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

[VaderExMachina]

Darkwen after seeing Josy's ep11 preview be like:

 

[ElectronicRoberts]

To contribute to the analysis of development progress, I have prepared several graphs to visually represent the ongoing progress. I acknowledge that Always86 has already covered some aspects related to these graphs.

Back once again.

Still are done, in all fariness to DPC an impressive total. Not Much to say on that front really.

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As for the animation. Quicker at 60 FPS than they were on the old cards? Bollocks. The average animations completed by week 41, 6.5 a week. Average animations completed between week 36 and week 41? 6.4 the second PC was being put together on the day of the August 11th, week 34 update. In other words even with the second system live animations stayed the same on average.

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For a quick reference Episode 9 had 303 animations that were produced at an average of 7.6 a week. In other words he is producing 1 less animation a week with 2 systems running 4090 cards. Perhaps if we're lucky the 3rd system will see upto 9 a week. 269+68=337 at an average of 6.5 that means completion around 8th December (plus beta testing). If he somehow hits 9 that would still be around 24th November ready for two weeks Beta testing.

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[ReallyNotTimmy]

I think ReallyNotTina might be the only player who decided to stay at the party instead of going back to Maya while playing on a Maya route: it was a completely nonsensical choice.

Well, failing at helping Jill at her recital and making Rusty sell his car were almost impossible missions, but she did both.

Man, she really sucks in her choices: did you explain to her that the DIKs and Derek are MC's pals, therefore she'd better raise DIKs and Derek's points?

She went back, since she got the Maya fingering scene. But NOT fucking a Josy on a J&M route is a cardinal sin balance is sucked at the beginning

Not having sex with Josy is the worse crime of all time

Criticizing my woman is the fastest way to get on my bad side. Lucky for you all, I don’t agree with all her choices either. But I don’t criticize them because when she’s having fun, the game really puts her in the mood, and I wanna get laid! Sorry Josy; there’s a real live woman who wants my cock; you’ll have to do without.

That said, I don’t find failing to help at the recital, and failing to save Rusty’s car, are impossible missions. I’ve done both. In the case of the recital I wanted to see what happens; in the case of Rusty’s car I wanted the VIP pass so I could test-drive Madame Rose. (Not worth it. But I completed all the Scenes.) And I later found when you’re a CHICK who won’t do mini-games, you’re usually gonna lose the car. But the only thing you really need it for is to fuck Quinn in it, which you won’t do as a CHICK anyway.

 

[Ray_D]

Bella is so mean she makes me want to run and cry to Maya.
She would hug me and make everything better.

Why are you like this

 

[Ray_D]

These days I felt like playing the game again to see some things that I didn't see during my other saved games. Then I remembered that I have to go through chapter 9 again and I lost the desire.

 

[Ray_D]

Criticizing my woman is the fastest way to get on my bad side. Lucky for you all, I don’t agree with all her choices either. But I don’t criticize them because when she’s having fun, the game really puts her in the mood, and I wanna get laid! Sorry Josy; there’s a real live woman who wants my cock; you’ll have to do without.

That said, I don’t find failing to help at the recital, and failing to save Rusty’s car, are impossible missions. I’ve done both. In the case of the recital I wanted to see what happens; in the case of Rusty’s car I wanted the VIP pass so I could test-drive Madame Rose. (Not worth it. But I completed all the Scenes.) And I later found when you’re a CHICK who won’t do mini-games, you’re usually gonna lose the car. But the only thing you really need it for is to fuck Quinn in it, which you won’t do as a CHICK anyway.

Well man this is the internet you know this was going to happen sooner or later. For my part, you won't read anything from me regarding that topic, because I usually don't read what you upload regarding how your girlfriend plays the game. But look on the bright side, you're probably one of the few here who plays a porn game with your girlfriend, that's more than the average user of this site aspires.

 

[JillybeanEnjoyer]

Well man this is the internet you know this was going to happen sooner or later. For my part, you won't read anything from me regarding that topic, because I usually don't read what you upload regarding how your girlfriend plays the game. But look on the bright side, you're probably one of the few here who plays a porn game with your girlfriend, that's more than the average user of this site aspires.

*quickly alt-tabs* "H-hey, babe! I was just b-browsing the internet." - me before I confessed my love of AVNs to my gf

 

[soprano31]

But the only thing you really need it for is to fuck Quinn in it

 

[Ottoeight]

Criticizing my woman is the fastest way to get on my bad side. Lucky for you all, I don’t agree with all her choices either. But I don’t criticize them because when she’s having fun, the game really puts her in the mood, and I wanna get laid! Sorry Josy; there’s a real live woman who wants my cock; you’ll have to do without.

That said, I don’t find failing to help at the recital, and failing to save Rusty’s car, are impossible missions. I’ve done both. In the case of the recital I wanted to see what happens; in the case of Rusty’s car I wanted the VIP pass so I could test-drive Madame Rose. (Not worth it. But I completed all the Scenes.) And I later found when you’re a CHICK who won’t do mini-games, you’re usually gonna lose the car. But the only thing you really need it for is to fuck Quinn in it, which you won’t do as a CHICK anyway.

Bro, unfortunately DrPinkCake decided that you are supposed to play these mini-games, even though he says you can play a whole gameplay without them.

No matter how boring they are, playing without them is a lesser experience in terms of narrative: just think how the kickboxing minigame fits into the storyline in episode 10.

If I remember well, you need the car for the date with Sage, too. I guess Rusty needs it, too: it's his car, after all.

Rusty selling the car is a minus, no matter what you might say, because you failed the mansion game. You are supposed to make your DIK pals happy, because they are your pals and you are a DIK, and Derek is supposed to be your best buddy. Making them unhappy is a minus.

 

[ImSenjou]

I was really bored, so I decided to play the routes I hadn't played before, and found one even better than the 'Others' one.

The route where the MC and Lily are 'rolling' was much better than I expected, from the spoilers I saw here I thought it would be quite cringe, so I didn't play it, I just read the script, now I'm even considering making a gameplay dedicated to this route.

As I was just taking a look, and pressing ctrl on the parts I've seen before, I decided to say yes to everything, and it was like an 'Others PRO+', I continued with all the others, I still have Nicole and from the talk with her, Sandy too, I still had the date with Riona and left the door open for Josy and Zoey (I know it won't happen), unfortunately I don't have any saves with Cathy, I have to make one, but I can already say that this gameplay is on par with the one dedicated to Sage, I really liked it.

From the spoilers I read here, I thought Lily was just using the MC, and she really is, but she showed something more, the conversations with her were very enlightening, and knowing what should happen in the next updates, having her back should prove useful.

Unfortunately I played this gameplay on top of one without the restaurant and without the drugs, so I didn't have content with Quinn, as for the restaurant, all my saves are without the restaurant.

Lily without drugs, will it work?

 

[ReallyNotTimmy]

Bro, unfortunately DrPinkCake decided that you are supposed to play these mini-games, even though he says you can play a whole gameplay without them.

No matter how boring they are, playing without them is a lesser experience in terms of narrative: just think how the kickboxing minigame fits into the storyline in episode 10.

If I remember well, you need the car for the date with Sage, too. I guess Rusty needs it, too: it's his car, after all.

Rusty selling the car is a minus, no matter what you might say, because you failed the mansion game. You are supposed to make your DIK pals happy, because they are your pals and you are a DIK, and Derek is supposed to be your best buddy. Making them unhappy is a minus.

Not to piss you off or anything… but my priority in the game is whatever love interest I’ve chosen to go for. I’m not in it to practice alpha-male bros-before-hos douchebaggery. If you wanna play the game that way, you do you. If you wanna consider the way I’m playing it “failing,” well, you know, that’s just like, uh, your opinion, man.

I can certainly see how you’d come to it by playing the mini-games. But following that reasoning, I’d be “failing” if I didn’t also prioritize school over the girls—seeing how shuffling letters to pass English, solving logic puzzles to pass Math, and remembering mundane facts to pass Gender Studies, is so “necessary” to the storyline. And since the games are so ridiculously easy to beat, I can also see why it dumbfounds you that I’d forfeit Rusty’s car; what kind of moron loses the mansion game? But I’m not playing the mansion game. Because fuck the mansion game. Sage and Tremolo can take the bus. She doesn’t mind.

Oh, and fuck the party planning game, fuck the kickboxing games, fuck the fishtank game, fuck Beer Pong. Fuck all of them with a rusty rake. If you don’t play the mini-games, the DIKs and Derek are reasonably happy, and I’m very happy.

 

[spl00shz]

Happy Easter to all DIKs

 

[Scallywag Games]

Happy Easter!

 

[Pilgrim111]

Does anyone have the end of s2 save file so i can start s3? Thanks

 

[-VQueS-]

Criticizing my woman is the fastest way to get on my bad side. Lucky for you all, I don’t agree with all her choices either. But I don’t criticize them because when she’s having fun, the game really puts her in the mood, and I wanna get laid! Sorry Josy; there’s a real live woman who wants my cock; you’ll have to do without.

That said, I don’t find failing to help at the recital, and failing to save Rusty’s car, are impossible missions. I’ve done both. In the case of the recital I wanted to see what happens; in the case of Rusty’s car I wanted the VIP pass so I could test-drive Madame Rose. (Not worth it. But I completed all the Scenes.) And I later found when you’re a CHICK who won’t do mini-games, you’re usually gonna lose the car. But the only thing you really need it for is to fuck Quinn in it, which you won’t do as a CHICK anyway.

If you didn’t play with mini-games enabled, to win, you must have more than +5 RP DIKs, and you can’t have accepted the VIP pass on top of working at the Pink Rose.[Official Walkthrough]

 

[Tremonia]

So, again no hard numbers...

Who cares about numbers one can't even verify? DPC can tell us everything and nothing. We can believe him or not. In fact he could have already done this episode since months and he just waits with the release while he already works on the next episodes. Do we know it? The only hard numbers I care for are the numbers in the date of ETA.

 

[plznoiamnotaweirdo]

People really hated the Mini games that much ? I find some of them annoying but most of them are pretty okay. Atleast, i never played a BADIK run without playing through the mini games. It doesn't cost that much time and they are pretty easy overall anyways. Only thing i really hated was that cube puzzle thing. It took me a long time to understand its mechanics and some of them are just not explain all that well making it really hard to figure out so i just search it up.

 

[Elduriel]

People really hated the Mini games that much ? I find some of them annoying but most of them are pretty okay. Atleast, i never played a BADIK run without playing through the mini games. It doesn't cost that much time and they are pretty easy overall anyways. Only thing i really hated was that cube puzzle thing. It took me a long time to understand its mechanics and some of them are just not explain all that well making it really hard to figure out so i just search it up.

for me they don't add any value to the game, it's just a time-sink. I loathe mini-games in AVNs. If I wanted to do math or do word-searches or something like that I'd rather buy a crossword-puzzle book Especially because some of them impact the story (e.g. if you fail the mansion one). Thank fuck for Sancho and his fantastic mod that lets us skip all that BS

 

[ReallyNotTimmy]

People really hated the Mini games that much ? I find some of them annoying but most of them are pretty okay. Atleast, i never played a BADIK run without playing through the mini games. It doesn't cost that much time and they are pretty easy overall anyways. Only thing i really hated was that cube puzzle thing. It took me a long time to understand its mechanics and some of them are just not explain all that well making it really hard to figure out so i just search it up.

I’ll just tell you why I hate the mini-games. Others have other reasons, obviously.

1. They’re not challenging. Even the first time, when they were new to me; there was some challenge in first figuring them out. But, once done, they’re no challenge anymore. It would definitely be a challenge if there were, say, 100 “English tests” in the system instead of the same three every time; if there were 500 “Math problems” which randomly popped up (or were even randomly generated by the computer!) instead of the same problems every time. But nope; same tests, and once you memorize the answers, it’s “Ugh, this again,” not “Ooh, let’s see if I can get a perfect score this time.” Brawler isn’t even a challenge; it’s just keypresses, and I learned 10-key in high school.

2. They’re interruptions. Like commercials in the middle of a TV show. But with commercials, I can skip them; I can get up and leave the computer and go get a snack from the kitchen, go get a blanket from my bedroom, go take a whiz in the bathroom; I can leave, then return in 2 minutes and go back to the show. I can’t skip the mini-games unless I turn them off at the very beginning. It’d be great if there were an auto-win button; they actually have those in other AVNs, like College Kings. But here, I gotta slog through the interruption. Like Elduriel said, they’re a time sink.

3. They’re the wrong genre. If I wanted to play video games, I’d go play video games. If I wanted brain teasers, I’d buy a book of brain teasers. I wanna read an adult visual novel! With fuck scenes! Get to the novel. Get to the fuck scenes. I’m here to play that game. (Or at least put a fuck scene in the mini-game, like we see in Dungeons & Gremlins.)

Anyway, that’s me. If you love them, play them! You do you. I’ll keep skipping them; thanks.

 

[Raynare69]

Of course everyone's opinions and preferences are different, but I really loved the mini games and thought they added to making the game feel more like a game than just a visual novel. Of course, some of them became a bit of a chore, like the fake Tetris or sliding puzzle picture thing, especially if going through another play through...

But stuff like the management game to me felt very appropriate for the story while at the same time being kind of neat. Perhaps I'm a bit biased though because I've always loved simulation and management games, but the fact that they fit into the story progression as well helped. They didn't feel like just a mini-game added for no purpose.