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

[Ray_D]

Damn, Josy getting sidelined.

Hey dude have some fucking respect, that's no way to talk about maya's sidekick.

 

[ChipLecsap]

Hey dude have some fucking respect, that's no way to talk about maya's sidekick.
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[Ray_D]

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[JillybeanEnjoyer]

Meh, lame
I can have this, without any affinity requirement
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This is what my shampoo bottle does to me when I slightly squeeze it too hard.

 

[Macky009]

When Tyballs gets in real big trouble for all the shit he's pulled, how far do you think he'll fall? Presidency stripped from him, absolutely. Kicked from the preps, likely. His parents cut him off and he's poor? Perhaps. Expelled from B&R? Possible. Turns to Quinn/Vinny for drugs? Slim chance. Living in a truck, selling "enriched" watermelons on the side of the road? 100%

Spoiler: Maybe he can start an OnlyFans for fruit lovers...

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But seriously, how much will life shit on him now?

I thing Tybalt will fall from grace. He will loose alot especially if Jill proceed to report him and Trent backing Jill up, hw will loose his President position especially because of the damning evidence. Second of all her parents divorce, during the flashback of Stephen we found out that he does not want to adopt and I think after the divorce Stephen will cut off Tybalt in his money

 

[Timbuyer27]

I am not so convinced that the culprit is the same.
the only thing they have in common is that they probably came through Rusty's laptop.

but the methods and effects were completely different. with Cathy there's someone who actively took the photo only to have Rusty take the blame afterwards, a rather reckless and risky action.

whereas with Jade's video it's a much more judicious operation, getting the video shot (or commissioned) to whoever would gain the most from it. and Burke hardly has any interest in the footage becoming public: it's one thing to threaten to use it, it's another to actually do it, he'd lose out too.

If I were a betting man, I'd say Tommy is envious of Rusty and would do just about anything to unseat him as Prez.

 

[Timbuyer27]

Since his new phone was a gift and not a straight replacement, I'd say he merely turned off the old phone, with no regard for "information hygiene." But it should still require a PIN or password or something upon turning back on (again I hope, maybe the smartphone is too old for that?).

Maybe everyone has teamed up to oppose the DIKs. B&R's own Sinister Six, or Secret Society, or another nerd term for villain groups

Does no one else think Tommy is evil? Rusty runs the DIKs and has a hard-on for Vinny. I guess he'd do anything to push Rusty out and blame Vinny. How could he blame Vinny? All he has to do is use the fact that Vinny quit the DIKs to ruin them. Vinny is evil too, but that doesn't mean that the two evil fuckfaces are on the same team.

 

[TuckeredOut]

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Release week is soon upon us.

Beta testing has yielded great results, and the testers have done a thorough job with the episode.

Here's the updated changelog after the weeks of beta testing. It's most likely final. *Crosses fingers*

On top of helping me find bugs and polish episode 11 further, there have been some improvements to the overall season during beta testing.

The bullet points in bold font are recent changes and improvements that affect previous episodes.

-- Changelog v0.11.0 --

Added Episode 11 that includes

7113 renders
392 animations
6 2D-art pieces
2 2D-art animations
42 songs
32 sound effects

• Fixed a bug that caused studying at your desk to fail if you opened the phone while choosing what to study.
• Added a tracking system for Seen dialogue to the Stats app.
• Added buttons to cycle the girls in the 2D art app.
• Reduced the animation times of tiles appearing and disappearing in Triple Tile.
• Fixed an issue with scrolling while browsing the phone gallery that would cause the phone to close.
• Fixed an issue with the quick menu that set it to disabled after viewing credits.
• Menus in Brawler can now be closed using the middle mouse button.
• Improved the text spacing in the Bios app.
• Fixed a bug where the final free roam event of episode 10 didn't end if you failed the main task.
• Fixed an issue with money messages staying on screen when fast traveling from the desk area.
• Fixed a missing image error for an animation.
• Fixed a bug with the on-screen text message conversation that could happen if a game was saved at specific points during these conversations.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Envy's events from being added to her Bios history.
• Fixed a rounding issue with the Happiness % in the Party Planner mini-game that caused a mismatch in % gained or lost during evaluation.
• Fixed an issue with missing text in the Stats app and Party Planner tab when participating in the CUM-petition in Episode 9.
• Fixed an issue with the Party Planning mini-game that didn't update the emotes correctly according to the happiness level.
• Fixed an issue with the episode report of episode 10 that would show a choice that potentially didn't happen for Lily.
• Slightly increased timer for the English class.
• Fixed an issue potentially causing a scene with Sage, Maya and Josy to be skipped if the player didn't spend time with Zoey in episode 10.
• Corrected typos

Thank you for your support!

I look forward to Friday and I hope you'll be joining me for the release.

Love

Dr PinkCake

Guess Josy's too busy trying to find herself to be apart of the episode... shame

 

[grey_shadow]

It's impossible to be fully prepared for what this game might throw at you. I'm sure I'm not the only one impressed by Milton's 81 saves, but just the 15 major choices of the first two seasons add up to 24472 possible sets. That's just the major choices. It will be further multiplied by which girls you actually pursue, things like telling Josy and/or Sage about Chad and what you do in season 3.

Huh, that's a slightly weird number. 24472 = 2*2*2*7*19*23. If each of the fifteen choices is a binary DIK/Chick choice, then you'd have up to 32768 possible sets. It's not immediately obvious how to reverse engineer the 24472 back to the decision structure.

I suppose if I really wanted, I could pore over the walkthrough to extract the conditions under which each decision is forced, and run my own calculations to confirm...

 

[TonyMurray]

Except those counterpoints aren't great. If there are technical issues then those could still have been worked out for Episode 9 rather than an interlude. If the purpose of the Interlude was to flesh out Zoey as a character and allow you to shape her then why does DPC undercut all that by reducing her to a single variable come episode 9.

And sure you don't introduce all your characters at once but as I mentioned that was already done with Josy being properly brought in with episode 4. The issue with Zoey is that introducing her properly at Interlude/Episode 9 is that it's so late (halfway through the story essentially) that if they're meant to be a proper romantic spanner in the works then she's still at a standing start as a character while everyone else is essentially moving towards the finish line. And if DPC's intent was to have her be a spanner in the works romantically, again this is immediately undermined by the ability to go "nah, sorry" within minutes.

It just feels like there's a draft of this where DPC meant for her to be a "Main Girl" but got sidetracked by everyone else and it's too late to properly integrate her. And rather than go "that's a shame, but I have all these characters already" instead they tried to flesh her out with the Interlude but because none of the variables can be retroactively integrated back into the main narrative they don't actually exist to shape the character because, again, it just ends up kicking into Episode 9 with "is Zoey a DIK or CHICK".

Just woke up and the thread has moved on... but only after a bunch more of the same... so I won't continue it. Instead, I will agree with you now.

You are 100% in the right here, because it's impossible to provide reasons to the contrary while simultaneously ignoring all the reasons to the contrary.

 

[NyVar]

im going to play my perfect balanced josy/maya chick save game where i just had sex with them (and with the tattooed smurf of course) at first.

I had to really think about who you meant Other than the nice ass she had in those pants at the outdoor party, i've hardly thought ab her..

but, yeah, think im gonna start with the throuple as well

 

[Chalk boss]

So my first run will definitely be Sage.
Second is Josy and Maya.
Third is the Others, focusing on Lily and Quinn.
The last one is Jill and Bella, and it's not a given that I'll get through them right away and not save them for later.
Bella's branch is just very boring, I'm not interested in Bella as a character, I don't have a fetish for MILFs, and even though Jill is a beauty, her whole branch also makes me yawn.
Since there's at least a year and a half ahead, I'll have time to get through this branch.

 

[BobRossGhost]

Guess Josy's too busy trying to find herself to be apart of the episode... shame

thats the big twist, its not Riona thats missing, in fact she shows up at the very start because Quinn handles it off screen, Josy however falls down a well and is gone the entire episode

 

[DanKaye519]

Okay. The only two paths I didn't really take were Bella and DIK Affinity, which I was trying to get but my conscience got the best of me on a few of the choices and I ended up Neutral. So I'm gonna do a DIK Affinity with others path and then obviously CHIK or Neutral with Bella. (I hate that I can't have Cathy for this one).

My mind is already made up that Ep 10 is the worst of the game. We'll see if these playthroughs change my mind but I doubt it. The stupid fight club thing is what kills it for me I think. That and there's never any differences in our interactions with Sally and Zoey.

 

[DanKaye519]

So my first run will definitely be Sage.
Second is Josy and Maya.
Third is the Others, focusing on Lily and Quinn.
The last one is Jill and Bella, and it's not a given that I'll get through them right away and not save them for later.
Bella's branch is just very boring, I'm not interested in Bella as a character, I don't have a fetish for MILFs, and even though Jill is a beauty, her whole branch also makes me yawn.
Since there's at least a year and a half ahead, I'll have time to get through this branch.

I agree 1 billion percent about Jill and probably Bella too. I haven't done the Bella path yet but she just kinda irks me. The fact that she just immediately is trying to jump on MC's dick and doesn't stop even though Jill is obviously trying to make something happen doesn't make much sense to me. And yes, Jill is just too proper. That's why I commented earlier this week with a theory that she's really a liar and manipulator. I know I'm probably wrong about it but it would give her a much needed boost toward being somewhat interesting.

 

[Chalk boss]

Updated BigTable™ with the recent informations.
WeMadeItAlive!

• Get your Saves up to date! Get the ElectronicRoberts updated Casiope's Guide!
• Compared to before beta testing, no change in numbers.
  • Despite the large increase, the Renders per Weeks ratio is the worst ever due to DevTime +100 days.
• Get your teases with the 37 Previews and 7 Rooster.
• EP12 Release could be 30th May 2026 to 4 July 2026 with a 65/70 weeks projection [AvG: June 2026].

EP​	Renders​	Animations​	(min)​	Music*​	Δ	Size_GB​	Release​	Development Time​	Ratio*​	R/W​	sA/W​
EP1​	1301 (+00%)​	51 (+000)​	3:29​	—​	7​	1.1 (new)​	07 Feb, 19​	— days​	—​	—​	—​
EP2​	1709 (+31%)​	77 (+026)​	3:36​	—​	8​	2.3 (+1.2)​	04 May, 19​	087 (2 months, 28 days |≈12 weeks)​	155​	138​	17.4​
EP3​	2289 (+34%)​	99 (+022)​	4:42​	—​	10​	4.1 (+1.8)​	16 Aug, 19​	105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)​	177​	153​	18.8​
EP4​	2532 (+11%)​	134 (+035)​	7:57​	—​	15​	6.1 (+2.0)​	10 Jan, 20​	148 (4 months, 26 days |≈21 weeks)​	142​	120​	22.6​
EP5​	2456 (-03%)​	157 (+023)​	8:35​	17 (3.4K$)​	11​	8.0 (+1.9)​	29 May, 20​	141 (4 months, 20 days |≈20 weeks)​	147​	122​	25.6​
EP6​	3336 (+35%)​	162 (+005)​	8:33​	24 (4.8K$)​	19​	11.1 (+3.1)​	13 Nov, 20​	169 (5 months, 16 days |≈24 weeks)​	159​	138​	21.2​
EP7​	3723 (+12%)​	250 (+055)​	18:14​	18 (3.6K$)​	15​	14.5 (+3.4)​	23 Apr, 21​	162 (5 months, 11 days |≈23 weeks)​	208​	161​	47.3​
EP8​	4158 (+12%)​	358 (+108)​	26:21​	34 (6.8K$)​	16​	19.5 (+5.0)​	19 Nov, 21​	211 (6 months, 28 days |≈30 weeks)​	190​	138​	52.5​
EPI​	0794 (+00%)​	36 (+000)​	4:36​	19 (3.8K$)​	2​	2.6 (new)​	4 Mar, 22​	105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)​	71​	53​	17.7​
EP9​	5037 (+21%)​	303 (-055)​	26:08​	21 (4.2K$)​	18​	7.3 (+4.7)​	16 Dec, 22​	287 (9 months, 12 days |≈41 weeks)​	161​	123​	38.2​
EP10​	5868 (+16%)​	335 (+032)​	25:10​	21 (4.2K$)​	16​	12.3 (+5.0)​	8 Dec, 23​	357 (11 months, 22 days |≈51 weeks)..​	145​	115​	29.6​
EP11​	7113 (+21%)​	392 (+057)​	—​	42 (8.4K$)​	16​	18.5 (+6.2)​	7 Mar, 25​	456 (1 year, 3 months |≈65 weeks).​	—​	109​	—​
EP12​	—​	—​	—​	—​	—​	—​	—​	—	—​	—​	—​

Complete Table with the idea of Holy Bacchus† original post — Being a DIK in development since 6 years, 0 months, 22 days (72 months / 316 weeks / 2214 days / 53,136 hours)
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| Total: 30,646$ — Δ=Scenes — Ratio = (Renders/Weeks + secondsAnimations/Weeks) | Renders/Weeks | secondsAnimations/Weeks

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If I'm not mistaken DPС promised 18 scenes, not 16.

KaiserST can confirm or deny what I'm saying.

 

[Chalk boss]

Thanks a lot, mate.
You've actually allayed my fears, because to me 16 scenes is a failure, considering 2 or 3 scenes might be scenes with Madame.

 

[BobRossGhost]

Thanks a lot, mate.
You've actually allayed my fears, because to me 16 scenes is a failure, considering 2 or 3 scenes might be scenes with Madame.

he's not gonna do Madame 2 episodes in a row is he?

 

[Better Cock Spock]

I thing Tybalt will fall from grace. He will loose alot especially if Jill proceed to report him and Trent backing Jill up, hw will loose his President position especially because of the damning evidence. Second of all her parents divorce, during the flashback of Stephen we found out that he does not want to adopt and I think after the divorce Stephen will cut off Tybalt in his money

Tyballs might become the newest addition at the Pink Rose, where he can reunite with his birth mom

If I were a betting man, I'd say Tommy is envious of Rusty and would do just about anything to unseat him as Prez.

Does no one else think Tommy is evil? Rusty runs the DIKs and has a hard-on for Vinny. I guess he'd do anything to push Rusty out and blame Vinny. How could he blame Vinny? All he has to do is use the fact that Vinny quit the DIKs to ruin them. Vinny is evil too, but that doesn't mean that the two evil fuckfaces are on the same team.

Becoming President comes with more than just the title and ego boost, it will come with responsibilities too. And not just normal college type shit, but keeping the DIKs running the way they've been doing, acting like a leader and not a whiny bitch, etc. As VP, Tommy can have a lot of the fun without the pain in the ass responsibilities, so why get rid of Rusty?

 

[Chalk boss]

he's not gonna do Madame 2 episodes in a row is he?

I actually think there's gonna be a threesome scene between Madame and some girl from Pink Rose, like Sandy.
DPC will just want to troll Madame's haters and justify her presence in the story somehow. Everybody loves a threesome.