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

[Zorad]

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I've been coding for the better part of last week, but I also wrote some story and posed art.

Mostly, I've been working on an updated version of Brawler this week, and I need a few more days of work with the remaining art before I am done with it.

It's an ambitious upgrade of this mini-game, which is now taking its third and most likely final form.

Even though it's been remade from scratch, it will feel familiar but improved and expanded upon. I'm very pleased with how it plays.

Here are some screenshots of it.

As you may have noticed, I've been powering on with mini-games lately since I know I have to do a few more for episode 10. I'm trying to get most of it out of the way early, so I can focus on writing and creating art soon.

After Brawler, there's one shorter mini-game and some final work on a scientific mini-game left to do.

I have a healthy animation queue alongside this development. It allows me to focus without being interrupted.

I can also notice how the usual stress I feel about Custom renders being completely gone now that I have removed that tier reward.

I've been able to put an unhealthy amount of hours into coding this week because of this, and I love every second of it.

I will have the first part of the Q&A posted sometime next week. I'm splitting it into two parts, like last year's Q&A.

First, there will be a part about your Being a DIK questions, and after that, a part about game development. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions!

A special render poll is currently ongoing

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- where either Maya, Sage, or Isabella will get a set of renders dedicated to them in episode 10. If you want to participate, you have until next Friday.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Brawler has been my favorite mini-game since I started playing the game back in episode 5, so I'm very excited to see the final product.

Alas, this was the classic development news that gets people mad about his mini-game fetish. At this point in time though, it's pointless to discuss whether he should keep making them every new season or just stop them altogether. It's a given that he WILL keep making these mini-games whether we like it or not, so the point of discussion should be about how fast he's getting these games done. If you ask me, it seems like the progress with them is going reasonably fast. 5 out of the 7 mini-games planned for episode 10 are done in about a month of work, that's not bad.

While the mini-games are being made, the true culprits of the longer development time - the animations - are rendering, so it's not like he's wasting precious time when he's programming said mini-games. In fact, if he just stopped making theses games, the development time would still be the same. Look at how episode 9's dev time went for example, we spent two whole months WAITING for the animations to be done, so the mini-games are not the problem here.

 

[The Glorious LIME]

She didn't have a scene, because it's the start of her "I'm not just a whore, I could be MC's girlfriend" arc...

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That's a positive thing tho, so it's more like this for Rio fans:



That's way better than those who wanted Jill to suck a dick and ended up deep throating a banana instead:

 

[BorgiaBou]

After Brawler, there's one shorter mini-game and some final work on a scientific mini-game left to do.

 

[saynotoNTR]

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[DaBigGreek]

DPC is the gold standard of AVNs bar none and did it again with the latest release. Support him on his Patreon, so deserves it.

Love the love given for more Lily content, love to "roll" with her!!!!!

 

[Mmoney7187]

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I've been coding for the better part of last week, but I also wrote some story and posed art.

Mostly, I've been working on an updated version of Brawler this week, and I need a few more days of work with the remaining art before I am done with it.

It's an ambitious upgrade of this mini-game, which is now taking its third and most likely final form.

Even though it's been remade from scratch, it will feel familiar but improved and expanded upon. I'm very pleased with how it plays.

Here are some screenshots of it.

As you may have noticed, I've been powering on with mini-games lately since I know I have to do a few more for episode 10. I'm trying to get most of it out of the way early, so I can focus on writing and creating art soon.

After Brawler, there's one shorter mini-game and some final work on a scientific mini-game left to do.

I have a healthy animation queue alongside this development. It allows me to focus without being interrupted.

I can also notice how the usual stress I feel about Custom renders being completely gone now that I have removed that tier reward.

I've been able to put an unhealthy amount of hours into coding this week because of this, and I love every second of it.

I will have the first part of the Q&A posted sometime next week. I'm splitting it into two parts, like last year's Q&A.

First, there will be a part about your Being a DIK questions, and after that, a part about game development. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions!

A special render poll is currently ongoing

You must be registered to see the links

- where either Maya, Sage, or Isabella will get a set of renders dedicated to them in episode 10. If you want to participate, you have until next Friday.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Hell yeah new brawler lets gooo! Here's hoping the MC gets a cool hallway fight scene like Old Boy or Daredevil!

 

[Darkwen]

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I've been coding for the better part of last week, but I also wrote some story and posed art.

Mostly, I've been working on an updated version of Brawler this week, and I need a few more days of work with the remaining art before I am done with it.

It's an ambitious upgrade of this mini-game, which is now taking its third and most likely final form.

Even though it's been remade from scratch, it will feel familiar but improved and expanded upon. I'm very pleased with how it plays.

Here are some screenshots of it.

As you may have noticed, I've been powering on with mini-games lately since I know I have to do a few more for episode 10. I'm trying to get most of it out of the way early, so I can focus on writing and creating art soon.

After Brawler, there's one shorter mini-game and some final work on a scientific mini-game left to do.

I have a healthy animation queue alongside this development. It allows me to focus without being interrupted.

I can also notice how the usual stress I feel about Custom renders being completely gone now that I have removed that tier reward.

I've been able to put an unhealthy amount of hours into coding this week because of this, and I love every second of it.

I will have the first part of the Q&A posted sometime next week. I'm splitting it into two parts, like last year's Q&A.

First, there will be a part about your Being a DIK questions, and after that, a part about game development. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions!

A special render poll is currently ongoing

You must be registered to see the links

- where either Maya, Sage, or Isabella will get a set of renders dedicated to them in episode 10. If you want to participate, you have until next Friday.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

In the long run its a smart move to take care of the mini game stuff now and doesn't seem to be slowing him down which is the important part. Hopefully this development time will be shorter even if he is a LAMF

 

[saynotoNTR]

Hell yeah new brawler lets gooo! Here's hoping the MC gets a cool hallway fight scene like Old Boy or Daredevil!
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A hallway fight scene? The MC will be lucky if he doesn't get his ass kicked by Sage, dude.

 

[gamingdevil800]

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I've been coding for the better part of last week, but I also wrote some story and posed art.

Mostly, I've been working on an updated version of Brawler this week, and I need a few more days of work with the remaining art before I am done with it.

It's an ambitious upgrade of this mini-game, which is now taking its third and most likely final form.

Even though it's been remade from scratch, it will feel familiar but improved and expanded upon. I'm very pleased with how it plays.

Here are some screenshots of it.

As you may have noticed, I've been powering on with mini-games lately since I know I have to do a few more for episode 10. I'm trying to get most of it out of the way early, so I can focus on writing and creating art soon.

After Brawler, there's one shorter mini-game and some final work on a scientific mini-game left to do.

I have a healthy animation queue alongside this development. It allows me to focus without being interrupted.

I can also notice how the usual stress I feel about Custom renders being completely gone now that I have removed that tier reward.

I've been able to put an unhealthy amount of hours into coding this week because of this, and I love every second of it.

I will have the first part of the Q&A posted sometime next week. I'm splitting it into two parts, like last year's Q&A.

First, there will be a part about your Being a DIK questions, and after that, a part about game development. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions!

A special render poll is currently ongoing

You must be registered to see the links

- where either Maya, Sage, or Isabella will get a set of renders dedicated to them in episode 10. If you want to participate, you have until next Friday.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

He's redesigning all the mini games

Conspiracy theory I swear like a month or two development time gets spent on all these mini games he loves throwing in

 

[Ir0n Ma1den]

Damnn the new brawler mini-game looks impressive. Despite some people shitting on DPC for his minigames, I personlliy find them pretty imerssive. (Though I would have preferrd bralwer to be a martial arts club in the game then a phone app, but I'm happy with what we got).

My only problem with the game right now is the giant open-world section, I also like the inclusion of open world, but I believe DPC needs to tame himself in that regard (From his latest dev journal entery, he understand that he jumped over his head in episode 9 with the open world). and his new 4090 is already up to the task.

 

[saynotoNTR]

Damnn the new brawler mini-game looks impressive. Despite some people shitting on DPC for his minigames, I personlliy find them pretty imerssive. (Though I would have preferrd bralwer to be a martial arts club in the game then a phone app, but I'm happy with what we got).

If DPC doesn't plan to give a big focus on combat in the coming seasons then I don't think it's necessary to work on the brawler mini-game. However, if he's thinking of doing some sort of tournament or starting a fight club then I think that's a valid idea.

 

[The Glorious LIME]

This thread whenever a Status Update hits & people still don't accept how DPC works:

Just kidding, if you could swallow a banana, you can take a joke

 

[saynotoNTR]

This thread whenever a Status Update hits & people still don't accept how DPC works:
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Or maybe they just don't know how DPC works? In that case, it only remains to theorize about the updates.

 

[Mmoney7187]

A hallway fight scene? The MC will be lucky if he doesn't get his ass kicked by Sage, dude.

She's the real final boss, how else are you gunna get that 5/5 rating from her?

 

[Lovetities]

Honestly I am excited for these minigames. They add more activities to the game. New Season means new brawler and classes. I just hope DPC doesn't overdo the animation this time and find the balance between plot and the freeroams.

 

[KaiserPyro]

Troy is a jerk, or at least appears as one, sure. But I don't think hitting him after someone else has already hit him before is necessary nor rewarding in any way. And Tybalt is such a pitiful individual... Besides, responding to his slap with a punch is a bit too much, I think. The other three, however, sure, they need to be put on their place.

Tybalt deserves it for being an arrogant cunt. I only refrained from punching him on my Bella and Jill paths because they don't seem to like it. I leave Troy alone after having finished the story because I feel like there's more going on there than we know.

 

[The Glorious LIME]

MC's mindset for every free-roam and party.

 

[Mmoney7187]

MC's mindset for every free-roam and party.
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All these ME memes are going to make me reinstall the game!

Holding the line until I get back home today

 

[Hahn1900]

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I've been coding for the better part of last week, but I also wrote some story and posed art.

Mostly, I've been working on an updated version of Brawler this week, and I need a few more days of work with the remaining art before I am done with it.

It's an ambitious upgrade of this mini-game, which is now taking its third and most likely final form.

Even though it's been remade from scratch, it will feel familiar but improved and expanded upon. I'm very pleased with how it plays.

Here are some screenshots of it.

As you may have noticed, I've been powering on with mini-games lately since I know I have to do a few more for episode 10. I'm trying to get most of it out of the way early, so I can focus on writing and creating art soon.

After Brawler, there's one shorter mini-game and some final work on a scientific mini-game left to do.

I have a healthy animation queue alongside this development. It allows me to focus without being interrupted.

I can also notice how the usual stress I feel about Custom renders being completely gone now that I have removed that tier reward.

I've been able to put an unhealthy amount of hours into coding this week because of this, and I love every second of it.

I will have the first part of the Q&A posted sometime next week. I'm splitting it into two parts, like last year's Q&A.

First, there will be a part about your Being a DIK questions, and after that, a part about game development. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions!

A special render poll is currently ongoing

You must be registered to see the links

- where either Maya, Sage, or Isabella will get a set of renders dedicated to them in episode 10. If you want to participate, you have until next Friday.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Thanks for posting!

So Brawler gets the update. No surprise, it was said before and was disabled in the past.

BUT i would prefer that the update would find its way into previous versions too... But dont think so, would cause to much trouble i guess.

Overall i did like the brawler game a bit. But not that much... cause it wasnt balanced out... but what i didnt like the most about it... the difficulty in the brawler minigame sets the difficult in the "regular" fights too. That shouldnt have been the case. Maybe DPC is considering that for the future... even more so, cause the brawler game gets very easy after you spend the first skillpoints in DEX, but if you play on hard... the fights with Tommy and especially the trainign with sage is way to difficult... well, ok i managed the fight with tommy some times on "hard" but sages training is not beatable... good thing that the sage training doesnt really matter. AND there should be a option to change the difficult back again. If you set it to hard at the start and go lower, you cant get back to hard again... dont know why... but thats annoying.

Well... time will tell how this thing will goes.

But it is confirmed to me that DPC changed his work schedule overall a bit to be more effective i think... getting animations done from the start while he works on things that he should get out of the way early on, like minigames, special renders, animations and such... the workflow will benifit from that... with those things done (or being in the queue from day one), he can focus more on the actuall renders and writing... which will go much faster when its not interrupted by anything else... animations can render at the same time, adding some to the queue when its running out, so they dont delay the overall progress like the last time.

The previous development of epiosdes was always kinda interrupted by things like animations, minigames or doing special renders and "hide" them and such... most of the time near the release he has added more of those things in the late phase... which delayed everything furthermore.

downside to do it "that" way can be, that he maybe is getting tired of doing the same things for several months... only doing writing and static renders (which of course is always the main part for a episode) without any distraction like coding a minigame or something like that during the process can lead to a burnout phase... *shrug* we have to see how things will go and when he will show us the first "numbers" so we can see how the progress really is getting along.

Still, to make up for ep 9 (and yep i think he has something to make up for) it would be a good thing if the new episode will be release in June or early July... not later.

 

[noirzesqueszn]

who are the vixens exactly?