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

[BenMeiffert]

-This one is another blink. BUT, this time she gets a steamy gawk at MC's chest before she blinks. So, +1 DIK.

On this one, I think Bella is lost with her thoughts and she doesn't stare or anything. She's thinking why and how she likes MC, and then there's the kiss.

 

[Pewdiepie9966]

I read some theorys about Jill and Bella I've never heard before, how do you guys know about this? Staying with Bella at the end of episode 3 would be my guess, am I right?

 

[Pewdiepie9966]

You get a lot more content staying with her for sure, but you already answered your own question. Theories

Yeah of course they are theories but they don't come out of the blue, as far as I know. There has to be a solid ground for them amiright?

 

[mindern]

I disagree here with this. Has he spent a lot of time on them specifically? Yes. Does he do this with a lot of other pointless stuff? Yes. Does that in itself neccessarily mean anything? No it really doesn't at times. Besides, if you're good with graphical editing anything is possible. I do this myself with my own stuff. No need to make custom complex models and render them.

This is the difference with DPC to anyone else and why the game is so popular. Detail. Details matter. There are some great VN's around, good quality renders, good writing. But take a really good close look at them. You know what's missing in a kitchen scene? Living room scene? Outdoor scene?

Detail.

Now I understand why, I've said before, we can't all afford to have/run 5 dedicated pc's churning out 100 renders a day in optimal quality...he can...he does and therefore you can afford to spend that little extra on small details that ultimately, hugely differentiate you from the what is a distinctively average crowd. Sure any dev could have a complex scene, then render all the different sections seperately to save on render time...but they don't. They have empty scenes...

Effort for that extra detail makes all the difference regardless of whether it's a photo or a potted plant that isn't needed.

But there’s a difference between an asset flip and a specific character recreated.

Bella’s axe and boots could easily be meaningless detail. He bought the models, dumped them in the world and wrote some text. Easy and potentially meaningless in all the ways you described above.

The photos required much more effort to source models, pose, render and then add to the world as Polaroids before rendering a second time with the MC holding them in a specific manner that covers text DPC added.

Im not saying these are certainly a central plot element or whatever but as far as “extra details” go this is above an beyond any other detail in the game. Guy re-uses the same newspaper every time someone’s holding one. Most books are duplicates and the buildings are assets used in most western VN’s. Half the men in the story have the same model with different wigs on. Most of the cast have the same skin imperfections because he’s only got a handful of textures.

Small detail exists in the game world but when someone puts more care and attention into posing a unique polaroid than he did choosing the models for half the game I would say balance of probability would indicate its more than just a background detail.

 

[lemonfreak]

Depends on the dev. Not everyone is the Beatles, most of the people are just in garage bands.

Yes and it is to the ones that are the Beatles that my comment applies

 

[Darkdevil66]

I read some theorys about Jill and Bella I've never heard before, how do you guys know about this? Staying with Bella at the end of episode 3 would be my guess, am I right?

Well, you have to try the three paths to see the bigger picture. As funny Derek is, his path is honestly the least revealing one. If you don't stay with Bella, she barely appears in ep4. So yes, you have missed some hints of her relationship with her husband. Nothing about Evil Jill, Auntie Jill, Futa Jill theories though.

 

[Pewdiepie9966]

Well, you have to try the three paths to see the bigger picture. As funny Derek is, his path is honestly the least revealing one. If you don't stay with Bella, she barely appears in ep4. So yes, you have missed some hints of her relationship with her husband. Nothing about Evil Jill, Auntie Jill, Futa Jill theories though.

Yeah I will try the Bella path, just finished the one with Sage cause I wanted to know why she's so popular and gotta say she has much going for her

 

[Holy Bacchus]

His discord is now patrons only, which is actually how I found this site to begin with because I was craving discussion about his games.

Whilst I can't speak for DPC's Discord, the level of conversation on other Discords isn't anywhere close to what it's like here on this site, and I'm not just talking about this thread, but the threads of those other games too. It's just a lot of inane banter and constant memeing, and that's even with games that have deep, interesting stories worthy of good discussion like Leap of Faith, Radiant, Connected, and Where The Heart Is.

So I imagine it's probably the same for the BaDIK Discord, and whilst DPC doesn't necessarily need to see people having deep discussions about their game since they're going to do whatever they're going to do, in-depth, constructive feedback like what is posted here regularly can be useful and it's a shame that they don't even lurk to see what people are saying.

While there are things DPC could do to alienate fans and patrons I don't see not leaving personal messages on a pirate site as acting in a hostile manner.

It's not necessarily a hostile act, but from what I've seen others say about him who were here when it all went down is that he does seem to dislike this site, possibly because the people criticising him didn't pay for his game and he doesn't like that. But even though this thread may not have as many people on it as there are members of his Discord (the majority of which I'd wager are never active on the Discord), I'd say that the level of discussion here is such that it is worthy of their attention and it doesn't matter if they don't leave messages via their official profile, but even just knowing they look in from time to time would be OK.

So what you guys are saying is... Senpai won't notice us?

Basically, yes

One of the issues is that with success come expectations. People accept the time lines, though start to get impatient nearer a release. One step the adult game industry will need to find a way to take is improving timelines and quality. 7000+ Patreons has got to be making him $35k a month at a minimum. (I imagine his average sub is somewhere between 5-10).

That reaches a point where you could hire someone else on 5k a month and still be making $20k plus yourself after Patreon cuts. I appreciate that comes with it’s own stress, but there are plenty of talented 3D modellers Or even programmers out there who haven’t been able to find their own success. This could ultimately reduce his stress and speed up production.

This "industry" is made up of several dozen individuals working mostly by themselves on games that don't exactly follow any kind of set, regulatory guidelines, especially when it comes to how they number their different versions, so I don't see exactly how they can take any such "steps" to improve things when it's not a unified "industry" that can band together and improve anything in a collective way.

 

[always86]

It's entirely possible that someone else besides Jill made those photos, and as such could have had any number of reasons to put their last name on it. It's also entirely possible that's it's not a reveal at all and DPC had to put the MC's thumb somewhere and it made the most sense to obscure the writing on that photo. I'm not saying it's impossible he put that much thought into a random photo most players won't pay attention to, just that it's not guaranteed that who Jill's family is means anything at all. I think stuff like who leaked the Cathy photo, the reason for Bella's husband leaving and MC's mom are things DPC has put a decent amount of effort into building up reveals to, but Jill's sister or really any family member is unlikely to move the needle all that much (imo). We know she comes from a rich family, who that rich family ends up being might not even be Jill's drama point.

Even if someone else did make them and wrote Jill and ‘Val‘ Royce on them that still doesn‘t explain why the name would need to be obscured. In that moment the MC doesn’t know anything about Jill. In a way in would have been better for him to of seen the picture, know Jill has a sister and then find out she died.

We know her family is the Royce’s it’s revealed in episode 5. these Photo’s are 100% a clue to something. No chance DPC renders and designs 2 Polaroid’s with no significance. That clue could be that Jill is a Royce. It could be she had a sister and that clue could be something yet to come.

DPC has put lots of clues and things hidden in plane site so far. Simple things like the HOTs coming out of the toilets in cafeteria. A set of feet behind a van. The safe being uncovered in Rusty’s room. The ‘soldier‘ at Bella’s. Very little in BADIK is for no reason. It might be red herring, it might have a wider meaning, but things like this are designed to make you wonder.

BTW I’m hanging my hat on this theory, Camila fucks Rusty, Riona steels the laptop while he is distracted, posts the photo. Rusty panics and runs out of the room, Quinn sneaks in and attempts to steal money from the safe.

This is his work ethic. We have to live with that. Compared to multiple other devs, he is still lightyears ahead in how he works & communicates.

Afaik he asked whether community wants voice acting which he was able to add knowing that it will increase development cycle timeframe more. Consensus was that his patrons can live without it.

Agreed he is one of the very best in the genre.

I’d like VA I think it‘s the next step in taking these types of games to the next level. That said it might be tough to find enough good voice actors willing to make adult content like this.

This "industry" is made up of several dozen individuals working mostly by themselves on games that don't exactly follow any kind of set, regulatory guidelines, especially when it comes to how they number their different versions, so I don't see exactly how they can take any such "steps" to improve things when it's not a unified "industry" that can band together and improve anything in a collective way.

I under stand that it is a group of self employed people at the moment. But adult games are growing in popularity at a rapid rate. Those few dozen people are generating hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in revenue. Not to mention something like Subverse that made £1.6m For its development.

My point was really that in order to advance, they need to do more and push the envelope. DPC is a leading light at this in terms of quality, but could deliver more with the money he is making

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I read some theorys about Jill and Bella I've never heard before, how do you guys know about this? Staying with Bella at the end of episode 3 would be my guess, am I right?

Yeah of course they are theories but they don't come out of the blue, as far as I know. There has to be a solid ground for them amiright?

The "solid ground" for the Bella/Jill theories stems from 3 things:

1. Bella's "intimate with friends" line in ep 3
2. The bed scene with Bella and Jill in ep 5
3. Jill telling the MC in the ep 5 that "I don't think I can make you understand this without telling you things I shouldn't".

It's still obviously a theory, but the ep 5 scene especially made in seem like there was some sexual tension and then Jill's line makes it seem that she'd be worried how the MC would react if she told him that something had happened between them.

Yeah I will try the Bella path, just finished the one with Sage cause I wanted to know why she's so popular and gotta say she has much going for her

There's some very "big" reasons why she is so popular.



People also quite like her personality, because she's mysterious and aloof which makes her appealing.

 

[Cokebaths]

Yeah of course they are theories but they don't come out of the blue, as far as I know. There has to be a solid ground for them amiright?

If you're referring to the psychobella theory then yes. There is copious amounts of evidence and it's definitely canon

 

[Holy Bacchus]

If you're referring to the psychobella theory then yes. There is copious amounts of evidence and it's definitely canon

There's more "evidence" that Jill and Bella were once intimate with each other than there is for Bella being a "psycho".

 

[Cokebaths]

There's more "evidence" that Jill and Bella were once intimate with each other than there is for Bella being a "psycho".

Twas just a joke my friend. Though I do love the thought of Bella being a killer for whatever sick reason

 

[Dashxp4k]

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This week I've mostly been coding and working on GUI design. I can't spoil what it is that I'm working very hard on, but expect some new features starting in the next episode.

I'm creating something that will take a few weeks to fully complete, but once it's complete it will be future-proof and only need tweaking.

So, I will mostly pose animations and focus on writing code in the upcoming weeks.

My PCs are busy rendering animations (pretty long ones right now) while I spend time coding.

The current status of static renders and animations is as follows:

1550 static renders and 62 animations are complete.

I've playtested what I have to play so far and it's about 3 hours worth of content for one thorough playthrough, but I'm far from finished.

In poll news, the winning option in the cosmetic poll for Josy was option 1. It will be featured in episode 6.

A new poll will start sometime next week.

The Beach Fun special render series is coming to an end next week and I hope you're excited about the final renders. I'm sure you can guess who they will feature.

Today's Beach fun render features Jade. 4k and full HD versions are attached to this post.

Have a nice weekend

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I've done a fair deal of everything this past week. It started out with a few days of coding and I almost finished a new feature that I've been working hard on.

Actually, there's more than one new feature this episode, but that's something I'll leave you to discover.

I've moved on to writing and posing static renders and animations again. I need to get back to focus on writing dialogue this upcoming week to be able to have material to pose for soon.

I still have plenty of animations left to do and dialogue and static renders are almost neck and neck. It's a stressful period right now, but I'll pull through in time.

This is the current render and animation count:

1714 static renders + 68 animations

Some other nice preliminary stats for the episode, there will be at least:

-15 new licensed songs

-10 new CC0 songs

In poll news, there's an ongoing poll for "Special renders: Main girl". At the moment, it's a split poll where Sage is in the lead in the $10 poll and Isabella is in the lead in the other polls.

When tallied, Isabella is in the overall lead. The poll ends next week, so I'll report the results in the next status update.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

He made 164 renders and 6 animations this week.

 

[BenMeiffert]

He made 164 renders and 6 animations this week.

i will have to buy a new disk to download the new episode !!! it's going to be very huge, even more than bella's breasts !!

 

[Holy Bacchus]

He made 164 renders and 6 animations this week.

A bit less progress than in previous weeks, but that's probably down to them working on this new feature (which hopefully won't have anything to do with a long, protracted game of DnG).

I'd still say we're looking at an end of September/early October release.

 

[Phynix]

Smh at people who think Bella has mental illness

Many believe the library scene is hinting at that, it's easy to see where they are coming from.

 

[Cokebaths]

Smh at people who think Bella has mental illness

Why? She is a human

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Why? She is a human

With those proportions?

Nah, she's not a human, she's a freakin' Goddess.

 

[AvatarStormBringer]

With those proportions?

Nah, she's not a human, she's a freakin' Goddess.

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Soooo thicccccc....

You will actually need a MC-length dick to actually reach her hole if doing doggy style.