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

[AchedCroissant]

I was thinking a bit and the truth is that every frat (like I've seen in the movies) has its frat nemesis (Diks vs Jocks)... And I read someone who said that if the Vixens could make a sorority and in EP8 we already saw that DPC added severals new female characters

 

[shazba]

In my personal opinion, it's probably gonna be one episode per year most of the time. If he releases an episode in like January, then yeah, he will probably have 2 that year, but like next year, since he released an episode in December, he will probably have only one episode next year. This episode development was 9 damn months long considering the interlude and I'm pretty sure this episode was "supposed to be" a shorter one (DPC says that a lot even though the episode length keeps growing pretty consistently).

I personally can't see him getting the development time below 7 months and that's being optimistic considering the general trend of longer development times. So, I mean yeah if he releases an episode in May, he might be able to get another out by December, but I don't see him getting one out by May next year.

But if you mean literally 1 year between episodes, yeah I doubt it will get that bad.

Is there something in the air this fall, or have I just not been around here long enough to view the cycles?

Speaking as a person that got active on f95 maybe around august this year, there were a ton of new releases for popular games, just speaking in the college genre, this had one, AoA had one, University of Problems just had an update, College Kings had an update in 2, etcetc

And now, I hear people say "Don't worry, just rotate games, every few months the updates will cycle", yet am I going crazy or has there been a general trend of stagnancy this fall amongst established games? I felt like between Aug-sept I could look at new releases and there was always something new to catch attention, last 3 months it's been a wasteland...... I don't doubt they'll eventually come out, but does anyone else get this broader feeling?

If you check out mpa71's table of all things statisticy (also known as BigTable™), there's no denying the episodes just keep getting bigger and bigger, and development time longer and longer:



This last episode did go off the rails more than usual, so maybe he'll rein it in a little bit, but even episode 8 took already 7 months to develop (sure there were excuses like exporting for the end of the season blah blah, but every episode has its unique challenges).

So yeah, I don't see us seeing 2 episodes every year going forward. For example, since episode 9's finished mid December, I'd be surprised if we see two releases land in 2023, but then he'd be able to sneak 2 in to 2024, and so on.

We're here for the long haul boys and girls.

 

[buggs]

Wel yea, of course I don't mean literally a year. It's only been 9 months since the Interlude. Technically, it hasn't even been a year for ep 9. I doubt dev time can get any worse than 9 months. Knock on wood.

I see it as likely that 9 months is gonna be the new standard, which would pretty much result in one episode per year. 9 months from Friday's release is September 2023, 9 months from then is June 2024, 9 months from then is March 2025, and then finally a second release in 2025 in December. And then the cycle continues... So yeah, it's pretty much 1 episode per year. Even if some of those releases make it shorter than 9 months, others will probably be longer than 9.

I'm curious to see how much cutting out custom renders will do, but I don't think they are the reason for the longer development. I think it has to do with trying to fill the split paths with enough content and the fact that DPC seems very interested in making longer, more complex animations. Which is great for the game, but less great for development time.

 

[lipe2410]

I was thinking a bit and the truth is that every frat (like I've seen in the movies) has its frat nemesis (Diks vs Jocks)... And I read someone who said that if the Vixens could make a sorority and in EP8 we already saw that DPC added severals new female characters

So Zoey could become a Vixen.
I want a threesome with Carolyn right away

 

[buggs]

If you check out mpa71's table of all things statisticy (also known as BigTable™), there's no denying the episodes just keep getting bigger and bigger, and development time longer and longer:

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This last episode did go off the rails more than usual, so maybe he'll rein it in a little bit, but even episode 8 took already 7 months to develop (sure there were excuses like exporting for the end of the season blah blah, but every episode has its unique challenges).

So yeah, I don't see us seeing 2 episodes every year going forward. For example, since episode 9's finished mid December, I'd be surprised if we see two releases land in 2023, but then he'd be able to sneak 2 in to 2024, and so on.

We're here for the long haul boys and girls.

Yeah, that graph was pretty much what I was thinking of when talking about the general trend of longer development times. Even the episodes that were shorter than the episode before them aren't shorter by a lot and pretty consistently continue the trend. In my pessimistic mind, we will be lucky if we see a trend similar to Episodes 4-7 for Season 3.

 

[NebulousShooter]

The most important thing to find out is if the receptionist is Dawe's mom...or taking into account his age, his daughter

 

[buggs]

If the Gym is owned by Dawe's family, there shouldn't really be a problem canceling Troy's membership.

Could be that Dawe's family just doesn't act on his beck and call and aren't willing to screw over a paying customer because their spoiled kid got into a fight with him, but I agree that it's pretty likely that they just own another gym.

 

[AchedCroissant]

So Zoey could become a Vixen.
I want a threesome with Carolyn right away

Can you imagine?

 

[PeopleCallMeSmile]

Yup, Quinn is the catalyst for almost every major event in the story. She's in the eye of the shit-storm.

Therefore, most important chick.

 

[allanl9020142]

In my personal opinion, it's probably gonna be one episode per year most of the time. If he releases an episode in like January, then yeah, he will probably have 2 that year, but like next year, since he released an episode in December, he will probably have only one episode next year. This episode development was 9 damn months long considering the interlude and I'm pretty sure this episode was "supposed to be" a shorter one (DPC says that a lot even though the episode length keeps growing pretty consistently).

I personally can't see him getting the development time below 7 months and that's being optimistic considering the general trend of longer development times. So, I mean yeah if he releases an episode in May, he might be able to get another out by December, but I don't see him getting one out by May next year.

But if you mean literally 1 year between episodes, yeah I doubt it will get that bad.

Although you have a point. If DPC can't get dev time down to "below 7 months" then we're not going to see two episodes per year until 2024 (assuming at most 7 months per episode). Which at that point would be ep 11 and 12.
So if Season 3 isn't the last season and everything stays at 7 months per episode then we'd at least be looking at two episodes at least every other year until it's finished.
With 9 months per episode we'd get: Sept 2023 - ep 10, June 2024 - ep 11, March 2025 - ep 12. And if there's another season, Dec 25 - ep 13. Then the cycle repeats. Then it'd be two episodes per year every 2 years.

At most, he said monthly custom renders for patrons took "10%" of the monthly dev time. Animations could be sped up with new equipment but that's really more about the rigs and his ability to hold back. I have no idea how he quantifies other aspects like script writing and coding. I could look back on how many renders/animations he poses per month but that's annoying to do. However, animation rendering did play a big part in the long dev time. So as long as he holds back on doing even more with his shiny new graphics card (which he'll probably get) then it might be possible to get it down to 7. (I'm not a tech guy. I don't know. Don't grief me.) Then all he needs to do from there is hold back on the superfluous stuff and that might give us below 7 months.

All I'm saying is that ep 10 will tell us whether 10% of dev time per month makes a big enough difference. Though that'd be a big leap from 9 months to below 7.
Edit: I took took long to write this. Several people beat me to the punch.

 

[shazba]

So Zoey could become a Vixen.
I want a threesome with Carolyn right away

Can you imagine?

In spite of all the blue-hair haters out there, I'm really interested to see how DPC tackles Zoey's return when she finds out the mc has another girlfriend (or worse, he's fucked half the student body and faculty).

And is she prepared to share? I mean she's just realised what she wants, comes back and sees she can't have it, so a girl's gotta compromise. Threesome here we come!

But the sad news is I doubt our Goth Girl is gonna be called Carolyn. Even if by coincidence he was gonna call her that (because she totally looks like a Carolyn), he'd change her name just to spite this forum! (Yeah, we know you're watching motherfucker! ) Part of me almost wants to mod the game to make her name right, but the other part of me is like, "I wonder what her name's gonna be... "

 

[AchedCroissant]

In spite of all the blue-hair haters out there, I'm really interested to see how DPC tackles Zoey's return when she finds out the mc has another girlfriend (or worse, he's fucked half the student body and faculty).

And is she prepared to share? I mean she's just realised what she wants, comes back and sees she can't have it, so a girl's gotta compromise. Threesome here we come!

But the sad news is I doubt our Goth Girl is gonna be called Carolyn. Even if by coincidence he was gonna call her that (because she totally looks like a Carolyn), he'd change her name just to spite this forum! (Yeah, we know you're watching motherfucker! ) Part of me almost wants to mod the game to make her name right, but the other part of me is like, "I wonder what her name's gonna be... "

Well she's young, she's hot and she's single of course she's going to become a nun

 

[nyrek]

In spite of all the blue-hair haters out there, I'm really interested to see how DPC tackles Zoey's return when she finds out the mc has another girlfriend (or worse, he's fucked half the student body and faculty).

And is she prepared to share? I mean she's just realised what she wants, comes back and sees she can't have it, so a girl's gotta compromise. Threesome here we come!

But the sad news is I doubt our Goth Girl is gonna be called Carolyn. Even if by coincidence he was gonna call her that (because she totally looks like a Carolyn), he'd change her name just to spite this forum! (Yeah, we know you're watching motherfucker! ) Part of me almost wants to mod the game to make her name right, but the other part of me is like, "I wonder what her name's gonna be... "

doesn't matter, sancho got us covered

I've already the bone to toss (no, we certainly ain't tossin' salads).

I've preemptively created code to not only allow you rename this character how you wish, but throughout whatever dialogue the dev uses when another character references her default name it will be changed to the name you input. So, if you name the character "Carolyn", when she speaks here new character name will show in the dialogue box (of course) AND whenever another character mentions her default name in the original script it will be changed as well.

This SanchoDIK move has already initiated.

 

[allanl9020142]

In spite of all the blue-hair haters out there, I'm really interested to see how DPC tackles Zoey's return when she finds out the mc has another girlfriend (or worse, he's fucked half the student body and faculty).

And is she prepared to share? I mean she's just realised what she wants, comes back and sees she can't have it, so a girl's gotta compromise. Threesome here we come!

But the sad news is I doubt our Goth Girl is gonna be called Carolyn. Even if by coincidence he was gonna call her that (because she totally looks like a Carolyn), he'd change her name just to spite this forum! (Yeah, we know you're watching motherfucker! ) Part of me almost wants to mod the game to make her name right, but the other part of me is like, "I wonder what her name's gonna be... "

While we're on the topic. You replayed the Interlude, right? Did it say anything about Zoey trying to apply for B&R or is she just planning on showing up? Did it even say anything about her going to campus? I'm just wondering what reason DPC will give for Zoey to just be there a lot of the time or if ep 9 is just going to have them meeting and that'll be it for now.

Also "Ah yes, Zoey allow me to take you on a tour of all the rooms I've fucked in. Each with a different woman." Then Fuckface proceeds to go in and out of the HOTs' house several times throughout the tour.

 

[Sancho1969]

doesn't matter, sancho got us covered

Indeed. Hell, the player will be able to name her "Bertha" if they wanted to. Tried, tested and proven now is the "Carolyn" code in almost 33% of my other most popular mods (test on the rest and save the prime code for the best).

 

[shazba]

While we're on the topic. You replayed the Interlude, right? Did it say anything about Zoey trying to apply for B&R or is she just planning on showing up? Did it even say anything about her going to campus? I'm just wondering what reason DPC will give for Zoey to just be there a lot of the time or if ep 9 is just going to have them meeting and that'll be it for now.

Also "Ah yes, Zoey allow me to take you on a tour of all the rooms I've fucked in. Each with a different woman." Then Fuckface proceeds to go in and out of the HOTs' house several times throughout the tour.

Once she graduated from high school, she applied for a course in graphic design in San Diego, but she didn't get in:

zo "But Jonah did teach me a few things about college. That dude should be like a guidance counselor or something..."​

zo "He showed me these classes in graphic design that seemed fun."​

zo "I had to do something else aside from working at Tattoos when I couldn't surf. So, I applied for a course."​

zo "But it turns out, I'm not good enough to get accepted for anything over here."​

zo "Any joy I actually felt from graduating was gone after that."​

So what she needs is a college with lower standards, one which will accept any fuckwit...

 

[NebulousShooter]

So do I...

But the sad news is I doubt our Goth Girl is gonna be called Carolyn. Even if by coincidence he was gonna call her that (because she totally looks like a Carolyn), he'd change her name just to spite this forum! (Yeah, we know you're watching motherfucker! ) Part of me almost wants to mod the game to make her name right, but the other part of me is like, "I wonder what her name's gonna be... "

Enid? Mildred? Matilda? Prudence? Gertrude?

 

[NebulousShooter]

This is the second time Riona tries to put the blame on Sage, once with MC and once with Heather, so I don't want to hear you guys ever again about saving poor Riona from the evil Quinn, they are both to blame

 

[shazba]

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This is the second time Riona tries to put the blame on Sage, once with MC and once with Heather, so I don't want to hear you guys ever again about saving poor Riona from the evil Quinn, they are both to blame

Sorry, but I'm gonna look at you all I want.

 

[Lovetities]

It`s a age thing. There will be time when that aint cuckshit to you, just you and some other guy using her for your own pleasure and giving some by exchange.

It not an age thing, it probably a kink thing. I personally never liked that and will not. It doesn't matter if they are fictional characters. It just not my kink ig, sharing with random dudes.