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

[ChipLecsap]

It's just the kind of 'absurd lack of info situation' DPC relies so much on, like the 'no surnames allowed' thing. Most of game's conflicts would be easily dismantled with a normal dialogue between characters (or with them behaving like normal people, even if young and inexperienced and inmature ones), but then it wouldn't be a college soap opera because where would the shocks and the plot twists be?

Don't want to call it (again) bad/lazy writing but sure it's conveniently misleading (thus sometimes infuriating) writing. But I guess 10.000+ patrons (and some thousands more on Steam) can't be wrong, can they?

Indeed, however, that's not necessarily his lack of ability, or bad writing, it's quite the opposite. What DPC is doing, is that using all the well worked elements that hollywood use in every fucking tv show and movies , and implementing to in his own ideas. that's why he is good, He understand the "game" or the "playground". every television show, every movies, use exactly the same tropes he use, and it's working, its still working since decades. Shipping characters to be together, will never be old, and the "will they won't they" will never gets old.
most of the drama in every show could be easily fixed if the characters would simply just talk to each other and act like racional peoples, but they don't do that because then the angst , the drama, the suspension is gone.
and to be fair, peoples rarely behave rationally in real life to. .

So in short he just does what it's working, why change that?

 

[AchedCroissant]

I think this is the only porn game I've played where a kissing scene is on the list of lewd scenes

 

[Kellermann]

I think this is the only porn game I've played where a kissing scene is on the list of lewd scenes

Well, with Jill on the roster, it kind of needs to be.

 

[IkarusWestwood]

I think this is the only porn game I've played where a kissing scene is on the list of lewd scenes

With Jill even holding hands is a lewd scene.

 

[Kellermann]

With Jill even holding hands is a lewd scene.

And even then she'll tell you to slow things down.
At least we know she won't have Riona's problem when she finally lets you through the proverbial chastity belt. It took her no time at all to get her rocks off when she sleep humped MC's hand.

 

[AchedCroissant]

With Jill even holding hands is a lewd scene.

Do you want to hold my hand? I'm sorry but that's too fast for me
- Jill

LOL I still love you raccoon woman

Well, with Jill on the roster, it kind of needs to be.

Imagine you are Jill and she have a solo game and the only boy is Tybalt but you can have sex with girls

 

[D2M3]

This is the part that I find curious. Someone at the college must know. MC could easily do a bit a snooping and find out, but so far he is taking the high road. If DPC offers that avenue to players, then Bella fans should probably bypass it...as juicy as it would be to find out. I'll of course pursue it on a non-Bella path because after 6 episodes I'm long past ready for the some answers. I, however, get the feeling he'll answer them in episode 8 at season's end, but will introduce even more frustrating ones that will remain a mystery until the very end.

Really, that's my main gripe. The "maybe James never existed" is a half silly attempt to explain this massive discrepancy.

Look people, I can live with petty Hollywood "misunderstanding" tactics in storytelling. That's an old old device in creating drama and tension after all.

Problem is, unlike Jill's last name rule, or some other "oh I didnt think about how he couldn't take this picture" level of stupidity, people IGNORING the fact that Bella's husbando is TOTALLY gone without any explanation is a massive and impossible leap in logic.

Either DPC has to explain this away with "Oh, he went away to Africa for some volunteering stuff and EVERYONE knows about it" bullshit ( considering how Jill refuses to answer anything about Bella, this would also be impossibly silly), or every single character who knows Bella is a total moron.

Where the goddamn hell is your husband woman? would be a question to anyone after month 2 of his disappearance.

 

[ename144]

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Today there are 10,000 patrons supporting the creation of Being a DIK and it's absolutely wonderful seeing how many of you enjoy the game.

Thank you so much for your support! No matter what you pledge, you're helping the game both get made and get better.

I've been working hard on the next episode, but in anticipation of this day, I've started producing something special to celebrate this huge milestone together with you.

Starting today, and then two times per week (Wednesdays/Saturdays, starting next week) until I run out of material to post, I will post wallpapers that I've meticulously created for you.

To start off here's the first wallpaper of Sage. You can find high-resolution versions attached to this post, including full HD, 4k, and 3440x1440, for you ultrawide monitor lovers.
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Enjoy!

Status update

Lately, I've been working on, what feels like, everything at once. The biggest focus has been producing one big free roam event.

The free roam event is close to being completed, but it needs polishing and content in a few more areas.

I've started writing phone conversations and the new phone feels like a nice improvement when it comes to texting.

I've also been working on adding more animations.

I'm starting to get a grasp of how much there's left in terms of animations, and I think that ~200 total seems like a good ballpark number.

159 animations are completed and I have a small queue with a few animations in it. I have a few lewd scenes left to write and pose for.

Currently, 1937 static renders are produced. I can't accurately estimate the progress in this area.

I will spend next week focusing mainly on writing and likely posing static renders.

In poll news, Jill won the special render poll for episode 7 and will get a special render set dedicated to her.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 7

This week I've been writing dialogue and coding phone and free roam content.

I haven't posed many static renders, but I did pose all animations for one lewd scene, and they are currently rendering.

There are 13 animations in the queue, and 173 animations are completed. The duration of the completed animations, so far, is 12 min 15 s; roughly 3.5 minutes longer than episode 6.

I have 2 ½ planned lewd scenes left to pose for, so I will likely overshoot last week's estimate a bit. 200-230 animations total for episode 7 is the new estimation.

Next week, I will continue to write the story and code.

I'm making good progress, but there's a lot left to do under the hood despite the high render and animation count.

So, let me try to paint a picture of the current state of the code for you.

The update's main file has ~7100 lines of code; it can be compared to episode 6 with ~11100.

The free roam code of episode 7 has ~6300 lines; it can be compared to episode 6 with ~5200.

I've mapped out most events in the update, and I have ~30 scenes (normal scenes and including any free roam events and/or hangouts) left to write and pose art for.

The episode will likely be bigger than episode 6 when I'm finished.

The reason updates are getting bigger is that I don't want to cut any story content to fit a deadline.

I'm not counting the lines of code written for the new feature I revealed a few weeks ago (I won't spoil what it is if you chose not to read that update), but content-wise, it has ~600 GUI elements (Rendered and/or photoshopped) and 73 script files.

I hope this gave you a slightly better understanding of what's going on when I say that I'm writing/coding.

In poll news, Titty sucking and Groping/Squeezing won the recent poll for animation types. They will get featured in a lewd scene in episode 7.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

DPC is definitely a master of providing random stats in his updates. I'm loathe to add even more columns to my spreadsheet to track minutes of animation or lines of code. So I'll stick with some simple analysis here. On animation run time, DPC has finished approximately 80% of the animations for Episode 7 (if his estimates are correct). Assuming the remaining animations have the same average length, Episode 7 will wind up with around 15:13 of animation. That's about 74% longer than Episode 6. Of course Episode 6 included all that D&G nonsense and we've already learned that Episode 7 won't be as story focused. We'll have to wait and see see if more is better in this case, but my money will be on "no."

On lines of code, in Episode 6 free roams took 47% as much code as the 'main' episode. In episode 7, they currently clock in at 89% as much as the main episode (I'd prefer to list them as a percentage of the total code, but I have no idea how much code other things like mini-games might take). This suggests free roams will be an even larger portion of the gaming experience; definitely not my first choice.

Okay, enough of that. Let's try to get some proper weekly analysis going. DPC completed 14 animations and an unknown number of static renders this week. He's still averaging about 16 animations rendered per week. He also bumped his estimate of the total animations, meaning he has almost the same number of animations to complete (~42) as last week despite picking up the animation render pace. Assuming he keeps feeding the render queue, it would take him about 3 weeks to hit his target (+/- 1 week depending on how many he finally ends up with) . It could take up to a month longer if he lets the queue run dry to focus on other things, but my guess is he'll be faster than that.

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I don't think any of us are shocked to hear Episode 7 will be bigger than Episode 6, but we still don't have a sense of how much bigger (at least for the statics). It's hard to say what the bottleneck is going to be when DPC routinely skips numbers on the static renders. I presume we get more info on the animations because that's where his focus is, so it seems likely renders will be the last thing finished (especially since they're probably more time intensive to pose), and thus the static render rate probably took a hit this week.

Last week, the animation count was expected to be ~25% more than Episode 6, this week it's ~33%. If we assume the same increase in statics, we get to 4430. DPC could hit that as early as March 12, or as late as May 14 based on whether we assume his highest or lowest rendering rates. With the increased animation target and DPC specifically mentioning lots of code left to write, the static render pace will probably start slow. The rate should increase as statics become the bottleneck.

All told, early April is probably the safest bet to finish everything up (so ~mid April release), but there's a whole lot of uncertainty there. March-May remains the most accurate estimate we have.

 

[Kellermann]

Really, that's my main gripe. The "maybe James never existed" is a half silly attempt to explain this massive discrepancy.

Look people, I can live with petty Hollywood "misunderstanding" tactics in storytelling. That's an old old device in creating drama and tension after all.

Problem is, unlike Jill's last name rule, or some other "oh I didnt think about how he couldn't take this picture" level of stupidity, people IGNORING the fact that Bella's husbando is TOTALLY gone without any explanation is a massive and impossible leap in logic.

Either DPC has to explain this away with "Oh, he went away to Africa for some volunteering stuff and EVERYONE knows about it" bullshit ( considering how Jill refuses to answer anything about Bella, this would also be impossibly silly), or every single character who knows Bella is a total moron.

Where the goddamn hell is your husband woman? would be a question to anyone after month 2 of his disappearance.

I'm sure Jade knows the story and she would be more than willing to spill all the juicy details to her son, boy toy, lover, preferred student if he would but ask. Bella is friends, or at least friendly with Cathy so she certainly got the story direct. One can assume Cathy and Jade gossip during their shopping trips so I have no doubt Jade has the answers. To his credit, MC doesn't pry after Jill gives him a dressing down. The baffling part is how Mr. Mastermind, Prof. Burke, with access to all the files, doesn't even seem to know Bella was married. I guess he could have been playing dumb so as not to arouse the further suspicions of his wife. We don't get to see too much of the other faculty members, but I'm sure they know what happened as well.

Honestly, I just think most people keep quiet about it out of respect for (or fear of) Bella.

 

[shazba]

And even then she'll tell you to slow things down.
At least we know she won't have Riona's problem when she finally lets you through the proverbial chastity belt. It took her no time at all to get her rocks off when she sleep humped MC's hand.

Forgot

Really, that's my main gripe. The "maybe James never existed" is a half silly attempt to explain this massive discrepancy.

Look people, I can live with petty Hollywood "misunderstanding" tactics in storytelling. That's an old old device in creating drama and tension after all.

Problem is, unlike Jill's last name rule, or some other "oh I didnt think about how he couldn't take this picture" level of stupidity, people IGNORING the fact that Bella's husbando is TOTALLY gone without any explanation is a massive and impossible leap in logic.

Either DPC has to explain this away with "Oh, he went away to Africa for some volunteering stuff and EVERYONE knows about it" bullshit ( considering how Jill refuses to answer anything about Bella, this would also be impossibly silly), or every single character who knows Bella is a total moron.

Where the goddamn hell is your husband woman? would be a question to anyone after month 2 of his disappearance.

Bella's only close friend who knows about anything to do with her husband is Jill, no one else knows much about her. She's the fucking Ice Queen, it's not like she has friends over all the time (Cathy coming around may have been a one time thing since she was really distraught).

mc "What's the deal with her husband?"​

ji "Oh, wow... Um... I... Ah..."​

ji "Why are you asking me about this?"​

mc "I get the feeling that I can't ask Bella about it."​

mc "He's not at home, she wears her wedding ring and I saw her wedding picture in her bedroom. So, I got curious."​

ji "You were in her bedroom?"​

ji "Listen... I don't know how close you are, but I think you're right..."​

ji "You shouldn't ask her about it."​

mc "Come on, give me something. You can trust me not to tell anyone."​

ji "I'm sorry, but I can't do this to her."​

ji "And I don't think I can make you understand this without telling you things I shouldn't."​

​

That's it. Her best friend doesn't want to betray her trust and start gossiping about her marital situation, so it's not likely anyone else knows much at all. And the fact she doesn't suggest the mc talk to Bella about it either means Jill knows it's something Bella is still trying to come to grips with.

DPC never made these theories up, it's the crazy conspiracy theorists on this board (I... don't know who they are... ) who are firing away with theories left, right and center. People are just having fun with the unknown. Half of the theories are just brought up for laughs (I'm sure there are less than a handful of people who actually think Jill is trans ).

My money is still on Chad being gay.

 

[AchedCroissant]

DPC is definitely a master of providing random stats in his updates. I'm loathe to add even more columns to my spreadsheet to track minutes of animation or lines of code. So I'll stick with some simple analysis here. On animation run time, DPC has finished approximately 80% of the animations for Episode 7 (if his estimates are correct). Assuming the remaining animations have the same average length, Episode 7 will wind up with around 15:13 of animation. That's about 74% longer than Episode 6. Of course Episode 6 included all that D&G nonsense and we've already learned that Episode 7 won't be as story focused. We'll have to wait and see see if more is better in this case, but my money will be on "no."

On lines of code, in Episode 6 free roams took 47% as much code as the 'main' episode. In episode 7, they currently clock in at 89% as much as the main episode (I'd prefer to list them as a percentage of the total code, but I have no idea how much code other things like mini-games might take). This suggests free roams will be an even larger portion of the gaming experience; definitely not my first choice.

Okay, enough of that. Let's try to get some proper weekly analysis going. DPC completed 14 animations and an unknown number of static renders this week. He's still averaging about 16 animations rendered per week. He also bumped his estimate of the total animations, meaning he has almost the same number of animations to complete (~42) as last week despite picking up the animation render pace. Assuming he keeps feeding the render queue, it would take him about 3 weeks to hit his target (+/- 1 week depending on how many he finally ends up with) . It could take up to a month longer if he lets the queue run dry to focus on other things, but my guess is he'll be faster than that.

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I don't think any of us are shocked to hear Episode 7 will be bigger than Episode 6, but we still don't have a sense of how much bigger (at least for the statics). It's hard to say what the bottleneck is going to be when DPC routinely skips numbers on the static renders. I presume we get more info on the animations because that's where his focus is, so it seems likely renders will be the last thing finished (especially since they're probably more time intensive to pose), and thus the static render rate probably took a hit this week.

Last week, the animation count was expected to be ~25% more than Episode 6, this week it's ~33%. If we assume the same increase in statics, we get to 4430. DPC could hit that as early as March 12, or as late as May 14 based on whether we assume his highest or lowest rendering rates. With the increased animation target and DPC specifically mentioning lots of code left to write, the static render pace will probably start slow. The rate should increase as statics become the bottleneck.

All told, early April is probably the safest bet to finish everything up (so ~mid April release), but there's a whole lot of uncertainty there. March-May remains the most accurate estimate we have.

Seeing those images I can only say that DPC is a monster in the way so fast that it is moving those RTX 3090 if they are doing a spectacular job

 

[AchedCroissant]

than a handful of people don't believe actually Jill is trans

That's true

 

[shazba]

That's true

In this age of fake news, people are going to take your (mis)quote and it will become gospel!

 

[Holy Bacchus]

With regards to this James situation, I really don't see it being all that potentially complicated. For me, I think his absence could be easily explained.

For starters, when it comes to the issue of "why does nobody seem to know about James?", Stephen not knowing Bella is married isn't necessarily indicative of nobody knowing. He's a guy, and probably not very observant as most guys tend to be, so he's never noticed her wedding ring because his eyes were always looking elsewhere. Jade, however, did know she was married but since she and Bella don't seem to be all that close, she probably doesn't know much, if anything, about Bella's husband or her personal life in general. Furthermore, Bella seems like the kind of person who, until the MC arrived, kept her work and home lives separate from each other, and a result of this would be her work colleagues not knowing much about her and her life outside of work.

As for James's absence, it seems to me that the reason could be a very simple one. In the library scene in Ep 3, Bella's internal monologue is asking for forgiveness from James, seemingly for a past incident where she was "intimate with a friend". Then in Ep 4, if you stay with Bella, her internal monologue now forgives James for doing something. The simplest explanation here, as far as I can guess, is that James cheated on Bella but they didn't separate or divorce, perhaps going to therapy or something like that to work out some issues, but then Bella did the same thing or close to it with a close friend (possibly Jill) and James caught her which caused him to storm out, and they've been separated ever since. Bella still hopes he'll return, and maybe they've been in contact recently trying to sort things out which is why she hopes he'll come home soon.

 

[AchedCroissant]

In this age of fake news, people are going to take your (mis)quote and it will become gospel!

It is not misquoting it is only a correction

Jill is a futa him does not say it, I say it

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

DPC is definitely a master of providing random stats in his updates. I'm loathe to add even more columns to my spreadsheet to track minutes of animation or lines of code. So I'll stick with some simple analysis here. On animation run time, DPC has finished approximately 80% of the animations for Episode 7 (if his estimates are correct). Assuming the remaining animations have the same average length, Episode 7 will wind up with around 15:13 of animation. That's about 74% longer than Episode 6. Of course Episode 6 included all that D&G nonsense and we've already learned that Episode 7 won't be as story focused. We'll have to wait and see see if more is better in this case, but my money will be on "no."

On lines of code, in Episode 6 free roams took 47% as much code as the 'main' episode. In episode 7, they currently clock in at 89% as much as the main episode (I'd prefer to list them as a percentage of the total code, but I have no idea how much code other things like mini-games might take). This suggests free roams will be an even larger portion of the gaming experience; definitely not my first choice.

Okay, enough of that. Let's try to get some proper weekly analysis going. DPC completed 14 animations and an unknown number of static renders this week. He's still averaging about 16 animations rendered per week. He also bumped his estimate of the total animations, meaning he has almost the same number of animations to complete (~42) as last week despite picking up the animation render pace. Assuming he keeps feeding the render queue, it would take him about 3 weeks to hit his target (+/- 1 week depending on how many he finally ends up with) . It could take up to a month longer if he lets the queue run dry to focus on other things, but my guess is he'll be faster than that.

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I don't think any of us are shocked to hear Episode 7 will be bigger than Episode 6, but we still don't have a sense of how much bigger (at least for the statics). It's hard to say what the bottleneck is going to be when DPC routinely skips numbers on the static renders. I presume we get more info on the animations because that's where his focus is, so it seems likely renders will be the last thing finished (especially since they're probably more time intensive to pose), and thus the static render rate probably took a hit this week.

Last week, the animation count was expected to be ~25% more than Episode 6, this week it's ~33%. If we assume the same increase in statics, we get to 4430. DPC could hit that as early as March 12, or as late as May 14 based on whether we assume his highest or lowest rendering rates. With the increased animation target and DPC specifically mentioning lots of code left to write, the static render pace will probably start slow. The rate should increase as statics become the bottleneck.

All told, early April is probably the safest bet to finish everything up (so ~mid April release), but there's a whole lot of uncertainty there. March-May remains the most accurate estimate we have.

How long do you spend doing these charts weekly?

 

[shazba]

It is not misquoting it is only a correction

DrPinkCake said:
Jill is a futa him does not say it, I say it

You are playing with fire! Didn't you see what happened in the US on Jan 6!

 

[Skeltom]

My money is still on Chad being gay

I was leaning towards that also since to me it looked like it was personal enough for him to about cry after the fight. But now I'm thinking it's either with Melanie or Quinn is manipulating him some how with her restaurant.

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

The baffling part is how Mr. Mastermind, Prof. Burke, with access to all the files, doesn't even seem to know Bella was married.

That would probably be because he genuinely doesn't know anything about her husband, Cathy and Jade included. You're bold to assume that just because Bella attempted to comfort Cathy at her place following the cluck scandal, they're close enough friends to the point to where she would confide in Cathy her extremely personal marital situation and think Cathy would tell Jade simply because they're friends and Jade her husband who she doesn't like which wouldn't make sense.

It seems as though the only person who knows about Bella's husband is Jill simply due to her having possibly played a part in whatever happened if not for the fact that they're really close friends who have known each other for a long time. Are you forgetting the whole "Ice Queen who doesn't let anyone in" trope her entire character is based off of?

 

[JagsFan84]

this is not that kind of game . you have all the other " Female protagonist" game for that

Oh yeah, I played the fuck out of the original X-Change back in the day.