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

[Kellermann]

So ur telling me there won't be another Update all this YEAR ?

No, I was mostly joking. Mostly. I originally thought we would see ep. 9 in October, but now November is looking more likely. DPC keeps adding more things. More renders, more scenes, more animations, longer animations (hell, we even have animations within animations now). He can't help himself. I'm just curious as to how many gigabytes this monster will be. All of us are going to have to deep throat it hard on download day.

P.S. The 27 animations within one animation sounds basically like a cut scene. I don't appreciate that in a lewd scene. It takes control away from the player and turns it into just watching a porn. If I want to watch a porn I'll do it. Here I want to retain some degree of sovereignty over what I am seeing (that is kind of the point of a visual novel format). I'll direct the action and forward progress thank you very much. This new animation technique sucks balls and seems to be getting more popular. Auto changing the angles and perspectives. Fuck right off with that bs. I much prefer being able to advance the lewd scenes (renders or animations) at my own speed, when I am ready...if you know what I mean.

 

[ffive]

P.S. The 27 animations within one animation sounds basically like a cut scene. I don't appreciate that in a lewd scene.

It could easily be something like Maya's sneaking around scene at the party in ep.8, except with each bit animated instead of couple static renders for each step. So you retain control over when the switches happen, but it arguably provides bigger visual punch.

 

[Kellermann]

It could easily be something like Maya's sneaking around scene at the party in ep.8, except with each bit animated instead of couple static renders for each step. So you retain control over when the switches happen, but it arguably provides bigger visual punch.

True, but he previously talked about doing this specifically within lewd scene animations (the different angles and such). That is what I am talking about too. I don't really care that much about SFW animations. Do whatever with those.

 

[Ilhares]

Is anyone else, just circling like a hawk, waiting to be that infamous legend who gets to deflower page 10,000?

Not really, no. I view everything at 100 posts per page, so we're not even 1/5th of the way there yet. People who obsess over that are the same kind of morons that think typing "First!" on a Youtube video has some value.

Now, if you were the first person to bang Amelia in front of Jill, that'd be an accomplishment!

 

[bratan88]

I love hot girls

I love cute girls

 

[Sparhawker]

ok, I am confused...at the BIG question I had just 'Sage' or 'Others', no Jill dues to something I'm still baffled on, but then I get the message from here during her 3rd date with the moron and she seems put out I don't rush over and help. But in the WT it says if I'm not on her path then she would reject me anyway....so I'm baffled.
I actually wanted to be with Jill not sage, but that ship sailed a long time back (she never asked me to dinner). Game is too long and involved for me to go back that far to try and re-do Jill's path....WAY too long.

 

[wolfpackjac3]

My Jill run (not my main save) took me about 30 minutes.

Don't closet yourself like these others. Be proud that Jill the goblin is your main save! (MIGHT be my main save...)

 

[Sparhawker]

If you only had the options of Sage and others then you probably had DIK affinity, that locks you out of the Jill branch.You can speedrun a Jill branch pretty quickly if you make all CHICK decisions and don't chase other girls, you can use ctrl button to skip scenes. My Jill run (not my main save) took me about 30 minutes.

is that from the start to the end though? lot of choices to be made and dialogue to reply to...surely and there is free roam stuff you have to do later on where you have set tasks.....anyway...after finding out the shocker about Sage, I kinda want to see how that goes and will just play through like that.
Bit bummed that Sally never let me have a crack at her...those special renders of her just make me want her even more

 

[Canto Forte]

Sage is a wonderful babe stuck in a toxic relationship
while getting backstabbed repeatedly by all the skanks in her group.
Granted, she kind a checked out of her head bombshell duties
with the studies and the heartaches,
but MC is set to correct all of that,
be with her for good and for bad, marriage material right there.

DIK Sage

after finding out the shocker about Sage

To love and to hold for eva and eva and eva!

 

[shazba]

Sage is a wonderful babe stuck in a toxic relationship
while getting backstabbed repeatedly by all the skanks in her group.
Granted, she kind a checked out of her head bombshell duties
with the studies and the heartaches,
but MC is set to correct all of that,
be with her for good and for bad, marriage material right there.

That was... beautiful...

 

[saadniazi]

Just to remind you folks, the girls aren't real.

 

[AngelsAfterDark]

Just to remind you folks, the girls aren't real.

Also, does anyone have a plausible speculation to when episode 9 will be released?

 

[Deleted member 3788572]

is that from the start to the end though? lot of choices to be made and dialogue to reply to...surely and there is free roam stuff you have to do later on where you have set tasks.....anyway...after finding out the shocker about Sage, I kinda want to see how that goes and will just play through like that.
Bit bummed that Sally never let me have a crack at her...those special renders of her just make me want her even more

Iirc the two big choices to be made if you want to land on Jill's path are 1) take it further with her on Bella's couch and 2) go to the picnic with her when she invites you (plus, like already mentioned, not having DIK affinity in the end). So if you saved somewhere around those two scenes during your run, you don't have to start from the beginning. Depending on the game, I personally tend to save at what I think are major decisions.

Other than that, I agree. I remember after I did my first blind run, I wanted to "prepare" other paths for the next update, but even with skipping a lot, it was quite tiresome, if you have to start from the beginning. I think the problem was I wanted to have them prepared asap, which made no sense given the next update was still ages away. If you don't rush yourself and play a bit here and there, it's probably not that bad to re-do paths.

 

[Lostanddamned]

Iirc the two big choices to be made if you want to land on Jill's path are 1) take it further with her on Bella's couch and 2) go to the picnic with her when she invites you (plus, like already mentioned, not having DIK affinity in the end). So if you saved somewhere around those two scenes during your run, you don't have to start from the beginning. Depending on the game, I personally tend to save at what I think are major decisions.

Other than that, I agree. I remember after I did my first blind run, I wanted to "prepare" other paths for the next update, but even with skipping a lot, it was quite tiresome, if you have to start from the beginning. I think the problem was I wanted to have them prepared asap, which made no sense given the next update was still ages away. If you don't rush yourself and play a bit here and there, it's probably not that bad to re-do paths.

Is your Bianca route save ready?

 

[felicemastronzo]

Iirc the two big choices to be made if you want to land on Jill's path are 1) take it further with her on Bella's couch and 2) go to the picnic with her when she invites you (plus, like already mentioned, not having DIK affinity in the end). So if you saved somewhere around those two scenes during your run, you don't have to start from the beginning. Depending on the game, I personally tend to save at what I think are major decisions.

Other than that, I agree. I remember after I did my first blind run, I wanted to "prepare" other paths for the next update, but even with skipping a lot, it was quite tiresome, if you have to start from the beginning. I think the problem was I wanted to have them prepared asap, which made no sense given the next update was still ages away. If you don't rush yourself and play a bit here and there, it's probably not that bad to re-do paths.

I admire your optimism in preparing runs that do not yet exist... (Josy and Maya separately, Bianca, Zoey etc.)

 

[Lostanddamned]

I admire your optimism in preparing runs that do not yet exist... (Josy and Maya separately, Bianca, Zoey etc.)

It's better to do it early on instead of having to replay 10-12 episodes (or whenever the option will be available) though. It's a hassle, but the bigger a game gets it gets more annoying having to redo it.

For example I separated my saves early on: Bella route, Sage route, Jill route (that I will also use for Bianca if it's dependent on the Jill route), Maya & Josy (I emphasized on Josy on that route) and Others. But Bianca might be also available on the Others route, because it's the only one we see her boyfriend cheating on her (although MC doesn't know he is Bianca's boyfriend at the time).

 

[felicemastronzo]

It's better to do it early on instead of having to replay 10-12 episodes (or whenever the option will be available) though. It's a hassle, but the bigger a game gets it gets more annoying having to redo it.

For example I separated my saves early on: Bella route, Sage route, Jill route (that I will also use for Bianca if it's dependent on the Jill route), Maya & Josy (I emphasized on Josy on that route) and Others. But Bianca might be also available on the Others route, because it's the only one we see her boyfriend cheating on her (although MC doesn't know he is Bianca's boyfriend at the time).

for me we really know too little for these routes (assuming they really exist), when there is real content to be found I will think about it

you risk preparing a route doomed to failure (what if Zoey was only reachable under certain conditions? for Bianca do you have to be in the Jill path or could it be a dead end? for Maya and Josy being rejected is better or worse?)

since the time between chapters is unlikely to fall below 6 months, I don't see a problem with doing a special run when the time comes (doing an 8 chapter speed run without minigames takes a couple of hours)

 

[Lostanddamned]

for me we really know too little for these routes (assuming they really exist), when there is real content to be found I will think about it

you risk preparing a route doomed to failure (what if Zoey was only reachable under certain conditions? for Bianca do you have to be in the Jill path or could it be a dead end? for Maya and Josy being rejected is better or worse?)

since the time between chapters is unlikely to fall below 6 months, I don't see a problem with doing a special run when the time comes (doing an 8 chapter speed run without minigames takes a couple of hours)

Do you really want to spend 2-3 hours when the new content drops so you can get it instead of playing your ready saves with the new content though?

I prefer doing it beforehand, because we are in waiting anyway and not lose my time when the new content drops.

 

[felicemastronzo]

Do you really want to spend 2-3 hours when the new content drops so you can get it instead of playing your ready saves with the new content though?

I prefer doing it beforehand, because we are in waiting anyway and not lose my time when the new content drops.

it's not as if when the new chapter comes out the only thing that matters is that little exclusive content of a new route

if Josy/Maya's run started in the ninth chapter, we'd still be talking about a little content, which even if I play it last (after the content of the other LIs and others) it's not like I'd feel cut off from anything

assuming the dedicated run actually goes well and wasn't a complete waste of time.

 

[Envy*]

In fact, when I think about it, I never managed to establish a three-way relationship with Josy and Maya. What did you have to do to be in a relationship with those two?