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Episode 6 - Preview #5: Isabella & Sage
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Episode 6 - Preview #5: Isabella & Sage
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I literally won't be able to handle these two being on the screen at the same time. Good thing Sage has a sweater on.
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body painting....
Yeah, it's true. I can't unsee that now. I'd prefer if breast physics weren't that weird, clothes being that extra fit to the skin. At least it's not as wierd as Riona's extra nipplesbody painting....
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- Jun 29, 2020
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Could this confirm that the DnG game happens IRL and Sage might have a role in it?
I think there are some comparisons in this thread that aren't really fair. Erotic games content is not mass market - it's almost the exact opposite of that. Premium products (and it's hard to describe DPC's work, which is some of the best in the genre, as anything else) in a niche industry are always going to be more expensive.
Running a business is expensive. And hiring help isn't as simple as you might make it out to be. I am a programmer myself, and I have at times considered dabbling in creating or modding games as a way of developing my skills (for example, python is not currently a language I have any work in, so I could develop some python skills by working on a ren.py game). But there's a big problem with doing that: Most programming work is open source, and the way you demonstrate your abilities to employers is to let them look at your actual code.
You can't do that with adult games content; the games aren't open source to begin with, and "here's an XXX rated game I worked on" is not really a conversation you can have when interviewing for a conventional job. That makes it a lot harder for either DPC or someone he hired to commit: No matter how good a creator or programmer DPC is, it's going to be hard for him to move into another industry if this doesn't work out, and it's going to be hard for him to hire someone at a market rate when they're producing work they can't really put on their resume - he's gonna have to pay a premium for that.
It's just a thing you have to accept that if you're consuming this kind of product, and frankly especially if you're doing so in a world where something like F95zone exists so people who want to not pay for your content WILL be able to get it for free - if you want to support it, you're gonna pay more than you do for a commercial title, and you're doing so explicitly in order to keep that work in production.
Now, maybe DPC could find someone more easily now, when people might be willing to take more adventrous employment choices in a US economy that's dealing with significant contraction, but it remains the case that you're going to have some vision-sharing issues, and that a great creator is not necessarily a great manager, leader or communicator. It's DPC's product, and there's no requirement that someone working with him agrees with his choices, but being able to communicate with subordinate programmers and give them feedback on what you do and don't like about their code is a skill, and it's not one all programmers have - many experienced programmers pass on leadership roles to remain senior developers explicitly to avoid having those kinds of responsibilities, and others get jammed into those roles due to lack of interest and do a shitty job and alienate members of their teams.
To be honest, it's hard to blame someone who is financially dependent in not only the short but the long term on their products success having some resentment and unhappiness with a website that freely pirates the shit out of their content. That anyone can come here and get his work (and, indeed, will probably be able to get his new update as soon as he releases it to his top-level patrons, much less the general release) for free is a real threat to his long-term economic stability, and he's taken an enormous personal risk by committing to this, because he'll have to explain the gap in his resume even if he doesn't choose to share the work with a future employer if he ever gives up (and, probably, in order to demonstrate his skills he will have to find someone willing to look at his work on adult content, which will significantly limit his options, probably to within the games industry generally; you're not gonna be able to show the codebase of Being a DIK to Amazon or Google and get a job there! They couldn't even review and discuss your work among the hiring group w/o violating company policies!)
If you enjoy this game (or any game, but especially the ones from the best creators who are doing this as their full-time jobs), you should probably whine less and be more appreciative that the creator has taken a rather significant risk in their personal life by making a commitment to making content you like.
Running a business is expensive. And hiring help isn't as simple as you might make it out to be. I am a programmer myself, and I have at times considered dabbling in creating or modding games as a way of developing my skills (for example, python is not currently a language I have any work in, so I could develop some python skills by working on a ren.py game). But there's a big problem with doing that: Most programming work is open source, and the way you demonstrate your abilities to employers is to let them look at your actual code.
You can't do that with adult games content; the games aren't open source to begin with, and "here's an XXX rated game I worked on" is not really a conversation you can have when interviewing for a conventional job. That makes it a lot harder for either DPC or someone he hired to commit: No matter how good a creator or programmer DPC is, it's going to be hard for him to move into another industry if this doesn't work out, and it's going to be hard for him to hire someone at a market rate when they're producing work they can't really put on their resume - he's gonna have to pay a premium for that.
It's just a thing you have to accept that if you're consuming this kind of product, and frankly especially if you're doing so in a world where something like F95zone exists so people who want to not pay for your content WILL be able to get it for free - if you want to support it, you're gonna pay more than you do for a commercial title, and you're doing so explicitly in order to keep that work in production.
Now, maybe DPC could find someone more easily now, when people might be willing to take more adventrous employment choices in a US economy that's dealing with significant contraction, but it remains the case that you're going to have some vision-sharing issues, and that a great creator is not necessarily a great manager, leader or communicator. It's DPC's product, and there's no requirement that someone working with him agrees with his choices, but being able to communicate with subordinate programmers and give them feedback on what you do and don't like about their code is a skill, and it's not one all programmers have - many experienced programmers pass on leadership roles to remain senior developers explicitly to avoid having those kinds of responsibilities, and others get jammed into those roles due to lack of interest and do a shitty job and alienate members of their teams.
To be honest, it's hard to blame someone who is financially dependent in not only the short but the long term on their products success having some resentment and unhappiness with a website that freely pirates the shit out of their content. That anyone can come here and get his work (and, indeed, will probably be able to get his new update as soon as he releases it to his top-level patrons, much less the general release) for free is a real threat to his long-term economic stability, and he's taken an enormous personal risk by committing to this, because he'll have to explain the gap in his resume even if he doesn't choose to share the work with a future employer if he ever gives up (and, probably, in order to demonstrate his skills he will have to find someone willing to look at his work on adult content, which will significantly limit his options, probably to within the games industry generally; you're not gonna be able to show the codebase of Being a DIK to Amazon or Google and get a job there! They couldn't even review and discuss your work among the hiring group w/o violating company policies!)
If you enjoy this game (or any game, but especially the ones from the best creators who are doing this as their full-time jobs), you should probably whine less and be more appreciative that the creator has taken a rather significant risk in their personal life by making a commitment to making content you like.
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Exactly what i wanted to just say
. There you have it, She also end up in the library, and boom, why would she not play with MC and his friends, 2 of them are Hots candidate in top of that. so Yeah Sage, is indeed, hand tied in that picutre, and it is indeed form the DNG game.kudos to those who figured out earlier than others
I really hope we don't get a point where you no longer get to make decisions.
- Dec 13, 2018
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But what happens in a game of DnG also didn't happen. Did the MC actually bend Sally over and spank her? No. Did the MC sacrifice his actual life to save Jill? No. So if the MC were to again do something similar with a LI in the context of the game, did it actually happen? No.
I suppose it would speak to the irrationality of people's feelings that they would get so worked up over something so small and insignificant, but it still feels like something that could be done better with actual moments and interactions in the everyday world rather than in a fantasy world.
This is primarily my issue with it as well. Regardless of how much time it might take up in the game, it would be better to see characters gaining such feelings of jealousy and suspicion in more everyday moments like Sage seeing him with M&J in the cafeteria, or Josy seeing him in the park with Jill. Having 3 or even 4 LIs playing a fantasy, strategy roleplaying game and getting jealous because the MC chooses to help or save one of the LIs characters in the game seems like a way to force this relationship collision to develop more quickly rather than having it develop more gradually.
Not to mention that outfit would be wildly inappropriate for someone who is not only the college librarian but also a teacher. But, this is a game and as such it works by game logic which make her outfit totally OK.Yeah, it's true. I can't unsee that now. I'd prefer if breast physics weren't that weird, clothes being that extra fit to the skin. At least it's not as wierd as Riona's extra nipples
Was just thinking that. Looks like if this is indeed going to to be a game of DnG that Sage is also going to get roped into it too and it's probably not going to be a short sequence either.
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Dungeons and Dragons parody called "Dungeons and Gremlins" that the MC played with Jill in ep 3.
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it would be really nice if you would hold your judgment at least until we can actually see what is this about. and more importantly how it would be played, out. it could work wonderfully or not, but , I tend to lean to the first option.
it is easily can be a small little feel good event between the characters, with a slight progress with the girls. Jill, did mention the next week, are gonna be rainy days, so may be they are all stuck in the library and play a little fun game, which is also a little awkward do to the fact, that all of the girls are in to the MC
or it can be an actuall crossroad because of the same reasons .
.either way , it is look awesome, and the potentials are endless. and just chill a little, stop acting like we're some kind of ENDGAME and we stalking the time , far from it.
- May 17, 2020
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Sometimes games end up on rails at the end (Acting Lessons is like that), but one thing that I do think will be problematic is that the current system of 'lose a bar from your meter' is not sustainable: if you play a strongly DIK or CHICK character in this game, at the end if Ep 5 you will only have 3 bars left on the other side of the meter.
Currently, there have never been rewards (only penalties) for achieving Massive DIK/CHICK status (such as being unable to see the entire scene with Maya if you leave the party to see her at the end of Ep 2). There have been things unlocked by having Huge DIK status (never Huge CHICK), and a lot of things that have different outcomes for chick/neutral vs dik characters (such as nearly every compliment to Isabella and Jill, which are +relationship for neutral-chick chars and -relationship for dik chars).
I wonder if there will ever be benefits to achieving Massive X status, or if the game will always reward you for taking at least a semi-neutral-ish path and deleting the Massive sections of both bars - there's enough major choices in the game to do that while still establishing an affinity in one direction or the other (eg so you're not neutral affinity).
I also wonder if the optimal outcomes won't involve having made some choices in the other side. As a really straightforward example, I can imagine a CHICK character who rejected Quinn's service being unable to convince Maya that Quinn is prostituting girls out, whereas one who has access to it could do so. It seems to me that Maya is the primary axis of the plot of the game (being involved, like the MC is, with nearly everything, and being the one who is most likely to be put at risk in the future with what's going on with the HOTs), and I think it isn't hard to imagine a situation where getting the best outcome for her involves mixing exactly the right choices.
I like the Maya/Josy relationship quite a bit, but I am probably going to make another endgame save that is a CHICK character who says yes to Quinn just to give myself some backup in case that turns out to be a pivotal decision for saving Maya from Quinn in the future. (I already have a CHICK save that is well-positioned to pursue either Maya/Josy or Jill/Isabella, and a DIK save that is optimized for Sage).
A dream sequence doesn't contain actual moments and interactions either. Your complaint seems to be that one fantasy setting is being picked over the other.
- Jun 29, 2020
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As far as I know, many people on this forum have previously supported DPC on patreon, or are still supporting him.
Speaking for myself, I already bought Being a DIK on Steam and I'm positive I'll buy Season 2 as soon as it becomes available.
As much as I wish I could support DPC on his patreon as well, that unfortunately is no longer an option for me. I'm a freelance artist and this global scale situation we currently find ourselves in has made my future look a bit uncertain.
A lot of people have a "try before you buy" kind of mentality when it comes to games, especially when it comes to adult games. And for a good reason.
I mean, how many projects are constantly being abandoned without even leaving the alpha stage? It really shouldn't come as a surprise that many people are just wary.
I'm not gonna delve into the "how piracy is sometimes beneficial in the long run" topic. I'm not very well informed when it comes to that subject, but from what I've heard, F95 has been a good source of exposure for DPC and his games.
No, he doesn't owe anyone on this forum any kind of respect or gratitude, it's definitely the other way around and I only hope he knows that.