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

[Pendrell]

The longest animation I've done to date has almost been completely rendered. It's currently 1 minute 16 seconds (2281 renders) long. It needs a few more hundreds of renders before PCs are freed up for other animations; this should happen before next Friday.

Intrigued to know what the long animation/cutscene is. It's taking up a lot of resources, that's for sure, so I hope it ends up being worth it.

 

[NebulousShooter]

Intrigued to know what the long animation/cutscene is. It's taking up a lot of resources, that's for sure, so I hope it ends up being worth it.

Everyone anticipates it to be lewd, watch it be the episode ending in cinematic form, instead.

 

[AchedCroissant]

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Ricky besto girl

 

[Darkwen]

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Here's an attempt at a status update to give you some stats as I wanted for Friday.
Work completed:

• 3652 renders (3569 produced and 83 in the render queue)
• 211 animations (201 animations produced, 10 in the render queue)
• 22 songs

Work that remains:

• 8 scenes left to write
• 50 scenes left to pose art for (~1000 more static renders)
• 3-4 lewd scenes to make animations for (<100 animations)
• Make some missing GUI for the new mini-game.
• Write some code needed for other mini-games.
• Add music (almost done)
• Add SFX (almost done)
• Rooster (90% done)
• Other phone content (Phone chats/Calls, Bios, Stats, Pack Quest, Vault)
• Collectibles (special renders/2D art/scenes) - Only testing remains
• Playtest and polish
• Verify bug fixes from the Interlude.

Overall completion:
My best shot at estimating a completion % right now is:
Static renders: 79%
Animations: 70% (based on animation count, not duration. The longest animations are almost done, so this number should increase faster from now on.)
Writing/Coding: 95%
Render and animation numbers are based on a target of ~4652 renders and 300 animations; subject to change if needed.
The writing/coding percentage is my gut feeling.
Further insight:
Lately, I've done most of Rooster, the main menu art, Jill's special render set, and placement of magazines/unlockables. These tasks require a lot from me, and I'm happy I'm close to done with all of them.
Long animations have been rendering for the last month, and I haven't been animating a lot which is why this count isn't much bigger than the last report I did.
The longest animation I've done to date has almost been completely rendered. It's currently 1 minute 16 seconds (2281 renders) long. It needs a few more hundreds of renders before PCs are freed up for other animations; this should happen before next Friday.
Threesome animations are still in the render queue and have been there for the last two months. They take a very long time to render but are worth it.
I will have a split focus on renders and animations in the upcoming weeks.
I hope you had a nice weekend! I'm still a bit tired, but I've rested and am fit to work again.
Thanks again for your amazing support. I couldn't ask for a better community.

Dr PinkCake

Josy Mc Zoey 3some, soo is it just me or is this update going to be like 5 hours of play

 

[felix andre]

fabulous!!, how the heck I've missed this masterpiece before?

 

[felicemastronzo]

Josy Mc Zoey 3some, soo is it just me or is this update going to be like 5 hours of play

overall I think even more, but for the single run I don't think so, in fact it will probably be slightly shorter than the previous chapters (which basically left us quite free to enjoy almost all the content in a couple of runs)

 

[anonnyscouse]

Could be about an hours play through each run, throuple, Sage, Jill, Bella, single dik and single chick. Obviously with crossover content repeated subsequent playthroughs after main run would get progressively shorter using ctrl.

 

[shazba]

Could be about an hours play through each run, throuple, Sage, Jill, Bella, single dik and single chick. Obviously with crossover content repeated subsequent playthroughs after main run would get progressively shorter using ctrl.

An hour each run? Are you suggesting that as an average after skipping through seen text on subsequent runs? I’m guessing the first run will be close to 6-10 hours!

If you’re gonna skip through seen text for the rest then they take minutes, but given how long the wait will be until the next episode, why not play each path correctly, and pace yourself?

I know I’m gonna play the first run pretty quickly, after which there’s no mad rush to get through all the other paths.

On that note, which paths are you guys most eager to see first?

Mine would be:

1. Quinn
2. Jill
3. M&J
4. Sage
5. Bella

That’s not necessarily my preference for LI, but the order that I’m curious to see where things are headed.

 

[AchedCroissant]

An hour each run? Are you suggesting that as an average after skipping through seen text on subsequent runs? I’m guessing the first run will be close to 6-10 hours!

If you’re gonna skip through seen text for the rest then they take minutes, but given how long the wait will be until the next episode, why not play each path correctly, and pace yourself?

I know I’m gonna play the first run pretty quickly, after which there’s no mad rush to get through all the other paths.

On that note, which paths are you guys most eager to see first?

Mine would be:

1. Quinn
2. Jill
3. M&J
4. Sage
5. Bella

That’s not necessarily my preference for LI, but the order that I’m curious to see where things are headed.

 

[Jonboy80]

Finally, after fiddling with it on and off throughout the day, I managed to get into Episode 8 via JoiPlay using the compressed version of BAD. Posting this here for anyone else who may have the issue.

First, I downloaded the compressed 0.8.2version from the OP without upgrading it to 0.8.3.

Next, I downloaded the Rusty Windows Crash fix in the OP

I still crashed at the transition to E8 until I then downloaded the Sancho mod here: https://f95zone.to/threads/being-a-dik-interlude-season-3-dr-pinkcake.25332/post-7671344 along with the Sancho version of the Rusty Windows Crash fix.

After doing that, I finally was able to start E8.

 

[Gh0st_Harambe]

An hour each run? Are you suggesting that as an average after skipping through seen text on subsequent runs? I’m guessing the first run will be close to 6-10 hours!

If you’re gonna skip through seen text for the rest then they take minutes, but given how long the wait will be until the next episode, why not play each path correctly, and pace yourself?

I know I’m gonna play the first run pretty quickly, after which there’s no mad rush to get through all the other paths.

On that note, which paths are you guys most eager to see first?

Mine would be:

1. Quinn
2. Jill
3. M&J
4. Sage
5. Bella

That’s not necessarily my preference for LI, but the order that I’m curious to see where things are headed.

1-Sage
2-Jill
3-Others
4-J&M
5-Bella

 

[Hahn1900]

I think as most of us feared things seem very beind previous episodes. I appreciate last week will have slowed things down, but in general the progress for this episode has trailed well beind what has come before.

As always these numbers are based on confirmed completed (I don't count posed stills or animations, only rendered). Stills look like this.

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Animations look like this.

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In fairness animations are very tricky to judge as he seems to be counting longer animations as 1 which means if he has lots of short ones the average could shoot up. If he has lot's of long ones the average could continue to be low.

Now for some forcasting. At current averages stills should reach his target around week 35 or 36 (28th October - 4th November). Plus a couple of weeks beta testing that means if it were just these we were waiting for we could see release 18th-24th November. However we also need animations...

Spoiler: Still Render Forecast

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At current averages he won't hit his animations target until the week of December 9th (Development week 41)...

Spoiler: Animation Forecast

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This is the current averages compared to the completion averages on Episode 8.

Week	Total	Average
27​	3569​	132.1851852​
27​	201​	7.444444444​
28​	4158​	148.5​
27​	358​	13.25925926​

The reason I mention these is that if he could reach similar averages again for the remainder of development things would get done much earlier.

Spoiler: Forecast Based on Episode 8

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As seen in the forecast based on episode 8 he could be done with both stills and animations around week 35 or the 28th of October leaving a November release on the table. I think it will probably be somewhere between the two meaning most likely an early December release.

thank you for the incredible effort.

So about 75% is done for the episode... assuming that he worked right after the interlude on the episode (lets be honest here, he was working on episode 9 during the work on the interlude too or beforehand, DPC hinted that already by himself around new year) there is still maybe 2 months of work ahead... october is out of the window i would say. November is the best guess now.

Doing the renders and such maybe is finished during october... but than he has to do polishing and to prepare the release too, its not just "yeah last render is done, lets upload this shit" there is still work to do for about 2 weeks on top until a release... cause he makes this as a professional, not as a hobby like most DEVs do around here... he will have to react on feedback from the testers too and such... this consumes some time too.

So, my bet always was october, thats not very realistic anymore... more like very optimistic. Will settle with mid-November for now.

 

[camube]

Will episode 9 be bigger than episode 8? i haven't follow BaDIK development in some time.

 

[Blades1138]

An hour each run? Are you suggesting that as an average after skipping through seen text on subsequent runs? I’m guessing the first run will be close to 6-10 hours!

If you’re gonna skip through seen text for the rest then they take minutes, but given how long the wait will be until the next episode, why not play each path correctly, and pace yourself?

I know I’m gonna play the first run pretty quickly, after which there’s no mad rush to get through all the other paths.

On that note, which paths are you guys most eager to see first?

Mine would be:

1. Quinn
2. Jill
3. M&J
4. Sage
5. Bella

That’s not necessarily my preference for LI, but the order that I’m curious to see where things are headed.

How dare you ignore Nicole.

 

[nyrek]

On that note, which paths are you guys most eager to see first?

1. M&J - it's my first option and can't wait to see what happens in the meeting with burke
2. jade - I feel the meeting might end up being a bit more fun if you're fucking jade
3. jill - purely interested in how well does fuckface deal with the torch and pitchfork wielding villagers who come after the goblin

jokes aside, can't wait for ep. 9 to see how the story progresses on all fronts
yes, even quinn path

 

[Overam22]

Hey, guys. Just had time to actually finish all the content (i was at ep 7 so had a lot to catch up lol) and am loving all the new things so far.

Removing those songs is gonna be sad, i gre quite attached to them to even buy them myself, but anyway the thing is: Don't you think things have been like... too good to be truth recently? i played Acting lessons and know how Dr. Pinkcake tends to write, but that's what worries me, like there's gonna be some major plot twist for the worse, at first i thought it would be something like Tyballs putting something in Jill's drink during their last date and assaulting her, but thank god that wasn't the case, now what really bugs my mind is: You think that reading that diary we will find out that Neil is not MC's biological father?

What made me think about it is that Luis commented: "Wow you don't look much like your dad now" and since then that posibility got stuck in my head

 

[BeingADikDik]

Hey, guys. Just had time to actually finish all the content (i was at ep 7 so had a lot to catch up lol) and am loving all the new things so far.

Removing those songs is gonna be sad, i gre quite attached to them to even buy them myself, but anyway the thing is: Don't you things have been like... too good to be truth recently? i played Acting lessons and know how Dr. Pinkcake like tends to write, but that's what worries me, like there's gonna be some major plot twist for the bad, at first i thought it would be something like Tyballs putting something in Jill's drink during their last date and assaulting her, but thank god that wasn't the case, now what really bugs my mind is: You think that reading that diary we will find out that Neil is not MC's biological father?

What made me think about it is that Luis commented: "Wow you don't look much like your dad now" and since then that posibility got stuck in my head

Neil and his best friend (Tommy's dad) double creampied Lynette, but Neil was shooting blanks.

 

[shazba]

Will episode 9 be bigger than episode 8? i haven't follow BaDIK development in some time.

Each episode tends to get bigger and bigger. The dev mentioned he was gonna try to cap that in this episode, but I think he lost control of himself again and we’re in for the biggest episode yet!

 

[Hahn1900]

Will episode 9 be bigger than episode 8? i haven't follow BaDIK development in some time.

Hm, just for the numbers DPC is producing, yes... seems to be more renders and about the same animation count, but bigger animations overall...

But will the playtime be longer cause of that? Dont have to be the case...

Big Free-Roam Events take a lot of renders and animations away i think, like the big HOTs party in episode 7 or dorm party in episode 8... but overall they dont take that much "playtime" or better said, reading-time... the dialogues are more or less short in these freeroams. And the most time consuming things are the minigames and hidden features in these free-roams. And to discover every possiblity... If your not that thoroughly (or just not a guy who cares about the 100% playstyle) those free-roams take about 30-40% of the episode but are feeling way shorter than the rest if you are not on a discover tour.

The upcoming episode will have the biggest free roam event so far with the upcoming halloween party... so... if youre not the guy going for "every little bit" of the game, this big party might be nearly 40% of the episode, but like i said... if youre not a 100% guy these free roams can be played in a "short" way... that can cut a episode short. or make them feel "shorter" than the render and animations count shows.

With being a dik you cant just say "more renders and animations means more playtime" it highly depends on your playstyle, what youre aiming for, are you going for every girl, are you making several playthroughs, and if youre playing minigames too... the minigames in BaD are very time consuming too...

So its not that easy to say "the new episode will be bigger"... but it seems that way that DPC is making more stuff overall, and there will be a new "bigger" minigame too... so more time consuming stuff on top

 

[allanl9020142]

I do like that some routes straight up have scenes (even outside of the girl-specific stuff) that the player may not otherwise see that still adds to the game.

Like how if you choose to hit up Sage instead of Jill, you get more interactions with and related to the other HOTs. If you're after Quinn, you see a couple of Jill's friends making out in public. You can straight up miss dialog scenes with the strippers or even Bella depending on choices too. Heck, I'd argue that a chunk of the game's enjoyment comes from the twitter-alike where you're commenting or liking people's posts and engaging with the characters that way, and that's almost entirely miss-able aside from one or two instances.

Yea that's one of the things that makes it feel like a whole world instead of self-contained events one after another. I really appreciate those small details.