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

[WookieCookie64]

Hey I'm getting an error code, right after I unlock fast travel. Something like "NameError: name 'map_fast_travel' is not defined". Any ideas how to fix this?

 

[ciderapple]

Relax, brother... There is no chance of being Riona.
And do you guys know why?

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Riona is an SG. Subject closed.

Nope, subject not closed. Riona is the best. And we can totally have NTR in this game. Even if it's put in by modding it in. That's the way the cookie crumbles!

 

[Eerie Entity]

Bella is too demented, plus it's just a short term fling - she's fucking almost double the mc's age, shit's gonna start sagging real soon, and she's got a lot of shit to sag - it won't be pretty when that slippery slope starts to slide.

Demented? I don't know where you get that from.
But Bella being nearly twice MC's age and things starting to sag after a while, you're saying that like it's a bad thing. There are guys out there that much prefer older women over girls their own age. Jason Momoa is married to a much older woman than he is, Madonna has boyfriends/lovers more than half her age and so forth, so, what was the issue again?
Just because Bella is much older than MC doesn't mean the relationship can't work out in the long run.

 

[ename144]

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

Today, the v0.6.1 patch was made available for the $5 tier. Please note that you need the full Patreon version (v0.5.0 up to v0.6.0) to be able to patch the game to v0.6.1.

This week I've been writing and posing animations while testing the new GPUs.

The speed is truly amazing and I've been increasing the length of the animations so far and also increased the render quality.

42 animations of varied length (1-20 seconds) are complete already.

I've estimated that the efficiency of these cards is 400 frames (or static renders), per day. 400 frames is equal to a ~13.3s animation @30fps.

Just as I thought, the bottleneck has thus shifted from animations to manual labor; including writing, coding, posing renders, post-processing art, and more.

When it comes to future updates, the goal for me isn't to stress and release them faster, but to include the content I want and increase the quality of the art.

If an update is released faster than usual, it's a happy bonus. Regardless, development has gotten a huge boost, all thanks to you.

Poll news

The winner in the poll for an extra wallpaper was Jill with the option front focus. I will order and include this 2D wallpaper in Episode 7.

In December, there will be new polls to participate in.

Walkthrough news

I will write the walkthrough soon and release it to the $15 tier. It should be ready sometime in early to mid-December.

Getting the development for episode 7 up and running smoothly takes priority at the moment.



Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

As anticipated, I have my sexy, new, ludicrously cumbersome spreadsheet ready to go, and DPC gives us next to no numbers. Last week I estimated DPC was getting about 20.6 animations/week based on his 173% improvement comment. This week we see he has rendered 19 animations, a bit lower than calculated... but also exactly the number of animations he had in the render queue last week.

This suggests that DPC wasn't actually doing posing work this week, he simply completed the backlog of posing he made earlier as a test of the system. So the good news is that this does seem to be much higher than previously, but I think DPC is going to spend some time on other topics (the walkthrough, writing and plotting for Episode 7 generally) before he gets down to a heavy posing schedule.

The bad news is what DPC himself says: he won't use this new speed to reduce the time between releases, he's going to add more content into the release instead. Still a net win for us, of course, but it won't make the wait any easier. At least for now; I could see this speeding up the overall game schedule if it allows him to complete the game in, say, 6 more huge episodes instead of 10 more medium sized ones. It will depend on exactly how he's plotted out the game.

Here's my graph of Episode 7 animation progress (too little information to say anything about static renders yet). As noted, this graph is based almost entirely on wild speculation and the (implausible) assumption that DPC is posing renders as fast as practical, so whatever you do don't take this as some sort of prediction!

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[shazba]

And it is really pathetic how Tybalt always tries hard to compliment Bella, which creeps her even more out.

Speaking of creepy Tybalt, I didn't notice him creeping on Jill in this picture on my first playthrough, and then he tries to play it off that he was checking for burglars - so caught in the act!

 

[shazba]

Demented? I don't know where you get that from.
But Bella being nearly twice MC's age and things starting to sag after a while, you're saying that like it's a bad thing. There re guys out there that much prefer older women over girls their own age. Jason Momoa is married to a much older woman than he is, Madonna has boyfriends/lovers more than half her age and so forth, so, what was the issue again?
Just because Bella is much older than MC doesn't mean the relationship can't work out in the long run.

When he's early 30s, she'll hit 50. There's always the exception (as you've highlighted), and each to their own regarding what they want in a woman, but almost 20 years is too much in my book.

 

[z0om]

any full save 6.1 windows ?

 

[ename144]

Yeah I would have loved if MC could have just looked at both, heard that they are girlfriends and then gone:
"So the girl I had sex with and that's still into me and the girl that I almost banged and that's also clearly into me...are also into each other? Well shit, however shall we overcome this terrible problem?" only for him to silently drop his pants at the end of that sentence and give them a shit-eating grin

Ironically, I think this would have gotten the MC thrown out of the room once and for all.

We've (rightly) criticized the MC storming off as overly dramatic, but it did have the advantage of placing Maya and Josy in the position of having to work together to get the MC to talk to them again. That gave them a chance realize how much each of them cared about the MC, and time to shore up their own relationship before having to figure out where the MC might fit in. If the MC had tried to sexualize things right from the start, Maya would almost certainly have reflexively rejected him. Josy probably would have too, out of a fear that the MC would just see her as a short-term fling and she'd be left alone at the end.

The best option would have been to just sit down and have a long conversation about the whole thing then and there, saving us a lot of time and angst. But I'd say the MC's actual reaction was better than the Derek plan.

 

[mpa71]

I also wonder if DPC will use these new GPU to remaster/rework some early renders/animations?

 

[felicemastronzo]

Ironically, I think this would have gotten the MC thrown out of the room once and for all.

We've (rightly) criticized the MC storming off as overly dramatic, but it did have the advantage of placing Maya and Josy in the position of having to work together to get the MC to talk to them again. That gave them a chance realize how much each of them cared about the MC, and time to shore up their own relationship before having to figure out where the MC might fit in. If the MC had tried to sexualize things right from the start, Maya would almost certainly have reflexively rejected him. Josy probably would have too, out of a fear that the MC would just see her as a short-term fling and she'd be left alone at the end.

The best option would have been to just sit down and have a long conversation about the whole thing then and there, saving us a lot of time and angst. But I'd say the MC's actual reaction was better than the Derek plan.

and nothing, we don't get out of this scene ...

I believe that if he had not run away at the end of the clarification they would have gone their separate ways

the two girls would have had to face the blatant betrayal of the other (MC technically does not betray anyone), facing two shocks in one, without even having had time to clarify between them on the question of their relationship if still ongoing or not. keep in mind that despite having made peace that same evening, they have in no way dealt with their relationship with MC, completely blocked by fear (which seems to be their main motivation in sentimental matters)

Maya and Josy are still together only because they both cheated with the same person, otherwise it was a relationship without salvation.

shortly before the confrontation in the fourth chapter Josy says that in reality she has already made a decision, but she could still change his mind, I am left curious as to what it was.

 

[Kellermann]

Madonna

Come on, I'm trying to eat over here.

An eighteen year difference is pretty extreme and given the way Bella likes to sun bathe, she's going to hit the wall sooner rather than later. Although, some people just have good genes and she was clearly blessed by the AVN gods so it might just work.

 

[hablat]

I think it's safe to assume she'll deny the kiss no matter what.

Maybe it's to cut down the length of the scene, so you don't miss bumping into Quinn in the "timeline".
Dunno. ><

It's because she literally just broke up with her boyfriend. Immediately jumping to another guy after is shitty, she needs time to get through the breakup. The whole time she's been putting a wall up between herself any feelings she has for MC.

She keeps claiming its only sexual frustration, that there's nothing more to it. Kissing him immediately after a breakup betrays that. Next update Sage's storyline will probably be her trying to come to terms with how she feels more than just friendship with him.

Or her suffering from COVID-23 and dying like a slowed down ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Thems the breaks with DPC.

 

[Eerie Entity]

Come on, I'm trying to eat over here.

An eighteen year difference is pretty extreme and given the way Bella likes to sun bathe, she's going to hit the wall sooner rather than later. Although, some people just have good genes and she was clearly blessed by the AVN gods so it might just work.

That's inevitable no matter how you look at it, so better get comfortable with the thought right now and be prepared

 

[shazba]

It's because she literally just broke up with her boyfriend.

It just dawned me, the mc is the rebound king. He hooks up with Maya because she's missing Josy, he hooks up with Josy because she's missing Maya, he hooks up with Sage because she's feeling neglected by Chad and he hooks up with Bella because the bloodied stump of her former husband lying motionless on a torture table in the locked room just isn't doing it for her anymore. And Jill, I guess after throwing herself at Tybalt repeatedly while he rejects her so coldly, she needs the MC to make her feel like a woman again.

 

[shazba]

That's inevitable no matter how you look at it, so better get comfortable with the thought right now and be prepared

Growing old together makes sense, watching your significant other wither and die while you're still in your prime, that should only be the curse of a vampire, not some college hunk.

 

[phoenixofdark]

Hello guys i just want to ask if there is any femdom content in this game?

 

[Kellermann]

Speaking of creepy Tybalt, I didn't notice him creeping on Jill in this picture on my first playthrough, and then he tries to play it off that he was checking for burglars - so caught in the act!

The Jill selfie that always gets me is the one she sends to MC in her bra while lying in bed. Seems a little out of character, but I'm sure MC isn't complaining.

Or her suffering from COVID-23 and dying like a slowed down ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Thems the breaks with DPC.

How dare you put that image in my head of my beautiful Sage.

But yeah. I'm preparing for that scenario from DPC.

 

[jaden_yuki]

how can i get josy & maya 100% scene?

 

[Kellermann]

Hello guys i just want to ask if there is any femdom content in this game?

Yes, with Jade and Cathy. The other milfs are possibilities too later on in the story.

 

[Odin73]

Hello guys i just want to ask if there is any femdom content in this game?

Not heavy as Estate game. I will said very light for now.