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

[Chalk boss]

Looks like we're in for a winter episode in the spring

I'm up to 6995 posed static renders - of which 308 are in the render queue.

I only have two scenes left to pose, and I estimate I need to pose a maximum of 150 renders before I'm done

So the total number of static renders would be 7150.

I'm up to 389 posed animations - of which 66 animation files are in the render queue.

The good news is that there will be no more animations and this is the final figure. I'm guessing it's 7-8 weeks of rendering.
If it really is 8 weeks, the end of rendering is February 3.

The game will only come out in February if there is a 2 week beta. But considering that beta testing won't start until February, I'm 90% sure that the announcement will happen in early March when patreon charges start.
My bet is March 7th.

I can start polishing the episode within the next two weeks if all goes well.

It doesn't really matter if it has 8 weeks of rendering. He can leave now for the holidays and not start polishing until January.

I think a lot will depend on what those animations are, but judging by the fact that there are still 66 of them, it's not 50 or even 58, I'm guessing the animation rate is the same as before -10 animations per week.
P.S. I wonder if there will be a Q&A section in February?
Will his patreons revolt? Will he explain anything?

 

[Mordreut]

I have the strong feeling he's trolling/teasing like he did with Vixens before. The scene looks set for that scope. I hope I'm wrong.

If you noticed, DPC's "perfectionism" always renders wet or sweaty skin as oiled. So when you see apparently oiled skin you have to guess if it is just wetness from water, sweat or real oil (for Madame we can agree it's oil). To be fair, wetness takes some effort to be rendered in a decent way and few developers are able or willing to achieve that. He doesn't really care about this kind of details.

DPC showing characters sweating can't be considered his worst work. his "perfectionism" died the first time he showed characters with black teeth (I still remember the first time I saw that thinking "Am I blind? Does she use bracers? No, her teeth are black)

And speaking of Sally, I have a theory that she might be the one who cheated on the midterms and that she might not be as smart as she's pretending to be. There are several hints that she's actually struggling.

It is an interesting theory but I still think the cheater is Lily... Hell I'm using one of the crazy theories I read here about Lily being a cop (I considered as possible the first time I played) and I will say Lily cheated because as an undercover cop she doesn't have time to study

I'm assuming Anthony says he passes in both cases as well?
How the fuck did that dude pass. He is a troglodyte and people were going on and on about the test being very difficult iirc.

Ant, shown to be more smarter than dawe , it's the typical, Dawe had a bad influence on him, kind of a thing.
It does not mean he is not a piece of shit, but he probably better off without Dawe

Dawe is a bad influence to Anthony. When Ashley introduced him to you in ep. 8 he is not a will answer properly unlike the other alphas. But that doesn't mean his not a cunt when he said to Ashley that it was FuckFace who leaked the photos of alpha

Anthony is the smartest guy in his fraternity. I know the level is very low, but at least he was to one who found out the photos were fake, and it's smart enough to pass match class (moving away from Dawe in the process)

I know a lot of uncultured guys dislike him, but i dunno, hes just the best bro in badik, look how genuinely proud and happy he is for tremolo

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Best bro in BaDIK? Tommy? This guy?

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Happy Friday, DIKs.

This week, I've continued to work on art.

I'm up to 6995 posed static renders - of which 308 are in the render queue.

I'm up to 389 posed animations - of which 66 animation files are in the render queue.

I also added Discord rich presence functionality for Episode 11 this week—I'm almost done with it.

I only have two scenes left to pose, and I estimate I need to pose a maximum of 150 renders before I'm done. I aim to complete this remaining art next week and continue working with Music/SFX and other coding tasks.

I can start polishing the episode within the next two weeks if all goes well.

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

January 90%

So 2 more weeks before polishing, plus finishing the render queue, the polishing and the Beta... My bet is still March
Macky009 Do you dare bet if episode is release before February 2025?

 

[Macky009]

Episode 11 will release before Christmas as a Surprise Gift by Mr Pinkcake to us.Mark my words will talk after Dec 25th

"EP11 Release for December this year !!!"

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As I promised I bookmarked your post. Looks like the December 2024 release date you guys made is not happening.

 

[Hahn1900]

90% end of January

difficult...

66 animations in render queue. Would be fucking fast in they would be done in january. Of course... depends on the animation itself, are they long ones or short ones? We dont know. But in average, he can render them at a speed of... hm 1,5 animation per day more or less. That would mean february. But iam optimistic too and will say january cause i think he can use all his PC power for the animations left now which will speed things up a litte. 308 still renders in the queue are done in a day.

 

[Macky009]

Anthony is the smartest guy in his fraternity. I know the level is very low, but at least he was to one who found out the photos were fake, and it's smart enough to pass match class (moving away from Dawe in the process)


So 2 more weeks before polishing, plus finishing the render queue, the polishing and the Beta... My bet is still March
Macky009 Do you dare bet if episode is release before February 2025?

Can you refresh my memory about the photos. Is this when Chad been remove to be the president of tri alphas

Hmmm, late January 2025 is my best bet. But it can come out in February 13 or 15. Ok I stick to my guns January 2025 and yours is March 2025

 

[Chalk boss]

Well... for most, yep... and it goes most of the time like this... more time to delevop for LESS content.

DPC however does the opposit now... (and did so before)... it will take about 5-7 weeks more now to release the episode compared to the last one in total. But with 20% more renders and animations (so basically 20% more content). A tradeoff i can live with, though... i would prefer less animations so the episode could come out faster, but that would mean DPC has to work even faster and thats getting unheathly for him like it was during episode 8 DEV cycle.

Being a dik episodes get bigger with each update ... most other games? Less content for more time... so not like all the others.

I actually have a contradictory attitude about it. 7000 renders is 7000 divided into a huge number of branches and sub branches, accounting for all sorts of possibilities and variables. You won't see them in one pass.
You used to be able to see 3-4k renders in one playthrough, but now you have to replay an episode 5-6 times just to see the difference in a few phrases and scenes.

 

[Chalk boss]

60 fps were a stupid idea then, now and forever more.

I guess 60 fps is more of an excuse. While the animations are rendering he can be busy scripting, coding, creating art, drinking, hunting, fishing, buying trinkets on amazon....
The second thing I'm more interested in. Will he risk splitting ep12 into two parts. This episode has been in development for a year and a half, he said earlier he was thinking about it. Will he start planning the next episode with a 2-part split in mind or will he use polls as the best way to manipulate public opinion?

 

[19Castiel23]

Not so fun fact, if you look at the data from the 13/09 report and today's report we can observe that DPC only rendered 56 animations in 90ish days.

Now sure, that number doesn't account for duration nor if any were merged, but that is still a depressing number considering his hardware.

60 fps were a stupid idea then, now and forever more.


Most animations should be on the shorter end being from lewd scenes.

The statics should be rendered in a week at worst, then it will be a full on struggle for the animations.

I really hope my march estimate is wrong and the EP comes out in Febreaury, but I don't think it will happen unfortunally.



Yeah, who doesn't want to share that you are playing a porn game with their friends lol


Beta took 2,5 weeks last time, it won't take less than 3 with a update this huge.


Even if all animations are quite short I doubt a January release would be possible considering thw Beta periodo.

DPC average is already quite lower than 1 animation per day considering he started EP 11 animation work while EP10 was still on Beta.

The render queue should only finish by very late january, anything faster would be a miracle.

Being a DIK fans don't get those...

You are so demoralizing

 

[xtraax]

Not so fun fact, if you look at the data from the 13/09 report and today's report we can observe that DPC only rendered 56 animations in 90ish days.

Now sure, that number doesn't account for duration nor if any were merged, but that is still a depressing number considering his hardware.

Note that not all his PCs are dedicated to animations as of today. Once he finished rendering still renders (which will be done rather quickly), he'll probably use mutliple PCs to render animations (let me cope ok?)

 

[Bootyman92]

I could just assume a threesome between Maya and Josy was a Christmas present for MC.
Josy writes that they have a present for him, he comes in and gets this scene.
This scene is more about fetishes than logic. There's not a single reason why Maya, who was devout and raised in a family with a strict religious father, suddenly became an anal slut.
It's just AVN logic.

Do you know the kind of repressed shit people raised under strict households hide?

 

[Bootyman92]

DPC: "I'm not showing you a preview because I want to avoid spoilers. I don't know what to show you. I'll try to find renders that won't spoil anything and that will be difficult" - early in the development of Ep.11

Spoiler: Also DPC:

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Fuck me, I can't wait for that throuple scene.

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

Suspicious as Magnar's acting, he's not a freshman. He isn't taking the same exams as the MC, and if he'd been cheating for years (i.e. if we had somehow found his leftover notes) he wouldn't have needed to buy answers off the MC in the first place. Magnar being the cheater would make no sense - though that wouldn't necessarily stop DPC from doing it anyway.

A more plausible explanation would be that Magnar IS a longtime cheat, but he's found another freshman to help him compile cheat sheets and the MC is now unnecessary.

Maybe it's the tribetas doing it and not just Magnar.

 

[Chalk boss]

Being a DIK: Season 4 will be the final season that concludes the story. It will be released and sold separately as DLC.

Now I get it. Given that the development timeline is now 15-18 weeks, I think episode 12 will be the final episode that will finalize all the major lines and conflicts.
Season four:
1) Either will be incomplete and consist of 2 episodes and therefore will be sold as a DLC
2) It will be an epilogue to the main game. MC has chosen his girlfriend and defeated all the enemies, the remaining 2 episodes will focus on MC's life after the main story ends.

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

Being a DIK: Season 4 will be the final season that concludes the story. It will be released and sold separately as DLC.

Now I get it. Given that the development timeline is now 15-18 weeks, I think episode 12 will be the final episode that will finalize all the major lines and conflicts.
Season four:
1) Either will be incomplete and consist of 2 episodes and therefore will be sold as a DLC
2) It will be an epilogue to the main game. MC has chosen his girlfriend and defeated all the enemies, the remaining 2 episodes will focus on MC's life after the main story ends.

It says what it says. Episode 12 would end season 3 and there would be a fourth season sold separately, as 2 and 3 were.

 

[xtraax]

Being a DIK: Season 4 will be the final season that concludes the story. It will be released and sold separately as DLC.

Now I get it. Given that the development timeline is now 15-18 weeks, I think episode 12 will be the final episode that will finalize all the major lines and conflicts.
Season four:
1) Either will be incomplete and consist of 2 episodes and therefore will be sold as a DLC
2) It will be an epilogue to the main game. MC has chosen his girlfriend and defeated all the enemies, the remaining 2 episodes will focus on MC's life after the main story ends.

S2 and S3 are already counted as DLC on Steam, that's how he calls them. S4 will be a full season

 

[Crusader of Romance]

did this game had any update this year? thanks

It had a patch.

 

[JayneDoe2]

Not so fun fact, if you look at the data from the 13/09 report and today's report we can observe that DPC only rendered 56 animations in 90ish days.

Now sure, that number doesn't account for duration nor if any were merged, but that is still a depressing number considering his hardware.

60 fps were a stupid idea then, now and forever more.


Most animations should be on the shorter end being from lewd scenes.

The statics should be rendered in a week at worst, then it will be a full on struggle for the animations.

I really hope my march estimate is wrong and the EP comes out in Febreaury, but I don't think it will happen unfortunally.



Yeah, who doesn't want to share that you are playing a porn game with their friends lol


Beta took 2,5 weeks last time, it won't take less than 3 with a update this huge.


Even if all animations are quite short I doubt a January release would be possible considering thw Beta periodo.

DPC average is already quite lower than 1 animation per day considering he started EP 11 animation work while EP10 was still on Beta.

The render queue should only finish by very late january, anything faster would be a miracle.

Being a DIK fans don't get those...

Can you link me the 13/09 status update. I can't find it nor do I remember that he said "x animations are done"

Found it. He said "306 (39 of which are in the render queue. The count is not exact as some animation files may be merged)".

 

[xtraax]

Can you link me the 13/09 status update. I can't find it nor do I remember that he said "x animations are done"

Here

 

[Crusader of Romance]

Correction : Only the Name was Revealed.
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Well than then it's obviously Lily Anderson

although some of us assume it's Magnar . . .

How did I miss this? Or did I forget? Not that we know who's Anderson. But "shame" seems to point to someone not expected to cheat.

A lot of people assumed it was Derek since he didn't even have to check to know he passed the test, but I personally think it means that he's actually a genius, like some have speculated. That's why he doesn't have to study as hard.

 

[soprano31]

Can you link me the 13/09 status update. I can't find it nor do I remember that he said "x animations are done"

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I've been working on canon scenes all week, some with branch-related content.

I've posed a handful of scenes of varied lengths and am currently halfway through a longer (120+ renders) scene.

To give you a sense of how much of the episode's development remains, here's a summary of what I can state after glancing through my files for episode 11.

• Eleven canon scenes need art. Most of them have completed or partial writing.
• Two big free-roam events are almost complete. Both are lacking scenes with writing/art.
• A smaller free-roam event is needed. It's only planned at the moment.
• Three lewd scenes for main girls remain to create from scratch.
• Phone content needs plenty of work. It's rather bare-bones at the moment.
• The branches have remained mostly unchanged since last week. Except for Jill's branch, the other four branches need plenty of work. I cannot estimate how much, but this is the biggest remaining area.
• Music/SFX needs a lot of work.
• Mini-games are implemented and only need testing.
• Rewards, Scenes, and Pack Quest are implemented and only need testing. Some special renders need to be placed in canon story scenes.
• I have yet to play the majority of the episode, and things may increase the size of this to-do list. Depending on how I feel after playing the episode, more canon scenes or branched scenes may be needed.

Posed renders: 5269 (277 of which are in the render queue)

Posed animations: 306 (39 of which are in the render queue. The count is not exact as some animation files may be merged)

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake