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

[Roger-a-Dale]

The little details in this game are really wild. I just finished a playthrough with choices I usually wouldn't make and noticed something that probably not everybody has seen, even in this thread.
You all probably remember the dude who is trying to steal soda from the vending machine in the dorm free roam (you can choose to buy him one). If you later choose to stay with Derek instead of Sage or Bella, you can meet him again and he asks you if he should join the chess club.

Spoiler: Chess club

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I told him yes and didn't expect any consequences. Well, it does have some. Later on, you see the front page of the B&R newspaper when Tybalt brags with it. It normallly looks like this:

Spoiler: Normal paper

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Philip Hoff wins the chess tournament. But if Mr. Sodathief joins, things go a little different.

Spoiler: Other paper

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Dude beat Hoff with a chessboard. And when Hoff turns up to his first lesson, he looks suitably fucked up and comments on it:

Spoiler: Hoff lesson

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Nine days later, during Jill's recital, he looks normal again.
But the consequences don't even end there:
During the dorm party, the chess aggressor normally sits in his room together with the really ugly guy and they talk about how they totally could get girls.

Spoiler: Dorm party 1

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But if the guy gets expelled, his roommate actually manages to get a girl:

Spoiler: Dorm party 2

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Stuff like this really helps to set this game apart from the rest and makes it feel "alive". Also explains why the testing for the new update is going to take weeks: tons of small variables to consider.

Pretty sure most of us have seen that. For me it was sort of part of my first playthrough. Sort of. I saved before choosing who to evacuate to and started from there a few times before taking it all the way from the start.

But it is one of the game's hidden jokes. Replaying always has that chance of finding something you had missed.

 

[Ricthequick]

The little details in this game are really wild. I just finished a playthrough with choices I usually wouldn't make and noticed something that probably not everybody has seen, even in this thread.
You all probably remember the dude who is trying to steal soda from the vending machine in the dorm free roam (you can choose to buy him one). If you later choose to stay with Derek instead of Sage or Bella, you can meet him again and he asks you if he should join the chess club.

Spoiler: Chess club

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I told him yes and didn't expect any consequences. Well, it does have some. Later on, you see the front page of the B&R newspaper when Tybalt brags with it. It normallly looks like this:

Spoiler: Normal paper

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Philip Hoff wins the chess tournament. But if Mr. Sodathief joins, things go a little different.

Spoiler: Other paper

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Dude beat Hoff with a chessboard. And when Hoff turns up to his first lesson, he looks suitably fucked up and comments on it:

Spoiler: Hoff lesson

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Nine days later, during Jill's recital, he looks normal again.
But the consequences don't even end there:
During the dorm party, the chess aggressor normally sits in his room together with the really ugly guy and they talk about how they totally could get girls.

Spoiler: Dorm party 1

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But if the guy gets expelled, his roommate actually manages to get a girl:

Spoiler: Dorm party 2

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Stuff like this really helps to set this game apart from the rest and makes it feel "alive". Also explains why the testing for the new update is going to take weeks: tons of small variables to consider.

Totally agree btw, if you ask me what separates BADIK from other AVNs is the whole package.

There's better looking AVNs, there's AVNs with better story/setting, and yes there's AVNs with more frequent updates, but as a whole package I struggle to find others that are soo good at so many different things.

 

[FalconLover420]

I always felt like BADIK was alive with background characters doing there thing while you are doing yours. There are only a handful of other VN's that can replicate this. The other being Eternum and idk who else atm

 

[Ricthequick]

I always felt like BADIK was alive with background characters doing there thing while you are doing yours. There are only a handful of other VN's that can replicate this. The other being Eternum and idk who else atm

I tried and liked Eternum, but there's something in the setting that "keeps me away", which is weird because in general I'm not a huge fan of colegiale settings either, but that didn't stop me from playing BADIK over and over.

 

[Lagunavii]

Totally agree btw, if you ask me what separates BADIK from other AVNs is the whole package.

There's better looking AVNs, there's AVNs with better story/setting, and yes there's AVNs with more frequent updates, but as a whole package I struggle to find others that are soo good at so many different things.

I've said something similar the past,and there a few games like this, in fact I could probably count on one hand.

Now BaDik doesn't do anything extremely well, others milage may vary on that. But as you said, there's better looking, there's better story etc etc. But ultimately when you look at everything in it, it doesn't do anything terrible...

Ultimately, like a few others out there BaDik is just greater than the sum of its parts.

 

[Ricthequick]

I've said something similar the past,and there a few games like this, in fact I could probably count on one hand.

Now BaDik doesn't do anything extremely well, others milage may vary on that. But as you said, there's better looking, there's better story etc etc. But ultimately when you look at everything in it, it doesn't do anything terrible...

Ultimately, like a few others out there BaDik is just greater than the sum of its parts.

Also to be honest, it has her

 

[Lagunavii]

Also to be honest, it has her
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DPC could just release a game of her simply putting her lipstick on and I'd be all.

Fuck I'll take 12 copies

 

[Kpyna]

The little details in this game are really wild. I just finished a playthrough with choices I usually wouldn't make and noticed something that probably not everybody has seen, even in this thread.

Stuff like this really helps to set this game apart from the rest and makes it feel "alive". Also explains why the testing for the new update is going to take weeks: tons of small variables to consider.

This is just one of many such details/permutations. You have no idea how much you haven't seen and/or noticed yet.

Some of the most famous/memorable ones which leads to consequences episodes later or have a noticeable impact:

- MC finds Tybalt phone (if) during preps party (ep5) and decides on doing dickpic or not -> concequences in ep7 and further;

- How MC treats his own dad from the beginning - it's dragged through the game and shown (for example) during scene with Sage in EP10;

- If you are in Throuple - do you prefer Josy over Maya or not; if you do - you'll notice changes in her outfit episodes later in a pair of scenes;

- How you dealed with jocks and Dawe especially and if you're on Sage path or not, if you was too chick & sissy, you'll get an additional funny scene where Sage deals with Dawe by herself, but to get this scene you have to fit another reqs too (choise to sit in cafeteria with her & Quinn instead of Josy & Maya, which becomes a dilemma if you're playing a "harem" till the end of ep8);

- Multi-choices/paths dependent scene of MC (library) room cleaning in ep6. Your previous choices & LI path(s) defines and/or blocks the options who can and will help you. Nobody, Bella or Josy & Maya. And you have to make very particular and "right" choices to get each option. For example if you date Bella and J&M together - Bella will block the scene option with J&M;

- Stealing money from Jill. Not the common $ which is spread over all locations just to fill your MCs pocket, but specifically from the Jill's room during the DIK's "initiation" mission in preps mansion. You'll see the additional confirmation after you will try to take them. This will backfire in EP10, especially & additionally if you're on Jill's branch;

- Dealing with Patrick during your first meeting (ep7) with him and later, during Thanksgiving part of EP10, it's all tracked and have different outcomes (stealing the loan contract or not) with a small permutations and reactions during the dinner, which also depends on a lot of stuff and previous choices: are you in Throuple branch or not, did you shared what you know about Chad with Josy or not (so Sage accompany you or not because of this), and how Maya calls and treats you too in front of Patrick, then it's all multiplied with how you dealed with him in the past during your firts meeting...;

- Agreement to share your room with Derek - yes or not (minor consequences so far, but probably more of them in later eps);

- Going with Jade to her place in EP4 and sharing a sextape with DIKs later (started to backfire in EP10, will explode soon);

- Huge bunch of possible options and permutations for the Throuple path & branch - scenes (which blocks each other), reactions, outcomes, future consequences, as well as permutations/outcomes of breakup with them (EP9&10 and further) or potential solo paths (starting from your decision and answer to Derek in EP5);

- Tons of more or less significant moments which I didn't mention because I'm tired to type, to mention each new one, etc

 

[mike12013]

Multi-choices/paths dependent scene of MC (library) room cleaning in ep6. Your previous choices & LI path(s) defines and/or blocks the options who can and will help you. Nobody, Bella or Josy & Maya. And you have to make very particular and "right" choices to get each option. For example if you date Bella and J&M together - Bella will block the scene option with J&M

I've never seen the Josy/Maya version, and all my recent saves have been jumping off Jill and Bella's path instantly

I'll have to look through the code and see i can figure out what triggers is

 

[Roger-a-Dale]

I've never seen the Josy/Maya version, and all my recent saves have been jumping off Jill and Bella's path instantly

I'll have to look through the code and see i can figure out what triggers is

Pretty sure it's default if you get on the throuple and it doesn't get blocked by Bella. Sure you haven't just gone for Sage and others on those recent saves?

 

[Kpyna]

I've never seen the Josy/Maya version, and all my recent saves have been jumping off Jill and Bella's path instantly

I'll have to look through the code and see i can figure out what triggers is

Don't romance Bella together with J&M or just refuse her help offer, when she calls MC from gym to ask how he and his room is going. But if you refuse her here, it closes her path (yes, she definitely had expectations from that visit, even though not showing that).

Pretty sure it's default if you get on the throuple and it doesn't get blocked by Bella. Sure you haven't just gone for Sage and others on those recent saves?

No, it also depends with whom you sit in cafeteria. If you picked Sage & Quinn (even if you're in Throuple) - J&M will not come to help, because they hadn't get a chance to talk and he hadn't asked them to. MC will clean room alone this way

 

[mike12013]

Pretty sure it's default if you get on the throuple and it doesn't get blocked by Bella. Sure you haven't just gone for Sage and others on those recent saves?

Thinking about it, i think i might recall seeing it a few days ago

J&M will not come to help, because they hadn't get a chance to talk and he hadn't asked them to. MC will clean room alone this way

Oh that makes sense. I've been doing a lot of Sage/Quinn paths so i normally sit with them.

Not being on everyones path makes the game feel lonely as hell, first time i seen MC cleaning solo i felt really bad

 

[Roger-a-Dale]

Don't romance Bella together with J&M or just refuse her help offer, when she calls MC from gym to ask how he and his room is going. But if you refuse her here, it closes her path (yes, she definitely had expectations from that visit, even though not showing that).


No, it also depends with whom you sit in cafeteria. If you picked Sage & Quinn (even if you're in Throuple) - J&M will not come to help, because they hadn't get a chance to talk and he hadn't asked them to. MC will clean room alone this way

Ah so that was what did it. So difficult to get two girls in your room at once.

 

[NebulousShooter]

He can't even french kiss her so sex...
It's baffling she didn't figure out he was gay.

How did Jade sniff it? Woman intuition, or she sexually harassed him too, like the poor MC?

 

[Gunizz]

I call her bitch or whore

Whore and slave are the pet names I sometimes have used for Riona.
For Quinn I use sister (then she calls me brother) but only in two paths. Otherwise I don't bother to change anything.

Now that I think of it, maybe I should also use "posh spice" for Jill. Sally is a genius.

 

[mike12013]

I wasn't around when it happened, what reasoning was given for S3 being a seperate launcher and saves needing importing?

Guessing tech debt of some sort?

 

[Lagunavii]

I wasn't around when it happened, what reasoning was given for S3 being a seperate launcher and saves needing importing?

Guessing tech debt of some sort?

I wasn't here myself but most devs chose to split games due to the sheer size they become.

 

[Jurifeet]

Do we have any progression with this girl? Recently I don't have much time to play so I really don't know about the "others' branch" path

 

[Chalk boss]

How did Jade sniff it? Woman intuition, or she sexually harassed him too, like the poor MC?

Jade hates Chad and I think the fact that he didn't react to her hints was probably the reason for her hatred.
I can't believe Jade has never hit on another student before.

 

[mike12013]

I wasn't here myself but most devs chose to split games due to the sheer size they become.

Yeah thats fair, each game is like 12gb as it is i think

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Do we have any progression with this girl? Recently I don't have much time to play so I really don't know about the "others' branch" path

Sally, not yet. Tho it seems that she's slowly warming to MC and they share a science class and I'm guessing will become lab partners.

There's a preview render for the next update that shows them studying together so it might be coming