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

[shazba]

Five months is bad enough, but 6 months is my limit. I really hoped that when DPC got his upgrades we would get shorter update periods, but instead it has just been an incentive to keep adding more bloat. Granted, it's mostly good bloat (D&G aside), however, I still would prefer 3-4 months.

Season 1 was my favourite and 3-4 months was the norm back then. S1 had a decent amount of lewd scenes and great story without getting bogged down in DPC's current trend of huge free roams where you bang up to six girls in a short time frame. I prefer lewd scenes to be spaced out. If we were getting a lot of story progression in exchange for 5-6 months that would be one thing, but it seems like few long-standing mysteries/plotpoints are being resolved. Add to that, sizeable portions of S2 episodes are filled with D&G (and the 'blink and it's over' pointless lewd scenes), mini-games, and huge free roam, (engaging as they are) I don't feel that the upgrades have done much player benefit beyond additional animations.

Ultimately, I believe we are stuck with large free roams from now on because of the huge cast and the now branching LI storylines. A massive free roam is the only way DPC can get the characters together and keep things organised without having to write an endless number of branches for every character interaction. P.S. I'm fine with halloween party free foam. This free roam I have been waiting on for a LONG time.

This is a very valid criticism, BaDIK came out in 2019, and by the end of this year, 8 episodes will have been released.

8 episodes in 3 years sounds reasonable enough, but since the Dev intends on going for a total of 15-20 episodes, and we are currently on the trend of releasing 2 episodes a year, waiting an additional 4-6 years to see the end of the game seems pretty excessive.

2026-2027 could be the time at when we see the game finally completed

I'm by no means a head over the heels ''DrPinkCake can do no wrong'' head over heels in love supporter. I like the guy's game and I thinks he's pretty damn good at making Adult Visual Novels, probably even the best. But I don't get how anyone can play the updates when they come out, or just see the fruits of this guy's labor and bitch about wait times.

There are quite a few devs that take just as long as he does per update and only trot out not even half of the work. And while we all would like more frequent updates and for the time not to increase after each episodes. Waiting six months for a 3 to 4 hour update, with multiple paths to play is always worth it when its release time.

Cyberpunk 2077 had more than 5000 people working on it and it took almost 10 years to make. We didn't even get it in playable chunks every year, we just had to wait 10 fucking years... And then it was over.

There are some games on this site that have almost weekly to bi-weekly updates, and they take minutes to complete, it's fucking pointless...

To me, the BaDIK episode sizes are great. They are long enough, and paced well enough, that when the end of the episode comes around you're not left thinking, "Is that all?" (I'm looking at you, CoBD ). Enough of everything happens that by the end of a BaDIK episode, it's quite satisfying. Of course you want more, but we'll always want more.

The episodes have started to average out at about 6-7 hours of play time (they started off a lot smaller). Most people probably don't even finish an episode in one sitting (actually I have no idea how deranged you lot are, I personally finished the last two episodes in one sitting each, I just skip sleeping those nights).

There are complaints of "padding" like DnG, but what's interesting is that one of my more popular posts was just funny quotes from the DnG games (I've realised now that DnG really serves as character development for Sally, it's not about the mc getting his dick wet, but that's in there too for those who are playing this game for all the wrong reasons. ).

I'm super happy with the way the game is being maintained. I'd hate for DPC to compromise something and then the game (or his interest in it) starts to decline.

There's enough other shit going on in life that what's 6 months between episodes? And if you lose interest before the next episode, then it doesn't really matter does it.

 

[Deleted member 3219872]

I see this in a different way than many here. A lot of us came to play this game just to see what was this all about, like it was "Just another game", oddly enough we didn't get a game with copied characters in a "re-recycle plot" with some extra lewd content in different angles.

We got into something that hooked us into a good story, with relatable characters, with attitudes and emotions that resembles real life, and some of us are more desperate than others to see where this is going. BaDIK is for me like a really good Book series (on going), that you encounter once every ten years or more, and in my opinion the best thing that you can do with it is, enjoying it, every single moment. What makes this all the more enjoyable is the wait, you know is worth to wait, but at the same time we're all desperate to see how things will unfold.

As a Warhammer 40k fan, I'm used to wait for content. My recommendation to some friends here: Just be patient, it's gonna be better for you to not rush something as good as this.

PS: I hate Tybalt so much. I've known many like him IRL.

 

[felicemastronzo]

As I just mentioned, there is actually a very high opportunity cost to DPC trying to build a team. I don't think it's worth the risk.

I'd much rather encourage him to reign in the size of updates and try to maintain a 5 month cadence when possible. That's still going to be very difficult because the guy's a perfectionist, but I think that's a much better, and far safer, hill to die on.

between doing everything yourself and building a team, which also presupposes a certain democracy in the creative process, there are intermediate steps.

talking about quality is always subjective, but many appreciated games are the result of the work of several people, I would say most of them.

DPC has to take small parts of his work, which are not very creative but time-consuming, and delegate them to someone else. someone who peels his potatoes and cuts his onions. it is an almost obligatory step to grow professionally. then if he finds people he likes and whose vision he shares, he can increase their tasks and their autonomy, but in this there is also luck, it might never happen.

the direction of his work does not go towards smaller chapters, and also for me it is not a coincidence that in the last two chapters introduced two new minigames, DPC felt the need to "do something else".

 

[DavidCSR]

'PS: I hate Tybalt so much. I've known many like him IRL' - Allarus

Tybalt is the most disgusting piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure to meet in a VN. Thankfully, I don't know anyone relatable IRL...if I had there's a good chance they would be dead by now. Jill is so innocent and naieve, she has a beautiful soul and the thought of this monster being anywhere near her, fills me with horror.

 

[shazba]

'PS: I hate Tybalt so much. I've known many like him IRL' - Allarus

Tybalt is the most disgusting piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure to meet in a VN. Thankfully, I don't know anyone relatable IRL...if I had there's a good chance they would be dead by now. Jill is so innocent and naieve, she has a beautiful soul and the thought of this monster being anywhere near her, fills me with horror.

Just look at that sneaky predator in the top left!

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So good that he got caught in the act on Rooster, and as you say, the naïve Jill was clueless!

 

[EmperorGus]

Just look at that sneaky predator in the top right!

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So good that he got caught in the act on Rooster, and as you say, the naïve Jill was clueless!

I can't believe I'm about to say something that might, in any way, be viewed as defending that... that... no, even on a porn forum I won't say it...
But, maybe... just maybe... he just happened to be walking by the window and... well... c'mon... It's Jill in a bikini. Anyone stops to look at that!
It could have be a reasonably innocent double-take that just happened to get caught on camera.
It's possible, right?
But... probably not.
Ok, ok... It's Tybalt. Of course it wasn't innocent.
Fuckin' creeper.

 

[Warscared]

and yet the only thing missing in Tybalt to make him a game MC is a gigantic cock and a dead Stephen or jailed Stephen or whatever stephen missing! He as the mother and older sister (Jade and Sage) all that is missing is his younger sister and his childhood friend and it would be the typical incest game in this site! and for younger Sister we got KRJ while for mothers best friend we got Cathy! So all that is missing is for Sally his childhood friend to realise that she only dates Magnar because Tybalt is in love with posh spice who is unworthy of his gigantic cock unlike her...

people keep talking shit about the other Males when 90% their MC`s have done far far worse!

still better then the MC of Milf*City i mean he as not raped anyone (yet?)!

and before the fakepalms arrive stop acting like your own shit does not stink!

 

[Anomander Cake]

Just look at that sneaky predator in the top right!

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So good that he got caught in the act on Rooster, and as you say, the naïve Jill was clueless!

Damn I didn’t even notice shit like this lol which I mean understandable I was only looking at Jill but I love little details like this lmao.

 

[shazba]

Damn I didn’t even notice shit like this lol which I mean understandable I was only looking at Jill but I love little details like this lmao.

Yeah, you did well finding him considering you have to take you eyes off that heaving chest and I said top right when I meant top left (looks like Jill scrambled my brain too! )

and yet the only thing missing in Tybalt to make him a game MC is a gigantic cock and a dead Stephen or jailed Stephen or whatever stephen missing! He as the mother and older sister (Jade and Sage) all that is missing is his younger sister and his childhood friend and it would be the typical incest game in this site! and for younger Sister we got KRJ while for mothers best friend we got Cathy! So all that is missing is for Sally his childhood friend to realise that she only dates Magnar because Tybalt is in love with posh spice who is unworthy of his gigantic cock unlike her...

people keep talking shit about the other Males when 90% their MC`s have done far far worse!

still better then the MC of Milf*City i mean he as not raped anyone (yet?)!

and before the fakepalms arrive stop acting like your own shit does not stink!

That what makes this game so different from so many games here, if the mc wants to fuck a girl, he lets her know it and she fucks him (or not). No buying sleeping pills off the internet, grooming jailbait, sneaking around sliding his cock across some sleeping girls nostrils. I hate the games where the mc is so creepy that he has to connive his way into a girls pants - yeah I'm looking at you Tybalt.

 

[znar25]

I have played this game several times now. I just noticed that Sally is a party girl. Could be an interesting future story line.
-Throw Sally in the bush? No.
-Lay the pipe to Sallys' bush for her bratty comments? Yes.

 

[Jimayo]

I see this in a different way than many here. A lot of us came to play this game just to see what was this all about, like it was "Just another game", oddly enough we didn't get a game with copied characters in a "re-recycle plot" with some extra lewd content in different angles.

We got into something that hooked us into a good story, with relatable characters, with attitudes and emotions that resembles real life, and some of us are more desperate than others to see where this is going. BaDIK is for me like a really good Book series (on going), that you encounter once every ten years or more, and in my opinion the best thing that you can do with it is, enjoying it, every single moment. What makes this all the more enjoyable is the wait, you know is worth to wait, but at the same time we're all desperate to see how things will unfold.

As a Warhammer 40k fan, I'm used to wait for content. My recommendation to some friends here: Just be patient, it's gonna be better for you to not rush something as good as this.

PS: I hate Tybalt so much. I've known many like him IRL. View attachment 1371608

Is that a preview? Cause he's totally the type of douche who would expect it even for a blackmail 3rd date.

 

[Oliver Wendell Homely]

I have played this game several times now. I just noticed that Sally is a party girl. Could be an interesting future story line.
-Throw Sally in the bush? No.
-Lay the pipe to Sallys' bush for her bratty comments? Yes.

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Love me some Sally! Every time DPC offers Sally content as a choice on his Patreon, though, I'm in a very distinct minority. Not sure she'll ever get any lewd content, which would be a shame.

 

[Jill_Royce]

Love me some Sally! Every time DPC offers Sally content as a choice on his Patreon, though, I'm in a very distinct minority. Not sure she'll ever get any lewd content, which would be a shame.

I hope she's not a virgin like Jill.

 

[Kellermann]

I'm by no means a head over the heels ''DrPinkCake can do no wrong'' head over heels in love supporter. I like the guy's game and I thinks he's pretty damn good at making Adult Visual Novels, probably even the best. But I don't get how anyone can play the updates when they come out, or just see the fruits of this guy's labor and bitch about wait times.

There are quite a few devs that take just as long as he does per update and only trot out not even half of the work. And while we all would like more frequent updates and for the time not to increase after each episodes. Waiting six months for a 3 to 4 hour update, with multiple paths to play is always worth it when its release time.

I think there is some misunderstanding. I agree there is a lot of content. I even agree there is a lot of excellent content. But to clarify, if I'm going to wait 6 months in between episodes then I want more story progression than filler. I don't hate the filler. I actually liked the first D&G (although the second is a pretty big fucking diarrhea shit...you tell 'em Josy!), I play all of the mini games, the new phone isn't completely terrible, free roams get me laid 6 times in an hour so can't complain too much there, but by the end of season 2 I am expecting some fucking resolutions to old plotlines to make way for the new. I don't need to know every secret of the universe, but throw me some scraps at least.

What specifically? Well I am glad you asked dear sirs! Here's a sampling:

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[DavidCSR]

'That what makes this game so different from so many games here, if the mc wants to fuck a girl, he lets her know it and she fucks him (or not). No buying sleeping pills off the internet, grooming jailbait, sneaking around sliding his cock across some sleeping girls nostrils. I hate the games where the mc is so creepy that he has to connive his way into a girls pants - yeah I'm looking at you Tybalt.' - shazba

Absolutely agree...these games where the MC creeps around the house like a sexual predator with disgusting intent...despicable from my perspective! But perspective is a subjective opinion!

 

[PashafromRussia]

Just look at that sneaky predator in the top left!

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So good that he got caught in the act on Rooster, and as you say, the naïve Jill was clueless!

I hope that the NTR tag was not accidental. Perhaps Tybalt will spy on how MC fucks Jill in her big ass. Or personally attend

 

[DavidCSR]

I have always wondered why Vinny destroyed the library and created a pigsty. I thought about it...and here's how my braincells work! If you live in the gutter and you are used to scraping by and making do...that place means nothing to you...you can walk away from it, no hooks, attachments or meanings. Vinny knew he wasn't staying so he created a place that meant nothing to him! He could walk away, without regret!

 

[DavidCSR]

I hope that the NTR tag was not accidental. Perhaps Tybalt will spy on how MC fucks Jill in her big ass. Or personally attend

A horrendous thought!

 

[Warscared]

I have always wondered why Vinny destroyed the library and created a pigsty. I thought about it...and here's how my braincells work! If you live in the gutter and you are used to scraping by and making do...that place means nothing to you...you can walk away from it, no hooks or meanings. Vinny knew he wasn't staying so he created a place that meant nothing to him! He could walk away, without regret!

there are 2 possible explinations! well 3 ...
he is a neo marxist who does not believe in trufh and therefore books triggered him! Also he is radical environmentalist that believe people should return to the old ways before technology (in this sense he is in agreement with religious extremists like the Amish...)
he is an anarchist of the individual trend that tend to libertarianism and therefore he sees libraries and the knowledge in them as ways to control the sheeple of society into compliance
or his Hero is ... Diogenes of Sinope the father of the cynic philosophy! damm love the stories about that dude! really you should go and read about his stories one of the best comedies in the world almost as good as the spartans and their laconism!

 

[DavidCSR]

there are 2 possible explinations! well 3 ...
he is a neo marxist who does not believe in trufh and therefore books triggered him! Also he is radical environmentalist that believe people should return to the old ways before technology (in this sense he is in agreement with religious extremists like the Amish...)
he is an anarchist of the individual trend that tend to libertarianism and therefore he sees libraries and the knowledge in them as ways to control the sheeple of society into compliance
or his Hero is ... Diogenes of Sinope the father of the cynic philosophy! damm love the stories about that dude! really you should go and read about his stories one of the best comedies in the world almost as good as the spartans and their laconism!

An interesting counter-argument. I feel, suddenly, very uneducated! However, I'm not convinced that Vinny thought that deeply! I have the feeling that he was like a surfer riding the waves until the waves ceased to be.