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

[grandgangster]

next update release date

 

[Holy Bacchus]

next update release date

We don't have one. All we know is that it will be out next month.

 

[felicemastronzo]

I know this is just a joke post but it reminded me of the second biggest issue I have with the game after the J&M clusterfuck.

When back I first played I hated Quinn and I also dislike paying for services so I rejected her restaurant. Now I expected to miss some scenes at the start which is obvious, but I never expected that it would cause me to miss scenes in EP5.

Honestly I have no idea why both Riona's and Camilla's lewd scenes are locked if you haven't used restaurant in the past. Both of them make out with MC and they got close to a level since then. Even if you give Riona money she still doesn't do anything with MC and Camilla never asks for the drink.

I was baffled to see the only reason I missed their scenes was because I didn't order them at EP2 and EP3.. Another way of DPC artificially splitting content and forcing people to do other playthroughs, or he just made a silly decision.

only the pure in heart can aspire to Maya and Josy.

I don't care much about the restaurant, but having to give up on Jade (above all) and Cathe is a wound that I will always reproach to DPC

for Jade there is a coincidence of appointments, while for Cathe it is just looking for a fight with the players

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

I don't know where you are from but where I am, a semester isn't 6 months. There are 3 "semesters" or "terms" in a typical university/college school year. The traditional fall semester (Roughly Sept - Dec) & winter semester (roughly Jan - April), plus an additional spring semester (roughly May - August) with the university/college offering a massively reduced selection of almost always elective courses. 90%+ of students would study during the 2 traditional fall & winter semesters and take the spring semester off as summer holiday.

I've already had this conversation on this thread before, but semester means literally six months. Having more than two six month periods in a year is hilarious.

 

[Hugh G. Rection]

I don't know where you are from but where I am, a semester isn't 6 months. There are 3 "semesters" or "terms" in a typical university/college school year. The traditional fall semester (Roughly Sept - Dec) & winter semester (roughly Jan - April), plus an additional spring semester (roughly May - August) with the university/college offering a massively reduced selection of almost always elective courses. 90%+ of students would study during the 2 traditional fall & winter semesters and take the spring semester off as summer holiday.

You're confusing "semester" which means "half of a (school) year" with "trimester" which means "a third of a (school) year (or even pregnancy, for example)". Those are two completely different ways of dividing a calendar/school year, while the word "term" is a general, well, term that does not have a specific duration or partition size and thus can be used in both cases.
So as mentioned above, while a semester can be 6 months or ~4/whatever depending on what you mean, there cannot be 3 semesters in a single year - that would make them trimesters.

 

[der123fer]

Maybe we need to stop being fixated on the word 'semester'...which is an American thing. Term is much more appropriate (and logical word) for most of the rest of the world.

Trimester and quarter yeah. But semester is a pretty universal term, it's widely used in Europe, and I think, in CIS countries too. I only know of the term 'term' from Australia

 

[felicemastronzo]

I've already had this conversation on this thread before, but semester means literally six months. Having more than two six month periods in a year is hilarious.

to increase your confusion in Italy we have two semesters, a period in which there are university courses and at the end of each there is an exam session ... but they last 5 months: September-January and February-June (maximum beginning July)

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

to increase your confusion in Italy we have two semesters, a period in which there are university courses and at the end of each there is an exam session ... but they last 5 months: September-January and February-June (maximum beginning July)

At least that makes some sense, there are at least only two of those. We had the same in mine and we used both semester or "quatrimester", if such a word exist in English, because in the end they were four months long. If you're going to have three of them just call them trimester.

 

[SPACE_BOOOOOST]

to increase your confusion in Italy we have two semesters, a period in which there are university courses and at the end of each there is an exam session ... but they last 5 months: September-January and February-June (maximum beginning July)

Wait.. Is that not the norm everywhere? Damn, and here I was judging Sage for not saying she's graduating next semester, thinking that way she could've avoided confusion. Turns out she simply would've confused people from different countries instead.

 

[7inn]

I've watched American Pie Beta House yesterday and i must say the hole movie i thought about Being a Dik.
I've always liked this college / high school setting
Especially its humor.
I don't know what it is, but this game captivates me.
Maybe because this culture is alien to me?

 

[SPACE_BOOOOOST]

I've watched American Pie Beta House yesterday and i must say the hole movie i thought about Being a Dik.
I've always liked this college / high school setting
Especially its humor.
I don't know what it is, but this game captivates me.
Maybe because this culture is alien to me?

Probably a big part of it, yeah. We don't have frats in my country either and as much fun as getting wasted and doing stupid shit in college is on its own, I've always wondered what it would be like doing it in a more.. uhh.. organized fashion with a bunch of like-minded bros. DPC has really hit the jackpot with this one as far as I'm concerned.

Also, I'm rewatching Beta House tonight, thanks for reminding me!

 

[MrFriendly]

I've watched American Pie Beta House yesterday and i must say the hole movie i thought about Being a Dik.
I've always liked this college / high school setting
Especially its humor.
I don't know what it is, but this game captivates me.
Maybe because this culture is alien to me?

When done right the college setting is great. But it is overused by so many developers in a lazy half-assed way.

It would be great if developers located in non-USA countries embraced that and set their games in their own countries or countries they are more familiar with than a pseudo-US... I'd enjoy playing through a game with a university setting in England, France, Spain, Poland, etc.

Probably a big part of it, yeah. We don't have frats in my country either and as much fun as getting wasted and doing stupid shit in college is on its own, I've always wondered what it would be like doing it in a more.. uhh.. organized fashion with a bunch of like-minded bros. DPC has really hit the jackpot with this one as far as I'm concerned.

Also, I'm rewatching Beta House tonight, thanks for reminding me!

Yeah, frats are not as prevalent or as interesting as DPC makes them. But then it would be boring if it was too true to life.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

When done right the college setting is great. But it is overused by so many developers in a lazy half-assed way.

It would be great if developers located in non-USA countries embraced that and set their games in their own countries or countries they are more familiar with than a pseudo-US... I'd enjoy playing through a game with a university setting in England, France, Spain, Poland, etc.

Problem with that is that most assets used for world building are generally American style, such as buildings, cityscapes, apartments, kitchens, cars, etc. There's a few assets that are British, European, and Asian, but not much. Pretty much everything seen in this game wouldn't work if DPC tried to set the game in Sweden.

 

[AntiFlash]

next update release date

Next month, the DPC said that in the first fortnight, that is, until the 15th or earlier, we will probably have the update in Hands.

 

[MrFriendly]

Problem with that is that most assets used for world building are generally American style, such as buildings, cityscapes, apartments, kitchens, cars, etc. There's a few assets that are British, European, and Asian, but not much. Pretty much everything seen in this game wouldn't work if DPC tried to set the game in Sweden.

I understand that the assets are more American, doesn't mean the developer can't take those assets and use them for their own "more European" world. Instead we often get weird hybrids that make little sense to all involved. Obviously BADIK is an exception to all of the other games out there.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I understand that the assets are more American, doesn't mean the developer can't take those assets and use them for their own "more European" world. Instead we often get weird hybrids that make little sense to all involved. Obviously BADIK is an exception to all of the other games out there.

For the most part, it is difficult to do that. Building design in Britain, the US, and in each European country are all very distinctive fom each other, especially when it comes to housing. The houses of the HOTs, DIKs, and Jocks, for example, are not a style of building you'd ever see in the UK, Sweden, France, Russia, etc. They're purely American style houses. Same with city buildings and roads signs, so it makes it difficult to create a game set in countries outside the US.

 

[MrFriendly]

For the most part, it is difficult to do that. Building design in Britain, the US, and in each European country are all very distinctive fom each other, especially when it comes to housing. The houses of the HOTs, DIKs, and Jocks, for example, are not a style of building you'd ever see in the UK, Sweden, France, Russia, etc. They're purely American style houses. Same with city buildings and roads signs, so it makes it difficult to create a game set in countries outside the US.

Yeah, but I don't feel the architecture is that important overall. I guess my suspension of disbelief would be fine with the disparity. Though I understand some people would have an issue with it.

 

[SPACE_BOOOOOST]

Really not that different given the States got the designs/ideas mostly from European style I think you are in the US yes HB? Have you actually ever travelled around the UK, Europe?

I think Bacchus mentioned the other day that he lives in the UK which means better brace yourself for a snappy answer.

 

[Cabin Fever]

You're confusing "semester" which means "half of a (school) year" with "trimester" which means "a third of a (school) year (or even pregnancy, for example)". Those are two completely different ways of dividing a calendar/school year, while the word "term" is a general, well, term that does not have a specific duration or partition size and thus can be used in both cases.
So as mentioned above, while a semester can be 6 months or ~4/whatever depending on what you mean, there cannot be 3 semesters in a single year - that would make them trimesters.

No, I'm not confusing the 2 names.

I absolutely agree that you are correct in terms of dictionary definition of the words. But where I am from, nobody uses the word "trimester" even though the calendar is divided into 3 roughly equal school terms. Everybody call each one of them a "semester". And the words "semester" and "term" are used interchangeably when it comes to each block of school calendar.

 

[Kellermann]

It would be great if developers located in non-USA countries embraced that and set their games in their own countries or countries they are more familiar with than a pseudo-US... I'd enjoy playing through a game with a university setting in England, France, Spain, Poland, etc.

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who wanted more Euro-centric games. It seldom feels legit when a non-U.S. dev makes a game set in the U.S. Even putting aside the usual "Engrish" problems, they are easy to spot. It's just difficult to write convincingly about a different culture. I'm sure an American AVN dev would butcher any attempt to set a game in Latvia for example.

The game assets issue doesn't bother me. I can look past that. You don't have to have your characters standing in front of the Eiffel Tower or the Kremlin. Generic buildings are fine and many scenes take place indoors anyway. I just want to see some games set in a dev's native Russia or Czechia...hell anywhere but the U.S. Who wouldn't want to solve a mystery/thriller in Bucharest or romance some smoking hot Polish women in Warsaw. Alas, the target $ market is North America, so we're stuck with pizza for dinner...again.