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

[Bozeman75]

Yeah, I'm pretty confident that we're going to get a chance to say "I love you" to whoever we didn't in Ep11. The current imbalance just seems like forced drama for the sake of keeping drama going in this branch. And this is added to the drama of MC being incompetent in how he explains his relationship to his dad. He never tells his dad that Maya and Josy were in a relationship before getting into a relationship with him. They wanted to be together with each other before he ever got involved.

The main reason for my confidence in this being a temporary bit of forced drama is that the official walkthrough says that the game will notice and remember if the MC has tried to be fairly even with spending time with Maya and Josy. I think that if you do, then the poly relationship will endure (assuming you tell both of them that you love them when given a chance). That being said, I wouldn't have much trust in DPC on this if it weren't for that note. So who knows?

Agree on all points, though I do think that even if you had a Maya or Josy scene imbalance you will still be able to save the throuple happy ending.

It's maddening watching MC fumble around trying to communicate with his Dad, or the girls, and just make things worse.
He's either not communicating at all, or doing it badly.

That's an exaggeration or course - he does sometimes have a really sweet conversation with one of the girls and shows how much he cares for them.
That makes it even more frustrating when he simply doesn't communicate.
Like after he tells Maya he loves her he simple doesn't discuss it with Josy or tell her the same.

 

[Lightaces]

Cosmetic poll ($15): Maya


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Honestly, and probably for the first time on one of these polls, I think they are all super hot. Usually I'm going, "well, that one is okay...." But yeah, all of the above.

 

[Lightaces]

DAMN! the first one is sluty af.... i love it. bit o think 3 and 4 will be the winer, more decent. Btw am i the only one who have long page ? there are 3801 pages for me right now.

Yup, 100 posts per page for the win!

 

[Blue Milk]

Yeah the guy has the most illogical theories, just tries to be edgy and is blinkered to the absolute obvious.

And what's obvious is that this 87 character freeroam is the NYE party. It was made abundantly clear that the recital is not a major event like a party is, it's a small event for a few select people and it's also optional because you can do this or the fight tournament as both are happening at the same time.

How anyone could think otherwise when the game literally spelled it out is beyond me.

 

[dalli_x]

I am actually thinking logically, you're not.

The faculty party is not the big event of Ep 12, it's an optional event and because it's optional that means it's not universal. The main party of this episode will be universal for all players as all parties are. This faculty event is also not open to everybody, only faculty, special guests, and a few student performers like MC, Jill, and Tybalt. This means there wll be no DIKs, no HOTs, no dorm girls, etc. Sage being there is likely just due to her adoptive parents being faculty, but besides her, there probably won't be any other non-performer students there.

Also, 26 people is more than enough for the recital. You could have:

1. MC
2. Jill
3. Bella
4. Sage
5. Tybalt
6. Bianca
7. Carla
8. Stephen
9. Jade
10. Cathy
11. Nora
12. Philip
13. Willcock
14. Hagar
15. Amelia
16. Geoff
17. The receptionist

And the rest could be extras, like the 4 other teachers we've seen and the extra guests from the Prep party. We could maybe even see Rusty there with his parents. Possibly Vivian and Miranda, Lynette's old friends could be there as well.

NYE party will be the big event of the episode because it's a big deal. It's not something done on a small scale in Bella's home. And it will probably have loads of students not normally seen at other parties like the Jocks, Preps, Nerds, feminists, and maybe even faculty if it's an event organised for the whole college. All those characters plus dorm girls and guys easily reaches 87.

So you're suggesting that the athletes, nerds, overachievers, and feminists celebrate New Year's Eve together with the idiots and pretty boys? Given the current situation on campus, that's truly absurd. This party would generate so much energy that it could power New York City for an entire year.

Besides, the faculty party isn't optional, it's mandatory. The MC will definitely be involved in some way.

Furthermore, I was right when I wrote before EP11 that no LI would be present at the DIK Christmas party. Everyone wrote to prevent this from happening, etc. But it did.

 

[El_Magnifico]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

 

[I'm Canadian bub]

To all the hubbub of today's entertainment, I can only respond with this meme



Edit: also, anybody who's not picking 3 for the Maya poll is a scruffy-looking nerf herder. Cleavage man, cleavage

 

[J0K3RXXX]

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I had a great week because it felt like it went by in a flash, and every day was shorter than I wanted.

I started by wrapping up work on a lewd scene and planned to continue to work on another lewd scene. But I ended up playing the episode and writing, and I went with the flow. I wrote more scenes and then started working on a big free roam event for the episode.

The free roam event will need a bunch of animations, which is why I felt I could start work on it. I spent one day planning it by compiling notes, outlining the flow of events, and mapping the layouts of the environments. To show you some behind-the-scenes, here is how this process can look on my end (all text has been redacted).

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The free roam event has new environments, which is exciting, but that also means much more work. I have been working on the environment design for several days, and it's starting to come together. I have a few more areas to design before I can continue with the next step, which is dressing all the characters. All 87 of them. This is the biggest number of characters I've had in a single free roam event. Just dressing them will take at least two days, and I'm hoping to get a poll out of it, too.

After I'm done with that, I will start writing dialogue for the planned events and begin posing animations. I've got exciting weeks ahead of me, and I will alternate between working on this free roam event and on lewd scenes.

The animation queue I tried to build with the lewd scene I finished earlier this week is looking too slim for my liking. Hopefully, I can fix that next week. Oh, what a wonderful problem to have.

This week, I also finalized work on the special part of this project that I started way earlier in this development cycle. And I've also worked on the Steam/GOG trailers for Season 3—they are almost finished. I have locked in the episode 12 title and written a synopsis for the store pages as well. You'll learn more details about all of this in an upcoming announcement.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Dr PinkCake certainly has a hard task ahead of him.

A question for the regular members of this thread: when do you honestly think the dev will release episode 12?
Before the end of this year or before a year has passed since the last update?

 

[d2dacameron]

A question for the regular members of this thread: when do you honestly think the dev will release episode 12?
Before the end of this year or before a year has passed since the last update?

Neither of those. We aren't getting it by March.

Summer next year at the earliest.

 

[Josh M Spicer]

I'm still planning on September 2026. August if we're lucky.

 

[Derek's Brother]

So you're suggesting that the athletes, nerds, overachievers, and feminists celebrate New Year's Eve together with the idiots and pretty boys? Given the current situation on campus, that's truly absurd. This party would generate so much energy that it could power New York City for an entire year.

Besides, the faculty party isn't optional, it's mandatory. The MC will definitely be involved in some way.

Furthermore, I was right when I wrote before EP11 that no LI would be present at the DIK Christmas party. Everyone wrote to prevent this from happening, etc. But it did.

 

[Roger-a-Dale]

So you're suggesting that the athletes, nerds, overachievers, and feminists celebrate New Year's Eve together with the idiots and pretty boys? Given the current situation on campus, that's truly absurd. This party would generate so much energy that it could power New York City for an entire year.

Besides, the faculty party isn't optional, it's mandatory. The MC will definitely be involved in some way.

Furthermore, I was right when I wrote before EP11 that no LI would be present at the DIK Christmas party. Everyone wrote to prevent this from happening, etc. But it did.

The only thing that puts MC in the faculty party is the invitation to perform which not only can be declined in favour of doing something else that day, but won't even be offered unless you help Jill with her recital. Saying that it will be mandatory is one massive leap. Moreover the conversation with Philip in which MC gets the invitation implies that students who attend are very much a minority. To have 87 characters at that party DPC would have to create more than 40 new characters none of whom would be students.

A massive NYE party that everyone is invited to will end up having 87 characters simply because DPC already has that many characters and wants to have them all there. And the fact that all these groups being in the same party will create drama is not an argument against it. It's the entire point of having it.

 

[La Dani]

It's almost the time for the only year's update ?
everyone ready to be disappointed?

 

[Doorknocker]

Agree on all points, though I do think that even if you had a Maya or Josy scene imbalance you will still be able to save the throuple happy ending.

It's maddening watching MC fumble around trying to communicate with his Dad, or the girls, and just make things worse.
He's either not communicating at all, or doing it badly.

That's an exaggeration or course - he does sometimes have a really sweet conversation with one of the girls and shows how much he cares for them.
That makes it even more frustrating when he simply doesn't communicate.
Like after he tells Maya he loves her he simple doesn't discuss it with Josy or tell her the same.

Well, I think that you'll probably need to have chosen to spend time with each of them, but I'd expect there to be some pretty generous margins for error. The relationship point requirements for "I love you" with LI's have been very reasonable, and I would expect similarly reasonable buffers for meeting the threshold of a "balanced" playthrough with Maya and Josy. At least that's what would make for a good game and a reasonably believable story.

 

[dalli_x]

The only thing that puts MC in the faculty party is the invitation to perform which not only can be declined in favour of doing something else that day, but won't even be offered unless you help Jill with her recital. Saying that it will be mandatory is one massive leap. Moreover the conversation with Philip in which MC gets the invitation implies that students who attend are very much a minority. To have 87 characters at that party DPC would have to create more than 40 new characters none of whom would be students.

A massive NYE party that everyone is invited to will end up having 87 characters simply because DPC already has that many characters and wants to have them all there. And the fact that all these groups being in the same party will create drama is not an argument against it. It's the entire point of having it.

"Mandatory" was a mistranslation. I meant "canon."

He will be at this celebration, one way or another.

A college has more than just 10 employees. I don't think that's so we know all the teachers at B&R. What about security and the other staff (custodians, cleaners, etc.)? Even Burger Beth works in the college cafeteria. That quickly adds up to 87 people.

Have you considered this in case Philip can't finish planning the party or something unexpected happens that requires improvisation? I wrote a while ago about making sure the DIKs are well-prepared. They have a great cook (JB), a bartender (Derek), Jamie is good with plants (decorations), and Jacob takes great photos (decorations). Then we have the HOTs, who also work to earn their budget, so why not serve guests? Oh yeah, the DIKs also have a great party planner.

 

[Blue Milk]

So you're suggesting that the athletes, nerds, overachievers, and feminists celebrate New Year's Eve together with the idiots and pretty boys? Given the current situation on campus, that's truly absurd.

I don't see why not. It's a season ender party before we hit the final season so might as well go big. Plus, it being NYE is all the more reason for everyone from college to be at it because NYE parties are generally a big deal. Also, given all that's just happened and all the likely tension on campus, having a party that's open to everyone be arranged at a neutral location makes a lot of sense as it's a way to try and bring everybody together.

Besides, the faculty party isn't optional, it's mandatory. The MC will definitely be involved in some way.

No, it isn't. It's literally an optional choice for the MC. You choose between this or the fighting tournament because both are happening at the same time and unless the MC chooses to perform at it, he won't be going in any capacity whatsoever.

"Mandatory" was a mistranslation. I meant "canon."

He will be at this celebration, one way or another.

It's not canon when it's optional.

 

[Blue Milk]

The only thing that puts MC in the faculty party is the invitation to perform which not only can be declined in favour of doing something else that day, but won't even be offered unless you help Jill with her recital. Saying that it will be mandatory is one massive leap. Moreover the conversation with Philip in which MC gets the invitation implies that students who attend are very much a minority. To have 87 characters at that party DPC would have to create more than 40 new characters none of whom would be students.

A massive NYE party that everyone is invited to will end up having 87 characters simply because DPC already has that many characters and wants to have them all there. And the fact that all these groups being in the same party will create drama is not an argument against it. It's the entire point of having it.

You'd be hard-pressed to reach 87 characters without having the Jocks, Nerds, Preps, feminists, and even faculty there too. The DIKs, HOTs, and dorm girls and guys, named and otherwise, don't get anywhere close. So either it's going to be all those people or DPC creates a ridiculous amount of nobody background characters to fill the party.

Also, 87 people are not coming to a faculty-only party. Even with there being "special guests", it's still not going to be that.

 

[EEMNHMQI]

Cosmetic poll ($15): Maya


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I didn't notice 1) was see-through... It must win

A question for the regular members of this thread: when do you honestly think the dev will release episode 12?
Before the end of this year or before a year has passed since the last update?

The consensus is September '26, though some say August or October '26.

 

[dalli_x]

I don't see why not. It's a season ender party before we hit the final season so might as welll go big. Plus, it being NYE is all the more reason for everyone from college to be at it because NYE parties are generally a big deal. Also, given all that's just happened and all the likely tension on campus, having a party that's open to everyone be arranged at a neutral location makes a lot of sense as it's a way to try and bring everybody together.



No, it isn't. It's literally an optional choice for the MC. You choose between this or the fighting tournament because both are happening at the same time and unless the MC chooses to perform at it, he won't be going in any capacity whatsoever.



It's not canon when it's optional.

You're misunderstanding something. The only optional decisions are whether the MC wants to participate in the tournament and/or play guitar with Jill at the party.

The tournament and the Christmas party will take place regardless of whether the MC actively participates or not. However, this doesn't prevent DPC from allowing the MC to passively attend both events. I don't know if Dwayne or Chen mentioned this, so the MC can still watch the tournament.

The MC will be present at both events, whether actively participating or passively.

 

[I'm Canadian bub]

Fuckface's new year is definitely going to involve him being properly introduced to people from Lynette's side, calling it right now.