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

[sampow]

Thanks for sharing this.

Early on, at march i thaught, maybe July would be very optimistic and august kinda realistic for a release... well in may i kinda corrected my view and thaught it will be late august with good will or september... but even september feels unrealistic now. Still long animations to go and 24 in the queue... which will take at least another month to render. But he isnt done yet and there will be more. He mentioned some numbers a while ago, where he stated to be at "70%", but i think he is still at 70% and his guess wasnt really accurate. Looking back, he is now at 7 months development time for this episode, last one took about 9, this one will too take 9 months at least, so much is clear. But it seems it will take even more time, cause DPC isnt able to hold himself back a little.

Its was crystal clear that the branching will become an issue sooner or later... and i thaught episode 9 would be a good opportunity to close SOME of them. But instead, we got even more branching, and not just some, there were a lot of new branches... Riona, Lily, Envy, Quinn, The "others" route pretty much got splitted into at least 5 different branches now. And on top of that there are multiple zoey branches too, a clear hint towards a Josy solo route, Bella/Jill is branched a lot now too.

This alone would be enough already...but DPC can handle those branches, he has prooved that a lot. But on top of that he just wents overboard with so much unnecessary stuff. Especially animations. At the end of the game we will get a nearly fully animated finale if it goes on like this. (and iam pretty sure its one of the biggest whishes of DPC to do that, but its just not possible for a renpy game)

I really hope he can scratch some branches after episode 10 and doesnt start anything new there... just making progress. The pregnancy thing for arieth was another really unnecessary thing, at least its not a plot with branching.

Episode 9 didnt had much progress for any plot, not even for the relationships, not that much at least... it was jsut a filler episode, and he cant affort to do another one now. Ep 10 has to deliver a lot of progress in so many plots now to get back on track, hopefully he can deliver that.

But i dont like the development progress so far, in april it looked so good, but he clearly slowed down or got sidetracked with to much unnecessary stuff for the game (i think the latter is the case) and overall, waiting 9 or more months for an episode which could be delivered in 6 or 7 if he would just do a little less animations is annoying as fuck.

Well, it looks like we will get some "thanksgiving" and "winter" impressions in the episode, and iam pretty sure he aimed to release episode 9 back in october last year, but couldnt get there. With thanksgiving coming to being a dik, i have a feeling... now he will deliver the episode in november. And he will put even more stuff into it than originally planned. At the end, it will be a huge episode regarding "numbers" i would bet we will reach nearly 6000 renders in the end. and about 350 animations or even more. My gut tells me, at the start of the development for ep 9 he aimed maybe for an July/august release, but realised soon he will not get there, and now doesnt care anymore and is just putting more and more stuff in the episode which could easily go without i guess.

Lets hope ep 10 will get the most "progress" out of all episodes so far, cause it has too. And that it will be better than ep 9, i think most people will agree that ep9 was enjoyable but felt more like a huge waste of time regarding progress. This cant happen again.

So I’ve been hanging out on this website for almost 3 years, and when I found this game, I got obsessed, but in reality, it’s just a game. A really good one, but still, just a game.

Waiting for each episode can be gruelling, but that’s our problem, not the developers.

At the end of this game’s development, DPC will be seriously proud of his creation, and he will have created one of the best AVNs out there.

All those “unnecessary” additions, plot lines etc., are what will further elevate this game above the infinite piles of shit that pollute this genre.

I’m not “waiting” for episodes anymore, my obsession with this game has waned, so now I just pop in occasionally to see what’s up.

When the next episode comes out, I’ll definitely play it, but if it comes out tomorrow, or in a year’s time, so be it.

COVID is long over and life is back to normal, so hanging out for a porn game episode release probably shouldn’t be a priority.

 

[Lethal Flourish]

Sharing more goings on from the Discord server.

A lot of people have been close to rioting from a lack of a proper Sage preview for Episode 10, and the crowd on Discord is no exception.

One member made a demand for Sage directly to DPC, and the good doctor provided as the good doctor generally does.

A Discord semi-Exclusive Sage Preview:

Spoiler: Tasty

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Now he's just being a dik

 

[Zane Truesdale]

Meh, I was hoping for 2nd or 3rd option on Sage's pool. But whatever, it's Sage anyway

 

[ProxyGist]

Thanks for sharing this.

Early on, at march i thaught, maybe July would be very optimistic and august kinda realistic for a release... well in may i kinda corrected my view and thaught it will be late august with good will or september... but even september feels unrealistic now. Still long animations to go and 24 in the queue... which will take at least another month to render. But he isnt done yet and there will be more. He mentioned some numbers a while ago, where he stated to be at "70%", but i think he is still at 70% and his guess wasnt really accurate. Looking back, he is now at 7 months development time for this episode, last one took about 9, this one will too take 9 months at least, so much is clear. But it seems it will take even more time, cause DPC isnt able to hold himself back a little.

Its was crystal clear that the branching will become an issue sooner or later... and i thaught episode 9 would be a good opportunity to close SOME of them. But instead, we got even more branching, and not just some, there were a lot of new branches... Riona, Lily, Envy, Quinn, The "others" route pretty much got splitted into at least 5 different branches now. And on top of that there are multiple zoey branches too, a clear hint towards a Josy solo route, Bella/Jill is branched a lot now too.

This alone would be enough already...but DPC can handle those branches, he has prooved that a lot. But on top of that he just wents overboard with so much unnecessary stuff. Especially animations. At the end of the game we will get a nearly fully animated finale if it goes on like this. (and iam pretty sure its one of the biggest whishes of DPC to do that, but its just not possible for a renpy game)

I really hope he can scratch some branches after episode 10 and doesnt start anything new there... just making progress. The pregnancy thing for arieth was another really unnecessary thing, at least its not a plot with branching.

Episode 9 didnt had much progress for any plot, not even for the relationships, not that much at least... it was jsut a filler episode, and he cant affort to do another one now. Ep 10 has to deliver a lot of progress in so many plots now to get back on track, hopefully he can deliver that.

But i dont like the development progress so far, in april it looked so good, but he clearly slowed down or got sidetracked with to much unnecessary stuff for the game (i think the latter is the case) and overall, waiting 9 or more months for an episode which could be delivered in 6 or 7 if he would just do a little less animations is annoying as fuck.

Well, it looks like we will get some "thanksgiving" and "winter" impressions in the episode, and iam pretty sure he aimed to release episode 9 back in october last year, but couldnt get there. With thanksgiving coming to being a dik, i have a feeling... now he will deliver the episode in november. And he will put even more stuff into it than originally planned. At the end, it will be a huge episode regarding "numbers" i would bet we will reach nearly 6000 renders in the end. and about 350 animations or even more. My gut tells me, at the start of the development for ep 9 he aimed maybe for an July/august release, but realised soon he will not get there, and now doesnt care anymore and is just putting more and more stuff in the episode which could easily go without i guess.

Lets hope ep 10 will get the most "progress" out of all episodes so far, cause it has too. And that it will be better than ep 9, i think most people will agree that ep9 was enjoyable but felt more like a huge waste of time regarding progress. This cant happen again.

I'm really wondering if there's some sort of development time limit on DPC. It's already taking 9 months to do one chapter, which means the next chapter will be out in 10 months and the finale only a year later. Then it turns out in the future episode 13 and 14 will be developed over a year and a half, which seems absolutely fantastic. I don't remember any developer in this genre doing one chapter for a year and a half. That seems like nonsense. If he launches this, he may do the finale of the whole game at all for 2 whole years.
This guy has no editor or control whatsoever. If all game developers followed his principle, it would take over 10 years for one game to come out. Just add whatever you want. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Keep only the important stuff, remove everything unnecessary.
On the other hand this status update gave us little information other than nothing burned. He's been out practically all week testing the game and so there's no progress. Probably the next update will be more accurate. It's too early to draw such far-reaching conclusions. But in general I agree with you.

 

[KАRАMBA]

Sharing more goings on from the Discord server.

A lot of people have been close to rioting from a lack of a proper Sage preview for Episode 10, and the crowd on Discord is no exception.

One member made a demand for Sage directly to DPC, and the good doctor provided as the good doctor generally does.

A Discord semi-Exclusive Sage Preview:

Spoiler: Tasty

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It looks like Pink Cake likes to make fun of his flock. Well, not the worst way to relieve stress.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Sharing more goings on from the Discord server.

A lot of people have been close to rioting from a lack of a proper Sage preview for Episode 10, and the crowd on Discord is no exception.

One member made a demand for Sage directly to DPC, and the good doctor provided as the good doctor generally does.

A Discord semi-Exclusive Sage Preview:

Spoiler: Tasty

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Lol! What a troll

 

[TremoloBD992]

So I’ve been hanging out on this website for almost 3 years, and when I found this game, I got obsessed, but in reality, it’s just a game. A really good one, but still, just a game.

Waiting for each episode can be gruelling, but that’s our problem, not the developers.

At the end of this game’s development, DPC will be seriously proud of his creation, and he will have created one of the best AVNs out there.

All those “unnecessary” additions, plot lines etc., are what will further elevate this game above the infinite piles of shit that pollute this genre.

I’m not “waiting” for episodes anymore, my obsession with this game has waned, so now I just pop in occasionally to see what’s up.

When the next episode comes out, I’ll definitely play it, but if it comes out tomorrow, or in a year’s time, so be it.

COVID is long over and life is back to normal, so hanging out for a porn game episode release probably shouldn’t be a priority.

Yes , porn game shouldnt be the center of your life but - a lot of guys that play game now maybe wont have the interest or time or something else in 2-3 years time , im 30 years old - i love the story , love the models and love realism of this game ( girls are not lusty braindead whores , mc need to try hard to get some girl , and mc is regular joe in the way of thinking not in the way of looks but his look is also possible to achieve ) but if this take more than 5 years to finish i dont know will i be interested in porn games in that time ( i discover avns in begining of 2022 and to be honest beside this and 2 more games i find them boring now , so if this keep going on and he have episodes like ep9 with small amount of story ill maybe just give up )
i understand that he have amazing money from subscriptions and he dont want to , how we say in my country , "kill the cow for meat when he get milk everyday" - he want to get as much money as he can and patreon ( as onlyfans also ) is amazing in that cause for some "pocket money" you get to see a lot and it looks like bargain , but put a lot of guys like you and creator have amazing money for something he wouldnt have if there wasnt patreon and onlyfans

 

[QWareZ]

I'm really wondering if there's some sort of development time limit on DPC. It's already taking 9 months to do one chapter, which means the next chapter will be out in 10 months and the finale only a year later. Then it turns out in the future episode 13 and 14 will be developed over a year and a half, which seems absolutely fantastic. I don't remember any developer in this genre doing one chapter for a year and a half. That seems like nonsense. If he launches this, he may do the finale of the whole game at all for 2 whole years.
This guy has no editor or control whatsoever. If all game developers followed his principle, it would take over 10 years for one game to come out. Just add whatever you want. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Keep only the important stuff, remove everything unnecessary.
On the other hand this status update gave us little information other than nothing burned. He's been out practically all week testing the game and so there's no progress. Probably the next update will be more accurate. It's too early to draw such far-reaching conclusions. But in general I agree with you.

Most games are created by more than one person (assuming it's just him working on the game). You have programmers, artists (audio and video), writers and so on. However, if rendering is the bottleneck, it would be similar for other developers - you just have to wait... Then the question would be if DPC could rent some cloud based rendering farm or maybe improve/streamline the creation process.

A lot VNs use the combination of a background with character sprites in the front. This allows you to easily create any combination of places and characters. This is not the case here - in Being a DIK most of the scenes are used one time only (Free Roams are notable exceptions) so a lot has to be rendered. And if DPC reused some of the older assets, people would notice (and complain).

Testing/bugfixing the game while the rendering is ongoing is a good usage of that time. I know that testing is usually done by paying customers via early access nowadays, but back in the old days, testing was a thing. What else can he do anyway? Staring at GPUs won't make them work faster.

Also we have no idea about the size of the chapter. Maybe it's big. Maybe it's so big that splitting it in two would have been better. Maybe it wasn't possible due to DPC's creative ideas (some creators prefer to release a full realization of their vision instead of parts of it).

With that being said, I share your concerns. I would prefer 2-3 episodes per year (4-6 months wait time seems reasonable).

 

[dalli_x]

DPC hyped the hell out of episode 9. You would have thought a new season of GOT was being released with the amount of hype he was spewing. It ended up being a colossal disappointment. I was sitting there thinking "This is it? This is what I waited over a year for? I took a day off from work for this?"

Ask yourself the EP9 hype question from DPC's point of view.

Of course he hyped it, but not to make our mouths water, but because he himself was proud of his work. From EP1 to EP8, the branching wasn't very serious. In EP9, however, the branches are like in a nexus, which required a lot of overview and also cost a lot of work.

I'm currently playing through BaDIK again, because I bought new hardware. Thereby I always notice something new. Among them is the reason why Vinny threw the books from the MC off the shelf. Because the MC is canonically a motherfucker, even if he didn't fuck Jade. But the MC definitely makes out with Isabella in EP2. Yes Isabella has no children of her own, but that doesn't have to apply to James and many assume by the children's staircase in Isabella's bathroom so that a child once lived in the house. Furthermore, we learn in EP8 at hair divorce so that Isabella knows about it. This will be a surprise for Isabella fans. The MC is a motherfucker and he won't get out of this one.

Spoiler: History

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All in all, DPC was proud of his work in EP9 because he had a lot to subtly reveal without making it too obvious.

 

[KАRАMBA]

Among them is the reason why Vinny threw the books from the MC off the shelf. Because the MC is canonically a motherfucker, even if he didn't fuck Jade.

Wait, what do you mean? Vinny threw the books because the MC is canonically a motherfucker ?!
Hmm...

 

[dalli_x]

So I’ve been hanging out on this website for almost 3 years, and when I found this game, I got obsessed, but in reality, it’s just a game. A really good one, but still, just a game.

Waiting for each episode can be gruelling, but that’s our problem, not the developers.

At the end of this game’s development, DPC will be seriously proud of his creation, and he will have created one of the best AVNs out there.

All those “unnecessary” additions, plot lines etc., are what will further elevate this game above the infinite piles of shit that pollute this genre.

I’m not “waiting” for episodes anymore, my obsession with this game has waned, so now I just pop in occasionally to see what’s up.

When the next episode comes out, I’ll definitely play it, but if it comes out tomorrow, or in a year’s time, so be it.

COVID is long over and life is back to normal, so hanging out for a porn game episode release probably shouldn’t be a priority.

I understand exactly what you mean, but I have a problem. I am an old generation gamer and for me there are no good games on the market right now. I'm not interested in another AVN because everything is just worse than Being a DIK and Battlefield 2042 has more than disappointed me.

I'm waiting patiently for "Starfield", then the long wait of Being a DIK won't bother me anymore.

 

[Takkatakka]

Among them is the reason why Vinny threw the books from the MC off the shelf.

I mean...Vinny potentially hating Isabella and due to that in extension libraries and books would explain why he took that room, just trashed it and kept living in it in that trashed state.

I understand exactly what you mean, but I have a problem. I am an old generation gamer and for me there are no good games on the market right now. I'm not interested in another AVN because everything is just worse than Being a DIK and Battlefield 2042 has more than disappointed me.

I'm waiting patiently for "Starfield", then the long wait of Being a DIK won't bother me anymore.

Honestly then you have to extend your scope. AAA games are mostly trash these days, but there are legions of amazing smaller games out there, that are amazing.

 

[Acsuka]

Ask yourself the EP9 hype question from DPC's point of view.

Of course he hyped it, but not to make our mouths water, but because he himself was proud of his work. From EP1 to EP8, the branching wasn't very serious. In EP9, however, the branches are like in a nexus, which required a lot of overview and also cost a lot of work.

I'm currently playing through BaDIK again, because I bought new hardware. Thereby I always notice something new. Among them is the reason why Vinny threw the books from the MC off the shelf. Because the MC is canonically a motherfucker, even if he didn't fuck Jade. But the MC definitely makes out with Isabella in EP2. Yes Isabella has no children of her own, but that doesn't have to apply to James and many assume by the children's staircase in Isabella's bathroom so that a child once lived in the house. Furthermore, we learn in EP8 at hair divorce so that Isabella knows about it. This will be a surprise for Isabella fans. The MC is a motherfucker and he won't get out of this one.

Spoiler: History

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All in all, DPC was proud of his work in EP9 because he had a lot to subtly reveal without making it too obvious.

OK Mr.Sherlock, we are no longer surprised by your new theory. Don't stop--this little community would be poorer without you... But my head hurts like hell...

 

[dalli_x]

I'm really wondering if there's some sort of development time limit on DPC. It's already taking 9 months to do one chapter, which means the next chapter will be out in 10 months and the finale only a year later. Then it turns out in the future episode 13 and 14 will be developed over a year and a half, which seems absolutely fantastic. I don't remember any developer in this genre doing one chapter for a year and a half. That seems like nonsense. If he launches this, he may do the finale of the whole game at all for 2 whole years.
This guy has no editor or control whatsoever. If all game developers followed his principle, it would take over 10 years for one game to come out. Just add whatever you want. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Keep only the important stuff, remove everything unnecessary.
On the other hand this status update gave us little information other than nothing burned. He's been out practically all week testing the game and so there's no progress. Probably the next update will be more accurate. It's too early to draw such far-reaching conclusions. But in general I agree with you.

There is already a bit more information.

- He has played through the entire game. Ergo, he's pretty far along with the writing and it just needs a little more to round out the story.

- He had to refresh certain things in his memory. DPC was able to really switch off and rest during his vacation.

- He two more system upgrades because he wants to continue to increase his overall render speed. This shows us so he understands his fans and acts. He always wants to bring more into the game, but he understood so he shouldn't make the fans wait too long.

 

[dalli_x]

Wait, what do you mean? Vinny threw the books because the MC is canonically a motherfucker ?!
Hmm...
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It is a subtle hint from DPC so there is a connection of Isabella and Vinny.

 

[dalli_x]

OK Mr.Sherlock, we are no longer surprised by your new theory. Don't stop--this little community would be poorer without you... But my head hurts like hell...

I can help you there.

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[KАRАMBA]

It is a subtle hint from DPC so there is a connection of Isabella and Vinny.

Look, I understand you. We have to wait for long, so long... It's not easy. But you need to control yourself. Be strong

 

[dalli_x]

It won't take long and Kpyna will slap me again.

 

[Kpyna]

While DPC hadn't give us some numbers of progress, but most of his words sounds adorable and dope.

A whopping 4353 animation frames were produced during this time. For comparison, that's more than all static renders in episode 8.

We argue and discuss the number of animations, but damn it, this is what I've always thought about when it comes to animations. I'm glad he mentioned the number of renders for animations and compared it to the number of static renderers for an episode.
26 minutes of animations in previous episode means: 26min *60sec *30fps = 46800 frames. 47k fucking renders are hidden inside the animations. Along with static renders the whole number reaches 50+ thousands of renders. While I understand that the animation queue is not the same as static scenes renders, while most of frames produced automatically, but it's still a huge work of posing, checking for mispositions, artifacts, etc. Finally this mean, that he is able to render all static scenes within 3 weeks.

The most dissapointing thing to me is that he use the *.webm format for video. It's not the worst variant, but something like HEVC 10-bit with highest quality setting encoding would produce a great picture with very few artifacts of compression, while maintaining the same or even less size of files with animation. Webm is too lossy, especially when it comes to dark areas, shadows or some color tones. All his huge and brilliant work turns like scanning of some ancient valuable painting and then saving it with JPEG average quality preset... I just hope he saves the rendered frames originals in uncompressed state, so he may release a higher quality version later after the final release.

I've mostly spent Monday-Friday playing through the entire game and refreshing my memory regarding some specific stuff I'm about to work on.

when I played through it yesterday, I felt lots had been done.

This two moments seems very coherent to me. Last time he mentioned the episode playtesting, he said that it was only the first half of episode. Now he told just "playtesting the episode". Probably this means that he have a whole draft version of working episode on his hands, and it's cool. Refreshing memory probably refers to two things. He really didn't think a lot of the game during his vacation to really rest of all this throughs and work itself. Second - he want to fill gaps in scenes/script etc for current episode, based on some moments we seen before and some of which is wait to unfold from the very first episode.

There is much to polish and scenes left to create, so I'll jump right on it and hope to make good progress in all areas.

The new numbers would probably give us the new estimate time. It feels like he is full of energy, enthusiasm and glad to get back to work. I wouldn't bet on August release anymore, but September is still sounds quite plausible.

 

[Kpyna]

It won't take long and Kpyna will slap me again.
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Well, I changed my mind