Kellermann

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Honestly everything about this status update is amazing;

Already some renders&animations completed,
Insane increase to development speed by upgraded hardware,
Longer extra animation promise for each main girl at EP7, and much more.

It's very exciting news. I will bite the bullet and join in by pledging on December 1 it looks like. This really hyped me up. Micro DIK status here I come.
Good info from DPC, but I was hoping he would say no more D&G bull crap.
 
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Gotta ast something. I am replaying the game going full DiK for the first time. Is it just me that felt really bad for beating the shit out of Troy, in chapter 1? The way he looks at the MC almost made me reload and just storm out of the dorm lol.

And it made me realize that 6 chapters later, we still don't know exactly what happened with the Jocks there. We don't know nothing about him (I know about the Chad/Troy theory, but it is a theory)
 

Holy Bacchus

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So, it seems that the new girl Becky was at the the party in Ep 4.
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Good info from DPC, but I was hoping he would say no more D&G bull crap.
I think people had asked for more of it so DPC gave it to them in this update, so hopefully they will consider the matter dropped now and we won't be seeing this again.

Yeah, that DPC is messing with our heads and our emotions. :cry:
 

ename144

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Sep 20, 2018
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Lengthy post incoming. It's spoiler-free.

Please, don't post spoilers in the comment section. Many haven't played the latest episode yet.

General information
For you who have played the update, I hope you enjoyed it! It feels great to finally be able to release episode 6 to you.

A warm thank you to everyone for reporting bugs/typos that slipped through to release! It truly helps to improve the game. There was a patch (v0.6.1) for fixing some minor issues with the initial release, but nothing was game-breaking. Since the patch, multiple new typos and minor issues have been reported, but I'm waiting to see if anything worth patching comes up. If not, any additional changes will be included in the next major update (v0.7.0) instead.

Many of you are asking for an updated walkthrough and it will be available sometime after the $5 tier has gotten access to the patch.

For those of you in the $5 tier, or planning to pledge to get the patch, please note that the patch requires the Patreon base game to play the update. If you don't have Patreon version v0.5.0/v0.5.1/v0.5.2, you won't be able to patch your game. The Steam version does not work with the patch.

After every tier has gotten access to the game, new polls will start for episode 7. But I do have a new type of poll for you starting this weekend.



Episode 7 news
Development on episode 7 started during beta testing. The progress so far is:

575 static renders and 23 animations completed. The animation queue has an additional 19 animations waiting to render.

I've written about 30% of the content compared to Episode 6. I've yet to decide the scope of the episode. I'll keep you updated as always.



9000 patrons = Upgraded hardware
During release, I reached 9000 patrons. It's a huge milestone and I couldn't take time to celebrate it until recently. Thank you so much for your contribution!

Since I reached 9000 patrons I decided to do something big for the game and was very lucky to do so considering the circulating supply of GPUs.

All thanks to you, I've upgraded my hardware to the next-gen of GPU cards and I'm ecstatic about the gain in render speed.

I've measured up to a 173% increase in render times per PC. I see how my static render queue gets obliterated overnight and it's simply amazing. This will likely shift the bottleneck from rendering to manual labor. But to fully use the power of the new cards, I will use this gain to increase the overall render quality and animation length in future updates.

I will make sure that every main girl gets at least one extra-long animation in episode 7. You deserve it!

These cards have opened up new possibilities for me and for the game.

This wouldn't have been possible without your support and I'm happy to take any risks of this investment for all of you.

I've yet to see how this will impact my development cycle, but I can already tell it's going to be a fantastic improvement of the content in the game.

Once again, thank you!



2021 Patreon changes
With the new year, I will carry out some changes to the Patreon tiers, to improve the value for you as well as making my work easier.

Starting 2021, custom render orders will be selected from submissions from patrons in the unlimited $75 tier. Each month, there will be a post for the $75 tier where you can submit your wish for a custom render order.

At the end of each month, I will handpick 4 orders from this post to produce and publish them next month. Please note that there's no guarantee that your submission will get picked. However, the benefits of this are that more patrons will have a chance of getting an order made, I will have work waiting for me on day one each month and the custom renders will have a bigger variety.

The drawback of this is, of course, that the President patrons will lose the benefit they pledged for and it's not been a decision I've made lightly. But a lot of things have changed during the year I've been producing custom renders. My Patreon page has grown with ~7000 patrons since and it's clear that there are many out there who are waiting and deserve a chance to see their dream render come true.

I've been in contact with Patreon, to make sure that the tier reward is ok to do, and they have given me a green light for it.

I hope this will excite you about 2021 as much as it excites me.

I'll be posting the first post where you can submit your ideas in December, and President tier patrons will have their final custom render order in December as well.

Starting December, the President tier will be unlocked to become unlimited and it will, for the moment being, only exist as a tier for patrons wanting to show additional support.

I will open a tier for $150 as an additional support tier, too, since I've had patrons wanting to donate this amount and Patreon's current tier reward system doesn't allow for them to see the posts without having a proper tier.

Furthermore, I will be removing the Acting Lessons Lewd render sets rewards from the $15 and $75 tiers. When I offered them as rewards, I was being optimistic about the time I have available for extra activities. It feels bad to put a reward in a tier when it's not something that happens that frequently. I might still get around to producing these sets in the future, but I want to put that extra energy into the Being a DIK development.

To sum up, these are the tier changes, starting January 1st, 2021, at the latest.

$15 tier:


  • Removed reward: Access to small lewd sets of characters from Acting Lessons, 3 weeks after release.
$75 tier:

  • Removed reward: 3 weeks early access to small lewd render sets of characters from Acting Lessons
  • New reward: Each month, participate in entering suggestions for custom renders. 4 out of all entries are handpicked and produced for the following month.
$100 tier:

  • Removed reward: You can order one render per month from Being A DIK or Acting Lessons.
  • Tier becomes an Additional support tier, with all rewards from lower tiers.
  • DIK President Discord role
$150 tier (New tier):

  • An additional support tier, with all rewards from lower tiers.
  • DIK President II Discord role


I'll be posting the first preview of episode 7 before the end of the month.

Best regards, have a nice weekend, a huge thanks for the support during the release, and thank you for reading!

Dr PinkCake
Wow, I figured I'd have at least until after Thanksgiving to get my new spreadsheet up and running. Guess like Cathy, DPC has decided we need to up our game. So be it, I'll be ready for you next week.

In the meantime, this is certainly interesting. If DPC is serious about a 173% in render output (not what he said, but I'm certain render time didn't increase), then these number suggest he's been rendering a little over a week. At this presumed pace, he could match Episode 6's content in about 8 weeks (one of which has passed). He says complexity/length of the renders will increase to partially compensate for that, which I believe. We'll definitely have to keep an eye on this.

What's also interesting is that animations are likely to become less of a bottleneck compared to static renders, because DPC alone probably can't pose statics fast enough to keep ahead of the render rate. That might cause us to have a higher percentage of lewd scenes (or at least stylish intro animations like Nora's) going forward.

Very interesting.
 

Gh0st_Harambe

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Mar 9, 2020
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Lengthy post incoming. It's spoiler-free.

Please, don't post spoilers in the comment section. Many haven't played the latest episode yet.

General information
For you who have played the update, I hope you enjoyed it! It feels great to finally be able to release episode 6 to you.

A warm thank you to everyone for reporting bugs/typos that slipped through to release! It truly helps to improve the game. There was a patch (v0.6.1) for fixing some minor issues with the initial release, but nothing was game-breaking. Since the patch, multiple new typos and minor issues have been reported, but I'm waiting to see if anything worth patching comes up. If not, any additional changes will be included in the next major update (v0.7.0) instead.

Many of you are asking for an updated walkthrough and it will be available sometime after the $5 tier has gotten access to the patch.

For those of you in the $5 tier, or planning to pledge to get the patch, please note that the patch requires the Patreon base game to play the update. If you don't have Patreon version v0.5.0/v0.5.1/v0.5.2, you won't be able to patch your game. The Steam version does not work with the patch.

After every tier has gotten access to the game, new polls will start for episode 7. But I do have a new type of poll for you starting this weekend.



Episode 7 news
Development on episode 7 started during beta testing. The progress so far is:

575 static renders and 23 animations completed. The animation queue has an additional 19 animations waiting to render.

I've written about 30% of the content compared to Episode 6. I've yet to decide the scope of the episode. I'll keep you updated as always.



9000 patrons = Upgraded hardware
During release, I reached 9000 patrons. It's a huge milestone and I couldn't take time to celebrate it until recently. Thank you so much for your contribution!

Since I reached 9000 patrons I decided to do something big for the game and was very lucky to do so considering the circulating supply of GPUs.

All thanks to you, I've upgraded my hardware to the next-gen of GPU cards and I'm ecstatic about the gain in render speed.

I've measured up to a 173% increase in render times per PC. I see how my static render queue gets obliterated overnight and it's simply amazing. This will likely shift the bottleneck from rendering to manual labor. But to fully use the power of the new cards, I will use this gain to increase the overall render quality and animation length in future updates.

I will make sure that every main girl gets at least one extra-long animation in episode 7. You deserve it!

These cards have opened up new possibilities for me and for the game.

This wouldn't have been possible without your support and I'm happy to take any risks of this investment for all of you.

I've yet to see how this will impact my development cycle, but I can already tell it's going to be a fantastic improvement of the content in the game.

Once again, thank you!



2021 Patreon changes
With the new year, I will carry out some changes to the Patreon tiers, to improve the value for you as well as making my work easier.

Starting 2021, custom render orders will be selected from submissions from patrons in the unlimited $75 tier. Each month, there will be a post for the $75 tier where you can submit your wish for a custom render order.

At the end of each month, I will handpick 4 orders from this post to produce and publish them next month. Please note that there's no guarantee that your submission will get picked. However, the benefits of this are that more patrons will have a chance of getting an order made, I will have work waiting for me on day one each month and the custom renders will have a bigger variety.

The drawback of this is, of course, that the President patrons will lose the benefit they pledged for and it's not been a decision I've made lightly. But a lot of things have changed during the year I've been producing custom renders. My Patreon page has grown with ~7000 patrons since and it's clear that there are many out there who are waiting and deserve a chance to see their dream render come true.

I've been in contact with Patreon, to make sure that the tier reward is ok to do, and they have given me a green light for it.

I hope this will excite you about 2021 as much as it excites me.

I'll be posting the first post where you can submit your ideas in December, and President tier patrons will have their final custom render order in December as well.

Starting December, the President tier will be unlocked to become unlimited and it will, for the moment being, only exist as a tier for patrons wanting to show additional support.

I will open a tier for $150 as an additional support tier, too, since I've had patrons wanting to donate this amount and Patreon's current tier reward system doesn't allow for them to see the posts without having a proper tier.

Furthermore, I will be removing the Acting Lessons Lewd render sets rewards from the $15 and $75 tiers. When I offered them as rewards, I was being optimistic about the time I have available for extra activities. It feels bad to put a reward in a tier when it's not something that happens that frequently. I might still get around to producing these sets in the future, but I want to put that extra energy into the Being a DIK development.

To sum up, these are the tier changes, starting January 1st, 2021, at the latest.

$15 tier:


  • Removed reward: Access to small lewd sets of characters from Acting Lessons, 3 weeks after release.
$75 tier:

  • Removed reward: 3 weeks early access to small lewd render sets of characters from Acting Lessons
  • New reward: Each month, participate in entering suggestions for custom renders. 4 out of all entries are handpicked and produced for the following month.
$100 tier:

  • Removed reward: You can order one render per month from Being A DIK or Acting Lessons.
  • Tier becomes an Additional support tier, with all rewards from lower tiers.
  • DIK President Discord role
$150 tier (New tier):

  • An additional support tier, with all rewards from lower tiers.
  • DIK President II Discord role


I'll be posting the first preview of episode 7 before the end of the month.

Best regards, have a nice weekend, a huge thanks for the support during the release, and thank you for reading!

Dr PinkCake
Good news, maybe the release will be earlier than i thought.
 

always86

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Mar 19, 2020
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Lengthy post incoming. It's spoiler-free.

Please, don't post spoilers in the comment section. Many haven't played the latest episode yet.

General information
For you who have played the update, I hope you enjoyed it! It feels great to finally be able to release episode 6 to you.

A warm thank you to everyone for reporting bugs/typos that slipped through to release! It truly helps to improve the game. There was a patch (v0.6.1) for fixing some minor issues with the initial release, but nothing was game-breaking. Since the patch, multiple new typos and minor issues have been reported, but I'm waiting to see if anything worth patching comes up. If not, any additional changes will be included in the next major update (v0.7.0) instead.

Many of you are asking for an updated walkthrough and it will be available sometime after the $5 tier has gotten access to the patch.

For those of you in the $5 tier, or planning to pledge to get the patch, please note that the patch requires the Patreon base game to play the update. If you don't have Patreon version v0.5.0/v0.5.1/v0.5.2, you won't be able to patch your game. The Steam version does not work with the patch.

After every tier has gotten access to the game, new polls will start for episode 7. But I do have a new type of poll for you starting this weekend.



Episode 7 news
Development on episode 7 started during beta testing. The progress so far is:

575 static renders and 23 animations completed. The animation queue has an additional 19 animations waiting to render.

I've written about 30% of the content compared to Episode 6. I've yet to decide the scope of the episode. I'll keep you updated as always.



9000 patrons = Upgraded hardware
During release, I reached 9000 patrons. It's a huge milestone and I couldn't take time to celebrate it until recently. Thank you so much for your contribution!

Since I reached 9000 patrons I decided to do something big for the game and was very lucky to do so considering the circulating supply of GPUs.

All thanks to you, I've upgraded my hardware to the next-gen of GPU cards and I'm ecstatic about the gain in render speed.

I've measured up to a 173% increase in render times per PC. I see how my static render queue gets obliterated overnight and it's simply amazing. This will likely shift the bottleneck from rendering to manual labor. But to fully use the power of the new cards, I will use this gain to increase the overall render quality and animation length in future updates.

I will make sure that every main girl gets at least one extra-long animation in episode 7. You deserve it!

These cards have opened up new possibilities for me and for the game.

This wouldn't have been possible without your support and I'm happy to take any risks of this investment for all of you.

I've yet to see how this will impact my development cycle, but I can already tell it's going to be a fantastic improvement of the content in the game.

Once again, thank you!



2021 Patreon changes
With the new year, I will carry out some changes to the Patreon tiers, to improve the value for you as well as making my work easier.

Starting 2021, custom render orders will be selected from submissions from patrons in the unlimited $75 tier. Each month, there will be a post for the $75 tier where you can submit your wish for a custom render order.

At the end of each month, I will handpick 4 orders from this post to produce and publish them next month. Please note that there's no guarantee that your submission will get picked. However, the benefits of this are that more patrons will have a chance of getting an order made, I will have work waiting for me on day one each month and the custom renders will have a bigger variety.

The drawback of this is, of course, that the President patrons will lose the benefit they pledged for and it's not been a decision I've made lightly. But a lot of things have changed during the year I've been producing custom renders. My Patreon page has grown with ~7000 patrons since and it's clear that there are many out there who are waiting and deserve a chance to see their dream render come true.

I've been in contact with Patreon, to make sure that the tier reward is ok to do, and they have given me a green light for it.

I hope this will excite you about 2021 as much as it excites me.

I'll be posting the first post where you can submit your ideas in December, and President tier patrons will have their final custom render order in December as well.

Starting December, the President tier will be unlocked to become unlimited and it will, for the moment being, only exist as a tier for patrons wanting to show additional support.

I will open a tier for $150 as an additional support tier, too, since I've had patrons wanting to donate this amount and Patreon's current tier reward system doesn't allow for them to see the posts without having a proper tier.

Furthermore, I will be removing the Acting Lessons Lewd render sets rewards from the $15 and $75 tiers. When I offered them as rewards, I was being optimistic about the time I have available for extra activities. It feels bad to put a reward in a tier when it's not something that happens that frequently. I might still get around to producing these sets in the future, but I want to put that extra energy into the Being a DIK development.

To sum up, these are the tier changes, starting January 1st, 2021, at the latest.

$15 tier:


  • Removed reward: Access to small lewd sets of characters from Acting Lessons, 3 weeks after release.
$75 tier:

  • Removed reward: 3 weeks early access to small lewd render sets of characters from Acting Lessons
  • New reward: Each month, participate in entering suggestions for custom renders. 4 out of all entries are handpicked and produced for the following month.
$100 tier:

  • Removed reward: You can order one render per month from Being A DIK or Acting Lessons.
  • Tier becomes an Additional support tier, with all rewards from lower tiers.
  • DIK President Discord role
$150 tier (New tier):

  • An additional support tier, with all rewards from lower tiers.
  • DIK President II Discord role


I'll be posting the first preview of episode 7 before the end of the month.

Best regards, have a nice weekend, a huge thanks for the support during the release, and thank you for reading!

Dr PinkCake
Really positive progress. Static wise that’s about 1/7 of episode six. About the same progress for animations. I’m off work next week If I’m bored enough I’ll make a progress tracking spreadsheet. With all sorts of over analysis and comparisons to previous episodes.

Nothing confirmed. I sort of think she’s asking ‘can he help me?’ Or ‘will he love me?’ Something like that.
 

fakitap

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Gotta ast something. I am replaying the game going full DiK for the first time. Is it just me that felt really bad for beating the shit out of Troy, in chapter 1? The way he looks at the MC almost made me reload and just storm out of the dorm lol.

And it made me realize that 6 chapters later, we still don't know exactly what happened with the Jocks there. We don't know nothing about him (I know about the Chad/Troy theory, but it is a theory)
With Chad going "did you like the panties I sent you?" it would be really weird if he was talking to Troy.
And on one end I felt bad for Troy cause there is a moment where he almost looks apologetic that he couldn't keep them from stealing the guitar, but I never went back on it because the MC on my DIK playthrough would have simply gone "I didn't start this shit. Troy decided to antagonize me and kept forcing me out of my room where all my stuff is only to then allow it to be stolen while he is there.". Pretty sure he'd still be pissed at Troy xD
 

Gladheim

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tbh. if that happened in an actual flashback, I wouldn't really have problems with that. In the EP6 scene it was just a teenager reading his dead mothers diary and probably trying to visualize what she must have looked like writing it. Made it really weird when her tits were just randomly out :ROFLMAO: For me it was more about the context being really weird and not really about it happening in general.
I dont care at all. If the sex scene happens is that ok, is normal xd
 
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shazba

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a doubt that came to me replaying BADIK from the beginning: after the visit of Josy's father (proposal accepted by the girls), is it possible that by going to Maya we don't earn RP with her?

from walkthrough it would seem that by going with Maya we earn at most an RP but with Josy when she discovers them at the end, while going with Josy we can also earn 2 RP always with Josy
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shazba

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Gotta ast something. I am replaying the game going full DiK for the first time. Is it just me that felt really bad for beating the shit out of Troy, in chapter 1? The way he looks at the MC almost made me reload and just storm out of the dorm lol.
Troy was a total jerk to you since the moment you moved in, but the fact that he got a black eye when your guitar got stolen indicates it wasn't his fault, so beating him up over the guitar is pointless, so you're really beating him up because he's been an ass all along and this is the last straw. I beat him up because I didn't want to "storm out of the room". Storming out of a room is something a drama queen does when they don't get their way. I'd rather fight Troy and die than do that.
 

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it's really a contradiction.

from a roleplay point of view it makes no sense not to go to Maya, who we know she needs comforting, also not going there and hanging around with Josy makes it even worse.

beyond this the scene with Josy is much better than the one with Maya ...
 

felicemastronzo

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With Chad going "did you like the panties I sent you?" it would be really weird if he was talking to Troy.
And on one end I felt bad for Troy cause there is a moment where he almost looks apologetic that he couldn't keep them from stealing the guitar, but I never went back on it because the MC on my DIK playthrough would have simply gone "I didn't start this shit. Troy decided to antagonize me and kept forcing me out of my room where all my stuff is only to then allow it to be stolen while he is there.". Pretty sure he'd still be pissed at Troy xD
but especially Sage has seen these panties ... they can't be for a man, at least the size would have noticed
 
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