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

[felicemastronzo]

I'm sure the time between chapters can grow even more. This is the bane of all non-linear games. With each new part, more intersections and options means more renders, more dialogues, more animations with each part. It's all need time. I play a lot of VN and often see this situation.
By the way, the drama is not only with Jill and her connection with Lynette. In every relationship there is such a thing. Sage is Burke's trap. Bella has a trap with her husband. Maya and Josy are just a doomed way from Acting Lessons and I imagine the drama when you have to choose one of them. Quinn (and she will be among the main girls) is a trap with her criminal business. And don't forget Zoey. The possibilities for content are endless.
There are also many unsolved questions of the global plot in the game. 8 parts have passed, and we only have guesses on most issues. There is still a lot of work ahead.

most of the little mysteries I wouldn't even assume will ever be unraveled, but they're still pretty much irrelevant in the micro world of MC and his LI

a chapter whose main content was finding out why Melanie interfered between Chad and Sage would probably be an "empty" chapter, and likewise for lots and lots of mysteries that have accumulated so far

but the point is that there is no way to quantify how many chapters are needed to tell BADIK's story, the whole drug war could run out in a moment or last 2-3 seasons, look at Maya's debt for how long it drags on and how long it could drag on, even an infinite amount of time might not be enough.

the issue of Lynette's family ditto, it may end in a diary chapter or give way to a clash for inheritance

and in this the greater "size" of the chapters does not come to us much, large chapters but with content exclusive to the different paths, which do not advance the horizontal plot because that must be common to all

 

[captcha69]

so at this point we kinda have to accept that this year we will have just one chapter, right? sad, and is all Zoey´s fault, i dont even know the girl and she is already annoying me!

 

[Walter Victor]

so at this point we kinda have to accept that this year we will have just one chapter, right? sad, and is all Zoey´s fault, i dont even know the girl and she is already annoying me!

Women! Am I right!?

 

[felicemastronzo]

so at this point we kinda have to accept that this year we will have just one chapter, right? sad, and is all Zoey´s fault, i dont even know the girl and she is already annoying me!

think when we get Dawe's interlude....

 

[NebulousShooter]

shazba whip out your table with all the plots still not resolved. Time to see how many we can squeeze in 2 episodes to confirm Arigon's prophecy

Edit: found it https://f95zone.to/threads/being-a-dik-interlude-season-3-dr-pinkcake.25332/post-6999868

 

[NebulousShooter]

DPC hates redheads

Mona? kicked out/escaped from the BR
Cathe? humiliated and fled from the BR
Sage? all the bad luck he could think of (boyfriend, best friend, stepbrother, stepfather..), and the worst is yet to come

I had this in my bookmarks for whatever reason, thanks for reminding me of DPC's transgressions

 

[Cabin Fever]

so at this point we kinda have to accept that this year we will have just one chapter, right? sad, and is all Zoey´s fault, i dont even know the girl and she is already annoying me!

2 releases this year were never really on the cards at all except for the irrationally optimistic ones, even if we didn't have the interlude release.

 

[felicemastronzo]

2 releases this year were never really on the cards at all except for the irrationally optimistic ones, even if we didn't have the interlude release.

sooner or later a year with only one chapter would have happened anyway

I don't blame the interlude, but that, plus DPC's COVID stop week, plus the launch on GOG, plus the launch of the second season aus STEAM led to this

if proximately back on the 6 month wait would not be bad

 

[Xabder]

sooner or later a year with only one chapter would have happened anyway

I don't blame the interlude, but that, plus DPC's COVID stop week, plus the launch on GOG, plus the launch of the second season aus STEAM led to this

if proximately back on the 6 month wait would not be bad

i also have a strong feeling that we cant expect an update before the end of the year

 

[felicemastronzo]

i also have a strong feeling that we cant expect an update before the end of the year

this year, no doubt...

 

[TheVengefulOne]

sooner or later a year with only one chapter would have happened anyway

I don't blame the interlude, but that, plus DPC's COVID stop week, plus the launch on GOG, plus the launch of the second season aus STEAM led to this

You're wrong. We should blame ourselves, i.e. people who supported him as he drew out the release dates further and further.

As far as I know when I cancelled my pledge he was still working alone and I think he still is, with the amount of money he is making he can upgrade his equipment to no end, or hire people to render for him, write the code and so many other things to shorten the development time, but he doesn't.

Because we love BAD.

 

[Deleted member 3788572]

LOL, you just put a target on this fella's back. YO! Sage stans! look at this infidel!

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Come at me

 

[vixen20]

Well now I feel personally attacked!!
jk, I agree to a certain extent that we computer dwellers are privileged

I really doubt DPC has ever spent 12 straight hours coding, and if he has, then he's doing it wrong (unless it's simple if else monkey typing).
I've done my fair share of overtime and what I can say is that it's actually quite counter-productive, it absolutelly drains me mentally, and after 6 or 7 hours my logical thinking starts to go out the window and I start to run circles around the problem. Then I go home after spending 10 hours around a problem, get a good night of rest and sleep, return to work the next day and manage to fix the problem in 2 hours.
And although the work is not physical, anyone who thinks these conditions for prolonged times won't fuck up your health is dead wrong.
Every collegue of mine attests to the same problem, the only people who actually think more time == more work done (by a single person) in IT are clueless business managers.

But in DPC's case, since he wants to do everything himself he'll always have more menial tasks that barely require a braincell to be done so he can do that when he's tired and he'll still be putting in the hours.

I'm assuming he's taking into account the rendering his PC's are doing as part of his work hours - checking in on them and the like, making sure they don't break down. I agree that I find it hard to believe he's in front of a computer all day, especially with a wife and presumably a social life of some sort.

 

[Darkwen]

I'm assuming he's taking into account the rendering his PC's are doing as part of his work hours - checking in on them and the like, making sure they don't break down. I agree that I find it hard to believe he's in front of a computer all day, especially with a wife and presumably a social life of some sort.

DPC is from the future and came back after learning how clone so one is on a computer all day another is with his wife and another is doing cool guy stuff

 

[Sancho1969]

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...
<walks by humming an ol' Neil Diamond tune:>
Sweet Caroline... dom..dom..dom...
Good times never seemed so good...
<walks away whistling>
...

 

[Josy Lover]

anybody know when the next update is comin?

 

[Sancho1969]

anybody know when the next update is comin?

All I know is I can't wait to see what cheat I get to come up with next:
I've helped you automatically get test A!
I've helped you automatically Drink!
I've helped you automatically Fight!
I've helped you water plants
I've helped you automatically paint fences
I've helped you make $ for windows
... and the best one ...
I've helped you play IHOP chef and flip pancakes

WTF else is anybody's damn guess, ain't it?

 

[shazba]

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Well, that's already been posted a couple of time before. But it's so good, I'm not complaining about being forced to see it again.

Unpopular opinion here. I don't like her face in that shot...

It's ok though, I'll just stare at her ass.

On the practical aspect, I agree with you.

even if i follow very few games, there is always a complete game that i am curious to play (now i am playing now and then, very nice)

however, let's not hide behind a finger, the longer the process, the more the risks increase. in the first 3 pages of the most beloved games there are 10 abandoned projects out of 90, it doesn't seem little to me, considering that the completed ones accumulate acclaim while the abandoned ones collect grudge votes.

If this game were to be abandoned, I would grieve, certainly. But life goes on. It certainly wouldn't be the first game I've been interested in that was abandoned. Nor would I hesitate to withdraw Patronage were DPC to start ghosting us. Don't see that happening, though, either.

He's been making games now for almost 5 years (Acting Lessons and BaDIK). He finished Acting Lessons, and he's consistently delivering on this game. So there's absolutely no sign of him slowing down.

This game is now his main income, so he has an incentive not to just walk away. Plus the guy is driven. He consistently works like a mad man. Normal rules of slackers pulling the pin because they aren't making bank simply don't apply to him.

My biggest concern is he wakes up one day and says, "What the fuck am I doing with my life!?", when he realises his legacy will be a porn game that's only appreciated on the far corners of the Internet.

So please, nobody tell him that, ok?

shazba whip out your table with all the plots still not resolved. Time to see how many we can squeeze in 2 episodes to confirm Arigon's prophecy

Edit: found it https://f95zone.to/threads/being-a-dik-interlude-season-3-dr-pinkcake.25332/post-6999868

You might get more than you bargained for when you start asking me to whip things out!

2 releases this year were never really on the cards at all except for the irrationally optimistic ones, even if we didn't have the interlude release.

sooner or later a year with only one chapter would have happened anyway

I don't blame the interlude, but that, plus DPC's COVID stop week, plus the launch on GOG, plus the launch of the second season aus STEAM led to this

if proximately back on the 6 month wait would not be bad

I dunno, mpa71's BigTable™, indicates around 5 and a half months for the last few episodes (you gotta discount the time taken for all that one-time development of the exporting, so episode 8's time was uniquely extended).

I still think 2 episodes in a 12 month window sound feasible, but obviously not in the same calendar year for the next two, but I don't see why episode 10 & 11 won't happen next year.

...
<walks by humming an ol' Neil Diamond tune:>
Sweet Caroline... dom..dom..dom...
Good times never seemed so good...
<walks away whistling>
...

 

[Sancho1969]

He's been making games now for almost 5 years (Acting Lessons and BaDIK). He finished Acting Lessons, and he's consistently delivering on this game. So there's absolutely no sign of him slowing down.

This game is now his main income, so he has an incentive not to just walk away. Plus the guy is driven. He consistently works like a mad man. Normal rules of slackers pulling the pin because they aren't making bank simply don't apply to him.

My biggest concern is he wakes up one day and says, "What the fuck am I doing with my life!?", when he realises his legacy will be a porn game that's only appreciated on the far corners of the Internet.

So please, nobody tell him that, ok?

Likely one of the best reply snippets I've seen in some time...

and the vid reply to me

 

[Walter Victor]

He's been making games now for almost 5 years (Acting Lessons and BaDIK). He finished Acting Lessons, and he's consistently delivering on this game. So there's absolutely no sign of him slowing down.

I believe he has also said that he has some thoughts for a new game. So the creative juices are still flowing. I also think he is smart enough to know that if he rushes the end of this one, he will lose players and supporters for any new game.