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

[Lagunavii]

He has said as soon as the last render has done the beta testing lot will get it. So around the 10th of Feb. So you reckon its going to take 49 days of beta testing and fixing any issues......

He still has to do his final checks himself, so while it wont be on the 10th, maybe not even the 11th but It will be close.

If I was a betting man, I'd say there be 21 days of testing. but who knows? DPC might have a fair idea, but until he gets a solid idea He can not announce a release date. Its not like the testers are going to give it him on the 28th and he drops it on the first. there has to be some hype build up...

True but loads of new subs late in the month equals, most not knowing you get charged on the 1st, not a month after you first join.
I was on a different patreon thing for two years, (sport thing) and you'd be surprised how many didn't know this

This actually depends on how the Dev sets it up. I just checked on one account my billing date would be the 10th and on DPC I would be charged $11.40 today then then again on the 1st Feb

Plus if he say has 10k subbing at the lowest tier, releasing end of the month they can just pay the difference to upgrade so not much different to waiting to the 1st

I dunno, I think it makes more business sense to at least go for the hopes that people subscribe or up their pledges at the end of the month, ready for the update than drop it anytime, and have people subscribe to the tiers they want, download, then immediately cancel. I mean there will be people who do both...

But to maximise your income, you've got to at least go with the building hype, get them subscribing early (but late in the month) and potentially have a few opportunities to double dip rather than give them the option to just pay once, then immediately unsubscribe, giving you only one dip in the pot.

 

[Lagunavii]

Free roams are much more complicated to project, code and debug compared to normal linear story. So cutting some in that aspect could really make development faster. But I don't think that's something DPC actually needs or aims at.

No because while he's busy waiting on his Super Dooper 120fps 8k now with smelly vision images to render, he can be busy, he has the time to plan, code and debug this kind of things. take them out and he's essentially just waiting on his machines spewing out images for him to code in.

God if he hates his machines being idle, fuck knows what he feels about himself being idle

 

[scarp1]

He still has to do his final checks himself, so while it wont be on the 10th, maybe not even the 11th but It will be close.

If I was a betting man, I'd say there be 21 days of testing. but who knows? DPC might have a fair idea, but until he gets a solid idea He can not announce a release date. Its not like the testers are going to give it him on the 28th and he drops it on the first. there has to be some hype build up...



This actually depends on how the Dev sets it up. I just checked on one account my billing date would be the 10th and on DPC I would be charged $11.40 today then then again on the 1st Feb



I dunno, I think it makes more business sense to at least go for the hopes that people subscribe or up their pledges at the end of the month, ready for the update than drop it anytime, and have people subscribe to the tiers they want, download, then immediately cancel. I mean there will be people who do both...

But to maximise your income, you've got to at least go with the building hype, get them subscribing early (but late in the month) and potentially have a few opportunities to double dip rather than give them the option to just pay once, then immediately unsubscribe, giving you only one dip in the pot.

Maybe its different then to the one I was in. Everyone was charged on the 1st for renews. But if you joined on the 30th it cost a full month price and then you got charged on the 1st again so a double whamy.

 

[Lagunavii]

Maybe its different then to the one I was in. Everyone was charged on the 1st for renews. But if you joined on the 30th it cost a full month price and then you got charged on the 1st again so a double whamy.

Yeah DPC's is set up like that. you can join today and be charged the full whack, then be billed again on the 1st Feb So yeah, I can kinda see how releasing it on the 28/02 would be beneficial. everyone flocks to join pays for a month of subscription on the last day, rushes off to fap, forgets to cancel and it's renewed again the next day. But at the same time, once you get the download, you have it. There is nothing stopping people from cancelling while it's downloading. after all they have what they wanted.

I can see both sides of the argument because, on the other hand, if he announced it at the tail end of a month, there's nothing stopping people from just waiting until the 1st to subscribe. There are chances to double dip here wherever, but my instinct would be like he did last time: announce it at the tail end of the month, hope people subscribe thinking that's when their subscription date would be, and release it after the billing date.

 

[mammonite]

what happened to DPC?? looks like when you get a lot of support you don't update much anymore, same as not having support.

 

[Lightaces]

Estimated release dates:
February 21 (Optimistic)
February 28
March 7 (Pessimistic)

February 28th is physically possible
March 7th is the optimistic date
March 14th is probable
March 21 is pessimistic.

 

[Deleted member 6546851]

The perfectionist's attention to detail is immaculate.

 

[Ray_D]

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This week, I started by playing Others' and Isabella's branches. I feel very good about how the different playthroughs of the episode feel.

I've also played with a focus on mini-games and balancing the party planning mini-game. Then, I focused on replaying all the lewd scenes; although three scenes were missing animations, I could polish most of the content.

I checked that the Music app is updated with all new songs and works as intended. I also added a couple more SFX that I had missed. I continued working on Phone chats and Rooster, adding more chats, clucks, and gallery images. I believe I'm done with the phone content now.

I'm analyzing the code, flow, and choices right now. This allows me to spot well-hidden errors and oddities I have yet to encounter while playing. I've found several rare bugs resulting from nested choices and exceptions. This information also tells me which playthrough I need to test more thoroughly.

The episode is getting increasingly polished, and my lists of issues to fix between playthroughs are often very short.

The PCs are rendering nonstop, and over the last couple of weeks, I've tried to estimate their render speed and calculate how much more time is needed before they are done. It's tricky because each animation differs in speed, and I'm seeing a spread of up to 100% render time with some animations. Assuming the average render speed stays the same, the PCs should be done with the animation queue on February 7-9 at the latest. If I see that the speed changes, for the better or worse, I'll let you know.

Beta testing will commence as soon as possible after the final animation is complete. I will provide more information about that later. Next week, I will continue polishing and playing; it is the only task left on my checklist for this episode.

The final preview of episode 11 will be released sometime later this month. I think it's safe to say it's a preview you don't want to miss.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

I don't know what to say, I guess I'll just let time pass.

 

[Beefle]

The perfectionist's attention to detail is immaculate.
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What are we looking at?

 

[St. Nix]

Unless you live in a place that has snow in march you are in trouble friend lol

 

[Bill_Buttlicker]

My eyes are pretty much guaranteed safe from bleeding at this point).

(And, I'm feeling pretty good about my early March prediction.)

I think she likes you Milton.
Don't miss out

 

[MiltonPowers]

I think she likes you Milton.
Don't miss out

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Of course she likes me. Who wouldn't? I'm loveable. I can't blame her.

But even her own kind don't like her.

 

[Crusader of Romance]

And on a more serious meta note, having her get a Divorce from her husband is the path to an actual relationship opening. I mean if Bella is a serious path, Jade should be one now for sure.

I unfortunately think it's too late. Maybe as her ending, but I doubt it will happen in the main game.

Well, we got specifics.
Now a lot depends on how long the beta lasts.
If it lasts 3 weeks, which is unlikely because of the branching and complexity of the code that DPС just said, episode 11 will be released on February 28.
But it is more likely that episode 11 will be released on March 7, when they start charging for patreon subscriptions.
From a business standpoint, it's not profitable to release an episode on the last day of February.
I'm 90% sure that the episode will be released in the March 7 -14 window.

Good point. Financially March 7 makes more sense. He hasn't released at the end of the month since Episode 5. But I still consider late February a chance. Or earlier if we have luck, like with Episode 9 that had very little bugs and only needed a week of beta testing.

last beta took just a week.

No, that was Episode 9. Episode 10 took 3 weeks.

I think you are right.

When DrPinkCake released previous episodes:

episode 10: Friday, 8th December 2023
episode 9: Friday, 16th December 2022
interlude: Friday, 4th March 2022
episode 8: Friday, 19th November 2021
episode 7: Friday, 23rd April 2021
episode 6: Friday, 13th November 2020

So, guys, just do your math.

IMHO February is impossible. March 7-14-21 are the dates.

Anyway, in my opinion episode 8 was the last time an episode was worth the wait. Episode 9 & 10 weren't. Interlude simply shouldn't have happened.

I noticed how you stopped before Episode 5, since it was released on May 29.

Cheap feminism, for a characterization then really never used. Because other than being a lesbian and taking the equality class, Maya has never expressed this feminism of hers

I feel like you don't really know what feminism is. Maya is a normal modern everyday feminist. Others, like Sage, Josy, Bella and Jill are most likely also feminists, even if the game never says so. The only reason we know Maya is one is because she is in a class with bad stereotypes who are fake feminists. There's no reason for normal feminists to tell people they are feminists, they just are. That's the point and the joke, the fake ones keep telling everybody they are feminists and keep trying to force it and their radical ideas on people, but real feminists just are themselves.

 

[Macky009]

Of course she likes me. Who wouldn't? I'm loveable. I can't blame her.

But even her own kind don't like her.

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The only person who likes her is in prison right now

 

[Ray_D]

The only person who likes her is in prison right now

Is Orgitas in prison or what?

 

[Crusader of Romance]

Of course she likes me. Who wouldn't? I'm loveable. I can't blame her.

But even her own kind don't like her.

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I don't like that she keeps getting compared to manatees. It's insulting to the manatees.

 

[Macky009]

Is Orgitas in prison or what?

P Diddy

 

[RiffRaff0682]

Isn't the whole argument over 1st of the month kinda redundant given how Patreon changed their monthly billing system so they could keep drinking the apple kool-aid?

 

[Crusader of Romance]

Isn't the whole argument over 1st of the month kinda redundant given how Patreon changed their monthly billing system so they could keep drinking the apple kool-aid?

He proberbly won't change it until after the release, as I understand it. His are still charged on the 1st. He said he didn't have time because he had a game to develop. He has until November to do it, but he won't get any new subs via the app until he changes it.

 

[RiffRaff0682]

He proberbly won't change it until after the release, as I understand it. His are still charged on the 1st. He said he didn't have time because he had a game to develop. He has until November to do it, but he won't get any new subs via the app until he changes it.

Ah, so at some point it will be forced on him.
Then again anyone who buys a sub through the apple app is a moron who deserves to be fleeced.