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

[Manuka]

Yeah, I know that. That's not my point. The point is why mention her name so much if she's not going to appear in the game or be relevant? She could have just said "step-mom", no reason to add another for us to remember if it's not relevant.

Not entirely true. Even when I'm doing edits/ghostwriting for authors, and we collab, a lot of people in these books that are mentioned are there to add some depth to the story. They don't all need to be relevant to be memorable.

If Monica never comes up in the game, it won't hurt the storyline -- (at the same time, she can always be added in later via a presage) -- at least you have that idea that she is a "real" person with a "name." But if none of them were ever mentioned, the pace of the story would feel rushed, despite many parts feeling rushed. But again, he just doesn't know how to write. There are snippets of good writing, and then it's as if he falls into a mood and barrels through some of his ideas and cuts them out completely.

It is not an easy thing to write a story. I've written over a million words before I got the idea of it

 

[Journey95]

Fuck yeah, 4K!

Man, 7000 patrons, DPC must make a fortune.

Seriously, its pretty crazy how popular this game is now. I wonder how many patreons he will have when its last episode releases

 

[Manuka]

Seriously, its pretty crazy how popular this game is now. I wonder how many patreons he will have when its last episode releases

Zero, we'll all be dead.

 

[Razrback16]

Seriously, its pretty crazy how popular this game is now. I wonder how many patreons he will have when its last episode releases

Ya it'll be interesting to see if they drop off when "shit starts to hit the fan" - if people start having certain meaningful characters check out or they're forced to make emotionally devastating choices some people may become disenfranchised to a degree.

 

[Deleted member 1585996]

I am a big fan of Being a DIK and I truly think that I have found a perfect song that would fit the game... It's called "Jesus can't save you" by DC The Don and I still think that DrPinkcake should hear it.

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[FatBoyBoofinHardAsFuck]

I am a big fan of Being a DIK and I truly think that I have found a perfect song that would fit the game... It's called "Jesus can't save you" by DC The Don and I still think that DrPinkcake should hear it.

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Yes please. I've been a fan of his for a while.

 

[Toruis977]

I am a big fan of Being a DIK and I truly think that I have found a perfect song that would fit the game... It's called "Jesus can't save you" by DC The Don and I still think that DrPinkcake should hear it.

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Yessir!

 

[SheKindaBadDo]

I am a big fan of Being a DIK and I truly think that I have found a perfect song that would fit the game... It's called "Jesus can't save you" by DC The Don and I still think that DrPinkcake should hear it.

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BRO If this happens!!! Im already in love with the game but the song !!!
I agree on that one for sure

 

[AssmenArePoggers]

I am a big fan of Being a DIK and I truly think that I have found a perfect song that would fit the game... It's called "Jesus can't save you" by DC The Don and I still think that DrPinkcake should hear it.

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Sounds interesting.

 

[Conklingc]

Ya it'll be interesting to see if they drop off when "shit starts to hit the fan" - if people start having certain meaningful characters check out or they're forced to make emotionally devastating choices some people may become disenfranchised to a degree.

That's a concern for a number of players and part of the reason a number of people won't give this game a chance (afraid it will turn into another Acting Lessons). I don't really expect that to happen. I felt the developer was trying to make a statement with Acting Lessons, with the statement made there's no reason to repeat it (basically it won't be like other porn games). Also, going back to the large number of Patrons, people are giving the developer a chance and he's making a successful career based on that trust, if he betrays his supporters a good portion of them would leave while if he completes a good game many of these supporters will follow him into future projects and he can recapture some lost with the last game.

Granted, I could be reading it wrong and he may go Game of Thrones and start killing off major characters just to see how much abuse the fans will endure (there are masochists who may be looking for just that sort of thing).

 

[AvatarStormBringer]

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Thank you all for your support!

It's been overwhelming and I feel that I haven't taken the time to thank all of you enough for helping me reach this milestone.

So, to celebrate I've prepared a reward that I will release daily until it's completely distributed.

It's a special render series I call "Beach fun".

Today's wallpaper is of Josy. I have attached a 4k and Full HD version of the render to this post.

I hope you enjoy this series! See you tomorrow with another wallpaper.

Love

Dr PinkCake

Luckily I decided to check the thread today, otherwise I would have missed this.

 

[Dashxp4k]

Yes please. I've been a fan of his for a while.

This shit is fire

 

[Manuka]

As for the character not sticking to your choices a better way to think of the game is you are following the developer's character, but as the player you get to sway some of his minor decisions rather than seeing him as your character who then acts in ways you don't approve of (I think the main characters in all these games have moments a player wouldn't choose any of the options for their own story).

Meh. Have you played "Leap of Faith", "Sisterly Lust", "Tales from the Unending Void", "Parental Love", all of those have actual choices that negatively affect you, even the "minor" ones? DPA could have easily made the options to make choices that impact your path without changing the ending. Yet we see the MC on the same trajectory as regardless of DIK or CHIK. The point of this is it's "Your Choice", and if you take that away, there isn't really a choice. There's just this fate-like-story that DPA has chosen regardless.

 

[Malicre]

Ya it'll be interesting to see if they drop off when "shit starts to hit the fan" - if people start having certain meaningful characters check out or they're forced to make emotionally devastating choices some people may become disenfranchised to a degree.

Gonna lose half those patreon's when they start the Bella drama

 

[Dashxp4k]

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Thank you all for your support!

It's been overwhelming and I feel that I haven't taken the time to thank all of you enough for helping me reach this milestone.

So, to celebrate I've prepared a reward that I will release daily until it's completely distributed.

It's a special render series I call "Beach fun".

Today's wallpaper is of Josy. I have attached a 4k and Full HD version of the render to this post.

I hope you enjoy this series! See you tomorrow with another wallpaper.

Love

Dr PinkCake

Me waiting for Jill and Bella Beach renders

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[Cndyrvr4lf]

Quinn is part of a prostitution ring and a drug dealing business that involves students, professors, the faculty, the 3 fraternities and the sorority. It's a house of cards, If she goes down it would be a national sandal.

Sure for the School it would be a National Scandal (about the students) but not necessarily the School itself. Quinn would get hammered no doubt about it. Riona as well because she knows all about it and is an accessory. However using and buying drugs is trivial even in the eyes of the law. Hand slaps normally reduced to a misdemeanor, time served and community service maybe probation. Stephen? Unknown at this time because we don't know how the HOT's are "paying" for tuition. Buying birth control pills for the jocks? Uh please. ANO? One guy buys weed (see above reference possession/use). Tommy? Maybe because we don't really know the depth of his knowledge or involvement. The rest of the DIK's? See above possession/use.

That's what I see, lol. (I edited the bottom line )

Wouldn't be you if you didnt fix something. (I left the apostrophe out so you can fix it )

on many occasions it would have been enough to remove some choices to eliminate this "hijacking" effect. no player would have complained

Even removing choices might not fix it because by removing choices could make it even more of a force.

The story has to be somewhat linear, as it is no one likes waiting 3-5 months for an update if he made a separate path in the game for every decision each story would only get an episode every few years and each episode would add even more paths slowing development further.

Even in sandbox games you usually can only get to a result by following a specific path set up by the developer, I like this format better since I don't have to go searching for trigger events. An open world game might be nice, but that would require a huge design team and still would have limited options (Cyberpunk 2077 has been in development for a decade with a huge team and still keeps getting delayed).

I realize there are a lot more people on here who want more choices, but I actually would prefer a more linear path to keep production up and see more of the content in a single play through (I played episode 4 through 5 times to get the 3 paths with some variation in positive and negative results, but would have liked to get the content in one or two plays).

As for the character not sticking to your choices a better way to think of the game is you are following the developer's character, but as the player you get to sway some of his minor decisions rather than seeing him as your character who then acts in ways you don't approve of (I think the main characters in all these games have moments a player wouldn't choose any of the options for their own story).

Somewhat linear yes but forcing us to romance and do things that go completely against who the MC MIGHT be based on choices/affinity is still stupid. DPC by doing this is ruining his own system. I in no way said "every decision" however some of decisions should be branches not just a momentary slide to the left, show scene, slide to the right, continue with same shit different day. Awe see but by allowing us to design his personality (by use of the affinity) we should impact how he acts/reacts to certain things. However other than minor dialogue changes and seeing a 0/50/100% scene we impact almost nothing. So far we haven't even been able to tell anyone (LI, Side, Tommy, etc. etc.) to just go fuck off. Other than 2 teachers who aren't even listed as side anything's.

 

[Razrback16]

That's a concern for a number of players and part of the reason a number of people won't give this game a chance (afraid it will turn into another Acting Lessons). I don't really expect that to happen. I felt the developer was trying to make a statement with Acting Lessons, with the statement made there's no reason to repeat it (basically it won't be like other porn games). Also, going back to the large number of Patrons, people are giving the developer a chance and he's making a successful career based on that trust, if he betrays his supporters a good portion of them would leave while if he completes a good game many of these supporters will follow him into future projects and he can recapture some lost with the last game.

Granted, I could be reading it wrong and he may go Game of Thrones and start killing off major characters just to see how much abuse the fans will endure (there are masochists who may be looking for just that sort of thing).

My hope is as you said above - that Acting Lessons was essentially an outlier and this one won't go as dark. If this one goes as dark as AL and I have to start picking people who live and die, etc. this will likely be the last DPC game I play. This game has been absolutely fantastic through this point though, so I'm trying to stay optimistic that it won't go as crazy dark as the previous game. Time will tell.

 

[imfedupdawg]

Me waiting for Jill and Bella Beach renders

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[Karl Franz 77]

She Dye her hair, i guess he does the same.

 

[Malicre]

Agreed, Camila should be 1 of the main girls

Carmila, Heather and Jade are the 3 id like to see a route for mainly because each of them have unique circumstances surrounding them.