VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.11.1] [DrPinkCake]

[Darkwen]

Appreciate it mate, but isnt this the 2nd preview? AFAIK the first hasnt been shared yet?

there are two stripper Josy previews that was the first one the second came out a few days ago

 

[hakuna-matata]

100% This episode is coming out next year.

 

[NoboodyDies]

there are two stripper Josy previews that was the first one the second came out a few days ago

Ahh gotcha, it just said preview #2 and #3 respectively to the 2 stripper ones, i assume #1 is an unrelated preview?

 

[always86]

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This week I started off making animations and renders for a lewd scene. After that, I felt like playtesting Sage's branch while polishing everything I found along the way.

I created Pack quest for the episode, added all lewd scenes to the gallery, tested special renders, and fixed some code for it. I fixed a big chunk of the final free-roam event code and wrote a bit more dialogue. I added some more choices and a couple of new scenes and polished what I could spot.

I enjoyed playing Sage's branch, and I'm sure you will too. What struck me the most were the differences between Isabella's and Sage's branches, playing them back-to-back. All hard work is feeling worthwhile, and this episode is starting to come together.

Here are some stats on the current progress and what I have left to do:

Episode 9 current total:

• 4564 static renders (0 in the render queue)
• 260 animations (231 animations produced, 29 in the render queue)
• 25 new songs
• 8 new sound effects
• 18 2D-art pieces
• 5 2D-art animations

Work that remains:

• 2 scenes left to write
• 6 scenes left to make art for
• 3 lewd scenes to make animations for (50-80 animations)
• Make some missing GUI for the new mini-game.
• Add music (95% done)
• Add SFX (95% done)
• Special renders/2D art - Some testing remains
• Scenes gallery - Testing and a couple of thumbnails for the missing lewd scenes remain
• Playtest and polish (20%)
• "Previously on Being a DIK" section
• Ending screens for all branches
• Verify bug fixes from the Interlude.

Phone content:

• Rooster (90% done)
• Phone chats (90% done)
• Bios (0% done)
• Stats (Testing remains)
• Vault (Testing remains)

Overall completion:
Static renders: 95% (Based on a 4800 render target)

Animations: 76%-84% (Final animation count is still hard to estimate)

Writing/Coding: 95%

Further insight:
I am currently alternating between writing the final scenes, posing animations, and playtesting/polishing everything. As always, I aim to keep a 24/7 uptime on my render stations while multitasking the remaining areas.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Well here are some tables. Still renders passed episode 8 a couple of weeks ago. Nice progress probably still a few hundred left to pose and render, depending on how big the remaining scenes are. Average for the episode is up to 142.6 a week so getting close to the 148 average of episode 8. This should be a fairly straight forward, as we've known for the last few months the animations are what is drawing things out.



Animations are a little harder to judge anyway, but progress this episode has been closer to the dev cycles of episode 5 and 6 while totals have now surpassed the one time high of episode 7 and and could reach above episode 8, presuming there are, as he forecasts, between 79 and 109 to render (not to mention posing 50-80).



The average for this epsodes animations has been 8.1 per week. This has included some long animations and so it's a litte hard to compare with previous releases. That said the last few weeks when DPC said he'd be working on shorter animations have seen an average of 11.8 completed per week. (59 between week 27 and 32). If the later average holds he has between 6.7 and 9.2 weeks of rendering time left for animations. This would mean animations completed between November 18th and December 9th. With two weeks of beta testing a December release is now almost certain with a release around Christmas very possible.

 

[Darkwen]

Ahh gotcha, it just said preview #2 and #3 respectively to the 2 stripper ones, i assume #1 is an unrelated preview?

one I believe is the normal preview for Josy in EP9 well as normal as the best girl can be

 

[dalli_x]

I'm reckoning the pregnancy test is Ashley and it's Derek's

Quite possible. During a Rooster Cluck in EP4 by Derek Branch, the MC can reply that the two should finally get a room. It even says so in the official walkthrough.

 

[DrSoong]

Quite possible. During a Rooster Cluck in EP4 by Derek Branch, the MC can reply that the two should finally get a room. It even says so in the official walkthrough.

And one time at the HOTs house (don't know the Ep, but it was the one Maya visiting Josy after she got a HOT), Ashley and Derek both entered a room (i'll think, it was empty before and no one went in with them), so this also could be the source of the later pregnancy test.

 

[gamingdevil800]

Updated BigTable™ with the recent informations.
SevenMonthsLater!

• Progress Report since the 23 September table(2 weeks ago):
  • 450 Renders been completed, 32.1 R/D
  • 19 Animations completed, 1.36 A/D
  • 3 additional Music, 4975 $ total if all Premium, as it's the trend to be
• Renders target been pushed to an extra +150:
  • Renders Progress: 89% > 95% | Animations Progress: 71% > 77%
• DPC finished produce content for 11 scenes out of the 17 previously left.
• Now the major issue with the animations left, with the rate of 1.36 animations per days:
  • if we need 79 left to be produced it would need 58 days (8 weeks)
  • if we need 109, 80 days (11 weeks)
• With that data in mind, a Release Estimate would thrust to mid-December as Early 2023 (40-44 weeks)...

Renders ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ 95%​

Animations ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ 77%​

Release Estimate ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ 85%​

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EP​	Renders​	Animations​	Music*​	Size (GB)​	Release​	Development Time​	Ratio*​	R/D​	A/D​	sA/D​
EP1	1301	51 (3:29)	—	≈1.1	07 Feb 2019​	— days	—​	—​	—​	—​
EP2	1709 (+31%)	77 (3:36) (+26)	—	≈2.3 (+1.2)	04 May 2019​	087 (2 months, 28 days |≈12 weeks)	22.1​	19.6​	0.89​	2.48​
EP3	2289 (+34%)	99 (4:42) (+22)	—	≈4.1 (+1.8)	16 Aug 2019​	105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)	24.5​	21.8​	0.94​	2.69​
EP4	2532 (+11%)	134 (7:57) (+35)	—	≈6.1 (+2.0)	10 Jan 2020​	148 (4 months, 26 days |≈21 weeks)	20.3​	17.1​	0.91​	3.22​
EP5	2456 (-3%)	157 (8:35) (+23)	17 (3.4K$)	≈8.0 (+1.9)	29 May 2020​	141 (4 months, 20 days |≈20 weeks)	21.1​	17.4​	1.11​	3.65​
EP6	3336 (+35%)	162 (8:33) (+5)	24 (4.8K$)	≈11.1 (+3.1)	13 Nov 2020​	169 (5 months, 16 days |≈24 weeks)	22.8​	19.7​	0.96​	3.04​
EP7	3723 (+12%)	250 (18:14) (+88)	18 (3.6K$)	≈14.5 (+3.4)	23 Apr 2021​	162 (5 months, 11 days |≈23 weeks)	29.7​	23.0​	1.54​	6.75​
EP8	4158 (+12%)	358 (26:21) (+108)	34 (6.8K$)	≈19.5 (+5.0)	19 Nov 2021​	211 (6 months, 28 days |≈30 weeks)	27.2​	19.7​	1.70​	7.49​
EPI	794	36 (4:36)	19 (3.8K$)	≈2.6 (new)	4 Mar 2022​	105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)	10.1​	7.6​	0.34​	2.53​
EP9	4564 (+23%) Target ≈4800	231 (260) Target ≈300	25 (5.0K$)	—	in development​	217 (7 months, 3 days |≈31 weeks)	—​	21.0​	1.06​	—​

Complete Table with the help of Holy Bacchus† original post — Being a DIK in development since 3 years, 8 months (44 months / 191 weeks / 1,338 days / 31,112 hours)
* 199$ Premium Licensed Music ; Total: 22,288$ — Ratio values exclude EPI/EP9 ; Ratio: (Renders/Days + SecondsAnimations/Days) [Average: 24.0 ; Last Two: 28.5 (+19%)]
Renders/Days [Average: 19.8 ; Last Two: 21.3 (+8%)] — Animations/Days [Average: 1.15 ; Last Two: 1.62 (+41%)] — SecondsAnimations/Days [Average: 4.19 ; Last Two: 7.12 (+69%)]

Thumbs Up to:
| Casiope's DIK Walkthrough | AchedCroissant's EP9 Preview Collection | shazba's Q/A Story Summary |

Don't worry guys EP10 will only take 11 months, 28 days to make
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[hakuna-matata]

Don't worry guys EP10 will only take 11 months, 28 days to make
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The crazy part is we should be already heading to episode 10

 

[Deleted member 2461802]

I enjoyed playing Sage's branch, and I'm sure you will too.

Oh, you bet your ass I will enjoy Sage's play through. But you gotta finish the chapter first mate

 

[Deleted member 2461802]

Don't worry guys EP10 will only take 11 months, 28 days to make
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Isn't that the Big Red Machine turned politician?

 

[Hahn1900]

It would be so great to have another thread only for oficial updates and news, and not to have to dive into a pile of stupidities and bad jokes in order of getting information about this game

you know... well... you could sup DPC at his patreon page and than even join Discord? But of course... the pirate site has to do the job for you hm?

I appreciate it very much that some guys are posting these things... looking for it in this thread takes about 1 minute... if that is too much... oh well... oO

 

[gamingdevil800]

The crazy part is we should be already heading to episode 10

Curse that Interlude only AchedCroissant loved it

 

[Ottoeight]

So, where are the guys who keep telling us: "stop whining: everythin' is fine. DrPinkCake knows best. Oh, by the way, Interlude was such a great thing"?

Come on, don't be shy.

 

[DrSoong]

you know... well... you could sup DPC at his patreon page and than even join Discord? But of course... the pirate site has to do the job for you hm?

I appreciate it very much that some guys are posting these things... looking for it in this thread takes about 1 minute... if that is too much... oh well... oO

It's not only about the news why i love this thread, it's also about the talking with ghe others and making some kind of "fan-fiction" by discussing possible further storylines. The weekly news is only a small appetizer, it's the crowd fantasizing around that makes me come back to this thread.

 

[allanl9020142]

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I want to start this update with two important news. For the first time since I started working in this game I have hired a new artist to help me speed things up. This is going to be a permanent adition and I am quite excited that it would make development way faster. I will introduce him in the following days.

I also decided to remove a couple scenes I was planing to include wich means the actual target of animations left to render has been severely reduced. All things considered, with the new aditions and the new goal I think we can start beta testingin a couple weeks aiming for an early November release. Don't get too excited thought, the release may be delay a couple days if things don't go smoothly.

When it comes to this week I have been working and mostly completed a new scene I was hoping to work on for a long time now. I don't want to spoil anything but I think you will like it guys. It's the first foursome ever in the game and I am hoping this to be a new feature in every update. Special thanks to Heycock for sugesting me some of this changes.

Have a nice weekend
Love ya
Dr PinkCake


(Just a joke, no real update)

I mean just the sheer amount of typos in there would've been a big tip off lol. "Two important news" - yea that sounds reaaaaaal official.

 

[allanl9020142]

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View attachment 2086902

This week I started off making animations and renders for a lewd scene. After that, I felt like playtesting Sage's branch while polishing everything I found along the way.

I created Pack quest for the episode, added all lewd scenes to the gallery, tested special renders, and fixed some code for it. I fixed a big chunk of the final free-roam event code and wrote a bit more dialogue. I added some more choices and a couple of new scenes and polished what I could spot.

I enjoyed playing Sage's branch, and I'm sure you will too. What struck me the most were the differences between Isabella's and Sage's branches, playing them back-to-back. All hard work is feeling worthwhile, and this episode is starting to come together.

Here are some stats on the current progress and what I have left to do:

Episode 9 current total:

• 4564 static renders (0 in the render queue)
• 260 animations (231 animations produced, 29 in the render queue)
• 25 new songs
• 8 new sound effects
• 18 2D-art pieces
• 5 2D-art animations

Work that remains:

• 2 scenes left to write
• 6 scenes left to make art for
• 3 lewd scenes to make animations for (50-80 animations)
• Make some missing GUI for the new mini-game.
• Add music (95% done)
• Add SFX (95% done)
• Special renders/2D art - Some testing remains
• Scenes gallery - Testing and a couple of thumbnails for the missing lewd scenes remain
• Playtest and polish (20%)
• "Previously on Being a DIK" section
• Ending screens for all branches
• Verify bug fixes from the Interlude.

Phone content:

• Rooster (90% done)
• Phone chats (90% done)
• Bios (0% done)
• Stats (Testing remains)
• Vault (Testing remains)

Overall completion:
Static renders: 95% (Based on a 4800 render target)

Animations: 76%-84% (Final animation count is still hard to estimate)

Writing/Coding: 95%

Further insight:
I am currently alternating between writing the final scenes, posing animations, and playtesting/polishing everything. As always, I aim to keep a 24/7 uptime on my render stations while multitasking the remaining areas.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Ah yes. Give me those sweet numbers.

 

[ffive]

So, where are the guys who keep telling us: "stop whining: everythin' is fine. DrPinkCake knows best. Oh, by the way, Interlude was such a great thing"?

Come on, don't be shy.

Probably bored with responding to the same whine and dance every week. I know i am.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

So, where are the guys who keep telling us: "stop whining: everythin' is fine. DrPinkCake knows best. Oh, by the way, Interlude was such a great thing"?

Come on, don't be shy.

I don't see any problem. The fact that the game will not be released within a month, and the release will be at the end of November- duringDecember is not a catastrophe of a universal scale. For you, this game is the meaning of life?

 

[dalli_x]

And one time at the HOTs house (don't know the Ep, but it was the one Maya visiting Josy after she got a HOT), Ashley and Derek both entered a room (i'll think, it was empty before and no one went in with them), so this also could be the source of the later pregnancy test.

You mean EP8. But Derek doesn't go into her room with Ashley. That was Elena with John.

In EP7 there is another opportunity for Ashley and Derek to fuck when the MC interferes. Then Ashley has her walk of shame.

But looking at my mentioned Rooster Cluck from EP4 and reading Derek's list from EP6, Derek fucked with Ashley because her name is crossed out on the list. If the MC doesn't intervene in EP7 and leave Ashley with Anthony, here's what could happen. Ashley is pregnant by Derek but thinks the father is Anthony. Or Derek's swimmers were too slow and Anthony is the father. How could this be? In EP3 on the Pink Rose Chick Trail, Derek tells the MC that it already burns when he pees. Gonorrhea. Derek fucks with Ashley in EP4.

I actually have 4 girls that are eligible for pregnancy.

Heather: Okay, that's not a big surprise. Possible father Tommy.
Ashley: That doesn't make for big eyes either. Possible fathers Derek or Anthony
Camila: Is pregnant. Possible father Anthony
Lily: Pregnant. Possible father Anthony

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Look at the background. Anthony can be seen with Ashley, Lily and Camila. All three are on the DIK (left side) of Anthony. So my guess is that Anthony impregnated one of the three. Where. during EP7 Hot's party. If the MC is Behave, he can still send Ashley to Derek. But Anthony stays at HOT's house. Lily wants nothing to do with Jimmy. Understandable. If the MC isn't screwing Lily, maybe Lily snagged Anthony. And why? Ashley is screwing Derek and Lily, her friend, is screwing Anthony. But if the MC screwed Lily, Anthony doesn't stand a chance and will stay with Camila. As we learn later, Camila was very drunk and therefore easy prey.

DPC shows us some things, but it's hard to see anything like this. I just found something yesterday that made me laugh.

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XOXO. X is the Roman numeral for 10. The 10th letter in the alphabet is J. JOJO. What is the name of JOJO on Rooster? MsSunshine.

Why am I writing this? There is a picture on Rooster. "Sisters ln Crime." I suppose the MC should stay away from these three girls.

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Ashley is probably pregnant and might try to pin that on the MC, especially if the MC was on the Sage Branch of EP4 in the HOT'S sauna.

Lily is involved with drugs, is a stripper and prostitute. VIP Pass.

Melanie is the vampire in the threesome Bert talks about in EP8. You can only drive her away with JOJO (MsSunshine) in EP8. When the MC with Jojo enters the room where Elena and John are, Melanie disappears.