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

[d2dacameron]

d2dacameron I think a lot more people came out for this poll! That’ll keep you busy for a bit.

About to start my count now, preliminary results coming soon!

Then anyone else who has yet to vote will have 24h~ before final results are published

 

[Better Cock Spock]

Ep 7 choices being forced sucks but it's hard to see what a neutral option would be. You either volunteer to take care of the seniors or you don't. You either try to make the alphas leave the HOT party or you ignore them.

We could push Dawe into the pool and leave the others alone, I think that's a fair compromise

 

[BrotherNewt]

1. The "Party Planning" minigame in Episode 12 will be for a "New Year's Eve" party.
2. The final episode of "Being A DIK" will be Episode 14.
3. By the end of the game, Tremolo and Sage will have a threesome with another main girl on her "adventurous" path (Bella/Jill/Maya/Josy).
4. Against all odds, Dawe is the father of Arieth's baby.
5. "Diner Lady" is Sage's biological mother.
6. Bella and Jill first met at a grief/bereavement support group (Lana/Miscarriage/James).
7. Maya will discover that she HAS NOT inherited her mother's illness.
8. On her path, you will meet Nicole's son (Marvin) for the first time in Episode 12.
9. By the end of the game, Tremolo will have a scene (in the gallery) with Karen Rebecca Johnson.
10. The threesome (implied in the Episode 12 "Status Update") will include Sandy.

1.Yes
2.No. I say 15.
3.Yes
4. Yes
5.No
6. No
7. No
8. No
9. YES
10. No

 

[Kylie Bloodmoon]

Oh! It's easy:

• Click on the shelves behind Heather.

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• And take the key.

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Now you can unlock the door.

My dude, I never would have seen that. Thank you. XD

 

[d2dacameron]

Here are the preliminary results for poll #4. Thank you all for participating, this has been the biggest turn-out yet!

For those who have yet to vote, your votes will still be counted for the next 24h~ and they will be added to the final results.

1. The "Party Planning" minigame in Episode 12 will be for a "New Year's Eve" party. 91% of voters said YES (29Y/3N)
2. The final episode of "Being A DIK" will be Episode 14. 81% of voters said NO (6Y/26N)
3. By the end of the game, Tremolo and Sage will have a threesome with another main girl on her "adventurous" path (Bella/Jill/Maya/Josy). 56% of voters said YES (18Y/14N)
4. Against all odds, Dawe is the father of Arieth's baby. 66% of voters said NO (11Y/21N)
5. "Diner Lady" is Sage's biological mother. 86% of voters said NO (4Y/25N)
6. Bella and Jill first met at a grief/bereavement support group (Lana/Miscarriage/James). 55% of voters said YES (17Y/14N)
7. Maya will discover that she HAS NOT inherited her mother's illness. 72% of voters said YES (23Y/9N)
8. On her path, you will meet Nicole's son (Marvin) for the first time in Episode 12. 59% of voters said YES (19Y/13N)
9. By the end of the game, Tremolo will have a scene (in the gallery) with Karen Rebecca Johnson. 53% of voters said NO (15Y/17N)
10. The threesome (implied in the Episode 12 "Status Update") will include Sandy. 61% of voters said YES (19Y/12N)

Most Probable
The "Party Planning" minigame in Episode 12 will be for a "New Year's Eve" party. 91% of voters said YES (29Y/3N)

Least Probable
"Diner Lady" is Sage's biological mother. 86% of voters said NO (4Y/25N)

Preliminary Results
6 YES Results
4 NO Results
​

 

[d2dacameron]

Madame is very close to being dethroned as the least probably mother

Madame Rose is Sage's real mom 89% of voters say NO (2Y/17N)

"Diner Lady" is Sage's biological mother. 86% of voters said NO (4Y/25N)

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Here are the preliminary results for poll #4. Thank you all for participating, this has been the biggest turn-out yet!

For those who have yet to vote, your votes will still be counted for the next 24h~ and they will be added to the final results.

1. The "Party Planning" minigame in Episode 12 will be for a "New Year's Eve" party. 91% of voters said YES (29Y/3N)
2. The final episode of "Being A DIK" will be Episode 14. 81% of voters said NO (6Y/26N)
3. By the end of the game, Tremolo and Sage will have a threesome with another main girl on her "adventurous" path (Bella/Jill/Maya/Josy). 56% of voters said YES (18Y/14N)
4. Against all odds, Dawe is the father of Arieth's baby. 66% of voters said NO (11Y/21N)
5. "Diner Lady" is Sage's biological mother. 86% of voters said NO (4Y/25N)
6. Bella and Jill first met at a grief/bereavement support group (Lana/Miscarriage/James). 55% of voters said YES (17Y/14N)
7. Maya will discover that she HAS NOT inherited her mother's illness. 72% of voters said YES (23Y/9N)
8. On her path, you will meet Nicole's son (Marvin) for the first time in Episode 12. 59% of voters said YES (19Y/13N)
9. By the end of the game, Tremolo will have a scene (in the gallery) with Karen Rebecca Johnson. 53% of voters said NO (15Y/17N)
10. The threesome (implied in the Episode 12 "Status Update") will include Sandy. 61% of voters said YES (19Y/12N)

Most Probable
The "Party Planning" minigame in Episode 12 will be for a "New Year's Eve" party. 91% of voters said YES (29Y/3N)

Least Probable
"Diner Lady" is Sage's biological mother. 86% of voters said NO (4Y/25N)

Preliminary Results
6 YES Results
4 NO Results
​

9/10 my votes matched, except for Nicole and Marvin

 

[Darkwen]

Madame is very close to being dethroned as the least probably mother

Madame Rose is Sage's real mom 89% of voters say NO (2Y/17N)

"Diner Lady" is Sage's biological mother. 86% of voters said NO (4Y/25N)

I don't even consider Madame a canon character

 

[Better Cock Spock]

9/10 my votes matched, except for Nicole and Marvin

8/10 isn't bad lol. It helps when there's ringers like "Dawe isn't the baby daddy"

 

[chuck42]

I do!

to be clear, only in the context of her being fired from 1

 

[grey_shadow]

Also, hiring someone will speed things up

Unless it means DPC spends the time he would have spent doing the delegated tasks overseeing the new person.

Brooks's Law ("Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.") is another example where hiring someone fails to speed things up, though it probably doesn't apply to BaDIK (yet).

 

[Darkwen]

Welp 10/10, guess I'm with the people on this vote lol


It probably would since DPC is a control freak.


Up until Sage's date on EP 10 she really felt like a fever dream lol.

and honestly how do people know that her

 

[Better Cock Spock]

and honestly how do people know that her

She only reacts to you if you've been with her before.

 

[Darkwen]

She only reacts to you if you've been with her before.

So only if you made an mistake

 

[treechild1]

9. By the end of the game, Tremolo will have a scene (in the gallery) with Karen Rebecca Johnson. 53% of voters said NO (15Y/17N)

Oh, ye, of little faith! May the Divine Quinn have mercy on you. For I sure don’t!

 

[Better Cock Spock]

So only if you made an mistake

 

[HOBGTG]

I think I may have found an oversight. Despite spending more time and having slightly more rp with Maya on Balanced Throuple Path, I was always ended up with Josy's lakeside date.

However. If Maya has more than 6 rp instead of 5 ( Idk why 6 ) MC spends his time with Maya. If it's 5, despite Maya having 5 more Rp than Josy and 1 more date than her, Mc spends his time with Josy.

RpJosy 55 + RPMaya 60 + More date with Maya = Josy's date

RpJosy 55 + RPMaya 61 + More date with Maya = Maya's date

 

[grarg]

Unless it means DPC spends the time he would have spent doing the delegated tasks overseeing the new person.

Brooks's Law ("Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.") is another example where hiring someone fails to speed things up, though it probably doesn't apply to BaDIK (yet).

1. Story, creative direction, tech, etc., is all up to DPC. Thus, there is no "too many cooks in the kitchen" problem, or "not using the right tool for for the job problem". As he's been doing this for years, he has his pipeline; he just needs to outsource it, for whatever bottleneck he has; e.g. rendering. The only issue reported was when Daz3D updated, but he seems to have fixed that.

2a. He is building everything. If rendering is the main block or bottleneck, then he can outsource those machines/remote connect, and pay by the hour or by delivered asset, or hire someone to use their box as a render farm. This would barely cost 1k a month on 4 animations if charged by a remote rendering farm (1 animation = $3/h * for a 3 week render = $216 * 4 animations = $864).

2b. Even if he gives tasks to others to fill in the blanks (e.g. pathing, dialogue, screens, 60 fps rendering, make mini games, do menial tasks, etc.), it frees up his time to do other tasks he would do tomorrow. This can be easily broken down into stages of a chapter, put in a spreadsheets, and shared as each path and their assets are completed and assigned to said hired workers/machines. (I would imagine he do the skeleton/pathing first, then get him and others to make screens next, more complex like animations and music last, etc.)

3. Ren'Py is a glorified PowerPoint, and not a complicated gaming engine. It was designed for multiple people to build on the same project. There's no "ramp up" period. You'd hire experienced Ren'Py or Daz3D'er, or rent a render farm. More complicated if they have to code a mini game, sure. But then you just dump it in into the next frame and off it runs. No one's going to be stepping on each other's toes, as multiple system files and assets can be used, and don't have to overlap each others files. Better still, use a version-controlled system like GIT to ensure all branches are compatible to master.

And assets are mostly just images and music. He can buy all the new licensed music and put finishing touches on stuff, which he does later anyway with QA or beta testers.

This cuts off probably 1/3rd of the time, at the least.

Here's a rundown of what time can be saved a month.

Role Outsourced
Time Saved (Est.)
Why It Saves Time

Art (CGs)
80–200+ hours
-Posing and editing assets is extremely time-consuming. But server farms can run 24/7. 1 guy working 20 hours a week part time could do this.

Music & SFX
10–15 hours
-Finding the right music tracks and buying them takes effort. Though this didn't seem like a big order last chapter, with lots of reused tracks. Cost of licensing is the same. SFX seems limited in BAD.

Writing/Editing
0–40+ hours
-Dialogue, branching paths, and proofreading can be a full-time job, but we assume he does all this himself, or editors catch typos in beta, perhaps for free. A builder can do a branching skeleton with dummy images and speed things up, similar to keyframing a scene, so playable paths can run.

Programming/Scripting
20–80 hours
-Especially helpful if you can do basic logic in Python or want advanced features. The party planner is about all we need and expect, so this would be pretty straightforward with existing code. We assume DPC would be focusing on this part the most.

UI/UX Design
8–40 hours
-Custom menus, transitions, and polish add up fast, but most of the GUI is done.

tl;dr

Of course hiring someone would speed things up.

 

[Better Cock Spock]

I think I may have found an oversight. Despite spending more time and having slightly more rp with Maya on Balanced Throuple Path, I was always ended up with Josy's lakeside date.

However. If Maya has more than 6 rp instead of 5 ( Idk why 6 ) MC spends his time with Maya. If it's 5, despite Maya having 5 more Rp than Josy and 1 more date than her, Mc spends his time with Josy.

RpJosy 55 + RPMaya 60 + More date with Maya = Josy's date

RpJosy 55 + RPMaya 61 + More date with Maya = Maya's date

If the lewds are balanced, the Episode 11 date is determined by a RP ratio, not just straight points.
RPmaya/74.0 & RPjosy/67.0

That one point makes the smallest amount of difference.

 

[funkymonkeyjedi]

Of course hiring someone would speed things up.

I won't bother writing up an entire essay, and just say this in reply to the above:
"For anyone else other than DPC, sure. But not for an obsessive power trippin' control freak."