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

[Sasanid]

It's a waste of time.. For what? So that the girls are sad and crying and all that shit meh I prefer the threesome and everybody happy

Considering it's DPC, and while it may actually be a real threesome (like real real with an inhibited Maya and all), the rift between Josy and Maya is apparent in episode 8, because of the MC, Josy is totally enamored with him, and Maya pretty much totally trust him, a man, for the first time in her life.

I think that from the beginning, this couple was a real one, albeit a first try for both, but doomed to fail, they love each other, but I think it's more because of their insecurities than anything else. Josy didn't have any problems falling for MC right from the start, and Maya learned to trust men with him. Could totally be the downfall of that 'throuple' (which I never personally saw as a viable possibility to begin with), not because they don't love each other anymore, but more because they don't need that 'state of survival couple' thing they have going on anymore. Again, not saying it will assuredly break that thing, but drama is incoming for sure, at least for me.

In fact, I think, with Zoey coming back, that episode 9 will abound with awkward situations and drama for the MC and the situation he chose at the end of Episode 8, and since, like in my chick playthrough, I had to turn down 3 situations, things could get ugly, I'm sure it'll be the same for those who chose a DIK path.

 

[SomboSteel]

and just like him you are whining about someone who is whining, about other peaple who are whining. heck i wish i could whine at this point so we can get a 50 peaps list about whining about whining about whining about whining

this is the exact reason why the long time in between releases is problematic. if the release windows were just a little bit shorter, i dont think we would consistently reach this point of "there is nothing left to talk about, so let the bitching begin"

 

[lipe2410]

Actually you gave me an idea
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I even feel sorry for him a little. Tremolo completely ruined his life. But I think it's inevitable.

Nah, it was all his fault for be lazy and not work hard enough to avoid those things happened #welfarerules

 

[hakuna-matata]

Actually you gave me an idea
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I even feel sorry for him a little. Tremolo completely ruined his life. But I think it's inevitable.

That's exactly what I did!!!!!!

 

[ename144]

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I playtested and polished parts of the episode last week. It was a very nice experience. No matter how you play the episode, it will be a long one.

I also wrote some remaining scenes, including a long scene for the Josy and Maya branch and some lewd scenes. Furthermore, I posed some animations and static renders.

As promised, for today, I've attempted to summarize the current status of the Episode 9 development.

I'll start with the stats and give my general take on the development at the end.

Work completed:

• 2815 renders (2694 renders produced, 121 in the render queue)
• 205 animations (179 animations produced, 26 in the render queue)
• 13 songs
• 2 sound effects
• 23747 written lines of code for story + free roam events. It's the biggest episode in terms of content, based on this number alone. Episode 8 had 22055 lines of code, 7% less by this standard.

Work that remains:

• Make static renders for 69 written scenes of various lengths.
• Make animations and static renders, and write for a few lewd scenes.
• Write and make art for ~15 more scenes.
• Make static renders for Jill's special render set.
• Make some missing GUI for the new mini-game.
• Write some code needed for other mini-games.
• Add music
• Add SFX
• Add phone content (Rooster, Phone chats/Calls, Bios, Stats, Pack Quest, Vault)
• Add collectibles (special renders/2D art/scenes)
• Make art and update the main menu with Season 3 art.
• Playtest and polish
• Verify bug fixes from the Interlude.

Overall completion:
My best shot at estimating a completion % right now is:

Static renders: 65-70%

Animations: 68%

Writing/Coding: 90%

Render and animation numbers are based on a target of ~4000 renders and 300 animations; subject to change if needed. The writing/coding percentage is my gut feeling.

All-in-all, this list of tasks looks standard to me. I'm feeling confident and also happy about it. The art takes the longest time to produce, and we've come a long way since the Interlude was released. I usually fly through the rest of the task list faster when it's time to make it.

Take this report with a grain of salt. Things will get clearer with every passing week.

Now we all have a better understanding of the state of development.

I will push on with writing, and static renders next week and soon switch focus to animating again.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Aw yeah, now that's the stuff! We got current status, we got queues, we even have targets! We're in the numbers, baby!

Here's what we know. DPC has completed 755 static renders in the last five weeks, but we have decent reason to suspect he has completed around 459 statics in the last two weeks. That would translate to an average of ~153 statics per week over those two weeks. We also know DPC has completed 29 animations in the last four weeks, an average of ~7.3 animations per week. Overall, DPC is now averaging roughly 128 statics and 8.5 animations per week since the Interlude launched. Here are the charts:

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For the target numbers, I used the combined Completed+Queued numbers for our current totals, since that's how DPC presented them. That methodology gives us targets of ~4021-4331 for statics (average of 4176), and ~302 for animations. Where does that leave us? The best news comes from the statics. Despite a small bump in the target number, we're still on pace to hit it in mid-September (+/- roughly 1 week based on DPC's range). Granted, DPC will need to keep posing scenes to keep up that pace, but with coding mostly done that seems plausible.

Unfortunately, animations are a sadder story. The rate at which DPC is rendering them has fallen slightly off the pace from the start of this month. We're currently on pace to hit the target around mid November, and it would still need to be tested. In reality DPC might be able to increase his pace once the statics are finished rendering, but at best that would start in early September and maybe knock three weeks off the animation target. So I'd say we're most likely looking at a release somewhere in November. Based on DPC's estimate of ~300 animations, I don't see how we can get Episode 9 in time for (real) Halloween unless DPC has saved a lot of the short and/or simple animations for last.

Still, as DPC said these are still only estimates. We can always hope the current trends will change and things will speed up or targets will come down. I wouldn't count on it, but maybe we can get lucky.

 

[Kellermann]

DrPinkCake makes us fellow Swedes proud <3

As a Swede you must answer me this please. Is the attire below considered normal and acceptable for a dude? A cleavage cut pink blouse and rolled up jorts with little navy boy anchors on it? I have always hoped that DPC only selected this for lore reasons because MC is impoverished and had to grab whatever he could out of the discount shop bargain bin.

He looks about as thrilled to be wearing this as I was to see it. I can imagine the MC avatar in DAZ3d going..."really DPC? You are actually going to insert me into a scene wearing this? Haven't I suffered enough?"


Thank goodness the colder weather is arriving in game and MC doesn't wear jorts with his DIK jacket anymore. That was beyond the pale. The season 2 DIK jacket initial experience was ruined by jorts.

 

[Deleted member 4572181]

As a Swede you must answer me this please. Is the attire below considered normal and acceptable for a dude? A cleavage cut pink blouse and rolled up jorts with little navy boy anchors on it? I have always hoped that DPC only selected this for lore reasons because MC is impoverished and had to grab whatever he could out of the discount shop bargain bin.

He looks about as thrilled to be wearing this as I was to see it. I can imagine the MC avatar in DAZ3d going..."really DPC? You are actually going to insert me into a scene wearing this? Haven't I suffered enough?"
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Thank goodness the colder weather is arriving in game and MC doesn't wear jorts with his DIK jacket anymore. That was beyond the pale. The season 2 DIK jacket initial experience was ruined by jorts.

I quite dig this outfit, cool style

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Nah, it was all his fault for be lazy and not work hard enough to avoid those things happened #welfarerules

Tybalt is a six-year-old child in the body of an adult who has encountered the real world. Well, reality is often disappointing.

 

[Kellermann]

I quite dig this outfit, cool style

I'd dig a hole to throw it in.

 

[bebiho]

As a Swede you must answer me this please. Is the attire below considered normal and acceptable for a dude? A cleavage cut pink blouse and rolled up jorts with little navy boy anchors on it?


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This attire is acceptable if you wanna attract... gay dudes or teen girls who adore Justin Bieber. DPC need to level up Tremolos drip lol

 

[chittyboomboom]

Does anyone know if the GoG version includes the interludes? DrPinkCake has easily become the goat of Adult VNs and I want to support them but I still want all the content (not a fan of Patreon).

 

[Deleted member 4572181]

Doc fucked me up.

No other game can do it for me anymore after BAD

Everything else became hollow and souless... just tried another game that is praised for its strong plot, and it bored me too much

 

[ename144]

Sry nah, not in this game... you have to switch between DIK and CHICK choices in a way that it makes just no sense at all if you want to be a "neutral" guy who doesnt step on other toes...

Of course, youre right... to be a "neutral" guy is some complete normal thing, in real life... but in this game? The choices you have to make are either chick or dik, NEVER neutral (in between). So youre forced to jump back and forth the entire time to be neutral, but that is not neutral at all, its shizo.

like: "come on i beat up troy" and than "yeah i beat up the jocks too, oh wait, no i cant i have to be neutral so i dont fight them now cause this would be another dik point, i need the chick point now" really, you think that is a "neutral way" to be? aha

In staying neutral this game just makes no sense like this... and DPC should have considered that more, like implement neutral choices too, but there are none.

I can't agree. The Affinity system is just too loosely structured to hold up to any scrutiny, and the so called 'Major Decisions' are all over the map. Far from it being awkward to vary between CHICK and DIK decisions, I think it makes much more sense to look at each decision individually and pick whatever makes sense for the MC (in a given run).

It's easy to imagine why an MC might, say, avoid fighting Troy or Tybalt and still mix it up with the jocks or Tommy. Likewise there's no reason a generally CHICKish MC couldn't hold a grudge against Stephen or join his former maggot father at a bar. It only takes 5 decisions on each side to lock in Neutrality.

Hold up, didn't he say he already workked on the big threesome scene? If so, then that "big threesome scene" is separate from this new threesome scene that he is working on for M&J (and they certainly need one by ep. 9). So who is the other threesome with?

While I'd love a good M/J threesome scene, I hope their big scene is them and the MC finally hashing out how this relationship is going to work. We should have had that conversation ages ago, but post-Crossroads it would be absurd to delay it any longer. Once that's out of the way we can get on with the sexy times.

I can understand everything, but how did you keep yourself from beating Tybalt? Oh that scene! I can press the repeat button endlessly.
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Really? I almost never punch Tybalt because I the guy's utterly irrelevant. For all his screen time he's barely speedbump to the MC, and he's already suffered for that transgression without us having to lift a finger. And even if we did want to lift a finger, clubbing him senseless with a tennis ball feels both more visceral and less legally actionable.

 

[CoalPhelps]

After that sparring, the MC better not throw any stupid shit about Zoey if he's dating Sage, because she can crush his skull with her smash punches without much effort.

 

[Lightaces]

I doubt it is going to be Zoey. She would have MC before anyone else. Besides, she wasn't interested in sex during entire San Diego, so I really doubt she is suddenly going to whore it up with a bunch of strangers at B&R either.

You are forgetting, she had gone for rides on the MC's magic barber's pole. One spin on that stripper pole, and no other man can appeal, but to get another chance to climb to the top, and slide back down, his flag staff, she'll happily gobble pussy like a wild turkey.

Or else I just felt like mixing metaphors because I've been working too many 76 hour weeks lately. (My own damn fault - I own my business, and agreed to building a project for a show on a short timeline - but it has definitely effected my mental state. I do sleep great though, which is a nice change!!!)

 

[Lightaces]

Actually you gave me an idea
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I even feel sorry for him a little. Tremolo completely ruined his life. But I think it's inevitable.

He ruined his own damn life. All he had to do is be a decent human being and show a little humility, and he wouldn't have had nearly the run it with the three legged personification of Karma.

 

[SydneyTJ]

He ruined his own damn life. All he had to do is be a decent human being and show a little humility, and he wouldn't have had nearly the run it with the three legged personification of Karma.

Might be an amazing redemption story there - game dev twist: we play as Tybalt next game and tick off all the things on Thanos' gauntlet ourselves!

 

[Lightaces]

He ruined his own damn life. All he had to do is be a decent human being and show a little humility, and he wouldn't have had nearly the run it with the three legged personification of Karma.

(OK, I think I'm renaming my MC in all my playthroughs as Karma's Third Leg. It suits my sense of humor.)

 

[yossa999]

(OK, I think I'm renaming my MC in all my playthroughs as Karma's Third Leg. It suits my sense of humor.)

Suddenly funny But I would rather say it Karma's Lingam of the Revenge

 

[The D0n]

Really? I almost never punch Tybalt because I the guy's utterly irrelevant. For all his screen time he's barely speedbump to the MC, and he's already suffered for that transgression without us having to lift a finger. And even if we did want to lift a finger, clubbing him senseless with a tennis ball feels both more visceral and less legally actionable.

A speedbump that tries to blackmail a girl into going out with him via legal action... my only regret is that you cant curb stomp after the hit. Dude is a straight up sleaze.

Even Bella talks about how Tybalt will eventually get his comeuppance, MC asks when .... well MC is that karma with a right jab.