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

[Hahn1900]

Status update Episode 11

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This week, I finally wrapped up the big lewd scene I've been working on for the better part of January and could move on to something else. So, what I did was sit down and plan the episode in greater detail than it already was. I planned the entire episode and all the branches. I decided things like: Who will get content? What content will it be? What are the free-roam events? What is the scope of the episode, and what scenes are going into it? And much more. After I had it all mapped out, I imported all those events and comments into the game code, preparing the files for writing.

The scene flow for the entire episode is now in place, and I'm at a stage where I will write, write, write. I will write until I get tired of writing and take smaller breaks to work on art. I expect the current animation queue to last at least throughout February, so I have bought myself time to focus on this. I wish I could tell you what I've planned for the episode, but that would be spoilers. All I can say is that I'm excited to start writing, and I know you will be excited to read it.

Regarding previews
I know you're probably wondering when the first preview of episode 11 will drop, and I aim to have it released sometime in February. While I have over 400 produced static renders, they would all spoil too much. So, I have to work on something more suitable to show as a preview first.

Q&A
The first part of the Q&A event will be posted next week. I'm finishing up the long post, which contains many fun and interesting questions.

Polls
I plan to publish the first Special Render poll on Sunday. To switch things up, we will start with the main girl poll this time. Will Maya or Isabella get a dedicated special render set in episode 11? The one who doesn't win - I want to avoid using the word loser here, lol - will get her set in episode 12. It's a big decision! Sign up as a +$10 patron to participate.

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for your continued support!
Dr PinkCake

Still nothing to work with.

400 static renders is nothing, he can do those in a week if he want to. And already did that in the past. So those numbers arent anything we can grab to figure out how things are going. So more than 1 month already gone into development, and we know nothing... at January 5th he had done 65 animations already... which was nice to know, but to figure out how things are going forward we would need another number soon. The static renders were never a problem in development time for him, he is very fast and accurate with them. Doing hundrets of them in a week is really nothing for him. Usally he writes the scenes and start than with art... the writing part cost him more time than the static renders.

But all this doesnt really matter for a estimated release time... there is only one bottleneck, the animations. Its really good that he started with so much early on. Never did that before. He "kickstarted" the last episode dev shedule with animations too, but slowed down on them very soon and has done a lot of animations in the end. Everything was done and he added about 80 animations on top which lead to a 2 months waiting game on the render queue. This should not happen again.

If he is writing now, we will not get serious numbers in the next DEV report either guess.

 

[Hahn1900]

See. I would have written the whole story then built a VN around it. I wonder if he's at least got an outline. This is not a criticism, just an observation.

You really dont know what you are talking about here.

He planned out the whole game already, but not in detail what goes in which episode of course.

What DPC means when he talks about writing and plan out the episode, he means every scene, when and where those scenes will take place and who will be included in them, every line the characters will say and so on... Its more or less pretty much already coding the episode beforehand... you are talking about a storyboard for the whole game, that is done since day 1.

 

[litbnwo]

I've seen a lot of comments saying that the game will have 16 episodes, but is that really confirmed anywhere? Is DrPinkCake a solo person creator? It's really sad that you have to wait a year for one episode to be released. Hasn't the creator got a sense of laziness? I think waiting a year with such a successful game to release a new episode says a lot.
Imagine how many people won't even finish the game and how lucky those who will start playing the game after it is already fully done. Let's not rule out the possibility that the game may be abandoned.

 

[Hahn1900]

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he already surpassed the 100 posed animations mark, how many of them are already rendered we can know for sure, but more than 80 wouldn't be absurd considered previous data DPC revealed.

80 rendered animations at this point would be a desaster, nothing less.

65 rendered animations at January 5th. If we were at 80 now this would be sooo so so so so really bad, 4-5 animatiosn a week, yeah that would mean the next episode is out christmas... but christmas 2025.

Normally he was able to render 7-8 animations a week, or simplier said, 1 per day. So he should be at 100 at LEAST now, but he mentiuoned that everything goes faster now... so that means he should be way ahead of 100 already, otherwise it would be a disapointment. A decent number for now would be, lets say, 105 animations rendered. a really good one would be 120. Everything less than 105 would be pretty much the same pace has he had in the past, so only the "headstart" makes it a decent numer, but we dont know when he started to work on those 65 animations, could very well be that he has done them before episode 10 was released. Which is very likely.

 

[Porthas]

You really dont know what you are talking about here.

He planned out the whole game already, but not in detail what goes in which episode of course.

What DPC means when he talks about writing and plan out the episode, he means every scene, when and where those scenes will take place and who will be included in them, every line the characters will say and so on... Its more or less pretty much already coding the episode beforehand... you are talking about a storyboard for the whole game, that is done since day 1.

Of course I know what I'm talking about here. I would have already written what he says he's writing now. There's more than one way to skin a cat.

 

[Hahn1900]

I've seen a lot of comments saying that the game will have 16 episodes, but is that really confirmed anywhere? Is DrPinkCake a solo person creator? It's really sad that you have to wait a year for one episode to be released. Hasn't the creator got a sense of laziness? I think waiting a year with such a successful game to release a new episode says a lot.
Imagine how many people won't even finish the game and how lucky those who will start playing the game after it is already fully done. Let's not rule out the possibility that the game may be abandoned.

yes.

yes.

Waiting almost a year is long (and yeah, too long, and he could be faster if he would cut out many animations), since you are new around here... some numbers for you, DPC is capable to do more than 300 animations in about 1 year and the last episodes had more than 4500 renders each... i could let you guess now how many games there are on F95 which are close to those content numbers. But i do it for you, there are.... ZERO games close to that. Not one DEV not even a whole team came even close to those numbers yet, and DPC is making it alone and in a high quality standard that most other games cant touch either.

DPC has many flaws (he is a prick) and could release episodes faster if he wouldnt go overboard with so many unnecessary things... but there is really no other game on F95 which delivers the same amount of content in the same time... which is kinda remarkable considered that DPC is making EVERYTHING alone. And he started to create his own music too... yeah he is batshit crazy, so much is clear.

 

[Hahn1900]

Of course I know what I'm talking about here. I would have already written what he says he's writing now. There's more than one way to skin a cat.

erm yeah... no... not even a author like stephen king does that.

You should talk with a screenwriter once, its practically the same approach (not the same in deatil though, cause developing a game from episode to episode is a little different with much room for improvements and improvisation)... and DPC is btw more or less the only one on F95 who already planned out the foundation of his game

 

[Porthas]

Still nothing to work with.

400 static renders is nothing, he can do those in a week if he want to. And already did that in the past. So those numbers arent anything we can grab to figure out how things are going. So more than 1 month already gone into development, and we know nothing... at January 5th he had done 65 animations already... which was nice to know, but to figure out how things are going forward we would need another number soon. The static renders were never a problem in development time for him, he is very fast and accurate with them. Doing hundrets of them in a week is really nothing for him. Usally he writes the scenes and start than with art... the writing part cost him more time than the static renders.

But all this doesnt really matter for a estimated release time... there is only one bottleneck, the animations. Its really good that he started with so much early on. Never did that before. He "kickstarted" the last episode dev shedule with animations too, but slowed down on them very soon and has done a lot of animations in the end. Everything was done and he added about 80 animations on top which lead to a 2 months waiting game on the render queue. This should not happen again.

If he is writing now, we will not get serious numbers in the next DEV report either guess.

Yeah, if he's tossing out numbers without an end-goal total that's completely useless.

 

[Porthas]

erm yeah... no... not even a author like stephen king does that.

Of course he does. He writes the book.

I would write the book first. That's exactly what I'm saying. For some reason you're telling me I'm talking about storyboards or something. That's not what I'm talking about.

 

[Hahn1900]

Of course he does. He writes the book.

I would write the book first. That's exactly what I'm saying. For some reason you're telling me I'm talking about storyboards or something. That's not what I'm talking about.

Well, congrats, you are the first author on this world who would write a book on the fly from start to end with every detail, curious how this will turn out.

 

[Porthas]

Well, congrats, you are the first author on this world who would write a book on the fly from start to end with every detail, curious how this will turn out.

I don't know what you're talking about now. Who said anything about writing a book on the fly? I would go through whatever process I usually go through to write a book (outlines, whatever) - a branching book in this case (like a choose your own adventure book) - then I'd build the visuals on top of that.

What are you getting grumpy with me for? I didn't say he was doing it wrong. I'm just observing his process and comparing it to how I would probably approach it. There's no "right" or "wrong" here, just different approaches.

 

[lobotomist]

See. I would have written the whole story then built a VN around it. I wonder if he's at least got an outline. This is not a criticism, just an observation.

it's general knowledge that he has an outline, but he tends to change things during production.

And guess what that is true for every major production, that's why breaking bad which is arguably the greatest series ever made introduced main characters later on.
In fact series that "stick to the plan" tend to do bad, that's the reason how i met your mother is considered as having the worst finale ever, because the producers decided to stick with the finale they had pre recorded on the first season even though so much had changed since then.

So you might want to take a page out of the pros book, and ignore your own advice.

 

[Porthas]

it's general knowledge that he has an outline, but he tends to change things during production.

And guess what that is true for every major production, that's why breaking bad which is arguably the greatest series ever made introduced main characters later on.
In fact series that "stick to the plan" tend to do bad, that's the reason how i met your mother is considered as having the worst finale ever, because the producers decided to stick with the finale they had pre recorded on the first season even though so much had changed since then.

So you might want to take a page out of the pros book, and ignore your own advice.

One. I wasn't giving advice. Anybody who read what I said would know this.

 

[felicemastronzo]

You really dont know what you are talking about here.

He planned out the whole game already, but not in detail what goes in which episode of course.

And how do you know all this? Apart from trusting what DPC himself said some time ago. He hardly claimed otherwise .. .

 

[Porthas]

it's general knowledge that he has an outline, but he tends to change things during production.

And guess what that is true for every major production, that's why breaking bad which is arguably the greatest series ever made introduced main characters later on.
In fact series that "stick to the plan" tend to do bad, that's the reason how i met your mother is considered as having the worst finale ever, because the producers decided to stick with the finale they had pre recorded on the first season even though so much had changed since then.

So you might want to take a page out of the pros book, and ignore your own advice.

Two, "the pros" do things in different ways. There are authors who write books with outlines, and there are those who don't.

But of course, that's beside the point.

I have no idea why people are getting so defensive about this.

 

[Porthas]

And how do you know all this? Apart from trusting what DPC himself said some time ago. He hardly claimed otherwise .. .

I think some people didn't read carefully what I said and started assuming I was criticizing how he makes his game. Which of course, is not what I said or did.

But you do make a valid point and I do wonder if DPC has ever thoroughly talked about how much of his game and story are already set in his mind.

That's all beside the point, he can make the game and write the story however he wants, of course.

One of the fundamental things you learn in writing classes is the several approaches to writing and editing. People usually will pick one, try them out and then go with one or tailor an approach to how their mind works.

 

[Hahn1900]

it's general knowledge that he has an outline, but he tends to change things during production.

And guess what that is true for every major production, that's why breaking bad which is arguably the greatest series ever made introduced main characters later on.
In fact series that "stick to the plan" tend to do bad, that's the reason how i met your mother is considered as having the worst finale ever, because the producers decided to stick with the finale they had pre recorded on the first season even though so much had changed since then.

So you might want to take a page out of the pros book, and ignore your own advice.

Thats about it, nothin to add. Wish i could phrase it like that.

 

[felicemastronzo]

I think some people didn't read carefully what I said and started assuming I was criticizing how he makes his game. Which of course, is not what I said or did.

But you do make a valid point and I do wonder if DPC has ever thoroughly talked about how much of his game and story are already set in his mind.

That's all beside the point, he can make the game and write the story however he wants, of course.

One of the fundamental things you learn in writing classes is the several approaches to writing and editing. People usually will pick one, try them out and then go with one or tailor an approach to how their mind works.

DPC has, on more than one occasion in the past, reassured that the story has already been set. And I believe it, at least in the general events. I have many more doubts that there have been changes and even substantial additions to the plot, between the desire to enrich the story and pressure from the patreons to give more space to otherwise secondary characters

 

[Porthas]

Thats about it, nothin to add. Wish i could phrase it like that.

I wish you both could actually read and pay attention to what a person said.

 

[jd8097619]

See. I would have written the whole story then built a VN around it. I wonder if he's at least got an outline. This is not a criticism, just an observation.

Ah the sage old advice of people saying what they would do knowing full-well they'll never actually do it.