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

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DPC seemed to be talking about one big free roam that would be a Thanksgiving party and a few smaller ones. Judging by his words, I counted 4-5 free roams, which is no different from previous standard episodes, only in Ep. 10 will be a little bigger. Episode 5: Preps party, short after party at Bella's house before bed, in the morning at Bella's house another bigger one. (Total count: 3)
Episode 6: Free roam in the DIKs mansion, in the library, in the DIKs mansion again, MacAllen's bar (total count: 4)
Episode 7: Free roam in your room, in your room again, big HOTs party, at the DIKs mansion (Total count: 4)
Episode 8: Free roam in your room, room again, big Dorm party, DIK mansion (Total count: 4)

As we can see, the number of free roams doesn't change much, but they have become larger due to the growth of the game size in Ep.7. I'm sure that in Ep.10 it will be the same and Ep.9 was an exception, which is suitable as a one-time experiment. The scheme from Ep.7-8 is optimal for me, we get a plot and a party to relax.

Also worth considering the form of the overall seasons. Episode 1 was the introduction, so had a different job to do; but Episode 5 (first of season 2) was pretty heavily contained to one free roam (the prep's party), so there is a consistency to the form there. As George Lucas would say, it rhymes. I suspect we will see much the same, in terms of form, for this season.

• Episode 9, big party, not a massive amount of story, just paying off some of the last episode, and setting up some of the mini-games and story themes from the upcoming season.
• Episode 10, maybe D&G, setting up the rest of the season, no major shocking developments.
• Episode 11, maybe D&G, progressing the over arching story line a bit more, bringing the season conflicts to a head.
• Episode 12, settling the season story lines, and any major break in the overall story line (which, given this is likely the second to last season, it will likely end with the event which sets off the major climax of the game, which may well be dependent on the LI you choose). The first two seasons largely followed this general outline, and I would be surprised if this one didn't follow suit.

You want a big story like this to have smaller self contained units of various sizes. DPC has chosen to break it down into both seasons and episodes, but each one has to make SOME degree of sense on it's own.

 

[Ray_D]

To be honest my expectations are low and I don't expect anything from DPC, the only thing that has excited me about Chapter 10 is the brwaler update.

 

[I'm Canadian bub]

In my opinion, Ep.9 was good, as I've said many times before, but it's best seen as "good" for new players who haven't waited tediously for a year to see the story unfold. Episode just felt different.
To answer one more of your questions: DPC doesn't do milking, this guy just can't control his overblown inspiration and he is terrible manager. The main problem is long animations, everything is the same as in Ep.9. Almost all of the work is done, except for the animations, which are about 25% incomplete. He's upgraded the hardware to RTX4090 and is building a couple more new rigs, but he's probably using them to increase the amount of cinematics and visuals in them (as many predicted lol )

Basically what it boils down to is big picture vs. little details.

For those of us who have been here for at least two episodes, viewing the game as a whole is very difficult. But for those who come in with fresh eyes, it's easier to appreciate the beauty of it all.

I never cared for the software and hardware updates until after episode 5 when the wait times started to increase, like a crackpot looking for my next fix and doing all the math to see how much time was left. But that's only because I've been part of this community, specifically this thread, for so long. 4 years of repetitive exposure to dalli_x will do that to you I guess.

Having been following DPC myself since midway through Acting Lessons (May-June 2017), I have sympathy for the fans who have begun to lose faith in DPC but the record doesn't show evidence that he will stop or deviate anytime soon. Since he started in 2016 I haven't known him to not have at least some idea of where he's headed unlike many "milkers" out there. DPC's only problem truly is restraint, as a solo developer though, that's irrelevant.

I don't like it, but as my daughter's mother once said to me when handing me custody papers, "The path to all our happiness is through compromise." For the sake of my continued enjoyment of this game in the future, I choose to refrain from voicing my bitterness about DPC's flaws and focus on the positives of which there are many. Whether it takes 3-5 years or more to see it through doesn't matter, I'm 40 this year and I've spent longer on things that left me dissatisfied and resentful but I'm still around.

Dum Spiro Spero as the Romans would say.

Madame is so old, she probably invented blowjobs

Madame Rose's true identity revealed: the throat goat herself, Nancy Reagan.

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[KАRАMBA]

To be honest my expectations are low and I don't expect anything from DPC, the only thing that has excited me about Chapter 10 is the brwaler update.

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Oh, I see what you're trying to do.
You want to discredit the good intentions of the DPC.
But you're trying in vain. It won't work.
After all, everyone knows how much DPC cares about users of F95zone.
Especially about users F95zone.
Heartfelt and sincere care.
Hands off this holy man who gave the world the greatest jewel - the Divine Quinn.

 

[funkymonkeyjedi]

Oh, I see what you're trying to do.
You want to discredit the good intentions of the DPC.
But you're trying in vain. It won't work.
After all, everyone knows how much DPC cares about users of F95zone.
Especially about users F95zone.
Heartfelt and sincere care.
Hands off this holy man who gave the world the greatest jewel - the Divine Quinn Isabella.

Fixed it for ya.
And well said!

 

[Deleted member 6118633]

After looking at the thread page number and multiplying it by the number of posts displayed per page, I've learned that there's almost a quarter of a million posts in this thread, no matter what you think of DPC the motherfucker is doing something right when a pirate porn forum's members feel compelled to incessantly schizo post about the plot of the game, or whine about slow development time for a game that has I don't even know how many hours of content.

I have heard it said that there are two types of writers, those who are architects and those who are gardeners, the architects already knowing the insides and outsides of their stories and have it all figured out from the start, they only go about assembling the various parts as they go along, and the gardeners who plant a seed and let it grow, I would claim that DPC is a third kind, and that BADIK is more akin to a medieval cathedral, where the plans were continuously updated along with the construction, DPC knows what he's building but he's constantly deciding to add more shit onto it making the fucking thing take centuries to finish.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Also worth considering the form of the overall seasons. Episode 1 was the introduction, so had a different job to do; but Episode 5 (first of season 2) was pretty heavily contained to one free roam (the prep's party), so there is a consistency to the form there. As George Lucas would say, it rhymes. I suspect we will see much the same, in terms of form, for this season.

• Episode 9, big party, not a massive amount of story, just paying off some of the last episode, and setting up some of the mini-games and story themes from the upcoming season.
• Episode 10, maybe D&G, setting up the rest of the season, no major shocking developments.
• Episode 11, maybe D&G, progressing the over arching story line a bit more, bringing the season conflicts to a head.
• Episode 12, settling the season story lines, and any major break in the overall story line (which, given this is likely the second to last season, it will likely end with the event which sets off the major climax of the game, which may well be dependent on the LI you choose). The first two seasons largely followed this general outline, and I would be surprised if this one didn't follow suit.

You want a big story like this to have smaller self contained units of various sizes. DPC has chosen to break it down into both seasons and episodes, but each one has to make SOME degree of sense on it's own.

I am totally ok with big updates that are a cohesive story, I love big updates. But things like these cinematics, I feel like he's going too far with them.
Please no D&G anymore

Basically what it boils down to is big picture vs. little details.

For those of us who have been here for at least two episodes, viewing the game as a whole is very difficult. But for those who come in with fresh eyes, it's easier to appreciate the beauty of it all.

I never cared for the software and hardware updates until after episode 5 when the wait times started to increase, like a crackpot looking for my next fix and doing all the math to see how much time was left. But that's only because I've been part of this community, specifically this thread, for so long. 4 years of repetitive exposure to dalli_x will do that to you I guess.

Having been following DPC myself since midway through Acting Lessons (May-June 2017), I have sympathy for the fans who have begun to lose faith in DPC but the record doesn't show evidence that he will stop or deviate anytime soon. Since he started in 2016 I haven't known him to not have at least some idea of where he's headed unlike many "milkers" out there. DPC's only problem truly is restraint, as a solo developer though, that's irrelevant.

I don't like it, but as my daughter's mother once said to me when handing me custody papers, "The path to all our happiness is through compromise." For the sake of my continued enjoyment of this game in the future, I choose to refrain from voicing my bitterness about DPC's flaws and focus on the positives of which there are many. Whether it takes 3-5 years or more to see it through doesn't matter, I'm 40 this year and I've spent longer on things that left me dissatisfied and resentful but I'm still around.

Dum Spiro Spero as the Romans would say.

I've been playing since Acting Lessons, but actively following the development since 2022. I've always been easy on the DPC, allowing fairly mild criticism, after all, "his project is his vision." It's just that the latest status report made me swallow some black pills. No, I'm not disappointed in DPC, this game is still a level above anything else in the genre, but the wait time is really getting bigger and bigger and all because of the animations and his immoderate appetite for creativity. This guy needs a balance or we won't see the end of the game until 2030 with this trend.

I hope that I have enough inspiration to hold out until the end. After all, I'm still waiting for HL3.

 

[I'm Canadian bub]

After looking at the thread page number and multiplying it by the number of posts displayed per page

I see you lack skills of observation for the math was unnecessary

 

[I'm Canadian bub]

I am totally ok with big updates that are a cohesive story, I love big updates. But things like these cinematics, I feel like he's going too far with them.
Please no D&G anymore


I've been playing since Acting Lessons, but actively following the development since 2022. I've always been easy on the DPC, allowing fairly mild criticism, after all, "his project is his vision." It's just that the latest status report made me swallow some black pills. No, I'm not disappointed in DPC, this game is still a level above anything else in the genre, but the wait time is really getting bigger and bigger and all because of the animations and his immoderate appetite for creativity. This guy needs a balance or we won't see the end of the game until 2030 with this trend.

I hope that I have enough inspiration to hold out until the end. After all, I'm still waiting for HL3.

In the immortal words of my nephew: "I've wasted half my life waiting for Half-Life 3"

 

[Deleted member 6118633]

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I see you lack skills of observation for the math was unnecessary

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Indeed, considering how embarrassing this is, I must now commit harakiri in the public square.

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[paulphoenix]

That's what I thought. DPC use the money the MC can steal for consequences.

Officer Walkthrought
"The money you find in Jill’s room counts as stolen money and may come into effect later in the game. The money in Tybalt’s room you can take if you want."

does anyone know where is located tybalt's money in episode 2, when derek and mc enters first time the mansion as thief ?

 

[flamingtiki]

Yeah, in your dreams.

DrPinkCake just wrote that beta testing only will take 2 weeks.

Don't expect anything before november.

what the hell really? I don't follow his posts often I was going off of what people would tell me. That's so depressing. I was literally replaying this week to get ready for his update. Man that ruined my mood

 

[chuck69]

the look said enough, then i scrolled back and saw that this is in defence of madame mommy.........i know im not the only 1 expecting to see you turn around, and reveal the words "inmate", or "out patient" written on the back

 

[chuck69]

Madame is so old, she probably invented blowjobs

roomer has it that her content in ep 10 will involve bengay and a walker. shhhh dont tell mork or orgitas, i wont be able to handle their excitement

 

[Joshy92]

Quinn simp and now Bella yet you talk about kicking the ass of anyone who would hurt your deer sweet Maya meanwhile she bleeding out from the knife you put in her back

I don't actually like Bella that way
I just meant she would probably like me as a person lol

Don't worry in this game Maya & Josy are the only girls for me

 

[Alfagrem]

what the hell really? I don't follow his posts often I was going off of what people would tell me. That's so depressing. I was literally replaying this week to get ready for his update. Man that ruined my mood

I ran through my Sage and Solo DIK run throughs to get ready.

I also have a Josy+Maya one in case that ever goes solo. I know she's not the brightest student at B&R but as I've 44 points with Josy and 0 with Maya - I figure she might catch on at some point!

 

[Darkwen]

I don't actually like Bella that way
I just meant she would probably like me as a person lol

Don't worry in this game Maya & Josy are the only girls for me

Good because I would have kick your ass if you made Josy cry

 

[Darkwen]

I ran through my Sage and Solo DIK run throughs to get ready.

I also have a Josy+Maya one in case that ever goes solo. I know she's not the brightest student at B&R but as I've 44 points with Josy and 0 with Maya - I figure she might catch on at some point!

Josy is pretty smart even if she was like 14 or 16 in line. A solo path is almost 99% certain of happening

 

[flamingtiki]

I ran through my Sage and Solo DIK run throughs to get ready.

I also have a Josy+Maya one in case that ever goes solo. I know she's not the brightest student at B&R but as I've 44 points with Josy and 0 with Maya - I figure she might catch on at some point!

nice whose your favorite? Mine is still sage

 

[kazama09]

when will I get to play this free roam game?