BorgiaBou

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My walkthrough focuses on the player’s choices and features many links and references to better understand their longterm consequences in the game.

I wrote my own guide first because I find Being a DIK interesting and because the official one is sometimes confusing while omitting some useful data. Whether you want to maximize your success with the love interests, or you are playing the game for the first time, this document will answer your questions. Thanks for adding a Like if you value it.
Good game to you!

You can read it and download it (40MB) on
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Summer has been busy and the guide expanded with new content!
  • Added Rewards list with the details on how to unlock them.
  • Added Wallpapers list with the details on how to unlock them.
  • DIK house makeover” guide allows you to achieve the minigame without having to keep reloading your save.
  • Made Special events timeline now clickable.
  • The most convoluted parts have been edited and many info sections written.
To moderators: I would be grateful if you could add the link inside the opening post.
Wow man nice job with this walkthrough, how is this not the official walkthrough, why the dev didn't contact you this is waaaay better than the official...
 

akki37

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My walkthrough focuses on the player’s choices and features many links and references to better understand their longterm consequences in the game.

I wrote my own guide first because I find Being a DIK interesting and because the official one is sometimes confusing while omitting some useful data. Whether you want to maximize your success with the love interests, or you are playing the game for the first time, this document will answer your questions. Thanks for adding a Like if you value it.
Good game to you!

You can read it and download it (40MB) on
__________
Last revision

Summer has been busy and the guide expanded with new content!
  • Added Rewards list with the details on how to unlock them.
  • Added Wallpapers list with the details on how to unlock them.
  • DIK house makeover” guide allows you to achieve the minigame without having to keep reloading your save.
  • Made Special events timeline now clickable.
  • The most convoluted parts have been edited and many info sections written.
To moderators: I would be grateful if you could add the link inside the opening post.
This walkthrough is amazing. I will definitely use this when i will replay the game. It even has restoration guide. amazing...(y)
 

felicemastronzo

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Wow man nice job with this walkthrough, how is this not the official walkthrough, why the dev didn't contact you this is waaaay better than the official...
This walkthrough is amazing. I will definitely use this when i will replay the game. It even has restoration guide. amazing...(y)
I also find it clearer overall than the official one.

Casiope congratulations, you've really done a great job
 
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moose_puck

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Am I the only one that thinks a 150,000+ post thread is not the way to do things?

Also, the download links are useless. I tried multiple times to download the splits using Nopy and Mega and I keep getting corrupted image rpa's. Was trying a torrent but there's only a dozen or so seeds and i really don't feel like waiting 6 hours.

Oh well, this might be the best game ever, like the reviews say, but I'll never know. Done are the days I waste hours of my time trying to "fix" things in a game.
 

Oliver Wendell Homely

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Also, the download links are useless. I tried multiple times to download the splits using Nopy and Mega and I keep getting corrupted image rpa's. Was trying a torrent but there's only a dozen or so seeds and i really don't feel like waiting 6 hours.

Oh well, this might be the best game ever, like the reviews say, but I'll never know. Done are the days I waste hours of my time trying to "fix" things in a game.
The GoFile link looks good and has the full 14.2 GB file available. Are you dealing with slow internet or what?
 

NoNameNeeded

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What strikes me as curious is why DPC decided to start fiddling with binaries etc etc now.
Wouldn't a more opportune time be after chapter 8 that's also a season ending?

If it was my project to manage and the Devs decided to come up with something for this for whatever they're developing I'd agree with the necessity but I'd push it forward.
Psychologically I think it'd be better.
It'd shorten time to release of an awaited goalpost (Chapter 8 in this case) and give more leeway as you can always point to new season coming up that'd take more time. His customer wouldn't have to wait extra time for him playing around with things that doesn't really affect the product.

This feels like a classic developer seeing something new and shiny they want to shoehorn in as soon as possible to try out and then finding reasons to do it.
I do agree with what he's wanting to do. I just feel that the timing of it is unsound from a business perspective.

That said, he isn't working a normal project in a normal business so it's a moot point really.
It still bothers my inner project manager :D
 

moose_puck

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The GoFile link looks good and has the full 14.2 GB file available. Are you dealing with slow internet or what?
No. I'm on a gigabyte fibre line. Took me about 10 mins to get all three files from Mega and Nopy. In fact I tried both sites twice. There's 56 GB of wasted, broken 0's and 1's, lol. The GoFile link seemed good but it was throttled and estimated at 4hours. I found the torrent hash and started that, since bittorrent is really good at managing errors and lets you check each file, but only 12 seeds were online and it was a 6 hour download.

I just don't have the patience anymore for trying to build working installs. I got tired of that years ago when I D/L'd a lot of Japanese games.

The part that ticks me off a bit, is a simple search of this thread alone turns up dozens of reports of the image files being corrupted, but I don't see any re-ups or fixes.

Oh well, no use moaning over it. If I get bored one of these days, I'll just throw the torrent up overnight and let it seed a bit.
 

felicemastronzo

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For the better part of this week, I wrote code and performed quality assurance for the episode by playtesting and polishing art, code, and dialogue.

I have now added music and sound effects for most of the episode, and I still need a few more songs for specific scenes.

I started working on a big coding task that I have hinted about in the past, and today it's a good time to share some details on it.

Because the game is getting pretty big, and Ren'Py is getting pushed to its limits in some areas, I want to make a new binary for Season 3.

What this means is that after you have completed episode 8, and thus Season 2, you will save your game in a menu and continue your game using another .exe/.app file.

Making a new binary has the added benefit that the initial episodes for Season 3 will have a smaller download size, and you shouldn't have to redownload Season 1 and 2 every update.

If you're getting confused by this, think of this as the same game, only sliced into another part.

Season 1 and 2 will be one separate download. And Season 3 and onward will be another download.

From a developer's standpoint, there are some challenges with this task. My goals are to make this system simple to use for all of you, robust in transferring saves, and functional for both Steam and Patreon. While I'm at it, I also want to trim some fat stored in the save files.

I have both the knowledge and strategy to do all of this, but it will take more time to implement and test it thoroughly as the game has thousands of variables that I want to control and double-check. I have already made good progress on this during this week.

Next week I will continue writing the remaining scenes and pose more static renders.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake
Honestly, I'm not surprised by this turn of events, both because the size of the game was starting to become important (and at least it was a problem for the patreons to download the whole game, I don't think it was a problem for us at F95), and because, without being alarmist, DPC likes to do other things, simply developing the game bores him, he likes to try his hand at improvements and evolutions.

this will probably lengthen the time for the first chapter of the third season, we'll see.


What strikes me as curious is why DPC decided to start fiddling with binaries etc etc now.
Wouldn't a more opportune time be after chapter 8 that's also a season ending?

If it was my project to manage and the Devs decided to come up with something for this for whatever they're developing I'd agree with the necessity but I'd push it forward.
Psychologically I think it'd be better.
It'd shorten time to release of an awaited goalpost (Chapter 8 in this case) and give more leeway as you can always point to new season coming up that'd take more time. His customer wouldn't have to wait extra time for him playing around with things that doesn't really affect the product.

This feels like a classic developer seeing something new and shiny they want to shoehorn in as soon as possible to try out and then finding reasons to do it.
I do agree with what he's wanting to do. I just feel that the timing of it is unsound from a business perspective.

That said, he isn't working a normal project in a normal business so it's a moot point really.
It still bothers my inner project manager :D
I think you are very, very close to the truth.
 

alri

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What strikes me as curious is why DPC decided to start fiddling with binaries etc etc now.
Wouldn't a more opportune time be after chapter 8 that's also a season ending?

If it was my project to manage and the Devs decided to come up with something for this for whatever they're developing I'd agree with the necessity but I'd push it forward.
Psychologically I think it'd be better.
It'd shorten time to release of an awaited goalpost (Chapter 8 in this case) and give more leeway as you can always point to new season coming up that'd take more time. His customer wouldn't have to wait extra time for him playing around with things that doesn't really affect the product.

This feels like a classic developer seeing something new and shiny they want to shoehorn in as soon as possible to try out and then finding reasons to do it.
I do agree with what he's wanting to do. I just feel that the timing of it is unsound from a business perspective.

That said, he isn't working a normal project in a normal business so it's a moot point really.
It still bothers my inner project manager :D
I could be completely wrong, but it sounds like DPC is writing a custom save file format to serve as an interface between episode 1-8 and episode 9-onward. If I'm correct, he absolutely has to do this now, because you can't add it in episode 9, because episode 9-onward is basically a new game that simply imports the relevant game state from said save file (which is not the standard Renpy save) to play the rest of the game.

If he were to implement this purely from episode 9 onwards, he would have to write a routine to import the standard Renpy save from episode 8 manually and parse out the relevant bits. I never worked with Renpy, so I don't know its internals, but processing a Renpy save might be more complicated and error prone than what he is planning on doing now.

So, from developer standpoint, I can see why he is doing what he is doing.
 

crabsinthekitchen

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What strikes me as curious is why DPC decided to start fiddling with binaries etc etc now.
Wouldn't a more opportune time be after chapter 8 that's also a season ending?

If it was my project to manage and the Devs decided to come up with something for this for whatever they're developing I'd agree with the necessity but I'd push it forward.
Psychologically I think it'd be better.
It'd shorten time to release of an awaited goalpost (Chapter 8 in this case) and give more leeway as you can always point to new season coming up that'd take more time. His customer wouldn't have to wait extra time for him playing around with things that doesn't really affect the product.

This feels like a classic developer seeing something new and shiny they want to shoehorn in as soon as possible to try out and then finding reasons to do it.
I do agree with what he's wanting to do. I just feel that the timing of it is unsound from a business perspective.

That said, he isn't working a normal project in a normal business so it's a moot point really.
It still bothers my inner project manager :D
well, you'd have to then release an updated version of Season 2 that has a save export and I'm not sure if releasing an update with no content is better
 
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