Yes, i did add an edit to my original post. He has increased his average in previous episodes towards the end of production but he hasn't done that yet. Though I make the uptick 9 a week rather than 11-12.
The Christmas episode for Valentine's Day.
I'm glad you liked it. You're in for a great ride.
You picked a terrible game to be your first porn game. Good luck finding another one of the same caliber.
There's a few great ones, and this one is right up there. So much variability depending on choices and attitude. I've probably played through this more times than any other AVN. Still want to try different runs. So much to love, the characters, whatever inconsistencies or quirks, seem so alive and real (in a game sense). Also, a lot more relatable than many AVNs which tend to have a more fantasy (magic or otherwise) feel.You picked a terrible game to be your first porn game. Good luck finding another one of the same caliber.
Considering that you lose the ability to appreciate all other games because you're used to Being a DIK's quality, I'd say no.
It's almost unanimous that Being a DIK is the best AVN ever created. There are some really good ones like Eternum, but overall... there's a real gap between Being a DIK and the other games.
Funny... You're in for a great ride, I thought as I started playing this.
Well I guess February is an optimistic release date now. March is likely, but not ruling out April, which would be a disaster.You must be registered to see the links
I hope the end of 2024 is treating you well. Amidst work, I've had a couple of nice days off celebrating Christmas.
This week, I added music to all remaining scenes and will have to analyze if more is needed in some areas. At the moment, 42 new songs have been added to episode 11. Sound effects still need more work, but not a lot.
I added the lewd events of episode 11 to the Stats app and will ensure that it works while playing.
I've played through the episode three times this week. I played Others, Josy & Maya, and Sage branches and noted what to fix. I'm encountering fewer issues with every playthrough and making good progress with the polishing.
Josy & Maya's branch needs some more work in one area in particular, but it feels good other than that. I have only played one variation of the Others branch so far, and it also felt good. I will have to play through more variations to get a different feel for it later. I finished playing Sage's branch today, and I need to play more variations of this branch as well.
To take a break from playing the episode, I'm parsing the dialogue to tighten and correct it. I've parsed about 100 pages of a 400-page Word document and will continue until I finish before I start playing the episode again.
Next week, I will play through Isabella's branch and likely revisit Others and Sage branches with new variations.
All my systems work on animations, except when I must re-render static renders to fix something. Four different lewd scenes are rendering across the PCs, and the render speed varies from scene to scene. Some of the animations rendered this week were longer than others, ranging from 4 to 15 seconds. At this time, it's tricky to predict how many animations will be rendered weekly.
55 animations remain in the queue; unless I miscounted, there should be 392 animations in total for episode 11.
Have a great end to 2024, and I'll see you in 2025.
Thank you for being so supportive during this challenging year.
Love
Dr PinkCake
63 rendered animations is a lot as we know. I don't remember the end of the last development well, but he finished rendering the animations around mid-November. Sage's final preview came out on November 15, let's assume that by that time he was done with rendering ep10 animations and started rendering ep11 animations.
So, by now he knew that the speed of rendering animations leaves much to be desired. Did he do anything to solve this problem? No.
The difference between DPC and others is that they are in unequal positions. DPC has an almost unlimited budget, it can buy music with a license of 100-500 dollars per song, while others cannot. He can spend $1000 dollars a month on assets while others can't. He can buy the most expensive equipment and not limit himself in rendering quality, others are forced to create average quality renders due to small budgets. As a result, games with a story, world, and characters much better than DPC's end up unnoticed.
Because he doesn't want them to finish too soon. He can't stand the computers being idle so he would feel pressured to make more animations. Right now he plans for the animations to be finished when the manual work is done, during the polishing stage. If the computers finished weeks before he was finished with the posing, writing, coding and polishing, he would just make more stuff and it would add to the manual work, meaning longer development time.
I've ruined you. I feel responsible for this.dreaming of sucking the toes of a drug-dealing pimp.
Very true. Another similar game also used to have a good budget but some bad decisions, like heiring people to cut the development time, really backfired, the quality dropped and he went down from almost 7000 Patreons to less than 1300.
Well, the New Years part will proberbly be in the end so it wouldn't really solve anything. I think splitting it would have given us content faster but would also have made the over-all development longer since every part would have had to been made as a single part.
It's definitely a personal preference thing but plenty of us do like the music, some AVN devs also find bangers.
"There Are Better Days" and "Insomniac" by Bex, "Peachy" by Bellsmarie, "Three's A Crowd" by Absentrealities, "I'll Hold You Tight" by Beza, "All Of The Pieces" by Emily Vendre
