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

[Holy Bacchus]

Posted September 18,2020

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This week I've been working on art, posing static renders and animations.
The current completed render count is 2641 renders and 108 animations.
I have a queue consisting of 305 renders and 35 animations.
When the queue is complete, it totals to 2946 renders and 143 animations.
The static renders are coming along nicely. I have 8 scenes and 2 free roam events left to pose renders for; some of these scenes are partially complete.
I estimate the remaining number of static renders to pose to be somewhere between 200-400.
When it comes to animations I have approximately 20-30 more to pose; one and a half lewd scene remains.
As you can see from this, there's quite some render time left (55-65 animations + 505-705 static renders).
I will focus on coding/writing the next week while the PCs render the art in the queue.
Other news
Thanks to all of you for your support! I can't believe we are over 8000 patrons in the community now. That's insane!
As a milestone reward, I want to share a couple of previews from episode 6.
I hope they still your hunger for the episode a while longer.

Have a nice weekend!
Love you guys
Dr PinkCake

Gotta say, as impressive as these numbers are, let's just hope it delivers. I remember with Ep 5 there was so much hype based around the render and animation count being the biggest yet, and whilst that episode was, as all episodes are, high quality with several good moments, it also landed a little flat owing to the fact that it was largely contained within 2 free-roams and didn't advance much in-game time.

Here we have an episode than will likely have over 3000 renders and 160 animations, and from the previews it looks like it might bounce around quite a lot, with Quinn going to see her dealers, a DnG game, a possible date with Jill, drinks with Tommy and Nicole, the MC's birthday, etc. So hopefully it will keep a good pace and not feel too packed full of things, but I'm excited nonetheless to see what's in store for us and for the characters.

Also, tell me where it hurts, my dear, misunderstood Quinn, and I will soothe what ails you.

 

[fr45]

... DPC can take as long as they need to get it right because quality takes time and they don't need to hurry up the work pace between each update, even if some people think they should. It might take another 3-4 years to complete ...

I must say, it baffles me how people can say this when project funding method is based on monthly donations instead of one-time fundraiser.

 

[MatSCarlet]

I don't know why but the MC's birthday give me chills, i hope i am worng about it. But seem a Date with Nicole and Jill gives me hopes.

 

[ename144]

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This week I've mainly been writing, posing static renders and worked on one free roam event.

2497 renders and 103 animations are done.

In terms of writing, I have 1.5 free roam events and some phone content left. I managed to write the other scenes that remained this week.

Of course, I'll need to playtest a lot and tweak/flesh some scenes out if needed, but it's shaping up in this area.

I'm going to focus on producing art next week, I have some scenes with many characters in them left to pose. Roughly 12 scenes + 2 free roam events remain.

I didn't pose any new animations this week, since the queue already has plenty of work lined up.

For music, I think I got every song needed for the episode. We're looking at 10 new free CC0 songs and 22 new licensed tracks. Some of those licensed tracks made it into my personal top songs of the entire game, so I can't wait for you to hear them.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Posted September 18,2020

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This week I've been working on art, posing static renders and animations.
The current completed render count is 2641 renders and 108 animations.
I have a queue consisting of 305 renders and 35 animations.
When the queue is complete, it totals to 2946 renders and 143 animations.
The static renders are coming along nicely. I have 8 scenes and 2 free roam events left to pose renders for; some of these scenes are partially complete.
I estimate the remaining number of static renders to pose to be somewhere between 200-400.
When it comes to animations I have approximately 20-30 more to pose; one and a half lewd scene remains.
As you can see from this, there's quite some render time left (55-65 animations + 505-705 static renders).
I will focus on coding/writing the next week while the PCs render the art in the queue.
Other news
Thanks to all of you for your support! I can't believe we are over 8000 patrons in the community now. That's insane!
As a milestone reward, I want to share a couple of previews from episode 6.
I hope they still your hunger for the episode a while longer.

Have a nice weekend!
Love you guys
Dr PinkCake

This week added 144 renders and 5 animations (vs. 132 renders and 9 animations last week). Animations are still looking like the bottleneck, even more than before. At this rate, with so much left to do, we're looking at a minimum of about 5 weeks just to finish rendering the animations. Admittedly, that could decrease if the remaining animations are very short. But it could easily double if they are longer than they were this week.

I'm beginning to suspect we may be waiting into November.

Still, things are definitely intriguing. And Quinn's outfit here is different than in the first preview. So it looks like confirmation Episode 6 will cover at least 2 new days!

 

[Anowin]

I must say, it baffles me how people can say this when project funding method is based on monthly donations instead of one-time fundraiser.

DPC is one guy, working around the clock to bring you the best content he can, as quickly as he can, and he doesnt expand for reasons listed below.

"I'm not looking to recruit people for any parts of the game development. I will continue to do this gig solo until the day I stop doing it. I don't want to rely on someone else to match my workflow and high demands. I also fear that it could potentially ruin the vision I have for the game. Also, I wouldn't be a good boss, I would micro-manage way too much and that could actually end up hurting my productivity. I think the end-product would suffer if I brought more people on board, because this is a product of passion; what I'm doing right now I'm devoting the majority of my life to, for a foreseeable future." - DPC

 

[Dashxp4k]

Posted September 18,2020

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This week I've been working on art, posing static renders and animations.
The current completed render count is 2641 renders and 108 animations.
I have a queue consisting of 305 renders and 35 animations.
When the queue is complete, it totals to 2946 renders and 143 animations.
The static renders are coming along nicely. I have 8 scenes and 2 free roam events left to pose renders for; some of these scenes are partially complete.
I estimate the remaining number of static renders to pose to be somewhere between 200-400.
When it comes to animations I have approximately 20-30 more to pose; one and a half lewd scene remains.
As you can see from this, there's quite some render time left (55-65 animations + 505-705 static renders).
I will focus on coding/writing the next week while the PCs render the art in the queue.
Other news
Thanks to all of you for your support! I can't believe we are over 8000 patrons in the community now. That's insane!
As a milestone reward, I want to share a couple of previews from episode 6.
I hope they still your hunger for the episode a while longer.

Have a nice weekend!
Love you guys
Dr PinkCake

SO CLOSE

 

[PaulGaul]

I must say, it baffles me how people can say this when project funding method is based on monthly donations instead of one-time fundraiser.

I would be suprised if by the end of BaDik DPC didn't change (more or less) into Icstor'y persona. It doesn't have to be plain obvious like in Icsotr. It could be like longer updates cycle, special (christmas) updates, etc. That kind of money changes people.

 

[BenMeiffert]

Quinns problems seems to become bigger and bigger... She seems unable to control that. But Mona will wake her up throwing water on her !
This next episode will be epic ! Lots of content from differents event (bar with Tommy and Nicole, Game D&G, Quinn's business, MC's birthday...)

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I'm beginning to suspect we may be waiting into November.

As long as it arrives before I get my PS5. I don't really want to have to choose which one to play first.

I would be suprised if by the end of BaDik DPC didn't change (more or less) into Icstor'y persona. It doesn't have to be plain obvious like in Icsotr. It could be like longer updates cycle, special (christmas) updates, etc. That kind of money changes people.

Doubt it. It's plain to see that DPC has far greater dedication to their craft and to their supporters than ICSTOR ever did, and even if the updates are getting larger, that just shows how much more effort they're putting into it. The money has changed them a bit, but only in so far as they have insulated themselves within their paying supporters and now seem to have a palpable contempt for the site that helped their exposure in the early days and is still funnelling new supporters to them. But I don't see them ever becoming as bad as ICSTOR.

 

[Cigar-Ferras]

Also, tell me where it hurts, my dear, misunderstood Quinn, and I will soothe what ails you.

 

[Mistrophera]

A girl being attacked and a boy who trains martial arts getting attacked is not the same. It's not even comparable. Both MC and Jill is right on that case. If reporting the incident would stop the further violence, MC would also agree on it. But it'll escalate things, we'll see

Jill doesn't know the MC is trained in Martial Arts if I remember right, in her POV he didn't show that he has the ability to protect himself. The fact of the matter is Jill more often than not sees the MC in a tight spot, during the Chad fight, the MC, depending on our action, has his ass handed to him or he gets sucker punched by Chad which either way left him semi-unconscious, that is definitely alarming, especially for someone who has a tough experience in regards to bullying. Things may escalate, but not doing anything at all might prove to be worse for the MC in the long run than doing something about it.

 

[bjmoko]

Im more of a bella fan, but that elf jill tho.... raarrgh

 

[Mistrophera]

She does mention it's impressive he's taught himself martial arts during their date. So i think she is aware.

But before their date no hum ?

 

[tezster]

Posted September 18,2020

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This week I've been working on art, posing static renders and animations.
The current completed render count is 2641 renders and 108 animations.
I have a queue consisting of 305 renders and 35 animations.
When the queue is complete, it totals to 2946 renders and 143 animations.
The static renders are coming along nicely. I have 8 scenes and 2 free roam events left to pose renders for; some of these scenes are partially complete.
I estimate the remaining number of static renders to pose to be somewhere between 200-400.
When it comes to animations I have approximately 20-30 more to pose; one and a half lewd scene remains.
As you can see from this, there's quite some render time left (55-65 animations + 505-705 static renders).
I will focus on coding/writing the next week while the PCs render the art in the queue.
Other news
Thanks to all of you for your support! I can't believe we are over 8000 patrons in the community now. That's insane!
As a milestone reward, I want to share a couple of previews from episode 6.
I hope they still your hunger for the episode a while longer.

Have a nice weekend!
Love you guys
Dr PinkCake

I'm guessing another ~3-4 weeks of rendering/writing + 1~2 weeks of testing, so mid/late October release.

 

[Cigar-Ferras]

But before their date no hum ?

Nah, i was misremembering, she mentions being impressed with the MC learning both physical training and music, not specifically martial arts. I just double checked. Unless she mentions it later some time.

 

[Dashxp4k]

Posted September 18,2020

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This week I've been working on art, posing static renders and animations.
The current completed render count is 2641 renders and 108 animations.
I have a queue consisting of 305 renders and 35 animations.
When the queue is complete, it totals to 2946 renders and 143 animations.
The static renders are coming along nicely. I have 8 scenes and 2 free roam events left to pose renders for; some of these scenes are partially complete.
I estimate the remaining number of static renders to pose to be somewhere between 200-400.
When it comes to animations I have approximately 20-30 more to pose; one and a half lewd scene remains.
As you can see from this, there's quite some render time left (55-65 animations + 505-705 static renders).
I will focus on coding/writing the next week while the PCs render the art in the queue.
Other news
Thanks to all of you for your support! I can't believe we are over 8000 patrons in the community now. That's insane!
As a milestone reward, I want to share a couple of previews from episode 6.
I hope they still your hunger for the episode a while longer.

Have a nice weekend!
Love you guys
Dr PinkCake

This gonna be a late October release.

 

[Ploate]

Nah, i was misremembering, she mentions being impressed with the MC learning both physical training and music, not specifically martial arts. I just double checked. Unless she mentions it later some time.

The MC only tells her after the Chad fight. When Jill is worried about the MC being hurt, he tells her he's ok, he's used to being punched. She gets worried and thinks he got beat up a lot as a kid, but the MC clarifies it's because he does martial arts and knows how to take punches.

 

[Blades1138]

The money has changed them a bit, but only in so far as they have insulated themselves within their paying supporters and now seem to have a palpable contempt for the site that helped their exposure in the early days and is still funnelling new supporters to them.

There's probably good reason he wouldn't interact much withing the forum. Visiting daily can get in the way of development and negative feedback might demotivate him.
On the other hand there's absolutely no objective reason to blacklist any mention of F95 other than being anti-piracy or something, so that part is definitely very iffy. Especially after benefiting largely in the past. It's pretty fair to say that F95 has made a number of developers quite more popular than they would ever hope to be otherwise.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

Finally! my eyes are blessed, a Riona preview

As you can see from this, there's quite some render time left (55-65 animations + 505-705 static renders).
I will focus on coding/writing the next week while the PCs render the art in the queue.

sounds like release is still quite far away
late oct?? early nov maybe?

 

[Mistrophera]

The MC only tells her after the Chad fight. When Jill is worried about the MC being hurt, he tells her he's ok, he's used to being punched. She gets worried and thinks he got beat up a lot as a kid, but the MC clarifies it's because he does martial arts and knows how to take punches.

So, she learned that the MC is a walking punching bag