Hahn1900

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It's weird that rendering is his bottleneck, since unlike writing or posing or coding, it's the biggest thing that can be sped up by just throwing money at it. Between ~34K patrons and 250K+ sales on Steam, DPC could pave his driveway in RTX 4090s at this point.
he has 4 rtx 4090s rigs already just for rendering. And they pretty much render non stop. Its just... for fucks sake its a renpy game. No need to go overboard with animations in the first place. The episodes 1-8 had animations just for lewd scenes (more or less, only very few other animations), never heard anyone complaining that they miss animations in other scenes. With the interlude that changed... there were only 2 lewd scenes, but so many other things were animated. And DPC loved it. Spinning wheels, spinning zoey on the chair... and so on. And than came episode 9... with animations all over the place nobody cared about but DPC. Lets say, between episode 1 and 8 the animation count goes like this: 90% for lewd scenes, 10% others. With Episode 9 it pretty much changed in favor for others, at least it felt this way, some people in this thread have figured out definite numbers. And of course the animations got way more complex with episode 9 too, the overall render quality inmproved too, so the render-time increased too. And most of the animations arent lewd animations anymore. Cause DPC is just obsessed with them.

Of course he could speed up everything by installing another 4 rigs for rendering. But he doesnt... And i dont think its a question about "costs" (well... in sweden his power bill must be extremely huge already, but it wouldnt matter if we look at his number on money he makes) No the reason behind it, is a more healthy work-shedule.

Before season 2, he powered through a DEV cycle. And if we can believe him, he had a job besides being a dik too. Right before the interlude he even made a statement that "something" has to change cause he was a little burned out.

My guess? He changed something... in favor for animations, cause making them is the thing he enjoys the most and its not THAT time consuming for him personally. Posing a animation might take him 1-2 hours, the slaves do the rest. Filling up the queue so the render-rigs can work nonstop take about 1 week with 6 hours a day. Which is nice healthy work-shedule. After posing a bunch animations he can stretch his legs a little and start working on other things he likes, but those things doesnt take that much time.

Many complain about the minigames and that they cost sooo much development time. They dont. The reports gave that away too, i remember a dev report where he "started" to make a minigame (i think it was the math thing) and 3 weeks later he said it was completley done, while he was doing a lot static renders and writing too. I can code myself a little, and most of the minigames arent that complex to do. With a good workflow most of the minigames can be done in a average of maybe 50 workhours... most way less (and DPC is faster than that anyways). So yeah, its just a "guess" and my experience in that regard isnt that big (i once coded a tetris kinda game, way back in the days with c++ which took me about 3 weeks during my school days, lets say 3 hours a day and it was my very first project like that) DPC is way better in coding than i am, and i think he can manage it easily to create something like me in a heart beat. So no the minigames are not dragging out the development.

Its his decision to make more animations and let the animation queue set the "work hours" for the rest of the game... he knows how many animations he can render per day (smart people figured out it is about 1 animation per day) so he can "plan" the work around the render queue. Speeding up the render queue would result in speeding up the rest of the development too, and he doesnt want that. And i say it clear... NOT BECAUSE he wants to "milk" anything. Thats not the reason, its just a healthier work shedule. Everyone in his right mind would rather work 6 hours a day instead of 8-9 or even more. And he worked way more hours a day before the interlude.

So yeah, i get it that he wanted to slow down everything a little bit, and that he wants to do more animations. Cause he love those animations and they kinda form the work shedule for the rest of the game too. But i think instead of "slowing" things a little bit down, he could easily scratch many things to get the same work-shedule but release the episode earlier... and nobody would even notice it. Like... use more the same render a little more often in dialogues, he could easily put out episode 10 with 4000 renders instead of nearly 6000 and nobody would have noticed it in the game. scratch 1 or 2 minigames too (like the fish) dont do so much unnecessary animations... and the whole episode would have been done 2 or 3 months earlier without putting more hours per day in it. And i would be fine with it.

Well... much text about nothing... being a dik is DPCs "baby" and he works on it like he wants... he is obsessed with animations and other stuff, we have to deal with it. DPC is by far NOT A MILKER, but of course he is dragging the dev shedule out about 30% more than before the interlude. And he uses this time to do more animations, which is a work his pc slaves are doing. Which makes his life a little "easier"... cant really blame him for that. But i can decide to not support his monthly work anymore. And that is what i have done. canceled the patreon membership (after the interlude and halfway during the development of episode 9) And now iam just paying once when the episode is released... so... i payed 10$ for episode 10 and thats it, nothing to complain about that here i think. If episode 10 would have been as dissapointing as episode 9 was (to me the weakest episode of the whole game, even the interlude was a little better but its not considered a full episode) i wouldnt pay again for episode 11, but episode 10 was pretty much one of the best episode so far, to me easily in the Top 3. Who accuses DPC to be a milker doesnt know what a milker is, and doesnt see that DPC still puts out more content in the same time than any other DEVs around here... and he does it solo. Most DEVs of the better games arent working alone and still cant reach the numbers DPC can. There is no way around that. But DPC could be way more efficient if he would stop to go overboard with so many unnecessary things... but thats DPC to you.
 

KaiserST

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Come across some nice data about animations while looking at Episode 10 initial reports back in January 2023.

Episode 10

107 Posed and 62 Rendered at 42 days after EP 9 Release

Episode 11

85 Posed and 63 Rendered at 28 days after EP 10 Release


The number of posed and rendered animations from EP10 cames from the 27/01/23 report while the data from EP11 comes from this Friday report.

While the number of posed animations is lower, the rendered ones are basically matched despite the fact the previous cycle was already in it's sixth week versus the current one at it's forth week.

Really shows he either started making animations earlier or the RTX4090s are making a difference. Probably a mix of those 2 factors.

Either way those numbers are promising, if DPC keeps focusing on animations earlier in the cycle, we could see a sizeable difference in render wait times later this year.

Now, how much time that will save is still up in the air, if DPC decides to do even more animations or higher framerate animations (over 60 like some in EP10) this headstart could easily be lost.

Regardless, while I still don't expect the update to come out before december, I'm now mildly optimistic and if this trends continues in the coming months a november release could even be possible.
 
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znar25

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Riona's life sucks. :cry:

Every time she's happy, every fucking time, something brings her down. :eek:
  • In the threesome with Quinn, Riona's enjoying the cock (and btw, you did *not* insult her tits!), but at the end, she looks like she wants to jump off a cliff. :cry:
  • When fuckface is sitting with the HOTs for lunch, she comes in all happy and jokes about fucky having some ketchup on his shirt of some shit, she's so fucking happy! But noooo. Quinn gives her that "We got problems bitch, stop looking so fucking happy" look, and Riona's mood changes immediately. :(
  • Then she goes on a date, a fucking date, with our boy Fucky McFuckface, and she has a fucking blast. So some cunt fucking kidnaps her (Vinny, you're fucked... you hear me!) :mad:
I'm sure there's more examples, hell I'd even go through the game, post screen shots and everything, except I can't be fucked.
The troubles of Rio are allegory of BaDik fans.

1. We get an update.
2. Then the stinking Interlude happens and starts this cycle of 1 year updates between any useful content. (Interlude being a useless time waster).
3. OK, deal with it. Then 60fps animations, a bunch of stupid mini-games and partial games (fishbowl, stupid icon box puzzle, party puzzles, school tests, rebuild the mansion, brawler, etc).
4. Then, the happiness of Ep10, yet, more dev time-wasters.

Again, Rios trail of tears, is our trail of tears.

:p
 

znar25

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You've heard it from the Dude Himself, guys.

SO STOP DREAMING OF SHORTER DEVELOPMENT CYCLES. THERE IS NO GOING BACK

1 YEAR IT IS
Looking at the release date from Ep6 onward, trends grow. It might be a year. It might be more.
 

thegrindisreal

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he has 4 rtx 4090s rigs already just for rendering. And they pretty much render non stop. Its just... for fucks sake its a renpy game. No need to go overboard with animations in the first place. The episodes 1-8 had animations just for lewd scenes (more or less, only very few other animations), never heard anyone complaining that they miss animations in other scenes. With the interlude that changed... there were only 2 lewd scenes, but so many other things were animated. And DPC loved it. Spinning wheels, spinning zoey on the chair... and so on. And than came episode 9... with animations all over the place nobody cared about but DPC. Lets say, between episode 1 and 8 the animation count goes like this: 90% for lewd scenes, 10% others. With Episode 9 it pretty much changed in favor for others, at least it felt this way, some people in this thread have figured out definite numbers. And of course the animations got way more complex with episode 9 too, the overall render quality inmproved too, so the render-time increased too. And most of the animations arent lewd animations anymore. Cause DPC is just obsessed with them.
My friend introduced me to this game just when it came out. I remember, the fighting game looking completely different then now. I was impressed with episode 2. Skipped episode 3, then played it with 4. After that life happened and I quit till now. The game turned out to be a big hit. I regret not sticking around since episode 4.
Since you look to be well informed, please tell me what in your opinion changed the most throughout the years with DrPinkcake?
Who is this guy anyway?
Why are people complaining so much about the Halloween party?
 

Dr.Slime

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My friend introduced me to this game just when it came out. I remember, the fighting game looking completely different then now. I was impressed with episode 2. Skipped episode 3, then played it with 4. After that life happened and I quit till now. The game turned out to be a big hit. I regret not sticking around since episode 4.
Since you look to be well informed, please tell me what in your opinion changed the most throughout the years with DrPinkcake?
Who is this guy anyway?
Why are people complaining so much about the Halloween party?
1- DPC or DrPinkCake a good guy who love his community never bans them for small reasons (he is also the one making the game solo like Giga chad)
2-we complain because the episode was soo good that we notice only the background of the Free roam, many free roam = many events to do

Joking aside he did make the game , but now he is only source of income is this game so each episode taking 1 year to update ,
even he can short it by month or two still go for one year.
episode 9 i like it , but maybe people didn't like it was all free roam barley anything aside of that , but i find it quite good episode especially the cat monster Rio.
 

A360

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Neil likely meets one of the girls soon, though I thought it'd already have happened. Poor old fucker is in for it. Fatherly disappointment is coming for him this thanksgiving thanks to our favourite manwhore.

- Nicole - I'm a 30yr old stripper and hooker with a son, I’m dating your teenage son. He paid me for a ass fuck the first time we met and it still hasn't closed fully. He kissed my dancing tootsies once.

- Riona - Why bring a perpetually unsatisfied coffin home son?

- Lily - Hi I'm a stripper and hooker, first time we met your son gave me a finger stab right to the dick holster now I’m his QUEEEENNNNN! He rimmed me after a lemon once.

- Quinn – Yo part time pimpess and dealer what the fuck is this poverty bucket of a home and where’s the ho storage? Broccoli.

- Isabella - I’m his married teacher we enjoy cheese, beads and porn, stares ominously.

- Cathy - I’m almost 40 and only a former teacher…that threatened to leak his dick pics.

- Jade - I’m a worse Bella but as a bonus his my daughter's best friend.

- Nora -I’m a worse Bella with a sassy cat. He creampied me 10 mins after I said I want kids, he's sooooo fucking stupid.

- Sage – I really wanted my gay Chad not your son. Chases MC around like an irate pitbull because she just found out about Jade.

- Sandy - Fatherly disappointment made manifest upon the earth.

- Sarah and Mel - Try and drag Neil into a foursome or jump MC then and there.

- Camilla - I like dancing, tequila and gloryholes your son is my ass blastin papi wooo!

- Jill - Hi I’m a musical banana goblin grr penetrate me.

- Maya - Good to meet you I’m Maya the plagueskinned part time lesbian full time loan signer, about that 5k.

- Josy - Alady I’m Josy the tiny thot my hobbies are *white noise and crickets* everyone dies from boredom.

- Arieth - Wrong house love; Joshy’s is that way.

- Zoey - Zoey turns out he in fact could not do better than a scruffy blue haired skatebitch that ditched him *sigh*.

- Madame - Get out.

Let’s hope there’s not too much honesty or probing questions at that meeting or he’ll be on the line to Patrick for loan advice.
 

Joshy92

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I'm glad everyone is starting to see my love for Arieth.
Now if only DPC still visited here and saw my posts.
It might inspire him to do a path for her.

The love between Arieth & I cannot be tamed.
It burns brighter than the sun.
 

Ottoeight

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Neil likely meets one of the girls soon, though I thought it'd already have happened. Poor old fucker is in for it. Fatherly disappointment is coming for him this thanksgiving thanks to our favourite manwhore.

- Nicole - I'm a 30yr old stripper and hooker with a son, I’m dating your teenage son. He paid me for a ass fuck the first time we met and it still hasn't closed fully. He kissed my dancing tootsies once.

- Riona - Why bring a perpetually unsatisfied coffin home son?

- Lily - Hi I'm a stripper and hooker, first time we met your son gave me a finger stab right to the dick holster now I’m his QUEEEENNNNN! He rimmed me after a lemon once.

- Quinn – Yo part time pimpess and dealer what the fuck is this poverty bucket of a home and where’s the ho storage? Broccoli.

- Isabella - I’m his married teacher we enjoy cheese, beads and porn, stares ominously.

- Cathy - I’m almost 40 and only a former teacher…that threatened to leak his dick pics.

- Jade - I’m a worse Bella but as a bonus his my daughter's best friend.

- Nora -I’m a worse Bella with a sassy cat. He creampied me 10 mins after I said I want kids, he's sooooo fucking stupid.

- Sage – I really wanted my gay Chad not your son. Chases MC around like an irate pitbull because she just found out about Jade.

- Sandy - Fatherly disappointment made manifest upon the earth.

- Sarah and Mel - Try and drag Neil into a foursome or jump MC then and there.

- Camilla - I like dancing, tequila and gloryholes your son is my ass blastin papi wooo!

- Jill - Hi I’m a musical banana goblin grr penetrate me.

- Maya - Good to meet you I’m Maya the plagueskinned part time lesbian full time loan signer, about that 5k.

- Josy - Alady I’m Josy the tiny thot my hobbies are *white noise and crickets* everyone dies from boredom.

- Arieth - Wrong house love; Joshy’s is that way.

- Zoey - Zoey turns out he in fact could not do better than a scruffy blue haired skatebitch that ditched him *sigh*.

- Madame - Get out.

Let’s hope there’s not too much honesty or probing questions at that meeting or he’ll be on the line to Patrick for loan advice.
- Sage - mom and dad just divorced. I told them just leave me alone will you so they gave me 20 million dollars.

- Jill - Uh, I think my parents just bought the construction company you work for. I guess I'm your employer now.
 

Ekzou

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I think the best thing is to bet on a release date for December, and, if the episode comes out before, then so much the better we will have a nice surprise!
Personally I think for September or October, but "who will live, will see"

...

In the meantime I'm trying to beat Elena's high score..Ahaha
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