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

[Darth Sidious]

Can anyone post the latest news from yesterday about Episode 11?

 

[soprano31]

Can anyone post the latest news from yesterday about Episode 11?

You must be registered to see the links

I wrote dialogue until Wednesday, after which I started working on static renders to get a short break from writing. I've been working on Sage, Quinn, Jill and some other spoilery scenes. I have a good flow going on with the art and will continue working on it next week.

I am planning what I can show as the first preview. I'm sure there will be something to show this month.

The animation queue is still looking solid. PCs have a good render speed and plenty left to render.

Q&A
The second part of the Q&A will be released sometime next week.

Polls
If you missed it, there's currently a Special render poll live

You must be registered to see the links

. Your vote matters as it's a close poll between Maya and Isabella. The poll ends next Friday.


Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake​

 

[Darth Sidious]

Oddly enough I used the search function before posting using these terms:

You must be registered to see the links

All I got was randomized nonsense that had one of these words in it.

 

[felicemastronzo]

#1 Skin and skin tone of the guy in the white sweater. We know that only MC and Tommy shares the same skin and such tone. The MC's skin tone in game is a pig like pink There is no sense that this is Tommy, so it's MC. MC usually don't wear such clothes. Why he is in sweater? Probably because he had to meet some specific "standards". Who could have the most "strange" standards and ideas about them? Probably Patrick. Well, Maya sitting nearby MC only confirms this guess and where they are.

#3 Derek in a sweater (very uncommon thing with him, you know), in a new place and with a picture or photograph of a Christian cross behind his back. What would be your guess? What the hell is the place and what's happening there?

#4-5 Maya which is worried or upset about something in a completely new place and in a very "modest" and covering outfit. Up to the moment in the game, we haven't visited only the Maya's home. What a chance that she/they at some random place rather than her home? Since it's obviously a someone's home, not a restaraunt, nor an office - make your guesses.

#2 Well, only this picture could be considered as a less or more spoiler free. But DPC shown us Sage in a more decent and convenient place(s) / scenes. A date with her in restaraunt, spending time with her in HOT's pool and fucking her in the tent at the BBQ party. Feel free to swap one of those I mentioned with one you picked for her. I think DPC made a better choice. What about you?

Just pay attention to details (not in a way and approach that dalli_x usually uses, hell no! ). If you don't see some odd things and resembles in the pictures you suggested to use as previews it's ok, but others will notice and figure out and then spread out everywhere. The difference is that the properly picked preview can generate a dozens of guesses and theories with no obvious winners. And the other thing when someone will find out and write a dominating theory with a hard grounds for it for a badly picked preview, so it will become a spoiler finally. Do you feel the difference and purpose of a really good preview?

you then are saying that if DPC had used one of those renders as a preview it would have clearly revealed the whole scene? ruining the surprise

I don't agree at all, and I don't explain instead how disclosing later, but still before the release of the chapter, the menu image where MC is locked in the garage didn't spoil anything

Sage from that scene was on DPС's profile in his discord server for a while, but no one could guess where she was.
The main flaw in your reasoning is that you're talking about it post facto, when the game is already out.
In hindsight, I for one agree with DPС's decision to hide the Sage preview from the player for most of the development. We ended up with a really huge surprise in the form of Sage being presented to the player in a new form.
Also, there's no guarantee that DPС has already created the scene in Bella's house. Maybe the first scene of ep 11 is the resolution of Riona's situation and his intention to ignore the previews makes sense.
But considering he spent a month making animations for the sex scenes, it's likely the renders are related to that. Could be a scene with Zoey or some kind of threesome, we can't get into DPC's head.

I don't understand the point of what you are saying....

only in retrospect can one say whether a preview would have been so much revelatory or not. before any preview might be or might not be so depending on the opinions, theories everyone makes about it.

 

[Ray_D]

You must be registered to see the links

I wrote dialogue until Wednesday, after which I started working on static renders to get a short break from writing. I've been working on Sage, Quinn, Jill and some other spoilery scenes. I have a good flow going on with the art and will continue working on it next week.

I am planning what I can show as the first preview. I'm sure there will be something to show this month.

The animation queue is still looking solid. PCs have a good render speed and plenty left to render.

Q&A
The second part of the Q&A will be released sometime next week.

Polls
If you missed it, there's currently a Special render poll live

You must be registered to see the links

. Your vote matters as it's a close poll between Maya and Isabella. The poll ends next Friday.


Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake​

Classic DPC .

 

[chaddragon1234]

came for the porn, stayed for the plot, that was a first to me, XD

 

[f96zonetrooper]

The whole restaurant thing will come back to the MC whether the MC declined or accepted the offer. If Sage finds out about the restaurant and that the MC knew about it, Sage will confront the MC. Of course it gets worse if the MC accepted the offer and the next level of escalation would be if he used the restaurant.

I think you misunderstand the restaurant business ... from what we see the restaurant is simply a consensual activity. The customer pays cash and gets (gloryhole) sex, the girls have sex and get part of the cash, Quinn gets some cash for her efforts.
Camila, Riona, Sarah, Quinn do not look like anybody forced them to participate, they do it to earn some cash and they like to have sex or at least do not mind ...

The free tuition is similar. According to Mona's documents Burke trades free 3 year sholarships for sex. Again these are consensual deals, arranged by Quinn. If not consensual, it would be forced prostitution or rape and sooner or later the girl would go to the police. Mona was not able to do it, so she canceled the deal. We don't know the details why she left the college and where she went.

The biggest impact on Sage would be that her father paid the girls for sex ... but she probably would not be surprised.
If Sage knew about the whole range of drug dealing and prostitution Quinn organizes as vize-president of the HOTs, there might be consequences for Quinn.

Apart from that I guess that the whole restaurant and free tuition theme is already finished and won't come up again.
(After the visit at the Burke's there is a scene where mc calls Bella and in the background you see how an angry Quinn leaves Burke's office. It looks like he canceled the free tuition business since it is no longer a secret.)

 

[f96zonetrooper]

You're misunderstanding something. This is all a huge clue. What do we learn from Becky herself in EP10? That she doesn't know who the guy with the big cock in the photo is and Becky considers not only the MC, but also Leon. Why? Because Leon wrote it himself in a Rooster Cluck and Sarah did that too. What is Becky known for? Gossip. Next to Becky are Riona and Camila and if the MC was DIK, the two of them had a lot of gossip. Including the canonical cum petition. I also want a DIK to fuck brother Becky. Whom? Leon, Becky's second candidate. Leon said yes so he wouldn't sleep alone in the tent.

The reaction of students on the DIK photos on the billboard may vary if mc's dick was also part of Tybalt's presentation.
If Becky gave mc a BJ during the HOTs' party, she should remember.
I remember a scene where she brags that she deepthroated and completely took him in.
On MJ path (in the library) she may call dibs on a foursome with mc and MJ.

 

[ChipLecsap]

Having known the dude for so many years, these accusations don't make sense, he's not lazy and never has been. But it is obvious to me that his approach to development has changed, he takes into account the speed of rendering animations and that you need to give it time so that the equipment does not stand idle. The game itself is changing too, we have passed the "middle" and are moving towards the end, although it is still relatively far away.

Regarding poll... it may just be an episode number, EP11 or EP12, but it's about a year in terms of getting the content. So poll have sense.

Hold up, do you know him personally or something ? or you referring to the same knowledge as everyone has of him?!
you don't know the guy, all you know is what he say, how trustworthy is that, well, that is up to you to decide. There are folks who eat every word he say as some kind of bible, and there are some of us, who are way more skeptical of him, based on his actions rather than his words .

I remember, countless time when he said, for example how this and that will speed up his development time, like he no longer does, monthly special renders , so he can focus more on the game, well, we didnt see any improvment at all.

in his latest development cycle during episode 10, he come out and said, that he is around 60-70% around in may, and then somehow he was able to drag out the remaining thing around 7 more mouth coming out with an exuse that now he makes 60 fps animations.

there is only one thing he is honest about, when he admitted, take everything he say with a grain of salt

 

[ChipLecsap]

only in retrospect can one say whether a preview would have been so much revelatory or not. before any preview might be or might not be so depending on the opinions, theories everyone makes about it.

exactly. since you don't really know the context of any of these scenes, you can't really say they are spoilers, lets say he post this picture, without playing the episode this is just a random picture when Rio looking at her phone.


now if He would have posted this, that would be a different story. Sorry if you press H to hide the text, its also hide the snow effect , so he could not even use these photos , but you get my point.

 

[Darkwen]

exactly. since you don't really know the context of any of these scenes, you can't really say they are spoilers, lets say he post this picture, without playing the episode this is just a random picture when Rio looking at her phone.
View attachment 3344469

now if He would have posted this, that would be a different story. Sorry if you press H to hide the text, its also hide the snow effect , so he could not even use these photos , but you get my point.
View attachment 3344470

Just like the photo of Rio phone in the snow without full context you don't know what's going on here or a photo at Maya's parents house without context you don't know what going on other then your there for thanksgiving

 

[Darkwen]

the MC wanted to go into the UFO. For me the UFO was unimportant

Well the UFO isn't real so yeah ok but also good call because:

 

[ChipLecsap]

What everyone should think about is when and why Stephen Burke became dean at B&R. What if the reason Stephen Burke became dean was to end scholarships for sex? When? At the time Jill started college and Geoff Royce put him to it. Stephen has finished it and then new rumors arise and Geoff urgently needs to talk to Stephen during EP5 Preps. The reason was Mona because she asked a Preps for sex on her own initiative. Stephen gets this information and asks Mona about sex to confirm the information.

Stephen likes to go drinking with his friends. Geoff Royce is an alcoholic and he knows Stephen Burke. Maybe they're buddies and go drinking together.
What if Geoff asked Stephen to become dean at B&R and clear up the rumors or perhaps the facts at the time. The reason for this could have been Jill, who was about to go to college and Geoff asked the houseman Stephen if he was cleaning up at B&R. As Cathy says. Newspapers sometimes print old stories. In EP8 we have a newspaper, the only question is whether it is an old or new story?

 

[ChipLecsap]

You do not understand it, do you. The picture would have been the biggest spoiler DCP could have ever made. It's not explicit and no one would probably have thought of Mick and Vinny.

But damn. A cute girl is walking around alone in the middle of the night. Who can honestly say that this scene did not surprise them?

The mere speculation about it is enough for something bad to happen to Riona and the surprise effect would have been completely lost.

do you even know what a Spoiler is ?

 

[ChipLecsap]

Have you actually read it?

well, i guess you misunderstand my comment then. Rio looking at her phone is not a spoiler, the other picture, I posted when She got kidnaped, is a spoiler, like I said, if he posted that one that would be a spoiler.

 

[Ottoeight]

The transition from free dating to serious relationship in Episode 8 was not perfect and for most players probably rough.

I remember my DIK mc being Sage's fuckbuddy and having a threesome with Sage and Quinn shortly before the decision. At some point mc automatically told Sage that he wants more, a more serious relationship, ...
Then at the decision point the player could choose between Sage and Others. If the player chose Others, mc went to Sage and canceled their intimate relationship including the fuckbody status. So afterwards mc could have sex with many of the HOTs including Quinn, but Sage was no longer available.
Players who do not intend mc to have a serious relationship with Sage anyway would avoid mc telling her that he wants more and instead just keep the fuckbody friendship as it is, but that is not an option in the game.
On the other side if the player chose Sage, then all the options to have sex with Quinn, Riona, etc are automatically turned down.

I have the impression that DPC had lots of ideas for the break-up scenes for different characters and by forcing players to break up with many Main Girls, those scenes are played. It is like a gunpoint theatre for wedding / break-up scenes. It feels very much forced.
The break-up scenes are not bad. It is just that most players would probably rather choose a compromise instead of a hard break up with an LI. So the scenes do not fit to the story based on player decisions so far.

It would be different if previous decisions in the game would have distributed kind of Love Points to the LIs and LIs with low point count would automatically change into friendship mode, so the player would actually have to work towards a path from start. However such a game design would force players to play Season 1-2 up to 5 times to see all the content ...

1) Did you know that if you pursue one girl only you won't have to make any choice? I played a 100% Sage only gameplay - without scoring any side girl - and I didn't had to make any choice: no Others and no Sage choice to make, MC only told himself that he wanted to be Sage's boyfriend.
The same can happen with every main girl.

2) did you check what happens if you help Sage by teaching her guitar and helping her with Chad, but you refuse her sexual advance (gayyyyyy!!!!)?

3) I think you haven't realised that choosing Others does not mean: "I'm not interested in having a relationship with one of the main girls". It means: "I don't want to have any relationship now", therefore you dump everyone who you are dating because the final choice in episode 8 means: it's time to make a step forward. Either you make this step, or you end the dating game with the girl. That's why fuckboy thingie with Sage is not an option.

4) you still don't know what is going to happen in the upcoming episodes when you play the Others route.

I think you misunderstand the restaurant business ... from what we see the restaurant is simply a consensual activity. The customer pays cash and gets (gloryhole) sex, the girls have sex and get part of the cash, Quinn gets some cash for her efforts.
Camila, Riona, Sarah, Quinn do not look like anybody forced them to participate, they do it to earn some cash and they like to have sex or at least do not mind ...

The free tuition is similar. According to Mona's documents Burke trades free 3 year sholarships for sex. Again these are consensual deals, arranged by Quinn. If not consensual, it would be forced prostitution or rape and sooner or later the girl would go to the police. Mona was not able to do it, so she canceled the deal. We don't know the details why she left the college and where she went.

Oh boy. I think that you might need to talk to your lawyer. Seriously.

 

[f96zonetrooper]

Oh boy. I think that you might need to talk to your lawyer. Seriously.

Why?
It is mentioned in the game that Burke is VERY wealthy. The Burkes make huge annual donations to B&R.
If these scholarships are paid from Burke's own fortune, it's more a private matter.
Sure if it would go public, it would be a scandal : dean pays students for sex
But since the actions are consensual and everybody is 18+, I don't see the crime.
It would be different if he would ask for money or sex in exchange for good grades ...

 

[Ottoeight]

Why?
It is mentioned in the game that Burke is VERY wealthy. The Burkes make huge annual donations to B&R.
If these scholarships are paid from Burke's own fortune, it's more a private matter.
Sure if it would go public, it would be a scandal : dean pays students for sex
But since the actions are consensual and everybody is 18+, I don't see the crime.
It would be different if he would ask for money or sex in exchange for good grades ...

So, you really need it. I'm not joking.

 

[f96zonetrooper]

Rooster is public and not tied to BaDIK. Josy lives in the MC area in her final year of high school. She has seen the MC before (not just at his summer job) and developed a crush on him.

Josy was on the same high school as Maya and Derek. She commuted.
It is likely that after the divorce her father and Monica at some point moved to mc's area, but Josy did not change her school.
If mc would know Josy from high school, he would also likely know Maya and Derek.

AfaIk throughout the game it is always said that mc and Josy know each other from the 2 months minimart job.

 

[f96zonetrooper]

So, you really need it. I'm not joking.

Stop trolling.
If you have arguments, please share them ...
People in this forum are from all over the world and different countries have different laws and different cultures .... do not expect other people to know what you are thinking.