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

[AchedCroissant]

Backgrounds are just a disaster and a problem for all independent developers. Almost everyone uses ordinary photos for backgrounds and therefore there is a discrepancy between the environment and the model of the characters, as for example here

But there's something left that Pink still hasn't fixed.

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Come on DPC with a team of 300 workers can fix that face in 4 years of development

 

[Walter Victor]

You can't enroll in a University after the academic year has started. And you MUST submit a few months before the academic year starts.

Different universities in different countries have different admission rules.

Whatever actual university policies might be, B&R allows 'rejects' to enter if there are 'no shows' or 'quitters'. We are told that Quinn and Riona were both 'rejects' and we see (in Episode 3) Lily and Caleb being led in by Cathy during the 'March of the Rejects'. That is also how Josy gets in.

So, it would seem to me that all we need is for a student to leave during the semester for there to be an opening for Zoey. Let's see now, has anyone left? Like maybe Mona? Or perhaps even a student who is pregnant? Has anyone gotten pregnant? Hmm...

 

[nyrek]

You gently put her down? Gently? GENTLY?

yes. you talk like grown ups. better than a screaming match. or the axe from bella's garage into your skull.

 

[always86]

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This week I wrote dialogue, planned more of what I needed to write, and coded almost every day.

I got into a good flow and managed to create a lot of content for the episode.

I wrote entire scenes and the shell of other scenes that I will continue working on.

Looking only at the amount of code written so far (scenes, free roam, branches, etc.) and comparing it to Episode 8, the longest episode in the game, I'm at 54% completion of dialogue if I was aiming to match episode 8 size.

We'll see where we end up in terms of size.

Next week will be a mix of posing animations and writing. I feel I want to continue writing before I work on static renders to be sure of how much I'm putting in the episode.

All PCs are rendering at full speed throughout all of this. 70 animations are completed so far.

You can look forward to a fresh preview next week.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Didn't get round to posting this on Friday.

Since we got a new animation update I have updated my chart.



Animations have averaged 10 a week since the last update, however only 8.75 since Week 1. Episode 8 had (an estimated) 104 completed and an average of 13 at the same time in production.

The last update on stills was week 5 and there were an average of 160 compared to episode 8 which only had an average 60 at the same point.

If the average of animations continues to be about 10 as the last few weeks, then he won't reach the episode 7 total of 250 until August 28th pushing the release into late September.

In my last update I predicted an August release. I'm still hopeful for that, as the early numbers can be a bit a bit misleading, but honestly, i'd say from a visuals production side he is behind schedule, and looking more and more likly there will only be 1 proper chapter this year. (Though that does open the door for 3 next year)

 

[PashafromRussia]

Oh, you would never find me calling those a masterpiece.
I call shit, shit.... I call excellent writing, excellent writing.
DPC is not excellent writing.
And I don't hate him.
He is arrogant.
He is a control freak.
He is a hugely talented artist.
He is a mediocre or worse writer.

When people say something like that, they don't even have an idea what is a good or bad letter. The story of DPC is simple, but it works as it should. And that's the main thing. Excessive attention to detail would complicate and confuse the narrative (which is what many games on this site do). All that people consider bad writing is gameplay assumptions without which some elements of the game would not work. Of course, I have complaints about the narrative of DPC, but it is not so terrible (at least by the standards of games on this site) as you think.

 

[NebulousShooter]

Not entirely true.
DPC is a control freak. He is clearly not a perfectionist. One only needs to breeze through BaDIK or AL without paying too much attention to see shit tons of mistakes and clear breaks of logic in his writing. He HIMSELF has said writing is his weakest link. He clearly should come up with the over arching ideas, and then let better writers write, and let the proof reading and editing team actually do what they need to do, instead of tread around his huge ego.

Peace.

Has he ever said that beside that one time when he was discussing exposition in erotic scenes, because if not, you are just taking him out of context to enforce your bias?

 

[phill_leotardo]

Oh, you would never find me calling those a masterpiece.
I call shit, shit.... I call excellent writing, excellent writing.
DPC is not excellent writing.
And I don't hate him.
He is arrogant.
He is a control freak.
He is a hugely talented artist.
He is a mediocre or worse writer.

Not going to comment on his personality as I don't engage on his patreon or discord, all I know of him is from this thread. But surely he deserves the money he makes, which is what matters the most. Theres quite a few people in this forum who holds a game developer tag but can't even boot a PC. There is also game devs who are lazy and take advantage of people's support. This pinkcake guy, you can tell by the gameplay itself he was working hard to drop an update, whenever it comes out.

One of the few good devs in adult games today.

 

[paulphoenix]

hello friends, anyone had issues with pancakes minigame, my best score is 400 points and i almost hit the green zone, and i never unlock the episode 5 cooking reward. how can this be achieved, you have to do 100 perfect hit pankcake in the exact center ???

 

[felicemastronzo]

hello friends, anyone had issues with pancakes minigame, my best score is 400 points and i almost hit the green zone, and i never unlock the episode 5 cooking reward. how can this be achieved, you have to do 100 perfect hit pankcake in the exact center ???

that game never succeeded for me.... is my kryptonite....

 

[PashafromRussia]

The problem i have with this forced mentality, because of personal impatient. Yes, it might be achievable what you say, but it's not Risk free right? You admit yourself. and thats alone enough to not risk it, because if it's not work, he end up in a worst position.
The blame is on him no matter what, so why he should rely on other people's. Instead of developing the game in his own pace, he would spend time overseeing the other peoples, to do the things the way he want them to do, and even then its not gonna be they way he would done it.

Cristiano ronaldo can be the greatest player all time, but if the other 10 is not on his level, than the team is weak. Tiger woods don't need to rely on anybody.

by doing the things the way DPC doing, he does not have to rely on anybody , the failure and the success are both his. But it is his failure if he has a team too, however the succes would be considered " Team effort " .
Yeah I would not need this either. and the truth is it has way more chance that the game would suffer, if DPC hired a team. The risk is to big to take it , it is obvious so its not gonna happen.
and no matter how many times people try to force this idea it's not worth it. If it would he would already done it.

Everything is somewhat simpler. Pink said that BAD would be his last game after which he would retire. It makes no sense to hire a team for a game that can be done in 2 years with a team.

 

[rafaaa]

Will season 3 the last season or we will have more seasons for BaD?

 

[BigBlueDude]

Will season 3 the last season or we will have more seasons for BaD?

DPC have said 16 to 20 episodes as I recall. 4 seasons at least.

 

[Meushi]

You mentioned a few answers in your post about the value of recruiting:

• Offer a better quality game;
• increase the frequency of the release;
• thus, gain more contributors on Patreon;
• finally free up more time for himself, for his family, or to devote to the task he enjoys the most.

Many popular game on this forum have taken this step. I'm not saying teamworking is effortless or risk-free, but the challenge is achievable. There are even projects that have survived thanks to this move.

You're just not getting it, as shazba explained in excruciating detail, DPC isn't running a business per se, he's monetized his hobby/passion. He wants to write the story, do the code, create the renders/animations. He's said he has no intention of using a team, as it would ruin his vision of the game, he'd be a terrible manager & it'd hurt his productivity. And he's making much more money than most in this scene, hiring people would likely reduce his earnings if anything.

None of your points apply, it's simply about people wanting faster updates, rather than what's best for DPC or his game.

Everything is somewhat simpler. Pink said that BAD would be his last game after which he would retire.

Where exactly did DPC say this (quote/link/screenshot), because this is the first I'm hearing of this? It's certainly plausible, given how long it's going to take to finish BaDIK.

 

[Heycock]

Oh, you would never find me calling those a masterpiece.
I call shit, shit.... I call excellent writing, excellent writing.
DPC is not excellent writing.
And I don't hate him.
He is arrogant.
He is a control freak.
He is a hugely talented artist.
He is a mediocre or worse writer.

I am just curious, then who would you consider to be a good writer on this genre?

 

[EthanP.]

You're just not getting it, as shazba explained in excruciating detail, DPC isn't running a business per se, he's monetized his hobby/passion. He wants to write the story, do the code, create the renders/animations. He's said he has no intention of using a team, as it would ruin his vision of the game, he'd be a terrible manager & it'd hurt his productivity. And he's making much more money than most in this scene, hiring people would likely reduce his earnings if anything.

None of your points apply, it's simply about people wanting faster updates, rather than what's best for DPC or his game.

Where exactly did DPC say this (quote/link/screenshot), because this is the first I'm hearing of this? It's certainly plausible, given how long it's going to take to finish BaDIK.

DPC has in fact stated the opposite. He has already thought about what could be next after BADIK. I think he talked a little about it in one of the Q&As, but I only remember that he intended for it to have less LIs and be located in a small town or similar.

 

[BakaRaBakaRa]

DPC have said 16 to 20 episodes as I recall. 4 seasons at least.

Yes and enjoy the full game in the year 2030.......

 

[TimHawk]

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I love how ever since he said, that he considering writing as his weakest talent, everyone one of you DPC hater always use this as some kind of self validation, like : " Haha I told you so, See, he is a shit writer, he said it himself, I was right, haha shit writer , everything he write is shit, he should hire other to write for him, because he can write to save his life. I was Right haha
" Did I miss anything ?

meanwhile in other games : " You just a cheap 20 dollar whore who look like Monica buckfett so shut up and suck my dick " - But somehow, these masterpiece writing style never encourage people to say, may be the creator should just stick to the render making , and let others do the writing for him,I wonder why

The worst part of this is peoples reading comprehension, now some of it might be due to a language barrier, but I think some people are just understanding it the way they want to.

'Weakest' doesnt mean weak, it's a comparison to all his other skills like rendering, coding, time management and animations.

The 100 meters were Usain Bolts weakest race, yet he still holds the world record by a mile and won every olympic gold medal, he just happened to be even better at the 200 meters. Is DPC a 1 in a billion writer ? Ofc not, but he spins a nice yarn and for a 1 man show, its surpringly entertaining and fun.

Prob best to ignore people who constantly repeat the same thing over and over, they're just fishing for someone to bite.

 

[Train of Thought]

Everything is somewhat simpler. Pink said that BAD would be his last game after which he would retire. It makes no sense to hire a team for a game that can be done in 2 years with a team.

This is a false claim which directly contradicts what DPC has said himself multiple times in the past (incl. the most recent Q&A).
Actually, this isn't the first time you have said something in the name of DPC and added 'he said so on Discord' or something along those lines even when he hasn't done so or has said something similar but in a different context. You twist DPC's words or make some claims and then support them by adding the 'DPC said so on Discord' line each time relying on people on here not checking for themselves or just taking your word for it (which would be the wrong thing to do because 90% of those are false).
I don't see a reason why would you do it, but you still do because no one has called you out yet.
This post about Badik being 'DPC's last game', your post about 'DPC coming up with the Interlude during work (or smth like that)' even though it was meant in a completely different context and said by him about the start of his AVN journey in general and not the Interlude separately, claiming that 'DPC has confirmed that he uses Blender on Discord' which he never did, etc.
Enough is enough, don't make outright false claims because sooner or later people might and will catch on...

Where exactly did DPC say this (quote/link/screenshot), because this is the first I'm hearing of this? It's certainly plausible, given how long it's going to take to finish BaDIK.

Nowhere, because DPC never said that

 

[Heycock]

I am genuinely curious too, and ask for recommendations; I have not played many of this genre, already without much confidence left when I ran into games like summer's gone in the first page of top rated game while in the process of trying out other VNs.

Usually the titles I remember being called,besudes SG, are City of Broken Dreamers, Depravens Awekening, and Pale Carnation.
All of the previous games I mentioned are more dark and for sure have their apealing to people invested into science fiction and social corruption. Personally I dont have any special interest in both themes, less related to sex, and when it comes to sex games, I think narrative and sex appeal are connected.

Now, I am not an expert on the subject couse honestely never really readed almost any of the games i played here except Badik, the reason being I wasn't looking for normal fantasy escapism. I did readed some of them, one i really personally like was Battle of Lluvia, sadly never got enough support and is pretty much dead by now, even on the first act of the story. Also the porn was awfull.

Even if I am not an authority on the subject I still find better BADIK than all of them.

 

[TimHawk]

I am genuinely curious too, and ask for recommendations; I have not played many of this genre, already without much confidence left when I ran into games like summer's gone in the first page of top rated game while in the process of trying out other VNs.

I can give you my opinion on some games that I like and are a bit alike to BaDIK. In no particular order.

The Deluca Family , however if you decide to give it a try, keep in mind that updates are at a snails pace, an incapacitated snail at that.

Intertwined , school setting and the game will confuse the hell out of you, its a good hell tho. If Dalli_x ever discoveres it, we will have lost him forever.

Leap of Faith , nobody MC meets superstar Singer, gotta warn you tho, suicide is an important part of the game, so if you're sensitive to that, it's probably best to stay away.

Chasing Sunsets , Stepbro + Stepsis, nicely written with not many, but sufficient side stories and the best humor I've ever seen in a game. 'PHRASING'

You already mentioned Summer's gone, so that's 4 games where I can say 'give it a try, maybe you like 1 or 2'.

Final disclaimer : I dont think any one of those rise to the overall level of BaDIK, but they are 100% enjoyable for me.