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

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Thats pretty vanilla from a Slaneesh disciple. Loosing faith? Harbouring heretical thoughts?

 

[Ennoch]

...

 

[Redhead Fanatic!]

Now we wait for a mod with a free weekend to come in and clean it up and bring it back down to 3500.

Ha! I don't think we would reach 4k this early without those asking
1. When is the next update?
2. How their waifu is the best.
3. Talking shit about M&J.
4. Chad's sexuality and who's his side-chick.
5. Are the nerds a friend or an enemy?
6. What(or who) is behind Bella's locked door?
7. Who's in trouble on the next episode?
8. What Jill is Hiding between her legs.
9. KRJ.
10. Making Riona cum.
11. Isabella's boobs are weird.
12. MC coming off from a rich family.
And I can't point out everything else as I skip on some comments. What else did I miss?

 

[Ennoch]

And I can't point out everything else as I skip on some comments. What else did I miss?

Android port / fullsave

 

[Redhead Fanatic!]

"Bella, there's someone I'd like you to meet. Bella, this is my father Neil. Dad, Bella is one of my professors who I definitely haven't finger blasted in her private sauna"

Neil: "Son, tell me that you did at least wear a condom."

Android port / fullsave

And also that problem on that port that was removed due to 1st free roam problem. Yep, how could I forget them. Thanks

 

[Darkdevil66]

Ha! I don't think we would reach 4k this early without those asking
1. When is the next update?
2. How their waifu is the best.
3. Talking shit about M&J.
4. Chad's sexuality and who's his side-chick.
5. Are the nerds a friend or an enemy?
6. What(or who) is behind Bella's locked door?
7. Who's in trouble on the next episode?
8. What Jill is Hiding between her legs.
9. KRJ.
10. Making Riona cum.
11. Isabella's boobs are weird.
12. MC coming off from a rich family.
And I can't point out everything else as I skip on some comments. What else did I miss?

1. Incest
2. NTR
3. Auntie Jill
4. Evil Jill
5. No Acting lessons endings please !
6. Quinn's dealer
7. D&D

 

[lemonfreak]

interesting ideas

however, there are some points that need to be reviewed.

Bella without her husband cannot divorce, at most she can set the procedure in motion, and we should still understand why this marriage is in crisis, and whose fault it is.

not being in the pact with Maya and Josy, I hope, leads to being able to open a relationship with one of the two, and this would hardly not lead to very dramatic moments, in which one of the two girls would find herself in the position in which they put MC. I struggle to call it a happy ending

Actually there is such thing as divorce in absentia where, should one partner not respond to the serving of divorce papers, it can be granted by default. Even though, within the likely time frame of the story, that would be unlikely, simply the fact that Bella made the decision to proceed would be enough.

Yes, that is one of the possible bad ending that could occur.

 

[Zirael Q]

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This week I've mostly been posing static renders and writing dialogue.

1845 static renders and 74 animations are completed.

The render queue has 180 static renders and 18 animations waiting for their turn to render. What this means is that episode 6 currently consists of 2025 renders and 92 animations when everything in the queue has been rendered.

Hitting the 2000 render mark and realizing that I have much left to pose makes me wonder how big this update is going to be. Normally, I would feel it's close to being complete around 2000 renders, but not this time.

My gut feeling is telling me that we, for the first time, will venture into 3000+ renders in an update. And looking at the animation count, I know it's not done yet either.

I have plenty of scenes and a handful of lewd events left to write and pose for. I know I want ~30 animations for just one particular lewd scene among the ones that are left.

What I want to have said with this, is that seeing these huge numbers doesn't mean we're that close yet. Don't let that stop you from feeling excited about this being a big episode, but know that there's quite some time left before release despite the numbers I will post in my status updates from here on.

Other news

As I've said in the past, I always strive to learn new things. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's new and helps the development somehow.

Last week I studied and learned techniques that will make the manual process of posing animations much faster for me. While also having the added benefit to enable poses and animation types I had difficulty making before. These techniques are so useful that they have changed my entire workflow for making animations. And that is a workflow that I've been improving since I started making games.

I'm super excited about using this new workflow and I will be spending the better part of the upcoming week posing animations for episode 6, trying to master it.

Poll news
In poll news, the "Special render - Main girl" poll has ended. It was a split result, with Sage winning the $10 poll and Isabella winning $15/25/30 polls. All in all, Isabella was the winner and will get a Special render set in Episode 6. I'll make sure to post a preview of it after I have made it.

I will wait a bit before posting any more polls because I need to think about what's left to vote on. I know I want some kind of animation poll, so I turned this post into a survey to see what you prefer to vote on.

Please vote on everything you'd like to see polls for and I will take the result of this survey into consideration for my next, but also future animation polls.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake
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I don't know if I should be excited or sad, we'll wait for a damn long time. But it's gonna be a glorious episode. Fuck

 

[AvatarStormBringer]

7. D&D

You mean D&G

What else did I miss?

1. Arieth's pets
2. the HOT Conspiracy
3. Bella's Axe Ex
4. Lynette DOA
5. Will Zoey come back
6. Tybalt hate

 

[Redhead Fanatic!]

1. Incest
2. NTR
3. Auntie Jill
4. Evil Jill
5. No Acting lessons endings please !
6. Quinn's dealer
7. D&D

The amount of shit on Jill never ends! Poor sweet and innocent Jill. If sage wasn't an LI, I'll go for Jill as my main. But after Episode 6(that guitar scene at the yard), Sage has again took the lead.

1. Arieth's pets
2. the HOT Conspiracy
3. Bella's Axe Ex
4. Lynette DOA
5. Will Zoey come back
6. Tybalt hate

I will count most of them related to the thread. But the continuous cycle that keeps popping up since Season 1 and unrelated and poor fantasy stuff are just becoming toxic and unbearable.

 

[Zirael Q]

Ha! I don't think we would reach 4k this early without those asking
1. When is the next update?
2. How their waifu is the best.
3. Talking shit about M&J.
4. Chad's sexuality and who's his side-chick.
5. Are the nerds a friend or an enemy?
6. What(or who) is behind Bella's locked door?
7. Who's in trouble on the next episode?
8. What Jill is Hiding between her legs.
9. KRJ.
10. Making Riona cum.
11. Isabella's boobs are weird.
12. MC coming off from a rich family.
And I can't point out everything else as I skip on some comments. What else did I miss?

-How Maya actually is the greatest character ever written in the history of fiction, 100 paragraphs of essays
-How Quinn is actually even more evil than Sauron, Voldemort and Darth Sidious combined
-Horse shit theories with absolute zero logic
-How can I complete the DIK party, both CUMpetition and the latest one
-WhO WiLl DiE iN a HoUsE FiRe? BeCaUsE iN AcTiNg LeSsOnS...

 

[AvatarStormBringer]

I don't know if I should be excited or sad, we'll wait for a damn long time. But it's gonna be a glorious episode. Fuck

 

[felicemastronzo]

Actually there is such thing as divorce in absentia where, should one partner not respond to the serving of divorce papers, it can be granted by default. Even though, within the likely time frame of the story, that would be unlikely, simply the fact that Bella made the decision to proceed would be enough.

Yes, that is one of the possible bad ending that could occur.

sorry, I didn't make myself clear.

I didn't make it a technical problem of her husband's absence, but a moral one, I don't think Bella would leave her husband without a direct confrontation with him (if he is still alive and if they are not in crisis for a serious fault of her husband)

 

[Ennoch]

-Horse shit theories with absolute zero logic

Excuse me! My trasngender lizardmen vs. sentient toilet theories are perfectly reasonable!

 

[flippityflop]

Looking at this status update and the abundance of renders/animations that'll be in EP6 got me thinking about how the overall size of the game will be handled in the future. After just 5 episodes we're already past 8GB with over twice as many still on the way, it's going to get out of control for a VN. I've always found it odd that season 2 wasn't an entirely separate game with some form of save file transfer. I guess it's nice having all the gallery scenes in the same menu and I'm sure there are other benefits as well, but I can't say I'm looking forward to downloading a potentially 30+ GB game all over again if something like a walkthrough mod causes a rollback error that cannot be ignored.

Does anyone have any insight on why BaDIK is built this way? I've seen other Ren'Py games do separately packaged seasons so I doubt it's due to technical limitations.

I guess, some could say that 40GB+ is pretty standard for most tripple A titles, so why should Being A DIK be any different?
No idea how he'll approach this going past season 2 though. Can Ren'Py even handle all that data without catching fire and shitting all over itself?

Ideally, I could see this game going completely real time, using Unreal or even Unity (as a last resort).
Converting Daz3D assets is very much possible.
I don't know how well versed DPC is when it comes to that, but adjusting and rewriting the rendering pipeline to suit his needs would not be an easy task for a beginner.
And DPC is adamant about collaborating with anyone else... So, yeah, this doesn't look very good.

 

[Ennoch]

I guess, some could say that 40GB+ is pretty standard for most tripple A titles, so why should Being A DIK be any different?
No idea how he'll approach this going past season 2 though. Can Ren'Py even handle all that data without catching fire and shitting all over itself?

Ideally, I could see this game going completely real time, using Unreal or even Unity (as a last resort).
Converting Daz3D assets is very much possible.
I don't know how well versed DPC is when it comes to that, but adjusting and rewriting the rendering pipeline to suit his needs would not be an easy task for a beginner.
And DPC is adamant about collaborating with anyone else... So, yeah, this doesn't look very good.

Didn't he say that Seasons will be of different downloads and act as separate games

 

[flippityflop]

Didn't he say that Seasons will be of different downloads and act as separate games

Not sure that's a better or more delicate way of handling this.
Come to think of it, it's actually worse, not to mention awkward as hell.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I wanna see some actual progress with Sage, like a date or something. Something that a normal couple would do, breaking the whole fuck buddies thing. But maybe it’s too soon for that idk

At this point, I feel like we need progress with everyone.

• Sage - Some movement on the Chad situation and seeing Sage start to want a bit more romance with the MC
• Bella - More info about James and the locked door as well as getting a proper sex scene
• M&J - Seeing how this "open" relationship works but also getting some alone with each of them to see how they feel about everything
• Jill - Literally anything that gets to some kind of lewd action even if it's just a HJ while she's still fully clothed.

It's a DPC game! A developer known for building up a story and suddenly inserts the fire nation attacking and you suddenly have to choose who to save because you can't have it all!

Can we please just all remember that this is only DPC's 2nd game? One game does not a precedent make. If they had made 2 or 3 games with emotionally tragic and fatal endings, then maybe we could say that this is their typical style, but AL is our only reference for DPC and this game doesn't necessarily have to go in the same direction and I, for one, don't think that it will.

I pray it won't come to us having to choose whom to save, but rather, worst case scenario, us getting dumped for being unfaithful or not keeping our shit together.

At the moment, the MC isn't formally attached to any of them and if it were to stay that way for the majority of the game, then him being dumped for not being "faithful" isn't entirely fair. If, however, he commits to someone and then has sex with someone else, then perhaps that argument can be made, but again I feel that's too similar to what happened in AL and I would hope that DPC will handle this whole issue differently.

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Poll news

I will wait a bit before posting any more polls because I need to think about what's left to vote on. I know I want some kind of animation poll, so I turned this post into a survey to see what you prefer to vote on.

Please vote on everything you'd like to see polls for and I will take the result of this survey into consideration for my next, but also future animation polls.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake
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I'd probably vote on all 5, but ranking them in order of importance, I'd put them like this:

1. Longer animations
2. Normal sex scenes
3. Sex scene focus
4. Kinkier poses
5. Where to cum

My, my. Maybe the threesome every M&J's fan has dreamed of.

Dear God, I hope so.

Does anyone have any insight on why BaDIK is built this way? I've seen other Ren'Py games do separately packaged seasons so I doubt it's due to technical limitations.

No idea how it's built, but DPC is definitely building this into one big game rather than separate it like Fetish Locator, Echoes of Lust, or DMD.

 

[Ennoch]

Not sure that's a better or more delicate way of handling this.
Come to think of it, it's actually worse, not to mention awkward as hell.

I mean not a different game in the literal sense but Ren'Py would only need to handle the data of a single Season then. I seem to recall he was talking about this last year.

EDIT: https://f95zone.to/threads/being-a-dik-v0-5-2-dr-pinkcake.25332/post-2336561
UndercoverDude , here he explains that each season is planned to have its own binary so one doesn't have to download the whole all the time untill the project is completed. That was the plan. I can't tell if that changed since then.

 

[flippityflop]

I mean not a different game in the literal sense but Ren'Py would only need to handle the data of a single Season then. I seem to recall he was talking about this last year.

Never worked with Ren'Py, so I'd be the last person you'd want to ask about how it handles data. I hope it's possible though.

"All seasons will eventually be merged into a big single binary, when the game is completed."

Well, the good Doc seems confident in the fact that it's doable (at least he was back then). So, fingers crossed I guess?