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

[shazba]

I was always hoping for a full college experience, 4 year. But I don't think that is possible, I'm not giving up hope it's still manageable, but my biggest fear is DPC gonna burn out. I think the game is outgrow him, it's bigger than him. the possibilities of this game is almost endless, but he alone I dont think he can deliver.

It's still manageable, and what I mean by that is that we don't actually have a calendar, we used the Hell week, as a calendar to count how much time has passed, but now that is over, He can easily jump ahead weeks, or even some months.
and there are events just scream to happen, like Spring break, or a Xmas themed episode, I do think He would not mind to make at least one of these.

I'd be surprised in DPC burns out. Didn't he make the move to full time developer, quitting his day job (or am I thinking of someone else). Plus as I understand it he already has a skeleton plot and it's just a matter of padding it through the seasons.

There's probably room for some random side dramas or flings, but if he sticks to his original plan, the game should progress how it started - fun.

I'd suggest this is how DPC will be making a living for a long time (making quality adult games), as long as Patreon doesn't change its platform and pull the rug out from under him. Not sure how much he'd be making on Steam sales alone.

I also have some concerns about DPC.

What kind of concerns specifically?

 

[Arigon]

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this render, while causing me discomfort in the jeans in the area of the crotch, is not making me re evaluate my list..... oh who the fuck am I kidding, of course it is.... Take Jill out of my list and put Riona in her spot!

 

[ChipLecsap]

chapter 5 and chapter 6 together don't make a week ..

Hmm, from episode 5 ending, to episode 6 ending is a weak. or at least 5 day. We end ep5 at Sunday,
and we finish ep6 at Friday evening. and now that the Hot scavenger hunt is also over, We don't know how episode 7 start. We can start right where we left, moving toward the Room of Maya, or much more likely scenario we jump ahead some time, and in a flashback He show us what happened , if anything happened at all.

Maybe we starting with Josy, floating in the pool, remembering back that it's a week or more time has passed since Maya's dad take Maya home or something after he caught them together

 

[travelman]

I was always hoping for a full college experience, 4 year.

"Previously in Being a DIK ep. 357"

I figured he already has story written and at most he's changing is some small detail, maybe adding some sidechick content. Perspective changes a bit depending on who MC is chasing, but story seems to be so far pretty linear and plot already thickens, so I doubt we get more than 3 seasons. I haven't played AL, but from what I heard it hit hard with drama, so I reckon the same will happen here, maybe that will cause the "rest of the college went by pretty chill because everyone was fucking traumatized" timeskip ending.

 

[felicemastronzo]

I'd be surprised in DPC burns out. Didn't he make the move to full time developer, quitting his day job (or am I thinking of someone else). Plus as I understand it he already has a skeleton plot and it's just a matter of padding it through the seasons.

There's probably room for some random side dramas or flings, but if he sticks to his original plan, the game should progress how it started - fun.

I'd suggest this is how DPC will be making a living for a long time (making quality adult games), as long as Patreon doesn't change its platform and pull the rug out from under him. Not sure how much he'd be making on Steam sales alone.


What kind of concerns specifically?

related concerns

but I think that DPC maybe starting to be tired of BADIK, that he wants to close it to move on to his next project

 

[ChipLecsap]

"Previously in Being a DIK ep. 357"

I figured he already has story written and at most he's changing is some small detail, maybe adding some sidechick content. Perspective changes a bit depending on who MC is chasing, but story seems to be so far pretty linear and plot already thickens, so I doubt we get more than 3 seasons. I haven't played AL, but from what I heard it hit hard with drama, so I reckon the same will happen here, maybe that will cause the "rest of the college went by pretty chill because everyone was fucking traumatized" timeskip ending.

and That's exactly what my concern is, this would be pretty much a let down ending, don't you think?

and to be honest I'm pretty tired of the Acting Lessons comparison .

 

[Holy Bacchus]

surely there are some surprises in store for the finale, and I am not referring to the results of the different twists.

right now for the pitch that has history, the whole game should cover no more than 3 months of college life. but can the story end like this in the middle of the school year? there are too many situations in the balance, which cannot have a stable conclusion in this way

the most likely thing is a time jump in the last chapter to show us how it went and what happened to the different characters. but it would be trivial, I expect something more

The story can end early on, yes. So far we've had 6 episodes covering the first 3 weeks of the MC at college. Ep 6 really blitzed through a lot of time, covering around 5 days of in-game time. So we've got at least 2 scenarios going forward, 1) the next 6 episodes cover another 3 weeks, or 2) each episode from now on covers roughly a week each. By the time we get to Ep 12, which may be the last episode, it could either be 6 weeks at college or roughly 10 weeks if there are no time jumps.

In either case, there's plenty of time to resolve the most lingering issues and then just sum up the rest of his time at college as typical, standard, and generally less eventful than these first few weeks, and it would work just fine.

"Previously in Being a DIK ep. 357"

I figured he already has story written and at most he's changing is some small detail, maybe adding some sidechick content. Perspective changes a bit depending on who MC is chasing, but story seems to be so far pretty linear and plot already thickens, so I doubt we get more than 3 seasons. I haven't played AL, but from what I heard it hit hard with drama, so I reckon the same will happen here, maybe that will cause the "rest of the college went by pretty chill because everyone was fucking traumatized" timeskip ending.

That's how it goes in some movies, so I really don't see a problem with it.

chapter 5 and chapter 6 together don't make a week ..

Actually they did. Ep 5 was the rest of Saturday evening and Sunday morning/afternoon of the 2nd week, and Ep 5 was Monday-Friday of week 3, so together they did cover an in-game week.

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

Quinn telling Riona that she's too dumb to finish college on her own and will only make it by continuing to whore herself out is peak Quinn.

 

[ChipLecsap]

Quinn telling Riona that she's too dumb to finish college on her own and will only make it by continuing to whore herself out is peak Quinn.

Yep. but if we want to play the devil's advocate, in this case Quinn. We can Say She is just afraid that she will be left alone, that Riona will leave her, but she's too insecure and pride, to admit her feelings, to show her emotions, and vulnerabilities, so instead she meaner and manipulative.
isn't it fascinating? How we can approach differently the same subject.
well, except when it's come to Josy and Maya because we know they are unredeemable

 

[Kellermann]

Quinn telling Riona that she's too dumb to finish college on her own and will only make it by whoring herself out is peak Quinn.

Yep, that one was a real winner. And slapping Riona too.

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

Yep. but if we want to play the devil's advocate, in this case Quinn. We can Say She is just afraid that she will be left alone, that Riona will leave her, but she's too insecure and pride, to admit her feelings, to show her emotions, and vulnerabilities, so instead she meaner and manipulative.
isn't it fascinating? How we can approach differently the same subject.
well, except when it's come to Josy and Maya because we know they are unredeemable

wtf are you talking about

 

[sbarabaus]

Hmm, from episode 5 ending, to episode 6 ending is a weak. or at least 5 day. We end ep5 at Sunday,
and we finish ep6 at Friday evening. and now that the Hot scavenger hunt is also over, We don't know how episode 7 start. We can start right where we left, moving toward the Room of Maya, or much more likely scenario we jump ahead some time, and in a flashback He show us what happened , if anything happened at all.

Maybe we starting with Josy, floating in the pool, remembering back that it's a week or more time has passed since Maya's dad take Maya home or something after he caught them together

why should he jump ahead? it seems that there's some serious urgent shit going on right now

 

[rj677]

surely there are some surprises in store for the finale, and I am not referring to the results of the different twists.

right now for the pitch that has history, the whole game should cover no more than 3 months of college life. but can the story end like this in the middle of the school year? there are too many situations in the balance, which cannot have a stable conclusion in this way

the most likely thing is a time jump in the last chapter to show us how it went and what happened to the different characters. but it would be trivial, I expect something more

I was always hoping for a full college experience, 4 year. But I don't think that is possible, I'm not giving up hope it's still manageable, but my biggest fear is DPC gonna burn out. I think the game is outgrow him, it's bigger than him. the possibilities of this game is almost endless, but he alone I dont think he can deliver.

It's still manageable, and what I mean by that is that we don't actually have a calendar, we used the Hell week, as a calendar to count how much time has passed, but now that is over, He can easily jump ahead weeks, or even some months.
and there are events just scream to happen, like Spring break, or a Xmas themed episode, I do think He would not mind to make at least one of these.

I agree with both of you on some points. I was looking forward to a full college experience after Season 1 (Ep4), since one of my theories was that DPC would advance time after Hell Week and The HOTS Scavenger Hunt ended (I was thinking that those 2 events maybe would happen in the same Episode) until the next Big Plot Point on the story that I was thinking it would probably happen closer to Christmas.

However that didnt happen and now I quit that notion of the "Full College Experience", since Im not seeing the story slow down enough for that to happen... Mainly the Quinn path, that was revved to 200 MPH in Ep6 and I think that that speed wont decrease until the ending of the game, meaning that Quinns situation almost doesnt leave room for a "Time Skip".

Im still holding out hope that BaDIK, at the very least, tells us the story off a full year of college (until the Summer) with all kinds of Canon Events until there like Xmas and Spring/Easter Break (please none of those "Non Canon DLCs" ) and after that do a Huge Time jump to the ending of the MC with the LI, LIs or Side Characters that he ended up with and what happened to the ones he didnt end up with. But even that scenario seems unlikely to me

 

[OFT]

related concerns

but I think that DPC maybe starting to be tired of BADIK, that he wants to close it to move on to his next project

I'm thinking the opposite. I see sequels and spin-offs coming, such as grad school (Being a DIK: DIK Masters, and Being a DIK: Doctors of DIK) or epilogue stories (Being a DIK: Arieth's Legacy, and Being an ΑΝΩ: Tybalt's Produce Years).

 

[AchedCroissant]

Quinn telling Riona that she's too dumb to finish college on her own and will only make it by continuing to whore herself out is peak Quinn.

Riona would have responded that at least a barbie girl does not take away the boy I like and that way Quinn would hate Maya more

 

[travelman]

and That's exactly what my concern is, this would be pretty much a let down ending, don't you think?

I dunno if it would be let down ending, but with what we got so far I just don't see it ending any other way. With the pace the game is going so far, it really seems like rather contained and event filled few weeks drama which tbh I don't have problem with. The strength in BaDIK for me so far lies in it's story, whole college experience game sound more like one of those freeroam/create your own MC games, which sure, would be fun game to play, but I think it would need to sacrifice a lot of quality that you can get from more focused approach.

I'm thinking the opposite. I see sequels and spin-offs coming, such as grad school (Being a DIK: DIK Masters, and Being a DIK: Doctors of DIK) or epilogue stories (Being a DIK: Arieth's Legacy, and Being an ΑΝΩ: Tybalt's Produce Years).

I can be okay with that if one of those is focused on Jade.

 

[wholef'nshow]

God she's good.
Without this heavy makeup Riona and Quinn easy in top 3 most beautiful girls in the game.
p.s. for me

They are!
Riona is still my n°1 pick of the "side" girls.

 

[Kellermann]

Yep. but if we want to play the devil's advocate, in this case Quinn. We can Say She is just afraid that she will be left alone, that Riona will leave her, but she's too insecure and pride, to admit her feelings, to show her emotions, and vulnerabilities, so instead she meaner and manipulative.
isn't it fascinating? How we can approach differently the same subject.
well, except when it's come to Josy and Maya because we know they are unredeemable

It really comes down to do you believe that a person's past justifies their present actions. I think most people can be redeemed, but I don't think just because someone had a difficult upbringing that absolves them of all the crimes that they commit later in life. As difficult as it may be, everyone has the free will to overcome past trauma. That said, I can't see Quinn doing a complete 180° turn in the story and going from Ms. Watch the world burn to Ms. Good girl who tries to make up for everything she's done by being nice to everyone. That would be boring anyway. DPC will give her glimpses of self-awareness and try to get the player to sympathize with her when she lets her guard down (with forlorn looks, sad music, needy texts, anal sex for Kellermann , etc.), but ultimately, she'll choose to be the same old Quinn...until she gets shanked to death by a meth head in an alley. If she takes Riona with her, then I'll really be displeased.

 

[travelman]

If she takes Riona with her, then I'll really be displeased.

Well, guess Riona dies then. Shame.

 

[Kellermann]

Well, guess Riona dies then. Shame.

No, I will save her!