Crusader of Romance

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I don't think he's hated. Hate is a very strong emotion, after all.
For me personally, he just annoys me sometimes with his arrogance.
As for the game, I guess if he keeps the same development pace of 1, 5- 2 years many people will eventually get tired of waiting and quit the game. And the game will suffer the fate of Summertime Saga.
I thought Summertime Saga did great? The Patreon has almost 3 times as many subscribers.
 
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And how much is Apple making? He worked for his money, can you say the same about the rich corporate bosses with their multi-million bonuses? You say he should be grateful that they only take 30%. Why do you consider him worse than the rich fat-asses who sit in their offices and never worked a real job in their life?
Is 30% to much? yeah for other devs or creators it probably is but should apple or patreon just offer there platform for free no they got to make money too. That doesn't make them bad. My problem with DPC is he got no self awareness and is high on his own ego and yes I struggle with my own but it isn't easy being perfect :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :Kappa:
 
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Is 30% to much? yeah for other devs or creators it probably is but should apple or patreon just offer there platform for free no they got to make money too. That doesn't make them bad. My problem with DPC is he got no self awareness and is high on his own ego and yes I struggle with my own but it isn't easy being perfect :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :Kappa:
Damn, rare to see people defend big corporations stepping on people, but I don't want to go into politics.
 
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Damn, rare to see people defend big corporations, but I don't want to go into politics.
I'll just say this and then go back to post useless or silly stuff.

That's way more common than most think, and it's the precise reason why corporations are a successfull model, we've been collectively turned into sheep.

It used to be religion, then became governments (including monarchies in there btw), then it became the capital, but ultimately we are still primates who live their lives based off the "law of the jungle".
Power manifests in many ways, but whatever way it manifests into... it attracts us as sheeply primates.

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Sorry sorry Bella I'll shutup, off to better things we go!
 

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Happy New Year!

I hope you had a great end to 2024 and a good start to 2025.

This week, I started by parsing the document with the dialogue I discussed in the last update. It took quite some time but was well worth it.

It is always baffling how many spelling and grammatical errors slip through the cracks during development. I haven't parsed any dialogue from phone apps or mini-games yet, but that's fast work compared to what is done.

I continued to fix a list of 50+ to-dos, some bigger than others.

I wrote, implemented, and tested the "Previously on Being a DIK" section.

I completed the remaining SFX work and will only add more if I spot an area where I missed something while playing.

After that, I worked on the Bios app. For episode 11, I wrote 260+ bios entries, more than I thought there would be. Coding all of that took me roughly a day.

I continued to play the game, focusing on the game economy, and I worked to balance it for mini-game enabled/disabled playthroughs. This episode was a bit tricky to balance, but I think I was successful - beta testing will tell if any tweaking is needed.

I playtested Bella's branch, and it was good. It gave me a new set of to-dos to fix.

I have also played and focused on mini-games disabled runs and checking that the phone behaves as expected during the entire episode - it's a very niche playthrough that's faster to play than the ones focusing on the story.

I have just finished working on the ending screens for the episode. It involved artwork and coding while recapping the important events of the episode in a report template. I have to test these while playing all branches, but they should be complete.

So, the list of remaining tasks isn't very big right now.

  • Playtest the episode and fix any new issues
  • Add 1-2 more clucks
  • Analyze and add more art for the phone gallery
  • Analyze and add any more needed chats.
I'll focus on playtesting, fixing issues, and maybe even completing some remaining tasks in the upcoming week. There is still a lot of playtesting left on my end, and there are still animations left to render.

I usually have a Q&A early each year, but I figured it's best to postpone this until after Episode 11 has been released. That way, more topical questions can be asked and answered, and I can focus on polishing the episode now instead.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake
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