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

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19Castiel23

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It was an amazing week, and right now, I'm drained. Releasing the game on Steam and GOG was such a relief in many ways, and I could feel how my stress levels have reduced since yesterday.

The launch went smoothly, thanks to rigorous testing by my team of testers, and the launch also exceeded my expectations for it.

It makes me both overjoyed and intimidated seeing what level we're at after these 3.5-ish years of development of Being a DIK.

The best feeling about today is that I can put 100% focus on game development again very soon.

The last two months have been filled with testing, bug fixing, behind-the-scenes work in preparation for the Steam/GOG release, and customer support.

It's been necessary work, but I'm happy knowing I can get back to what I truly love doing very soon - creating.

I have been sneaking away to work on the interlude a lot throughout all of this. It's been my guilty pleasure, and it's coming along very nicely.

I don't dare estimate how far I am with the development, but I have a very good feeling about the progress. I'll know more soon when I work full-time on it.

Season 3 release information
When Season 3 drops on Patreon, with the interlude being the first mini-episode, I want to clarify what you can expect when it comes to the release.

You will be able to get the base Season 3 version (The Interlude) from these tiers:

  • Huge DIK tier ($25) at release
  • DIK tier ($10), three days after release
  • And even the Mini DIK tier ($5), two weeks after release
This means that you don't have to pledge the DIK tier to get the Interlude. And you can use this version and patch it throughout Season 3 in the Mini DIK tier if you wish.

The usual release schedule will resume starting with episode 9, which follows the interlude. When episode 9 is released, the base game is placed in the DIK tier as usual, and only the patches will be available in the Mini DIK tier.

Transferring save files to Season 3
You can use any save transfer files from either Patreon/GOG/Steam Season 2 versions to start playing Season 3 on Patreon when it is released.

To show you how it looks like when you transfer a save to Season 3, this is an example of the Patreon/GOG import screen (they share the slots).



And if you click the text button up top that says "Click to change source," you can conveniently swap to importing the Steam save files. Like this:



Click any of your save files to load and continue your adventure.

The actual saving and loading within Season 3 are handled like usual; only the save transfer between Season 2 and Season 3 looks like this.

The saves you make while playing the Patreon version won't work with Steam or GOG versions when those versions are released in the future.

I hope all of this gets clear in time; it often helps to have the game and click the buttons for yourself to understand it better. I'll do my best to help sort out any confusion along the way.

Patron milestone reward
I'll end this status update with a huge thank you to everyone supporting me here and/or on Steam/GOG.

And here is the next reward in the patron milestone series; the first wallpaper of Maya and Josy, as ordered.

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UWD
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We're up to part 3 now out of...many parts.

Have a great weekend, DIKs and HOTs

Love

Dr PinkCake
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Josy and Maya my love :love:
 
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BaDIK #2 top global sellers yesterday

Not bad :cool:


PashafromRussia said:
In parallel with testing, DPC makes animations, renderings and mini-games, as it claims in status updates. I think he has been testing and preparing all week, so there is not much progress.
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He needs to provide support to GoG&Steam players so next weeks will be slow too, that task is a time sunk. I was thinking february now I'm thinking march.
 
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kyrlian said:
BaDIK #2 top global sellers yesterday

Not bad :cool:




He needs to provide support to GoG&Steam players so next weeks will be slow too, that task is a time sunk. I was thinking february now I'm thinking march.
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The main bugs have already been fixed with patches. The main problem that users have addressed on the forum and in the discord is the conflict of pirated modifications and cheats. So I think everything will go smoothly.
 
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hakuna-matata said:
I think the episodes will take longer to create going forward because of the branching.
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Yes :p And Nope :p Theoretically this would be happening but since he knows this too he said that the updates onward won't be filled with THAT MUCH content as were 7-8... this will help somewhar to maintain the approx 6 months production time / chapter(s)... Though this does not mention any unexpected mishaps so the production length may still vary so or so ! :p:LOL:
 
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PashafromRussia said:
He has a team of testers, so I think testing and bug fixing took no more than 40% of his working time. He has already done a number of animations and renders..
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I don't think he's talking about less than 40% of his work:

The last two months have been filled with testing, bug fixing, behind-the-scenes work in preparation for the Steam/GOG release, and customer support.
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hakuna-matata said:
I think the episodes will take longer to create going forward because of the branching.
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with DPC the branching is reduced to a minimum, the only thing that will really change is that in one run you will be able to see "less" content

As is almost always the case there will be a series of scenes that you can access or not, including the break up with the girls dumped in the decision of last chapter

And 6 months of development is not a small amount of time...
 
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PashafromRussia said:
We are waiting for a mini-episode about Riona, Quinn, Vinnie, Jade...
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I think the whole sentence gives it other meaning:
"When Season 3 drops on Patreon, with the interlude being the first mini-episode"
So Interlude is supposed to be a first "episode" for Season 3, and that's all (at least I'm hoping I undestand that correctly, coz while having mini-episode about Riona would be cool, I'd rather see main plot being developed at steady pace without any extra delays... ;) )
 
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felicemastronzo said:
with DPC the branching is reduced to a minimum, the only thing that will really change is that in one run you will be able to see "less" content

As is almost always the case there will be a series of scenes that you can access or not, including the break up with the girls dumped in the decision of last chapter
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I really hope that isn't going to be the case. I've actually finished very few Ren'Py games, because I always hate being forced into a certain direction. This game so far has being giving a lot more choice imo, I just hope it ends with us being able to pick what girl we want to end up with. I know that's probably not going to happen, because it's a huge amount of content to create.
 
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Redd23 said:
I think the whole sentence gives it other meaning:
"When Season 3 drops on Patreon, with the interlude being the first mini-episode"
So Interlude is supposed to be a first "episode" for Season 3, and that's all (at least I'm hoping I undestand that correctly, coz while having mini-episode about Riona would be cool, I'd rather see main plot being developed at steady pace without any extra delays... ;) )
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Before that, he called the Interlude just a mini-episode. Although indeed this may be a common technical clarification. But it seems to me that mini-episodes will become the norm for him and an interludies between long releases of the main episodes.
 
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I don't feel the hype at all, but don't let me and others who have soured on the Interlude dissuade you. Plenty of people are excited for it and will probably have a good time playing it. For me, I'd rather DPC have scrapped the Interlude altogether and just get straight into ep. 9 instead of focusing so much time on one background character.
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And, one background character that would otherwise have been mostly forgotten with everything else going on. Not an Interlude fan myself.
 
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JackThe Lad said:
I really hope that isn't going to be the case. I've actually finished very few Ren'Py games, because I always hate being forced into a certain direction. This game so far has being giving a lot more choice imo, I just hope it ends with us being able to pick what girl we want to end up with. I know that's probably not going to happen, because it's a huge amount of content to create.
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no forcing on the LI to be chosen (apart from some blocking mechanisms linked to affinity or other)

but the story will remain solidly one

at the meeting with Burke MC goes there anyway, and when he sees Jade's picture he panics anyway
in the same way when there will be to solve the mystery of Lynette's photo anyway Mc will do it with Jill

Then there will be scenes that you can access or not depending on the choices you make.

only the fourth chapter has been strongly different from player to player, and in fact the characters have decided to forget everything that eventually happened back then... because this premature divergence didn't fit with the story
 
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