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

[ZenoMod]

Honest question. Haven't gotten to play BaDIK yet but for months I've been wondering what's all the fuss about it.
What makes this game stand out so much over the rest?

It's a good game to me (and I've played it through Ep11), but not a great game. The renders and girls are pretty amazing (Madame notwithstanding), and the story is tight and well told (though when I'd ever have time to replay it for each girl individually I do not know). It's among a handful of games with the very best stories in this genre

But it has some pretty glaring issues - more so in the early seasons, but even now.

* The free roams are downright painful for the first season or so, until we get the fast travel. Free roams are rarely good (though they can be), but this is one of the worse ones, with invisible arrows until hovered over, camara turning wildly, so an arrow leading back doesn't actually lead back and so on. It basically commits every sin possible for a free roam. And even later on the fast travel is.. inconsistent in what places it allows you to travel, necessitating using the arrows sometimes.
* The "hide a render" all over free roams (and sometimes not free roams) is another painful mistake. Again particularly in the early episodes where they are hidden to the point that you can barely see a pixel or two sometimes. Combined with the pain of navigating the free roams... If you do this thing add an option to highlight them or otherwise help those that want to continue the phenomenal story and see more great lewd scenes, but don't care for studying every pixel of every background in the game.
* The forced minigames - sure you can turn them off, but then you don't get all the renders, which is a ****** stupid way to penalize players. Some of the minigames are actually pretty great - and all are amazingly well done in Renpy. But some are painful, some are incredibly time intensive, and some are very hard. I'm immensely grateful for how few drawing minigames there were - those made me nearly ragequit. Just let people skip the damn minigames if they have a hard time with some of them - and do it without penalizing them.
* This one is subjective, but I really wish we weren't railroaded into a branch so early. This is college, and we are even in the DIK frat. Just because Elena shares some "wisdom" one morning we suddenly turn monogamous - or forego basically every main girl in the game. But I know this one can be viewed differently.
* This one is minor, but don't try to stop people "cheating" in a single player story based game. Don't as game creator assume you are some God of the medium and your creative vision must be unsullied by dirty "cheats". Let your players enjoy your game how they want.

The game is still very much worth playing - for the story and the visual quality alone. But I'd recommend getting a gallery unlocker if it works for everything (I haven't tested), disable minigames, and don't give a **** about finding renders. You'll get a far better experience just enjoying the frankly phenomenal story with the fewest possible roadblocks.

I agree to 99%.

My only 1% of different opinion is: don't turn minigames off (because you will lose some contents) but CHEAT ON THEM!
It's as easy as changing a single return statement.

Beware of using mainstream mods, because - as Cazzan noted - DPC is a control freak who likes to insert some "if" clauses in his code targeting known mods. (Not that those checks can't be commented-out, but still...)

URM is safe(r) to be used, since it doesn't alter your saves. At least not in an easily detectable way like defining objects that are not defined in the original code; you can easily obtain a save with an "impossible state" if you use URM to tamper with variables - and this may definitely break your game, but it's more complicated to be detected by a simple anti-mod "if" clause.

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Personally, I've been a happy user of Sancho mod up to Episode 10, and as far as I know DPC never targeted it (but only the old version of Scrappy mod), but this is not a guarantee he won't target it in the future.
Plus Sancho disappeared and his mod has been discontinued after Episode 10.

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About the quality: with all the flaws already depicted by Cazzan, this is still one of the best AVN on this site in terms of the story and of the models. (Animations looks too robotic, to be honest, and increasing the frame rate from 30 to 60 fps definitely doesn't make them look more natural.)

Not as perfect as DPC's inflated ego likes to think, but still above the average of AVNs.

To paraphrase Jimmy Carr... Being above the average quality of PORN games is like being the most good looking guy in the severe burns unit.

 

[bonerland]

"Superman"

You better be careful, you're gonna make a lot of people burst into tears from that memory.

 

[FalconLover420]

I agree on Season 4. Sage will come around on Zoey. She’s a good girl like that. They’ll be the best of friends after the blowup/makeup. Too bad about the MC though. Caught in the crossfire. RIP maggot brother… we hardly knew you .

They would be cool, but its just the MC is retarded and doesn't understand well the concept of relationships lol

MC: *Has a GF* - "This seems like a perfect time to confess to zoey about my feelings even though we are not together and then hangout at her place just the two of us to reconnect instead of coffee or a burger joint"

MC: Profit ???

 

[Macky009]

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It still a question to me how Dawe and Arieth passed the exam even if they are from the rejects. How can did they manage to qualify in B&R

 

[ZenoMod]

It still a question to me how Dawe and Arieth passed the exam even if they are from the rejects. How can did they manage to qualify in B&R

They're siblings, so they're both the "Andersen" who cheated...

 

[LizaS]

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Whoosh. It's Friday again.

This week, I completed the lewd scene I had been working on and then focused on creating static renders, which I worked on for the better part of the week. It involved some environmental design, which is always fun.

I've mostly been working on canon content, with a splash of side girls. I've also worked on a free roam event.

There's one scene in the episode that I wrote a long time ago, that I'll soon create art for. It's one of those scenes that I've waited all these years of development to create. It's going to feel like reaching a climax to create it, haha.

Although the scene had been written for a long time, I didn't rush to create it when episode 12 development began because it's a rather challenging scene to work with for many reasons. One reason is that I want to do it justice; another is that I need to nail all the details. I think I'm close to starting work on it, possibly next week or the week after that. I guess what I wanted to say is that I will work on something truly special soon.

The animation queue is looking good. 47 animations are queued and waiting to render.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

 

[treechild1]

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Whoosh. It's Friday again.

This week, I completed the lewd scene I had been working on and then focused on creating static renders, which I worked on for the better part of the week. It involved some environmental design, which is always fun.

I've mostly been working on canon content, with a splash of side girls. I've also worked on a free roam event.

There's one scene in the episode that I wrote a long time ago, that I'll soon create art for. It's one of those scenes that I've waited all these years of development to create. It's going to feel like reaching a climax to create it, haha.

Although the scene had been written for a long time, I didn't rush to create it when episode 12 development began because it's a rather challenging scene to work with for many reasons. One reason is that I want to do it justice; another is that I need to nail all the details. I think I'm close to starting work on it, possibly next week or the week after that. I guess what I wanted to say is that I will work on something truly special soon.

The animation queue is looking good. 47 animations are queued and waiting to render.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Hehe. Freeroams…

 

[treechild1]

You better be careful, you're gonna make a lot of people burst into tears from that memory.

 

[FalconLover420]

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Whoosh. It's Friday again.

This week, I completed the lewd scene I had been working on and then focused on creating static renders, which I worked on for the better part of the week. It involved some environmental design, which is always fun.

I've mostly been working on canon content, with a splash of side girls. I've also worked on a free roam event.

There's one scene in the episode that I wrote a long time ago, that I'll soon create art for. It's one of those scenes that I've waited all these years of development to create. It's going to feel like reaching a climax to create it, haha.

Although the scene had been written for a long time, I didn't rush to create it when episode 12 development began because it's a rather challenging scene to work with for many reasons. One reason is that I want to do it justice; another is that I need to nail all the details. I think I'm close to starting work on it, possibly next week or the week after that. I guess what I wanted to say is that I will work on something truly special soon.

The animation queue is looking good. 47 animations are queued and waiting to render.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Not a free roam.. NOOO

 

[Bazsa4]

I've also worked on a free roam event.

 

[El_Magnifico]

Why are you acting surprised people We always get 3-5 free roams per episode.

 

[Macky009]

They're siblings, so they're both the "Andersen" who cheated...

I thought incest is banned on patreon

 

[BadassDolphin]

Why do some people hate free roams? Just go read a book then

 

[Darkwen]

Josy is a no good dirty rat

May Josy have mercy on you

 

[treechild1]

Do you guys think that the faculty party mingle (recital) will be a meet and greet freeroam? What about the Brawler fight? Both? Neither?
I humbly present this question for your consideration d2dacameron

 

[jd8097619]

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Whoosh. It's Friday again.

This week, I completed the lewd scene I had been working on and then focused on creating static renders, which I worked on for the better part of the week. It involved some environmental design, which is always fun.

I've mostly been working on canon content, with a splash of side girls. I've also worked on a free roam event.

There's one scene in the episode that I wrote a long time ago, that I'll soon create art for. It's one of those scenes that I've waited all these years of development to create. It's going to feel like reaching a climax to create it, haha.

Although the scene had been written for a long time, I didn't rush to create it when episode 12 development began because it's a rather challenging scene to work with for many reasons. One reason is that I want to do it justice; another is that I need to nail all the details. I think I'm close to starting work on it, possibly next week or the week after that. I guess what I wanted to say is that I will work on something truly special soon.

The animation queue is looking good. 47 animations are queued and waiting to render.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

 

[-d2d-]

Do you guys think that the faculty party mingle (recital) will be a meet and greet freeroam? What about the Brawler fight? Both? Neither?
I humbly present this question for your consideration d2dacameron

I don't think it'll be a freeroam but this line is very telling...


What will the actual impact be? Too early to tell

 

[Chillout1984]

I really don't understand the current hate of freeroams. Yes, they were very annoying to navigate in the beginning. Ever since we have fasttravel however, almost all of them have been a joy to play and replay imo.

 

[Darkwen]

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Whoosh. It's Friday again.

This week, I completed the lewd scene I had been working on and then focused on creating static renders, which I worked on for the better part of the week. It involved some environmental design, which is always fun.

I've mostly been working on canon content, with a splash of side girls. I've also worked on a free roam event.

There's one scene in the episode that I wrote a long time ago, that I'll soon create art for. It's one of those scenes that I've waited all these years of development to create. It's going to feel like reaching a climax to create it, haha.

Although the scene had been written for a long time, I didn't rush to create it when episode 12 development began because it's a rather challenging scene to work with for many reasons. One reason is that I want to do it justice; another is that I need to nail all the details. I think I'm close to starting work on it, possibly next week or the week after that. I guess what I wanted to say is that I will work on something truly special soon.

The animation queue is looking good. 47 animations are queued and waiting to render.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

mm a scene he waiting a long time to create and wants to do justice mmm. Im not saying it is what I think it is but im also not saying it isn't

 

[reahwea]

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Whoosh. It's Friday again.

This week, I completed the lewd scene I had been working on and then focused on creating static renders, which I worked on for the better part of the week. It involved some environmental design, which is always fun.

I've mostly been working on canon content, with a splash of side girls. I've also worked on a free roam event.

There's one scene in the episode that I wrote a long time ago, that I'll soon create art for. It's one of those scenes that I've waited all these years of development to create. It's going to feel like reaching a climax to create it, haha.

Although the scene had been written for a long time, I didn't rush to create it when episode 12 development began because it's a rather challenging scene to work with for many reasons. One reason is that I want to do it justice; another is that I need to nail all the details. I think I'm close to starting work on it, possibly next week or the week after that. I guess what I wanted to say is that I will work on something truly special soon.

The animation queue is looking good. 47 animations are queued and waiting to render.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

I personally can’t wait for another unforgettable free roam like halloween