting character, it's not as if there are so many other criteria. and the fact that his quests are hardly ever personal (as, for example, Jill's and Bella's often are), but nevertheless touch directly or indirectly on other characters is an additional quality that makes the character interesting.

I hardly disagree.
Daenerys Targaryen was not an Interesting character, she was not even the best character of her own storyline, but the ones who surrounded her. Just because Jorah Mormont was interesting, he didn't make Daenerys intresting.
cersei lannister is pretty much the same, She was not interesting, her surrounding was interesting and the characters around her, during King's Landing prime era, when Tyrion, Varys, little finger, Tywin. And once those major character left, cersei focused events became the most unintresting boring part of the show.

Quinn alone as a character, is not the most interesting, she just placed a more interesting environment. Even MC himself is not interesting at all, but he is placed in an environment. But Rusty, and Tommy, way more intresting characters, than MC himself ,

 

[Marley300]

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This week I wrote and worked on renders for some longer scenes with plenty of characters. Working with many characters always take extra time, and one of the scenes had 150+ renders in it alone which required extra focus. I'm happy with the results, and I created art for shorter scenes after that.
I've also been writing other scenes, continuing to fill the episode shell with the planned content.
PCs are chugging on with the animations without any interruptions. The render queue is still meaty. It's smooth sailing at the moment.
While animations are likely ~50% posed, renders (~1200 posed) are somewhere between 25-30% complete depending on the final count. Writing is likely near the render percentage; I will focus more on it next week.
I will mainly focus on Isabella's branch early next week. Depending on how well it goes, maybe I'll work on Sage and Others branches too.
I have been working on SFX and music during the last few weeks, here and there. 10 new songs have been added thus far.

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Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

 

[Chabs28]

is this good?

 

[Lovetities]

I hardly disagree.
Daenerys Targaryen was not an Interesting character, she was not even the best character of her own storyline, but the ones who surrounded her. Just because Jorah Mormont was interesting, he didn't make Daenerys intresting.
cersei lannister is pretty much the same, She was not interesting, her surrounding was interesting and the characters around her, during King's Landing prime era, when Tyrion, Varys, little finger, Tywin. And once those major character left, cersei focused events became the most unintresting boring part of the show.

Quinn alone as a character, is not the most interesting, she just placed a more interesting environment. Even MC himself is not interesting at all, but he is placed in an environment. But Rusty, and Tommy, way more intresting characters, than MC himself ,

I did say Mc is more interesting for the choices i make. Rusty and Tommy are defined characters and shouldn't be compared with Fuckface.

 

[Deleted member 4654353]

Actually She is not. Its a placebo effect. Quinn herself probably the least interesting, most cliche character of all, especially now, since she is the main Tsundere.
but she herself, is nothing extraordinary, What she does is what makes you believe she is better, but that is just purely because of the Main Storyline, her actions directly affect everyone, and it's always others who suffer the consequence. Remember when she was mugged, yeah that lead nowhere because Lily showed up like a "deus ex machina", and resolved her problem. It was not even Quinn herself who get out of the situation, it was just all mighty God Dpc blessing.
so Yeah she herself as a character, no more interesting than the main five, She just given a better Quest, than the rest.

"Solve her problems" ? "Deus ex Machina " ? Do you realize that Lily isn’t helping Quinn but using her to get her drugs at a lower price ? How is that a Deus ex Machina ? " Solve her problems" ? Her problems will be even bigger now that her psycho rival is back in town and will clearly take actions to get her customers back. Her situation only improved superficially. Her being mugged didn't lead to nowhere. She was forced to double her prices, it created tension between her and Riona and forced her to accept Lily whom she despised ( and Lily has clearly other plans, she's not some kind of angel ). And then the whole thing led to Vinny's return.

That's a storyline moving. Not a Deus ex Machina.

 

[shazba]

I’ll give you the Burgmeister & Royce domain name if you have Cathy secretly hide panties in multiple locations, and create branches that include every single girl with a potential romantic ending with Fuckface finding them and dumping his ass in various ways.

You know you are hurting his business, right?

 

[dirtydandoogan1]

Does Josy even wear a ring regularly? Also what if the pic is just mirrored?

Ah, but Tremolo wears that leather bracelet on his right hand, so the pic isn't mirrored.

 

[Harveztrau]

So far it sounds pretty optimistic, although probably 1200 render in 2 months sounds bad. But do not forget that in 2 months he managed to make 50% of animations, mini-game code, 1200 renders and this is quite a lot of progress. The release of the game in June-July seems more and more likely.

october or november

 

[ChipLecsap]

"Solve her problems" ? "Deus ex Machina " ? Do you realize that Lily isn’t helping Quinn but using her to get her drugs at a lower price ? How is that a Deus ex Machina ? " Solve her problems" ? Her problems will be even bigger now that her psycho rival is back in town and will clearly take actions to get her customers back. Her situation only improved superficially. Her being mugged didn't lead to nowhere. She was forced to double her prices, it created tension between her and Riona and forced her to accept Lily whom she despised ( and Lily has clearly other plans, she's not some kind of angel ). And then the whole thing led to Vinny's return.

That's a storyline moving. Not a Deus ex Machina.

deus ex machina :
an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.

Technically it was very convenient for Quinn, that, suddenly, a new buyer showed up, in her most needed time. .
of course it's a Deus ex Machina. Dpc himself is the Deus ex Machina.
sure, sure, its the plot and storyline and all, you right about that but lets be real, everyone paid the consequence of her actions, except her.
I mean she didn't have to sell her own body, or something to get the money back. of course dalix see connection everywhere, when everything is so one dimensional.

the new girl Lily, happened to be a drug buyer, and not only that but she also know Vinny.
overall it is as weak as Maya loan storyline

 

[mpa71]

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Updated BigTable™ with the recent informations.
SmoothSailling!

• We might be nearly 100 animations completed, 150 total with queue. Considering the speed, ≈320 seems a target.
• Renders might also be close to 1000 done as these milestone wasn't tell yet. Target seems to be around 4500.
• "It's smooth sailing at the moment". Maybe DPC read me as I said "The ship seems to sail smoothly" before.
• Could be release by end of July (7 months projection). 28% complete with that estimation.

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EP​	Renders​	Animations (min)​	Music*​	Scenes	Size_GB​	Release​	Development Time​	Ratio*​	R/W​	sA/W​
EP1​	1301	51 (3:29)	—​	7​	≈1.1	07 Feb 2019​	— days	—​	—​	—​
EP2​	1709 (+31%)	77 (3:36) (+26)	—​	8​	≈2.3 (+1.2)	04 May 2019​	087 (2 months, 28 days |≈12 weeks)	155​	138​	17.4​
EP3​	2289 (+34%)	99 (4:42) (+22)	—​	10​	≈4.1 (+1.8)	16 Aug 2019​	105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)	177​	153​	18.8​
EP4​	2532 (+11%)	134 (7:57) (+35)	—​	15​	≈6.1 (+2.0)	10 Jan 2020​	148 (4 months, 26 days |≈21 weeks)	142​	120​	22.6​
EP5​	2456 (-3%)	157 (8:35) (+23)	17 (3.4K$)​	11​	≈8.0 (+1.9)	29 May 2020​	141 (4 months, 20 days |≈20 weeks)	147​	122​	25.6​
EP6​	3336 (+35%)	162 (8:33) (+5)	24 (4.8K$)​	19​	≈11.1 (+3.1)	13 Nov 2020​	169 (5 months, 16 days |≈24 weeks)	159​	138​	21.2​
EP7​	3723 (+12%)	250 (18:14) (+88)	18 (3.6K$)​	15​	≈14.5 (+3.4)	23 Apr 2021​	162 (5 months, 11 days |≈23 weeks)	208​	161​	47.3​
EP8​	4158 (+12%)	358 (26:21) (+108)	34 (6.8K$)​	16​	≈19.5 (+5.0)	19 Nov 2021​	211 (6 months, 28 days |≈30 weeks)	190​	138​	52.5​
EPI​	794	36 (4:36)	19 (3.8K$)​	2​	≈2.6 (new)	4 Mar 2022​	105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)	71​	53​	17.7​
EP9​	5037 (+21%)	303 (26:08) (-55)	21 (4.2K$)​	18​	≈7.3 (+4.7)	16 Dec 2022​	287 (9 months, 12 days |≈41 weeks)	161​	123​	38.2​
EP10​	≈1000? Target ≈4500?	≈100? Target ≈320?	10 (2.0K$)	—​	—	in development​	063 (2 months, 1 day |≈9 weeks)	—​	—​	—​

Complete Table with the idea of Holy Bacchus† original post — Being a DIK in development since 4 years, 0 months, 10 days (48 months / 210 weeks / 1,471 days / 35,304 hours)
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| Total: 26,467$ — Ratio: (Renders/Weeks + secondsAnimations/Weeks) | Renders/Weeks | secondsAnimations/Weeks

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| shazba's Q/A Story Summary | Holy Bacchus 's Story Timeline | DrPinkCake's Q&A Session

 

[The Glorious LIME]

I see the thread is still in diarrheaposting mode.

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This week I wrote and worked on renders for some longer scenes with plenty of characters. Working with many characters always take extra time, and one of the scenes had 150+ renders in it alone which required extra focus. I'm happy with the results, and I created art for shorter scenes after that.
I've also been writing other scenes, continuing to fill the episode shell with the planned content.
PCs are chugging on with the animations without any interruptions. The render queue is still meaty. It's smooth sailing at the moment.
While animations are likely ~50% posed, renders (~1200 posed) are somewhere between 25-30% complete depending on the final count. Writing is likely near the render percentage; I will focus more on it next week.
I will mainly focus on Isabella's branch early next week. Depending on how well it goes, maybe I'll work on Sage and Others branches too.
I have been working on SFX and music during the last few weeks, here and there. 10 new songs have been added thus far.

Poll news
One week remains in the Special render poll - Unknown girl. Help decide who gets a Special render set in episode 10

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. Sign up as a $10+ patron to participate.

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

Thanks for sharing.

 

[KАRАMBA]

everyone paid the consequence of her actions, except her.

Yes, everyone paid except her. But why? Because she is very smart and tricky. And that makes her the most interesting character in the game.

 

[ChipLecsap]

Yes, everyone paid except her. But why? Because she is very smart and tricky. And that makes her the most interesting character in the game.

No, it's because she is the "teacher" favorite little pupil. But just because the other characters dumbed down, that's not makes her smart.

 

[c.mork]

I see the thread is still in diarrheaposting mode.

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To think all this Quinn War that descended upon this thread started with a reddit meme...

 

[dalli_x]

"Solve her problems" ? "Deus ex Machina " ? Do you realize that Lily isn’t helping Quinn but using her to get her drugs at a lower price ? How is that a Deus ex Machina ? " Solve her problems" ? Her problems will be even bigger now that her psycho rival is back in town and will clearly take actions to get her customers back. Her situation only improved superficially. Her being mugged didn't lead to nowhere. She was forced to double her prices, it created tension between her and Riona and forced her to accept Lily whom she despised ( and Lily has clearly other plans, she's not some kind of angel ). And then the whole thing led to Vinny's return.

That's a storyline moving. Not a Deus ex Machina.

I agree. Quinn has a story that is in motion. But the path does not lead to heaven, but down.

 

[wakkawalla]

fuckface wears a bracelet? since when? what a bitch.

 

[KАRАMBA]

I agree. Quinn has a story that is in motion. But the path does not lead to heaven, but down.

Well, wow. Maybe then you can show me whose path leads to heaven ?

 

[dalli_x]

deus ex machina :
an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.

Technically it was very convenient for Quinn, that, suddenly, a new buyer showed up, in her most needed time. .
of course it's a Deus ex Machina. Dpc himself is the Deus ex Machina.
sure, sure, its the plot and storyline and all, you right about that but lets be real, everyone paid the consequence of her actions, except her.
I mean she didn't have to sell her own body, or something to get the money back. of course dalix see connection everywhere, when everything is so one dimensional.

the new girl Lily, happened to be a drug buyer, and not only that but she also know Vinny.
overall it is as weak as Maya loan storyline

There is a major difference between Quinn's and Maya's stories that contributes much to Quinn's popularity.

Quinn's story is characterized by frequent twists and turns, Maya's by continuity.

Quinn is largely to blame for her own problem. Don't tell me about her childhood. Quinn is an adult and can make her own choices. But Quinn took the easy way out. "Live fast, die young."

Maya's problem, on the other hand, was caused by her father, not Maya herself. It's not a crime to fall in love, whether with a girl or a boy. But Maya chooses to take the long road. "Live slow, die old."

The joke is that neither Quinn nor Maya can get out of their situation without help. That's what Quinn and Maya have in common. But there is only one MC.

 

[dalli_x]

Well, wow. Maybe then you can show me whose path leads to heaven ?

All you have to do is read.

"You can be a princess!" EP8. Maya Victoria Bailey and the reception.

"You can be a dragon!" Interlude. Gay Jonah with the dragon's cock flying under the gay radar.

"The Sky's the Limit!" EP9. With Elena, the MC is the demigod.