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

[Skode]

We all love discussing the main LIs in this game but im weirdly finding myself in a position where im most hyped for Arieth content. I think shes made me laugh more than all other girls in the game COMBINED with her dense horny window escaping escapades and social media interactions. I legit got excited when I could swipe her on the new app just because it meant there is gonna be more comedy gold from speaking to her on it with every update going forward. Derek is the same and he legit steals the show everytime he is around even just by wearing a t-shirt, had no idea when I first started playing this game I would get so invested in the side characters

 

[Darkdevil66]

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Hell yeah !

On some aspects, I feel Sage AND Josy more European in the way they act than the other girls.
And for the joke, I think Jill has a very Algerian mentality.

Une mentalité purement algérienne impliquerait qu'elle ne fasse rien de crapuleux avant le mariage. Rien que le fait de dormir en sous vêtement dans le même lit qu'un garçon serait tabou pour une maghrébine un tantinet traditionnelle. Cap que Jill franchit sans aucun gène Chez les Maghrébines, en plus de la dimension religieuse qui se rapproche des cathos de la vieille école, la culture du "qu'en dira t'on ?" est très ancrée dans leur mentalité. C'est mal vu de batifoler et carrément blasphématoire de ne plus être vierge avant le mariage. Les parents ont d'ailleurs tendance à limiter leurs interactions avec les hommes. Souvent leur seul contact avec la gente masculine se limite aux frères et aux cousins. Maintenant une maghrébine occidentalisée est beaucoup plus libérée même si la pression familiale peut continuer à les restreindre.

Dans le cas de Jill c'est probablement davantage lié à son statut social qu'à sa culture et ses convictions religieuses. Elle est dans un milieu plutôt fermé, elle n'a pas l'air d'avoir un cercle social très étendu et comme elle le dit la plupart des types l'ayant approché pensent d'abord au statut. Là elle tient pour une fois un mec authentique et relativement doux, du coup elle ne veut pas brusquer les choses.

 

[Youven]

We all love discussing the main LIs in this game but im weirdly finding myself in a position where im most hyped for Arieth content. I think shes made me laugh more than all other girls in the game COMBINED with her dense horny window escaping escapades and social media interactions. I legit got excited when I could swipe her on the new app just because it meant there is gonna be more comedy gold from speaking to her on it with every update going forward. Derek is the same and he legit steals the show everytime he is around even just by wearing a t-shirt, had no idea when I first started playing this game I would get so invested in the side characters

So true.
Derek is the best sidekick I ever seen in a visual novel.

And every quote from Arieth always make me laugh out loud, everytime.
Just remember when Derek share a picture on Rooster and everybody congrats us about Being a DIK. Arieth was the only one to tell us Happy Birthday. Priceless.

 

[felicemastronzo]

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plot twist: the shorts she lends to MC were her.. before..

 

[RedRobinson]

Does anyone else see the resemblance between Tommy and the MC? They look really similar only Tommy looks a bit older.

 

[Youven]

Une mentalité purement algérienne impliquerait qu'elle ne fasse rien de crapuleux avant le mariage. Rien que le fait de dormir en sous vêtement dans le même lit qu'un garçon serait tabou pour une maghrébine un tantinet traditionnelle. Cap que Jill franchit sans aucun gène Chez les Maghrébines, en plus de la dimension religieuse qui se rapproche des cathos de la vieille école, la culture du "qu'en dira t'on ?" est très ancrée dans leur mentalité. C'est mal vu de batifoler et carrément blasphématoire de ne plus être vierge avant le mariage. Les parents ont d'ailleurs tendance à limiter leurs interactions avec les hommes. Souvent leur seul contact avec la gente masculine se limite aux frères et aux cousins. Maintenant une maghrébine occidentalisée est beaucoup plus libérée même si la pression familiale peut continuer à les restreindre.

Dans le cas de Jill c'est probablement davantage lié à son statut social qu'à sa culture et ses convictions religieuses. Elle est dans un milieu plutôt fermé, elle n'a pas l'air d'avoir un cercle social très étendu et comme elle le dit la plupart des types l'ayant approché pensent d'abord au statut. Là elle tient pour une fois un mec authentique et relativement doux, du coup elle ne veut pas brusquer les choses.

Excellente analyse qui, quelque part, contredis beaucoup mon affirmation.
Je pense que je pourrais invoquer ma propre expérience personnelle vis à vis des magrebines, en l’occurrence des jeunes filles kabyles de la nouvelle génération.
Après, ça reste un sentiment plus qu'un élément factuel, qui me fait dire que Jill est plus algérienne (kabyle ?).
Le reste de mon discours est plus un sketch qu'autre chose.

By the way, since when do you speak french so well ? Filthy french spy !

 

[Youven]

Does anyone else see the resemblance between Tommy and the MC? They look really similar only Tommy looks a bit older.

There's a good chance that the model used for Tommy and the MC is based on the Genesis Michael 8, so yeah, that makes sense.

 

[Laurelin]

I'm really impressed by DrPinkCake sense of detail... For instance, the guitar lesson :

That's indeed a major G ! Almost the way to do it when you're novice...
However, MC should know that the fingering can be further improved... He has to let index finger free to go down on major G7... But that's just guitarist's frenzy !!

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

I was thinking about the Rooster names... Some of them are funny, and very revealing about characters personality... BigBootyLover for Derek (no comment !), Tremolo for MC (as a passionate about guitar and music), MayaTheMoviebuff for Maya, Ms Sunshine for Josy (often in a good mood, radiant and solar girl) and so on... I had however a doubt about Jill's one...
And I have found this morning (yes, I know, I'm a bit slow) !! I bet some others have found it too long before me on this forum !
So Jill's EbonyAndIvory... just like piano keyboard !!! EUREKA !

And you forgot my favourite "AriethPassword1234"?

But it's true, there's lots of details in everything in Swyper and Rooster.

 

[Laurelin]

And you forgot my favourite "AriethPassword1234"?

Yeah, this one is tremendous !!

 

[N7]

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This is the first proper status update for episode 6 since it was the first week I could work normally on game development after episode 5 release.

I've been writing and posing intermittently. It's been an uphill battle getting renders and animations in the queue while also having scenes written to pose the art for.

I always pose my art after dialogue is written, the other way around isn't a good workflow since I would have to fit dialogue to renders instead of making art to a story, which is more natural to me.

I usually start posing animations, but this time I've been posing more static renders than usual early on.

It doesn't cut development time, but it does make it easier to show you previews.

So far, ~700 renders and 26 animations are complete.

I've written approximately 45% of the main dialogue file, compared to episode 5, and I'm still trying to plan the scope of the episode.

Episode 6 will be more varied than episode 5 was and it will require me to write a new kind of code, which I'm really excited about.

Poll news
The winner of the Special render poll was Nicole/Envy, with a majority of votes in all polls. Sally came in second place and Camila came in third place.

It's going to be fun to devote a render series to Nicole/Envy and I hope you liked the new direction the special render poll has taken.

I'll post the first preview of Envy's special render series next week.

Soon another poll for longer animation will start. +$10 patrons will be voting for who gets a longer animation in episode 6. Jill won a similar poll in episode 5 and can't win in this poll.



Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

 

[Zirael Q]

We all love discussing the main LIs in this game but im weirdly finding myself in a position where im most hyped for Arieth content. I think shes made me laugh more than all other girls in the game COMBINED with her dense horny window escaping escapades and social media interactions. I legit got excited when I could swipe her on the new app just because it meant there is gonna be more comedy gold from speaking to her on it with every update going forward. Derek is the same and he legit steals the show everytime he is around even just by wearing a t-shirt, had no idea when I first started playing this game I would get so invested in the side characters

yeah, I also have very good feelings about her. Planning ahead, told Sage about her Crab City problem. After she purges the city, gotta enter there after all

 

[Laurelin]

I'd like to take your advise... I've made a lot of saves (only on the Chick path, 'cause I really take it as a roleplay game, and I really have no desire to go over to the Dik side of the force ) :
- Josy / Maya route : I always tried to give both the points when it's possible, but we have to choose on episode 5, so :
1 save for Josy ("follow Josy" and "call Josy" in the evening when MC stays at Bella's)
1 save for Maya ("find Maya" and "call Maya" in the evening when MC stays at Bella's)
Here, I tried to really focus on Josy and Maya (no kiss for Jill during the date, MC stays with Derek at the end of ep. 3, ...)

- Jill / Bella route : It's a bit more difficult, especially when you have trouble rejecting Josy and/or Maya (is it so obvious it's my case ? )
1 save for Jill (I have rejected Josy and Maya and I answered Derek's "And all feelings for my sis and Josy, they are gone just like that ?" "-Yeah" )
But what should happen if I pick "-Feeling for Maya" or "-Feeling for Josy" answering Derek ? I bet there is a flag somewhere into the code, wich may be important for the next episodes (maybe Youventus you can check it for me ???). It could be an open door to winning back either of the two girls (Josy OR Maya, alone).
That means there will be a crash between Josy and Maya in this way, and MC will be able to end with one of them..?

 

[Zirael Q]

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This is the first proper status update for episode 6 since it was the first week I could work normally on game development after episode 5 release.

I've been writing and posing intermittently. It's been an uphill battle getting renders and animations in the queue while also having scenes written to pose the art for.

I always pose my art after dialogue is written, the other way around isn't a good workflow since I would have to fit dialogue to renders instead of making art to a story, which is more natural to me.

I usually start posing animations, but this time I've been posing more static renders than usual early on.

It doesn't cut development time, but it does make it easier to show you previews.

So far, ~700 renders and 26 animations are complete.

I've written approximately 45% of the main dialogue file, compared to episode 5, and I'm still trying to plan the scope of the episode.

Episode 6 will be more varied than episode 5 was and it will require me to write a new kind of code, which I'm really excited about.

Poll news
The winner of the Special render poll was Nicole/Envy, with a majority of votes in all polls. Sally came in second place and Camila came in third place.

It's going to be fun to devote a render series to Nicole/Envy and I hope you liked the new direction the special render poll has taken.

I'll post the first preview of Envy's special render series next week.

Soon another poll for longer animation will start. +$10 patrons will be voting for who gets a longer animation in episode 6. Jill won a similar poll in episode 5 and can't win in this poll.



Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

oh shit just when I decide to comment this drops, nice

 

[Laurelin]

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This is the first proper status update for episode 6 since it was the first week I could work normally on game development after episode 5 release.

I've been writing and posing intermittently. It's been an uphill battle getting renders and animations in the queue while also having scenes written to pose the art for.

I always pose my art after dialogue is written, the other way around isn't a good workflow since I would have to fit dialogue to renders instead of making art to a story, which is more natural to me.

I usually start posing animations, but this time I've been posing more static renders than usual early on.

It doesn't cut development time, but it does make it easier to show you previews.

So far, ~700 renders and 26 animations are complete.

I've written approximately 45% of the main dialogue file, compared to episode 5, and I'm still trying to plan the scope of the episode.

Episode 6 will be more varied than episode 5 was and it will require me to write a new kind of code, which I'm really excited about.

Poll news
The winner of the Special render poll was Nicole/Envy, with a majority of votes in all polls. Sally came in second place and Camila came in third place.

It's going to be fun to devote a render series to Nicole/Envy and I hope you liked the new direction the special render poll has taken.

I'll post the first preview of Envy's special render series next week.

Soon another poll for longer animation will start. +$10 patrons will be voting for who gets a longer animation in episode 6. Jill won a similar poll in episode 5 and can't win in this poll.



Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Has Quinn gone one of the main girls ?

 

[felicemastronzo]

Has Quinn gone one of the main girl ?

new triangle: MC Quinn Maya

 

[always86]

Update today - 700 renders and 26 animations + 45% of the writing. (He writes first then renders) So up to 25% of renders and 16% of animations. Essentially only 1.5 weeks progress.

Ep 5 total:2456 renders 157 animations

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I've written approximately 45% of the main dialogue file, compared to episode 5, and I'm still trying to plan the scope of the episode.

Still hoping that that "scope" will be more than a day in-game. 3 days, maybe even 4, would be most ideal.

Poll news
The winner of the Special render poll was Nicole/Envy

Nice.

Has Quinn gone one of the main girls ?

No.

 

[always86]

Has Quinn gone one of the main girls ?

I think she is a Main character but as an antagonist. In other words you won’t ‘date’ her, but there might be an ending with her.

 

[Laurelin]

new triangle: MC Quinn Maya

If you look at some mixed rewards, it should be possible...

Spoiler: Why not ?

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