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

[ChipLecsap]

So, now we have both Maya and Sage in the library at some point in ep 6. Oh boy, looks like we are in for a game of DnG to force relationship drama. I just hope this isn't the reason why it wil be the "longest episode" so far and is what the "new feature" is going to be for.

Really? I mean all the speculation, and you act so surprised. Wall of text conversations, and yet somehow you were missing the obvious. I thought it was obvious, they will be all in the library and play the game, i missed a couple of days , but thought we are past this. and I do remember that i said, that may be just chill ,and let's see how it will play out, and let's not just get whining yet.

Just like the Joker did not risk losing the battle for Gotham's soul in a fist fight with Batman.
I doubt DPC will put the MC's love life to be permanent , in the hand of a board game.

 

[Phynix]

You know whats funny? Its just a regular room. Nothing indicated otherwise. There is nothing that prevents us from coming over while she is still working and peep inside from the window. Except plot convenience

That's for CHICK route, DIK MC could've simply kicked the door in and claim that he fell down the stairs.

 

[flippityflop]

I doubt DPC will put the MC's love life to be permanent , in the hand of a board game.

Not necessarily, no. But we're overdue for some "grabbed by the balls" scenarios. We've become complacent and we've been taking our uncanny luck for granted.
Time to reintroduce some suffering back into the equation!

I'll probably get some hate for this comment, but I just find this game a lot more fun when it's dealing with that kind of adversity.

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

You know whats funny? Its just a regular room. Nothing indicated otherwise. There is nothing that prevents us from coming over while she is still working and peep inside from the window. Except plot convenience

Curtains, dude. Curtains .

It could be the biggest red herring of history and be only in our (and the MC's) mind, but at this point it would be a big disappointment.

So, now we have both Maya and Sage in the library at some point in ep 6. Oh boy, looks like we are in for a game of DnG to force relationship drama. I just hope this isn't the reason why it wil be the "longest episode" so far and is what the "new feature" is going to be for.

Did you really consider your dream theory as the most likely explanation for a D&G game?

 

[xsssssssss]

After the free roam in chapter 5 I'm not sure he'd let one scene dominate an episode again, D&G included.

Yeah i’d Super annoyed if dng segment was long, let along dominates the episode.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Did you really consider your dream theory as the most likely explanation for a D&G game?

Not "most likely", but a possible explanation for the DnG preview.

I personally prefer the idea of him having a revelatory dream at the start of the episode about his current situation with these LIs over having all of them in a single room in a contrived way just to start sowing seeds of relationship drama this early on. It would likely just be a few +/- RP points with the LIs and some renders showing them giving curious looks to him and other LIs, but after everything that's happened with him in the past couple of weeks, it would be nice to just get a little breather and not have to deal with the issues of juggling so many women. But this game, whether it's short or long, wouldn't give us that and it just feels a little forced.

It's like in those TV shows, mainly sci-fi ones, where the protagonist spends most of the episode in some parallel/fantasy world with alternate/caricaturish versions of their friends and enemies, but the episode serves almost no purpose in advancing the actual plot and is primarily just used to fill space in a 24 episode season.

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

Not "most likely", but a possible explanation for the DnG preview.

I personally prefer the idea of him having a revelatory dream at the start of the episode about his current situation with these LIs over having all of them in a single room in a contrived way just to start to sowing seeds of relationship drama this early on. It would likely just be a few +/- RP points with the LIs and some renders showing them giving curious looks to him and other LIs, but after everything that's happened with him in the past couple of weeks, it would be nice to just get a little breather and not have to deal with the issues of juggling so many women, but this game, whether it's short or long, wouldn't give us that and it just feels a little forced.

It's like in those TV shows, mainly sci-fi ones, where the protagonist spends most of the episode in some parallel/fantasy world with alternate/caricaturish versions of their friends and enemies, but the episode serves almost no purpose in advancing the actual plot and is primarily just used to fill space in a 24 episode season.

I don't disagree with you. I feared that D&G would dominate the whole episode and be manily offtopic, I don't like those kind of episodes in shows. A rest/less serious scenes is always good, but I also want the story to go forward and this has a high chance of taking A LOT of time, considering Sage and the MC get to be in bed together within the game and all of that. I don't see how a dream could be anything but offtopic, a real game has at least some chances of having some character development.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I don't disagree with you. I feared that D&G would dominate the whole episode and be manily offtopic, I don't like those kind of episodes in shows. A rest/less serious scenes is always good, but I also want the story to go forward and this has a high chance of taking A LOT of time, considering Sage and the MC get to be in bed together within the game and all of that. I don't see how a dream could be anything but offtopic, a real game has at least some chances of having some character development.

That Sage preview is also what has me thinking this DnG game will take up a chunk of the episode, because unless the MC's character gets carried off by a troop of flying monkeys shortly after that preview image of him with Jill, Maya, Josy, and Sally, and he's taken to the highest room of the tallest tower where Sage is being held, then it's going to potentially take some time to get from that group scene to the Sage scene.

The thing about a dream sequence is that it depends how it's done. If a dream fills a whole episode of a TV show, then it's filler, but if it's like 5 minutes at the beginning of the show, or even in the middle, where it shows some of the protagonist's subconscious thoughts and feelings manifested in a troubling or slightly nightmarish vision, it gives us some insight into where their head is at at this particular moment. It doesn't necessarily advance the plot, but it can advance the character development of the protagonist if they let what they dreamt about affect their actions moving forward.

 

[Kuraii]

Such emotional moments.

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[-VQueS-]

DPC: ep6 will be more varied than ep5 was.
Fanfic writer*after seeing one preview*:

I think it might be, and now I'm starting to think that it may indeed be what takes up most of the episode.

...

MC playing a game of DnG with 4 of the 5 LIs

Wow..I only saw Josy, Maya and Jill. Or Sally is also a love interest?

now we have 4 previews that seem to indicate the possibility of the MC playing a game of DnG

..I only saw one.
You say the weirdest things. Almost always

 

[ename144]

That Sage preview is also what has me thinking this DnG game will take up a chunk of the episode, because unless the MC's character gets carried off by a troop of flying monkeys shortly after that preview image of him with Jill, Maya, Josy, and Sally, and he's taken to the highest room of the tallest tower where Sage is being held, then it's going to potentially take some time to get from that group scene to the Sage scene.

The thing about a dream sequence is that it depends how it's done. If a dream fills a whole episode of a TV show, then it's filler, but if it's like 5 minutes at the beginning of the show, or even in the middle, where it shows some of the protagonist's subconscious thoughts and feelings manifested in a troubling or slightly nightmarish vision, it gives us some insight into where their head is at at this particular moment. It doesn't necessarily advance the plot, but it can advance the character development of the protagonist if they let what they dreamt about affect their actions moving forward.

I agree a long, involved game would be a mistake. For better or worse, Episode 5 already served as a break from the action to let the MC get his groove on with damn near everyone. We need to get back to advancing the actual story. A quick DnG game can help with that by giving us time to see characters playing off each other in ways they normally don't. A long DnG session that takes up most of the episode will have a very hard time doing that.

So how involved will the game be? Hard to say. If we assume Sage's preview is within the game (plausible given that bedspread), it definitely suggests the game will have multiple scenes.

Still, a DnG game could cover a lot of ground very quickly if DPC wants it to. We don't necessarily need a detailed story that shows all the steps. We could just establish a quest only to have the PCs completely botch it right off the bat. The MC's new character gets captured and the session ends with him being executed, establishing a running gag for future sessions.

That's certainly what I'd prefer (not the scenario specifically, just that the session is fast and goofy). It does seem in keeping with Magnar's DMing style, so I'm not going to panic yet.

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

DPC: ep6 will be more varied than ep5 was.
Fanfic writer*after seeing one preview*:

...

Wow..I only saw Josy, Maya and Jill. Or Sally is also a love interest?

..I only saw one.
You say the weirdest things. Almost always

The pic in bed with Sage is from a medieval resource pack. It could be that he bought it with other assets for D&G and used it for something real but the most likely explanation is that Sage is also playing the game. We saw her in a preview at the library too.

 

[Maviarab]

DPC: ep6 will be more varied than ep5 was.
Fanfic writer*after seeing one preview*:

...

Wow..I only saw Josy, Maya and Jill. Or Sally is also a love interest?

..I only saw one.
You say the weirdest things. Almost always

Maybe you should pay more attention then

 

[lemonfreak]

I will laugh my arse off if chapter 6 turns out to be everyone's favourite episode

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Wow..I only saw Josy, Maya and Jill. Or Sally is also a love interest?

Josy, Maya, Jill AND Sage.

It's been previously pointed out that Sage is lying on a bed from a fantasy/medieval DAZ asset.

..I only saw one.

Then you haven't been paying attention because we also have these 2 previews showing Sage and Maya in the library.

Since we know that the Nerds play DnG in the library, these 4 previews seem to indicate a game will be played with at least 4 of the 5 LIs.

 

[Zirael Q]

I will laugh my arse off if chapter 6 turns out to be everyone's favourite episode

No such thing exists heh. I forgot which was in which episode already, it's so well done by DPC. But I know I liked something different from each episode then the other ones. The favorite one was obviously Episode 4, meh story (MC whining out of his ass got me triggered), Quinn rooftop, Jade... But for Episode 5, for example, I had a blast as well. The party ruining, Lily, Swyper conversation with Arieth (definitely the funniest shit in the game), punching Tybalt (got tired from using my mouse's scroll button)... Each are good almost equally imo. Hope you are right tho, I sincerely hope this episode turns out to be even better.

It's also time for story to pick up the pace, wanna see Chad stuff and blackmail stuff sorted out already. Maybe we'll have the chance to date girls from Swyper, the MILF one caught my eye (No, not talking about Nicole you silly). We also need the crab problem addressed thoroughly so we can make our inevitable move to Crab City. I made all the necessary preparations, my body is ready
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[murphy88]

I haven't been to the forum in a while, is there any preview of the next chapter? I guess everything points to October, right?

 

[Dashxp4k]

Jill have mementos of her sister. That's why we have this picture. Jill have relatives but there not close.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I haven't been to the forum in a while, is there any preview of the next chapter? I guess everything points to October, right?

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This week I've mostly been posing static renders and writing dialogue.

1845 static renders and 74 animations are completed.

The render queue has 180 static renders and 18 animations waiting for their turn to render. What this means is that episode 6 currently consists of 2025 renders and 92 animations when everything in the queue has been rendered.

Hitting the 2000 render mark and realizing that I have much left to pose makes me wonder how big this update is going to be. Normally, I would feel it's close to being complete around 2000 renders, but not this time.

My gut feeling is telling me that we, for the first time, will venture into 3000+ renders in an update. And looking at the animation count, I know it's not done yet either.

I have plenty of scenes and a handful of lewd events left to write and pose for. I know I want ~30 animations for just one particular lewd scene among the ones that are left.

What I want to have said with this, is that seeing these huge numbers doesn't mean we're that close yet. Don't let that stop you from feeling excited about this being a big episode, but know that there's quite some time left before release despite the numbers I will post in my status updates from here on.

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As I've said in the past, I always strive to learn new things. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's new and helps the development somehow.

Last week I studied and learned techniques that will make the manual process of posing animations much faster for me. While also having the added benefit to enable poses and animation types I had difficulty making before. These techniques are so useful that they have changed my entire workflow for making animations. And that is a workflow that I've been improving since I started making games.

I'm super excited about using this new workflow and I will be spending the better part of the upcoming week posing animations for episode 6, trying to master it.

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In poll news, the "Special render - Main girl" poll has ended. It was a split result, with Sage winning the $10 poll and Isabella winning $15/25/30 polls. All in all, Isabella was the winner and will get a Special render set in Episode 6. I'll make sure to post a preview of it after I have made it.

I will wait a bit before posting any more polls because I need to think about what's left to vote on. I know I want some kind of animation poll, so I turned this post into a survey to see what you prefer to vote on.

Please vote on everything you'd like to see polls for and I will take the result of this survey into consideration for my next, but also future animation polls.

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Late October seeming most likely after the last update given what DPC says about the size of it.

 

[Dashxp4k]

This game in 2017