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

[ChipLecsap]

is the Anthony is " not a piece of shit cunt" , is still a thing for some folks ? , even after the recent episode?

 

[Porthas]

Anthony is the one who figures shit out with DIK pictures.

He obviously didn't figure out enough, he's stupidly blaming MC for the camera/video - which was obviously installed way before MC ever came onto the scene. I think that camera took a shot of Arelith (sp?) boffing a DiK in that closet area even before her hair color was changed. Everyone knows MC is a "new guy" with the DiK's.

And Ashley stupidly believes "Ant" - who obviously has the IQ of a peanut (he struggles with school work) and "Ant" is obviously in some stupid frat war with the DiK's. A normal, thinking human being would probably stand back from the whole drama and either not get involved or consider that there's two sides to every argument and situation.

 

[dalli_x]

I never help Derek with Cam. MC knows Cam is part of the restaurant but Derek doesn't (at least I hope he doesn't, it would put a different spin on him encouraging Maya to pledge the HOTs if he knows about the restaurant) and I think MC will have enough problems with Sage, Maya, Josy, Bella and Jill being pissed about him knowing about the restaurant without Derek also being pissed that MC agreed to try and set him up with a prostitute without warning him she's a prostitute, or alternatively being pissed that MC didn't tell him that he just had to pay Cam rather than trying to hook up with her the traditional way.

That's the thing about being a wingman for Derek. The MC is Derek's wingman for the first time in EP3, when Derek talks to Ashley in the cafeteria. The MC thought to himself so he could make Derek look good this time.

In EP4 we then have Derek asking the MC whether he should try it with Camila or not. At this point I'm already asking myself the question you ask yourself in EP9, because Camila could be a prostitute. The problem with my reasoning is that if the MC accepted the restaurant offer from Quinn, the MC knows that Camilla is a prostitute, if the MC rejected the restaurant offer, the MC cannot know that Camila is a prostitute, only that assume. I also wonder if the MC has the right to decide what he wants for Derek. What if Derek has no problem having a prostitute as a girlfriend. That's why my MC Derek makes it clear in EP3 that if he wants to go after Camila, he should do it.

I'm not helping Derek with Ashley in EP7 because Derek previously told MC to count her as a loss. He said to the MC in EP6 that he liked Ashley more than he thought, but it's not love. In EP7 the MC can then be the wingman in relation to Penny. But if the player does that then, Elena said clearly, so that the MC should do it better next time. The question is, when next time? On a new playthrough? So my MC in EP7 is not the wingman for Derek.

In EP9 the topic with Camila comes up again, which has a clear connection to EP3. Basically I ask myself the same questions as in EP3. But something is different in EP9. Before Derek asks the wingman question, we have another decision to make about Camila and Derek. My MC advises Derek to follow up with Camila while sober. This comes from the conversation between Jamie and Derek when it comes to liquid courage, which actually shows what you want, but decisions made under alcohol are not necessarily wise. There is something else to consider. Is Derek really drunk or not. Camila says he is, but Zoey says so it won't show to Derek.

In EP9 I decide that the MC for Derek is the wingman in relation to Camila. The MC proves his honesty because in EP3 my MC made it clear to Derek that he should try Camila if he wants. Camila rejects Derek either way, but the MC has proven to be a bro to Derek.

 

[felicemastronzo]

I never help Derek with Cam. MC knows Cam is part of the restaurant but Derek doesn't (at least I hope he doesn't, it would put a different spin on him encouraging Maya to pledge the HOTs if he knows about the restaurant) and I think MC will have enough problems with Sage, Maya, Josy, Bella and Jill being pissed about him knowing about the restaurant without Derek also being pissed that MC agreed to try and set him up with a prostitute without warning him she's a prostitute, or alternatively being pissed that MC didn't tell him that he just had to pay Cam rather than trying to hook up with her the traditional way.

you think it would be a problem for Derek?
maybe it could pay off, but considering Derek's list of accomplishments, Camilla would automatically go in the stories to tell the grandkids

 

[Kpyna]

You are right about many things. But ask yourself the following question. Would B&R have to be closed if Stephen Burke had nothing to do with prostitution, just found out about it and is eliminating the prostitution problem on campus?

In my opinion, B&R's presence would then not be at risk because the officials would have acted. The system would have worked.

It's the opposite side of the coin, but the coin remains the same. Will it be the B&R shutdown after finding and presenting evidence of Stephen's involvement into the prostitution ring, his "business" with Quinn, her own drug dealing activities or it will be a fake "investigation" forced and started by Stephen himself to save his ass and confuse the facts. Despite of how it's done it will cross out and put an end to history of almost all frats and sisterhood on campus. And I doubt that it's that kind of story our MC is telling us from the future.

Sometimes evil can slip off and avoid punishment or responsibility. Sometimes it's you who have to make such tough choice, like a choice between letting evil slip off or punish it but also ruin everything around - a lot of lives and destines, future and potential fun.

Why do you think MC and a lot of other characters don't run to the police or the feds, knowing that some girls sell themselves for $, that not only weed are being used on campus (even if it were only weed!), etc. MC mentioned police only once - when he was directly threatened with a gun, but was calmed down in seconds.

At the age and a period of life the game is about, it's quite plausible to act in a such way. You'd better shut up and have fun instead of running to police after every illegal activity you see or know about to ruin everything, become a snitch, etc. Even fights are hushing up and resolving without involving the authorities and other shit. All DIK's, HOT's, Alphas, dormies, etc are all tied and smeared in the same shit. And until nobody died or got seriously injured, it's probably will be "ok".

People's consciousness and attitudes towards such things change as they grow up and change their environment and lifestyle from college and fun to family, children and work. When such things stop being enjoyable or become dangerous or annoying.

Subtle hints ? We have moved past this stage

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I meant the whole thing like not showing the player how it happened exactly. And even this is subtle, since he said "I hooked up with Riona" and not "I bought a sex from Riona".

In EP4 we then have Derek asking the MC whether he should try it with Camila or not. At this point I'm already asking myself the question you ask yourself in EP9, because Camila could be a prostitute. The problem with my reasoning is that if the MC accepted the restaurant offer from Quinn, the MC knows that Camilla is a prostitute, if the MC rejected the restaurant offer, the MC cannot know that Camila is a prostitute, only that assume. I also wonder if the MC has the right to decide what he wants for Derek. What if Derek has no problem having a prostitute as a girlfriend. That's why my MC Derek makes it clear in EP3 that if he wants to go after Camila, he should do it.

MC knows about Camila and have it in mind when he tries to "warn" Maya about Quinn:

my "She said that she might have an offer for me, if I passed the initiation..."
my "...but not what for."
mc "(Not...like she's using Camila...right?)"
mc "Don't trust Quinn, Maya."
my "What?"
mc "She's evil!"
my "Evil? Come on, she's just a bit...rough around the edges."
mc "Nope. EVIL. I know what she does with her girls."
mc "She uses them to earn money."
my "Uses them how?"
mc "Just...don't trust her, Maya. Please!"

MC is quite aware of what is going on and have a clue who is in Quinn's restaurant. The reasons why he haven't told Maya all the truth I mentioned above.

We often judge characters and their actions incorrectly or without taking into account where we are at the moment and at what stage of life we are at the moment. We forget how many stupid things we ourselves have done before, and that is why very specific reviews of this game in the spirit of the relentless "lawyer" periodically slip through:

Ah! Maya grinded our MC w/o asking the permission! - GUILTY! TO JAIL! (99% of you would like or even beg god for something like this to happen and wouldn't ever mind if it does);

Ah! that bitch RAPED MC! (Quinn at CUM-petition) - GUILTY! TO JAIL! (same shit);

Oh! That bad boy punched me in the face or beat my ass! Call the cops! Make charges and put him into jail!

They smoke weed like that?! Nobody reported? An organized criminal group. Mutual responsibility, everyone is guilty, punish everyone, close everything down (fucking snitch cunt if ran away and reported your buds);

Girls sell themselves? Pimp?! Nuclear strike there, immediately! (wow! the world's oldest profession in action, while nobody minds against the same things happening in social networks, instagramm and so on).

 

[Jamez999]

 

[Stemmyz]

Does anybody have any news about Casiope?

I have been using their walkthrough for as far as I can remember and I see that it still hasn't been updated for Episode 10.
I hope they are ok...

 

[LizaS]

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I ended up working on art all week. I've been working on new environments and chugging on with renders for bigger scenes. A handful of SFW animations have been posed in the process.

The scene I started working on yesterday will need ~400-600 renders to complete - it's massive. It's always hard to estimate the render count for a scene because sometimes renders are used multiple times in dialogue.

I believe I have decided on the first preview for this episode and will publish it in the upcoming week.

The render queue is lasting well throughout February, as I hoped. At the moment, I'm feeling inspired to focus on art and will continue doing that until I feel like writing again. I'm also planning which lewd scene to create next to refill the animation queue when needed.

Depending on the final animation count, I estimate that I've already posed 40-45% of the needed animations for episode 11. It's clear that I've been focusing on this up until recent weeks.

Poll news
Maya won the special render poll that ended today, and she will get a dedicated special render set in episode 11. I'm looking forward to creating it and must decide what I want. It's always hard trying to top the recent episode's special render sets, but I will do my best. Also decided by this poll, Isabella will get her special render set in episode 12. Thanks for voting!

One special render set poll remains for episode 11, but that will be saved for later. Instead, there will be another cosmetic poll starting later this month for Sage.

Have a great weekend.

Dr PinkCake​

 

[El_Magnifico]

I believe I have decided on the first preview for this episode and will publish it in the upcoming week.

​

That's a very big decision, cabrón

 

[znar25]

If Ashley gets over her bad-boy phase she'll settle down with somebody a lot more normal than either of them.

Joshy92

 

[KaiserST]

I will take what I can from this report.

40% posed animations is around 136 posed if I were to use ep 10 as reference. I know he said 40-45%, but I learned to be pessimistic when dealing with this game lol.

The last number of posed animations we got (85) was from the report in 05/01, which means he posed around 50 animations in the meanwhile.

Not a bad number, no idea how many were rendered, but I wouldnt be surprised if the number is close to 90 considering in 05/01 the number was 63.

We can never know for sure, but I bet the massive scene he is talking about will be the one in Bella's home when they finally look and discuss the contract.

Cant wait for the preview, I need something new to discuss.

That's a very big decision, cabrón

Took only 7 weeks...

 

[hakuna-matata]

That's a very big decision, cabrón

I know.... It's hard to find that one non-spoiler render out of 10000 renders.

 

[Kpyna]

40% posed animations is around 136 posed if I were to use ep 10 as reference. I know he said 40-45%, but I learned to be pessimistic when dealing with this game lol.

The last number of posed animations we got (85) was from the report in 05/01, which means he posed around 50 animations in the meanwhile.

Not a bad number, no idea how many were rendered, but I wouldnt be surprised if the number is close to 90 considering in 05/01 the number was 63.

The render queue is lasting well throughout February, as I hoped. ... I'm also planning which lewd scene to create next to refill the animation queue when needed.

This means that most of posed animations will be rendered by the end of February. So it means that number of completed animations would be around 140 by that time too. Good number for beginning of the spring, imo.

We can never know for sure, but I bet the massive scene he is talking about will be the one in Bella's home when they finally look and discuss the contract.

400 or even 600 static renders for Bella's place is insane. It's definitely something else. The whole BBQ party have around 1100 static renders, but it includes everything - all the MGs/SGs branching, lewd scenes parts, shrooms scenes and "branching". What you could fit and which event run in the Bella's house to occupy such amount of renders? All freeroams at DIKs mansion took ~400 renders in EP10. Cleaning after Halloween, arguing with Alphas, MCs phone calls, etc. And DPC haven't mentioned that he is creating a free roam. Just a "scene". It must be something really huge and canon.

It depends on how he counting these renders. Does he include the reused ones (when characters are talking during dialogues) or he just counting the scene "frames". Depending on the answer the number or scene "frames" may be 2-3 times less than unique renders used to create such scene. So, it could take about 200-300 unique renders. Still HUGE, but more plausible.

Cant wait for the preview, I need something new to discuss.

Took only 7 weeks...

It already took 3 months, because the last EP10 preview came out at November, 15.

 

[hakuna-matata]

And what about the price of the preview ? $10 ? $15 ? $25 ? More ? That's quite a dilemma.

100$ should be sufficient enough to unlock it.

 

[ename144]

400 or even 600 static renders for Bella's place is insane. It's definitely something else. The whole BBQ party have around 1100 static renders, but it includes everything - all the MGs/SGs branching, lewd scenes parts, shrooms scenes and "branching". What you could fit and which event run in the Bella's house to occupy such amount of renders? All freeroams at DIKs mansion took ~400 renders in EP10. Cleaning after Halloween, arguing with Alphas, MCs phone calls, etc. And DPC haven't mentioned that he is creating a free roam. Just a "scene". It must be something really huge and canon.

You say that as though Bella's house won't be a big free roam, with variations depending on whether you got the contract and snippets for each girl's path. I agree that wouldn't be a great use of time, but DPC is well past gilding lilies at this point: he's gilding silverware. Anything is possible.

The bigger question is whether he considers a free roam as a single scene, or a series of sub-scenes.

It depends on how he counting these renders. Does he include the reused ones (when characters are talking during dialogues) or he just counting the scene "frames". Depending on the answer the number or scene "frames" may be 2-3 times less than unique renders used to create such scene. So, it could take about 200-300 unique renders. Still HUGE, but more plausible.

The diary specifically mentions it being hard to estimate render counts in a scene since sometimes a render is used multiple times, so it seems clear the estimate is for unique shots.

 

[randomguy6516265165]

Im thinking of getting this game on steam so just to be clear could you guys answer me this questions?

You cant have an harem with all girls right?

How many routes does this game have?

Is there any sharing in the game? I dont mind sharing with girls, the game has the group sex tag and like with sharing I dont
mind if it is with just girls but I dont want to share with other dudes

How is the multiple protag thing? I dont like jumping from character to character

How is the cheating? cause usually cheating is use for where the MC steals a girl

It has the graphic violence tag, does any girl die?

Any girl get raped?

Any idea if preggo would be part of the game?

Mods are compatible with the steam version?

Prostition tag is just for side girls to add more scenes or a LI is a hooker?

 

[randomguy6516265165]

No harem

Around 5 routes, plus some minor variations.

No sharing girls so far.

The fem protagonist is only for a short interlude between Episodes 8 & 9. The rest of the game is only in the male MC.

After episode 9 some actions register as cheating if u choose a main girl in ep 8, no consequences so far, but there might be in the future.

No

Only one girl got pregant, but its a girl u cant pursue and it was played as a joke.

Yes

No LI is a prostitute.

Thx I forgot to ask in the harem part, do we fuck all the girls or for each route we have a couple girls? Sry for bothering you

 

[El_Magnifico]

You cant have an harem with all girls right?

No.

How many routes does this game have?

5 major paths with variations.

Is there any sharing in the game? I dont mind sharing with girls, the game has the group sex tag and like with sharing I dont
mind if it is with just girls but I dont want to share with other dudes

No there aren't.

How is the multiple protag thing? I dont like jumping from character to character

You only play the Main character's girlfriend during an interlude. Not even 10 % of the game.

How is the cheating? cause usually cheating is use for where the MC steals a girl

That's the case. Some girls can cheat on their boyfriend, husband or girlfriend in some cases But they won't cheat on you.

It has the graphic violence tag, does any girl die?

Not for now.

Any girl get raped?

No.

Any idea if preggo would be part of the game?

Probably not, the game is very vanilla.

Mods are compatible with the steam version?

The dev hates mods and put trap with evey new update. It's better to play without mods.

Prostition tag is just for side girls to add more scenes or a LI is a hooker?

Just the side girls.

 

[Hahn1900]

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I ended up working on art all week. I've been working on new environments and chugging on with renders for bigger scenes. A handful of SFW animations have been posed in the process.

The scene I started working on yesterday will need ~400-600 renders to complete - it's massive. It's always hard to estimate the render count for a scene because sometimes renders are used multiple times in dialogue.

I believe I have decided on the first preview for this episode and will publish it in the upcoming week.

The render queue is lasting well throughout February, as I hoped. At the moment, I'm feeling inspired to focus on art and will continue doing that until I feel like writing again. I'm also planning which lewd scene to create next to refill the animation queue when needed.

Depending on the final animation count, I estimate that I've already posed 40-45% of the needed animations for episode 11. It's clear that I've been focusing on this up until recent weeks.

Poll news
Maya won the special render poll that ended today, and she will get a dedicated special render set in episode 11. I'm looking forward to creating it and must decide what I want. It's always hard trying to top the recent episode's special render sets, but I will do my best. Also decided by this poll, Isabella will get her special render set in episode 12. Thanks for voting!

One special render set poll remains for episode 11, but that will be saved for later. Instead, there will be another cosmetic poll starting later this month for Sage.

Have a great weekend.

Dr PinkCake​

Thank you very much for posting

Another week, another.... nothing? At least no numbers to work with. 40-45% of the total estimated animations are posed, from experience... DPC is adding more animations to the episode than planned at the end, so lets say... 30-35% are posed. But... posed doesnt mean anything. Posing animations is not that time consuming. The render-time is the issue and after the initial report on january 5th we didnt get any new numbers on that. Which is a little disappointing. At this time he should have rendered at least 120 animations but i have a feeling we arent even near that number. At january 5th he already had rendered 63 animations and additionally posed 85... if the queue is working like DPC has been telling us (it was vague but he said something like that they render faster than before) those posed 85 animations should be nearly done by now... and i dont believe that. Plus... that would mean we are already near half of the total animations of episode 10... in 2 months? Nah, never ever. But even if this is the case... so far he only worked on lewd animations, i think the lewd scenes are planned way ahead before the rest of the episodes. But than DPC is adding more and more "SFW" animations which will be added on top and most of the time near the end of the dev cycle too... Wich will lead to a delay.

Lets just hope he is working more efficiently on the animations than before and is not going overboard again with them and adds a lot in the "late window" of the dev cycle like he did with episode 9 and 10 so we have to wait another 2 months only for them.

For the static renders... those numbers doesnt really matter. 400-600 renders for a huge scene, so it will be a big and long scene could be the "debrefing" scene for the Maya-contract heist... lot of characters theres, many branches too, will be a bigger scene for sure. But 400-600 renders... DPC has done those in a week in the past if he focused on those. He can be really fast with static renders if he wants too.

Well, lets hope the next DEV report will show some rendered animation numbers.

 

[El_Magnifico]

Thx I forgot to ask in the harem part, do we fuck all the girls or for each route we have a couple girls? Sry for bothering you

You can flirt with the 5 LIs and fucks a lot of side girls, then in Ep8 you'll have to commit to one LI or just keep fucking the side girls.