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

[Buffalo Fred]

I haven't checked this game out since Episode 2, about to jump back in and see what all the fuzz is about!

Just a quick question, on a scale from 1 to 10, how much much replay does this game have would you say? I get the feeling there are dozens of ways to play through it?

 

[DLP]

I haven't checked this game out since Episode 2, about to jump back in and see what all the fuzz is about!

Just a quick question, on a scale from 1 to 10, how much much replay does this game have would you say? I get the feeling there are dozens of ways to play through it?

There's quite a few ways to replay it, yes, although the biggest branching point is at the end of season 1 (where you commit to one LI, or choose to stay single), as I think it is possible to have every single LI available at the end of season 1 to choose from (or maybe all except 1, I'm not sure off memory).

 

[Vega101]

Lord knows why he invented a puzzle box.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Just a friendly reminder that Nora as an LI is completely pointless and derivative. She repeats the already occupied three! scenario niches for teacher/student relationships and offers nothing unique. Each of these paths plays a role: Bella is the classic student/teacher with serious challenges and threats, dark secrets from the past and psychological issues, and feeling young and desirable again. Jade is the path of cheating and disaster, Cathy is lust and fuckbuddies.
While the only thing that makes sense about Nora is the funny scene with the cat:


"efficient" develompent, but seems when it comes to Nora, for some individuals it is:

 

[Better Cock Spock]

Oh boy, there's actually pages of new discussion on a non-update/preview day! I wonder what's all the hubbub... oh

I went for Bella, as I'm close to her age so it was easier for me to be touched by her story & understand her general attitude. (Plus, she reminds me of my beloved wife)
Also I kinda lost myself in her massive boobs eyes. Damn thoses eyes..

But I've to say 'chapeau' to DPC becase all main LIs are equally worth pursuing [IMO] & choosing The One™ took an hour of looking into my soul.

I've a save for each (CHICK) route at the end of chapter 8 and I'm exploring very routes now.

EDIT : Btw, I really love your "Lewderboxd" posts. Keep it up!

Nice gif and good taste

 

[collin31]

hey I've been away for little more then a week and its surprising to see ppl still playing my budget game

and I guess there is a "song game" now I was too lazy to read 20+ page so I'll just share a song that reminds of Jill

 

[legend_shon]

Привет, бра! (Hey, bro!)
Magnar sent the video. He has access to the DIK laptop.
Yes, Jacob's behavior is sometimes very suspicious.
There's another moment that proves he's not to blame for the destruction of DIK's house. His room and all his drawings suffered the most from the destruction. And Nick was fine. Even back then, I thought it was suspicious. But I still think Jacob is very loyal to both DIK and Tremolo.

I don't think he's Tri-Alpha. He didn't even want to be near them at the HOTs party.
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I thought Sally would be needed for the conflict with Magnar. I've written about her and Magnar before.



If we're looking for traitors or someone spying on MC, then I think we should look for the answer in this room and in that Asian guy in a suit who's been watching us the entire game. For now, I'm looking for evidence. There's a ladder in the room for installing a camera. Magnar's letters. And Quinn's lollipops.
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With all talks about Jacob, whether being "bad" bro coz of Zoey and Camilla, or even assumptions that he is a traitor(idc and have no hate towards him) seems like Carla will be the lewd target.
Didnt know though she is his LI, i only found out it on DIK Wiki So those tits showing and etc its Dpc letting us slightly get "revenge" on him?

 

[HeyZen_]

Com todas as conversas sobre Jacob, seja ele sendo um "cara mau" por causa de Zoey e Camilla, ou mesmo suposições de que ele é um traidor (não me importo e não tenho ódio dele), parece que Carla será o alvo obsceno.
Eu não sabia que ela era a LI dele, só descobri no DIK Wiki. :incerto: Então esses peitos aparecendo e etc. é o Dpc nos deixando nos "vingar" um pouco dele?

Camila?

 

[legend_shon]

I estimate that the produced static renders are around 45-50%, and the posed animations are roughly 55%. Overall, I'm likely over the hump, but time will tell what the size of the episode will be.

Is Dpc is actually decided froze the production time???????? I cant but want to believe in it.
I had a dream 2 mo ago, that update will come out in 9 mo aka a half of what we thought he'd take, but it will be smaller(a half) update.
I know its delusional and people waited for earlier 11ch too, but the pro and possibility of it is that he might do this coz of his financial considerations, which "could" finally started to play for our side too. (Nye irl - Nye in-game + season of holidays(even his income is montly and is not tied to single buy(only to end of S3 at steam)

So I checked where he was at the same point in development last year, it was roughly 50% for renders and 60% for animations. Provided he doesn't add unnecessary shit ( ) it could be a 15 month cycle again so June 2026

By counting previews' average release time, its 1 in 12.7 days by now, 20*12.7 -> its middle of the may. Idk how much days after the last 30s preview chapter 11 came out, but seems it could be june.

 

[Better Cock Spock]

With all talks about Jacob, whether being "bad" bro coz of Zoey and Camilla, or even assumptions that he is a traitor(idc and have no hate towards him) seems like Carla will be the lewd target.
Didnt know though she is his LI, i only found out it on DIK Wiki So those tits showing and etc its Dpc letting us slightly get "revenge" on him?

You mean Clara, and I guess she's the closest thing to Jacob's love interest. You can be his wingman at the HOTs party and she'll fuck him, but he's dancing with her at the dorm party too. And she leaves Jacob's room in the morning after the panty party.

 

[Vega101]

Given that you keep referring to yourself as "we" now...

You quite clearly don't have a clue about AVN development and every suggestion you've made is quite simply awful. Amazingly enough most people here would prefer a game be excellent than looking like fucking garbage "efficient".

I'd rather play the game and find out the ending than wait.
Even if the entire plot is told in text without animation.
Who knows what will happen after five years of development.
Why has this become the norm for AVN? Other game genres aren't developed like this. It's crazy to spend 11 years developing a game with so many Patreons. If so many people want to support it, maybe DPC should put their own personal preferences aside and at least hire someone to press the render button in Blender?

I'll express an unpopular opinion. Maybe it's technically too early to create games with 50 characters on screen. Even a 5090 graphics card, according to him, can't handle it and crashed three times while rendering a large scene. And who needs these scenes in 4K?
I was perfectly happy with the image quality of seasons one or two.
Why waste several days on a scene that the player will watch for a maximum of five seconds and then move on?

If you like the AVN genre, how can new developers compete with developers like DPC? They've been given a whole computer farm for rendering. Judging by their last post, they can't even keep up with creating scenes for rendering.

Was the CUM-petition scene bad because the supporting characters were blurry?
Or has anyone ever chosen a scary scene for Halloween more than once?
I'm just tired of waiting.

 

[legend_shon]

I'd rather play the game and find out the ending than wait.
Even if the entire plot is told in text without animation.
Who knows what will happen after five years of development.
Why has this become the norm for AVN? Other game genres aren't developed like this. It's crazy to spend 11 years developing a game with so many Patreons. If so many people want to support it, maybe DPC should put their own personal preferences aside and at least hire someone to press the render button in Blender?

I'll express an unpopular opinion. Maybe it's technically too early to create games with 50 characters on screen. Even a 5090 graphics card, according to him, can't handle it and crashed three times while rendering a large scene. And who needs these scenes in 4K?
I was perfectly happy with the image quality of seasons one or two.
Why waste several days on a scene that the player will watch for a maximum of five seconds and then move on?

If you like the AVN genre, how can new developers compete with developers like DPC? They've been given a whole computer farm for rendering. Judging by their last post, they can't even keep up with creating scenes for rendering.

Was the CUM-petition scene bad because the supporting characters were blurry?
Or has anyone ever chosen a scary scene for Halloween more than once?
I'm just tired of waiting.
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All would be happy if it would just remain within 9-10 months. 4k pics are pressed into 1080p, which is ok and looks noice.
Those pics btw with the plenty of people, as Dpc has said, were made with 3090s. I aint no 3D artist but i dont understand these 15-18 months with 5090s

 

[mangosok]

I like how in this game some simple choices actually affect your MC’s stats (even though they probably shouldn’t, I think). For example, if you choose to support him here, the game literally takes away a bit of your DIK affinity. So just by trying to stay human and show some empathy, you lose the chance to be a massive DIK. It doesn’t really make much sense and doesn’t affect the rest of the story much, but there’s something about it that hits different.

 

[BeingADikDik]

I like how in this game some simple choices actually affect your MC’s stats (even though they probably shouldn’t, I think). For example, if you choose to support him here, the game literally takes away a bit of your DIK affinity. So just by trying to stay human and show some empathy, you lose the chance to be a massive DIK. It doesn’t really make much sense and doesn’t affect the rest of the story much, but there’s something about it that hits different.

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I guess you didn't unlock the secret perk from 100% all mini-games to get the choice to piss on him.

 

[Vega101]

Just a friendly reminder that Nora as an LI is completely pointless and derivative. She repeats the already occupied three! scenario niches for teacher/student relationships and offers nothing unique. Each of these paths plays a role: Bella is the classic student/teacher with serious challenges and threats, dark secrets from the past and psychological issues, and feeling young and desirable again. Jade is the path of cheating and disaster, Cathy is lust and fuckbuddies.
While the only thing that makes sense about Nora is the funny scene with the cat:
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"efficient" develompent, but seems when it comes to Nora, for some individuals it is:

With all talks about Jacob, whether being "bad" bro coz of Zoey and Camilla, or even assumptions that he is a traitor(idc and have no hate towards him) seems like Carla will be the lewd target.

Dude, you got everyone mixed up. Heather, not Camilla. Clara, not Carla.

Of all the dorm members, I like Mia (the flight attendant) the most in appearance.
Alady Alady

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

I'd rather play the game and find out the ending than wait.
Even if the entire plot is told in text without animation.
Who knows what will happen after five years of development.
Why has this become the norm for AVN? Other game genres aren't developed like this. It's crazy to spend 11 years developing a game with so many Patreons. If so many people want to support it, maybe DPC should put their own personal preferences aside and at least hire someone to press the render button in Blender?

I'll express an unpopular opinion. Maybe it's technically too early to create games with 50 characters on screen. Even a 5090 graphics card, according to him, can't handle it and crashed three times while rendering a large scene. And who needs these scenes in 4K?
I was perfectly happy with the image quality of seasons one or two.
Why waste several days on a scene that the player will watch for a maximum of five seconds and then move on?

If you like the AVN genre, how can new developers compete with developers like DPC? They've been given a whole computer farm for rendering. Judging by their last post, they can't even keep up with creating scenes for rendering.

Was the CUM-petition scene bad because the supporting characters were blurry?
Or has anyone ever chosen a scary scene for Halloween more than once?
I'm just tired of waiting.
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A bit of technical nerdiness. He reported that the render was crashing on RTX4090. The reason was a lack of memory (24GB). He previously used RTX3090, and it rendered twice as slowly, but there's one catch: these cards supported NVLink, so he could use two graphics cards together on a single PC, giving him 48GB of memory. DAZ is very memory-hungry, and in scenes with several dozen characters, that's a problem for 4090, because NVLink is no longer supported. So he ended up with very fast GPUs, but large scenes are now a problem, forcing him to split the render in two and render a single frame in parts. RTX5090 should partially solve this problem with larger memory (32GB).
But if you want ultra-professional rendering, you need the $10,000 Ada RTX. Fuck Huang.

Things are even more interesting in the CUM-Petition scene. He had a GTX1080ti back then, and it would never have been able to render this scene if it weren't for... look at the characters in the background. They're flat. He replaced the models with sprites, which can be done in the app. (confirmed by DPC)
Visually, it certainly looks terrible, plus there's that grain.

 

[treechild1]

I like how in this game some simple choices actually affect your MC’s stats (even though they probably shouldn’t, I think). For example, if you choose to support him here, the game literally takes away a bit of your DIK affinity. So just by trying to stay human and show some empathy, you lose the chance to be a massive DIK. It doesn’t really make much sense and doesn’t affect the rest of the story much, but there’s something about it that hits different.

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Did you have time to come up with any songs? No pressure to do so, just curious.

 

[DIKHammer]

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Dude, you got everyone mixed up. Heather, not Camilla. Clara, not Carla.

Of all the dorm members, I like Mia (the flight attendant) the most in appearance.
Alady Alady
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Dormies Rankings

 

[grarg]

Given that you keep referring to yourself as "we" now...

You quite clearly don't have a clue about AVN development and every suggestion you've made is quite simply awful. Amazingly enough most people here would prefer a game be excellent than looking like fucking garbage "efficient".

Quite sure I used the word "I".

But what do I know about what I actually wrote?

What, you think my opinions aren't shared? You think I haven't read other criticisms? Apparently, you never have.

I quite clearly have no idea what your clues about AVN dev is. Working Ren'Py is fairly basic. 3D software is demanding, highly technical, and creative. I've worked with many more complex systems than Ren'Py and Daz3D.

Believe it or not chief, not all AI art is bad. As I've said, go check out the BaD fan art threat. Your opinion on optics or criticism of animating a scene is irrelevant when you have no standards aside from "I want quality", without explaining what that is.

I could explain the concept of quality vs speed vs cost, but I doubt that would register.

I could explain rates of hiring ANYONE for ANY position, but you don't care.

It's like communicating to a child. DPC can do no wrong. Everything he does is great. He doesn't need any help. Everything he does is efficient and makes sense.

Oh wait, it's not efficient; it's high quality! I'm okay with quality so long as this game takes 10 years.

Grow up.

 

[Better Cock Spock]

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Arieth would have a wrong opinion like that

Dormies Rankings

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Where the fuck is Cinderella? You have the yellow-eyed demon girl on there but not Cindy? And why is Yellow Eyes so high