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

[Geralt From Rivia]

Status update 07.04.2023
"I've been bumping my render and animation quality in Season 3, but my render power has more or less stayed the same for quite some time now. I decided to invest a lot more into hardware and am currently in the process of upgrading my systems with 4090s and building brand-new rigs."

Status update 21.04.2023
"I've built a decent animation queue again; 47 animations are in the queue (but some will be merged into one). Animations clearly render faster than before, even though I haven't got the final rig of the upgrade into place."

Status update 28.04.2023
"The new PCs have finished rendering several longer animations pretty damned fast too."

I imagine it will be less than 8 months. As we can read from the status update reports, his render speed has increased quite a bit, which surprised DPC himself and was his biggest problem during EP9 development. Problem solved and full steam ahead to the finish.

We'll see what happens. I mean, updates have become rare where it says the exact number of animations / renders done. The last such update was 03/24/23:

"Comparing my current numbers to episode 9, we get:

• 44% static renders (2237/5037)
• 52% writing
• 49% animations (148/303)"
  Now we know about 200 prepared animations, which is a good progress in a month, but the rest is shrouded in mystery.

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

Oh, you are mean that. Well, it's not serious. It's just a model of Jill and a generated voice (most likely) for interacting with the player at the start. Not really her character.

The first episode used to be dubbed for Jill and Bella.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Yes but your first impression as a player, getting that interaction of a game character, she being smart, witty, mature, you eager to meet her, then she seems cool when you first meet her in game, and as you go further, you start seeing something else. First impression is everything, just not in her case.

I usually ignore pre-game disclaimer. I forgot that it even existed because it shows up the first time you open the game, never again. So I was surprised by Jill on the disclaimer when I bought the Steam version.

 

[Jumbi]

Can you find the picture where the book is laying around and MC tries to reach for it and she doesn't like? I feel like the book in question has a dark red cover. The one in the second picture you posted is small and black (like a notebook). In the first picture I see no pen on her hand, I may be blind though, because I don't have glasses on at the moment. But if everything you say matches, then you have a point and a strong argument.

Sure, no problem. I'm in front of my PC right now.

This is the book as seen during your hangout with her in episode 7, the first time we see it or at least the first time I recall it being an element of some interest in the narrative.

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I am pretty sure it is the same book. And to extend a little bit further on what I said in my previous post about it, my take on it is that it is either business related or her diary. I personally don't believe it is reading or studying material. She would probably do well if she wanted to, but for the time being at least, she is not in college to study.

If I were to judge only by the graphic evidence, then my safest bet would be that it is where she records business stuff. But I think that the narration of the story by the MC also gives us some hints on things. And he tells us this line just before we get to see Quinn in the end of episode 7, sitting on her bed, holding the book in her left hand and the pen in her right one.

People hide the way they are in many different ways.

While it certainly might also allude to her shady businesses, to me that line, followed by that little scene of Quinn writing in the book, where this shot I already posted above belongs, hints more likely to it being her diary, where she expresses herself more genuinely.



All in all, I am 50-50 divided between it being business related or her diary.

 

[toobextra]

I usually ignore pre-game disclaimer. I forgot that it even existed because it shows up the first time you open the game, never again. So I was surprised by Jill on the disclaimer when I bought the Steam version.

It only shows up once unless you're a maniac...

 

[c0gnomen]

Correction a little, the first girl we saw was Josy, then in this order: Maya > Sage > Jill > Bella. Those were interesting times, when I was torn between Maya and Josy, and many probably in the thread those days...

Funnily enough, Sage was my 1st LI to pursue at the beginning of the game. And now after 9 episodes she is my least favorite LI. Her route feels so... tasteless. Not sure how to explain it but when you watch any other LI's route you can notice a certain development, how MC and LI are getting closer. MC and Sage though? Started as fuck buddies and pretty much stayed as them. To think that even Quinn's route feels more romantic than Sage's

 

[Darkwen]

We'll see what happens. I mean, updates have become rare where it says the exact number of animations / renders done. The last such update was 03/24/23:

"Comparing my current numbers to episode 9, we get:

• 44% static renders (2237/5037)
• 52% writing
• 49% animations (148/303)"
  Now we know about 200 prepared animations, which is a good progress in a month, but the rest is shrouded in mystery.

I'm not good at math at all so not even going to try but at least in one area compared to episode 9 we somewhere over 50%

 

[Kpyna]

For those, who are familiar and like to dig the game script or just interested and want to check or understand game better, I made an Excel with all game variables, which game exports at Season 2 end and then imports in Season 3.

I skipped very obvious ones like MC money, passed/failed classes, boost and cheats purchased from Derek and Magnar, etc, as well as MC room & table vars for tropheys, picture frames.

List represent quite well, what game really "remember" about your previous choices and actions and what you can consider more or less important. Under the "more" I mean variables that can seriously influence the future choices, the plot direction and lead to some major consequences. Under the "less" I mean variables that would be able to change at least 1-2 lines in dialogues or bring different renders during future scenes.

At the same time DPC discarded only temp variables or ones, which doesn't requiered anymore, because they were used to set some other variable to some state and futher checks could be done by checking the final variables (like lewd scenes) and not the ones that were used to set up them. So, don't expect any spoilers, etc. He made this work quite decent.

I posted it on Reddit about 2 months ago, it had a lot of views but very small comments amount. There are only a few people there who are all into the game script, it's digging and so on. So, I just want to share my work here too, and maybe motivate somebody here to explore game script, principles of work and so on. Personally, I find this exciting.

I seen here some authors of mods and cheats, so I would greatly appreciate if some of them would make edits or clarifications for some vars and their description, where I could have made a mistakes (including typos, etc, because English is not my native language)

I attached the XLSX zipped file, also I share it on my google drive:

You must be registered to see the links

so, you could view it even w/o excel installed

 

[Kpyna]

Do you need to be in a relationship with her and the other girl though? or can you get it only by desiring her after mentioning that to derek? Because if you need the first, not enough for that boob flash

Emm? You need to be on Josy & Maya branch and have a Neutral or DIK status (not affitiny). Telling Derek that you have feelings for Josy doesn't leads to this scene to happen. But that choice is important, because it included in episode recap (as well as choosing feelings for Maya).

Obviously, she will not do this when you are not on their branch or and even more so if you are about to break up with them.

 

[Kamuisaki]

Funnily enough, Sage was my 1st LI to pursue at the beginning of the game. And now after 9 episodes she is my least favorite LI. Her route feels so... tasteless. Not sure how to explain it but when you watch any other LI's route you can notice a certain development, how MC and LI are getting closer. MC and Sage though? Started as fuck buddies and pretty much stayed as them. To think that even Quinn's route feels more romantic than Sage's

I would say it's normal that it's the least romantic route currently. Sage is only starting to pursue something romantic with Fuckface since EP 09, before it was just the friendship and sex that she wanted. In reality, the most interesting route for Sage is when you are not in the fuckbuddy path, because of the reboud guy scene.

 

[Darkwen]

For those, who are familiar and like to dig the game script or just interested and want to check or understand game better, I made an Excel with all game variables, which game exports at Season 2 end and then imports in Season 3.

I skipped very obvious ones like MC money, passes/failed classes, boost and cheats purchased from Derek and Magnar, etc, as well as MC room & table vars for tropheys, picture frames.

List represent quite well, what game really "remember" about your previous choices and actions and what you can consider more or less important. Under the "more" I mean variables that can seriously influence the future choices, the plot direction and lead to some major consequences. Under the "less" I mean variables that would be able to change at least 1-2 lines in dialogues or bring different renders during future scenes.

At the same time DPC discarded only temp variables or ones, which doesn't requiered anymore, because they were used to set some other variable to some state and futher checks could be done by checking the final variables (like lewd scenes) and not the ones that were used to set up them. So, don't expect any spoilers, etc. He made this work quite decent.

I posted it on Reddit about 2 months ago, it had a lot of views but very small comments amount. There are only a few people there who are all into the game script, it's digging and so on. So, I just want to share my work here too, and maybe motivate somebody here to explore game script, principles of work and so on. Personally, I find this exciting.

I seen here some authors of mods and cheats, so I would greatly appreciate if some of them would make edits or clarifications for some vars and their description, where I could have made a mistakes (including typos, etc, because English is not my native language)

I attached the XLSX zipped file, also I share it on my google drive:

You must be registered to see the links

so, you could view it even w/o excel installed

damn dude that was a lot of work impressive most impressive

 

[Kpyna]

damn dude that was a lot of work impressive most impressive

Basically I did it for myself personally to understand the game better. But I don't mind sharing, that's all.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

I'm not good at math at all so not even going to try but at least in one area compared to episode 9 we somewhere over 50%

Now at this speed we must be somewhere at 60-65%

 

[Darkwen]

Basically I did it for myself personally to understand the game better. But I don't mind sharing, that's all.

DPC isn't likely to give away secrets but it is interesting to see which picks have more value

 

[a----t]

when comes new epissode ?

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Funnily enough, Sage was my 1st LI to pursue at the beginning of the game. And now after 9 episodes she is my least favorite LI. Her route feels so... tasteless. Not sure how to explain it but when you watch any other LI's route you can notice a certain development, how MC and LI are getting closer. MC and Sage though? Started as fuck buddies and pretty much stayed as them. To think that even Quinn's route feels more romantic than Sage's

Strongly disagree. Their relationship developed throughout the two seasons - they started with a mutually beneficial agreement, became friends with privileges and starting with Ep. 6-7 you can see how it develops into something more. These are gradually developing feelings. Sage really opened up to me in Season 2 when we get to know her better. Of course, not everything is perfect - I would make Sage unavailable to Chick players, leaving only Dik and Neutrals access.
Besides, her path is definitely not boring - it will be filled with drama due to the restaurant, her father's dark affairs and marital problems between Jade / Stefan. And here a lot depends on the decisions of the player.
But to each his own, if you don't like it, that's your business.

I have a similar situation with Josy/Maya. In the first season, I was focused on them and for a long time I could not understand why the path was closed in Ep.4 (the solution was simple). But time passed and I gradually cooled down to this path. I still really like Josy, she's a second in my MGs list, but Maya's storyline keeps her locked in and dragged her down. That student loan line and her dad, I'm just tired of it.
It's the same with Jill, since the second season, this character has been going through a complete cringe.

 

[merto010]

Will the season 3 be available on steam though? i know its been released here months ago or a year idk

 

[Ir0n Ma1den]

I know I numb, but where can I download a version with the OG songs, I can't play without them.

 

[felicemastronzo]

Strongly disagree. Their relationship developed throughout the two seasons - they started with a mutually beneficial agreement, became friends with privileges and starting with Ep. 6-7 you can see how it develops into something more. These are gradually developing feelings. Sage really opened up to me in Season 2 when we get to know her better. Of course, not everything is perfect - I would make Sage unavailable to Chick players, leaving only Dik and Neutrals access.
Besides, her path is definitely not boring - it will be filled with drama due to the restaurant, her father's dark affairs and marital problems between Jade / Stefan. And here a lot depends on the decisions of the player.
But to each his own, if you don't like it, that's your business.

I have a similar situation with Josy/Maya. In the first season, I was focused on them and for a long time I could not understand why the path was closed in Ep.4 (the solution was simple). But time passed and I gradually cooled down to this path. I still really like Josy, she's a second in my MGs list, but Maya's storyline keeps her locked in and dragged her down. That student loan line and her dad, I'm just tired of it.
It's the same with Jill, since the second season, this character has been going through a complete cringe.

Funnily enough, Sage was my 1st LI to pursue at the beginning of the game. And now after 9 episodes she is my least favorite LI. Her route feels so... tasteless. Not sure how to explain it but when you watch any other LI's route you can notice a certain development, how MC and LI are getting closer. MC and Sage though? Started as fuck buddies and pretty much stayed as them. To think that even Quinn's route feels more romantic than Sage's

Sage's path is a rollercoaster, a bit messy, but it's hard to call it boring

but to say that in fact MC and Sage are 'still' fuckbuddies is not so wrong, the whole rebound guy thing went nowhere, the relationship didn't take that step that could have been expected and went backwards a bit.

but in such a long game some lulls are normal, the trouple was on hiatus for practically the whole second season...

 

[toobextra]

Funnily enough, Sage was my 1st LI to pursue at the beginning of the game. And now after 9 episodes she is my least favorite LI. Her route feels so... tasteless. Not sure how to explain it but when you watch any other LI's route you can notice a certain development, how MC and LI are getting closer. MC and Sage though? Started as fuck buddies and pretty much stayed as them. To think that even Quinn's route feels more romantic than Sage's

Alright here we go,

Comparing EP4 & EP8
I'd say that's plenty progression for more than a fuckbuddy.

Spoiler: EP 4

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Spoiler: EP 8

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Here we have EP5, some bold flirting...

Spoiler: EP 5

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I consider this a romantic moment and this was even before Fuckface bitched about wanting more.

Spoiler: EP 5 R

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In EP8 this moment speaks for itself and that leaf well that shit holds more sentimental value than a fucking polaroid I'll tell you that much.

Spoiler: EP 8

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Let's look at EP9 even though it's a party STILL lets search for some romantic shit okay,
Hmm... these don't fall into romantic category I don't think, but cute definitely or maybe that's just me

Spoiler: EP 9

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And you gotta love them EGO boosts.

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Let's not forget the text messages.

Spoiler: EP 8 Texts

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I'd say for a couple who haven't even gone to their first date yet these are plenty romantic. (pretty sure I missed to mention some)
Not to mention the Honeymoon Phase they'll get when they're officially "Boyfriend" & "Girlfriend"