VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

Not "most likely", but a possible explanation for the DnG preview.

I personally prefer the idea of him having a revelatory dream at the start of the episode about his current situation with these LIs over having all of them in a single room in a contrived way just to start to sowing seeds of relationship drama this early on. It would likely just be a few +/- RP points with the LIs and some renders showing them giving curious looks to him and other LIs, but after everything that's happened with him in the past couple of weeks, it would be nice to just get a little breather and not have to deal with the issues of juggling so many women, but this game, whether it's short or long, wouldn't give us that and it just feels a little forced.

It's like in those TV shows, mainly sci-fi ones, where the protagonist spends most of the episode in some parallel/fantasy world with alternate/caricaturish versions of their friends and enemies, but the episode serves almost no purpose in advancing the actual plot and is primarily just used to fill space in a 24 episode season.

I don't disagree with you. I feared that D&G would dominate the whole episode and be manily offtopic, I don't like those kind of episodes in shows. A rest/less serious scenes is always good, but I also want the story to go forward and this has a high chance of taking A LOT of time, considering Sage and the MC get to be in bed together within the game and all of that. I don't see how a dream could be anything but offtopic, a real game has at least some chances of having some character development.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I don't disagree with you. I feared that D&G would dominate the whole episode and be manily offtopic, I don't like those kind of episodes in shows. A rest/less serious scenes is always good, but I also want the story to go forward and this has a high chance of taking A LOT of time, considering Sage and the MC get to be in bed together within the game and all of that. I don't see how a dream could be anything but offtopic, a real game has at least some chances of having some character development.

That Sage preview is also what has me thinking this DnG game will take up a chunk of the episode, because unless the MC's character gets carried off by a troop of flying monkeys shortly after that preview image of him with Jill, Maya, Josy, and Sally, and he's taken to the highest room of the tallest tower where Sage is being held, then it's going to potentially take some time to get from that group scene to the Sage scene.

The thing about a dream sequence is that it depends how it's done. If a dream fills a whole episode of a TV show, then it's filler, but if it's like 5 minutes at the beginning of the show, or even in the middle, where it shows some of the protagonist's subconscious thoughts and feelings manifested in a troubling or slightly nightmarish vision, it gives us some insight into where their head is at at this particular moment. It doesn't necessarily advance the plot, but it can advance the character development of the protagonist if they let what they dreamt about affect their actions moving forward.

 

[Kuraii]

Such emotional moments.

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DPC: ep6 will be more varied than ep5 was.
Fanfic writer*after seeing one preview*:

I think it might be, and now I'm starting to think that it may indeed be what takes up most of the episode.

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MC playing a game of DnG with 4 of the 5 LIs

Wow..I only saw Josy, Maya and Jill. Or Sally is also a love interest?

now we have 4 previews that seem to indicate the possibility of the MC playing a game of DnG

..I only saw one.
You say the weirdest things. Almost always

 

[ename144]

That Sage preview is also what has me thinking this DnG game will take up a chunk of the episode, because unless the MC's character gets carried off by a troop of flying monkeys shortly after that preview image of him with Jill, Maya, Josy, and Sally, and he's taken to the highest room of the tallest tower where Sage is being held, then it's going to potentially take some time to get from that group scene to the Sage scene.

The thing about a dream sequence is that it depends how it's done. If a dream fills a whole episode of a TV show, then it's filler, but if it's like 5 minutes at the beginning of the show, or even in the middle, where it shows some of the protagonist's subconscious thoughts and feelings manifested in a troubling or slightly nightmarish vision, it gives us some insight into where their head is at at this particular moment. It doesn't necessarily advance the plot, but it can advance the character development of the protagonist if they let what they dreamt about affect their actions moving forward.

I agree a long, involved game would be a mistake. For better or worse, Episode 5 already served as a break from the action to let the MC get his groove on with damn near everyone. We need to get back to advancing the actual story. A quick DnG game can help with that by giving us time to see characters playing off each other in ways they normally don't. A long DnG session that takes up most of the episode will have a very hard time doing that.

So how involved will the game be? Hard to say. If we assume Sage's preview is within the game (plausible given that bedspread), it definitely suggests the game will have multiple scenes.

Still, a DnG game could cover a lot of ground very quickly if DPC wants it to. We don't necessarily need a detailed story that shows all the steps. We could just establish a quest only to have the PCs completely botch it right off the bat. The MC's new character gets captured and the session ends with him being executed, establishing a running gag for future sessions.

That's certainly what I'd prefer (not the scenario specifically, just that the session is fast and goofy). It does seem in keeping with Magnar's DMing style, so I'm not going to panic yet.

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

DPC: ep6 will be more varied than ep5 was.
Fanfic writer*after seeing one preview*:

...

Wow..I only saw Josy, Maya and Jill. Or Sally is also a love interest?

..I only saw one.
You say the weirdest things. Almost always

The pic in bed with Sage is from a medieval resource pack. It could be that he bought it with other assets for D&G and used it for something real but the most likely explanation is that Sage is also playing the game. We saw her in a preview at the library too.

 

[Maviarab]

DPC: ep6 will be more varied than ep5 was.
Fanfic writer*after seeing one preview*:

...

Wow..I only saw Josy, Maya and Jill. Or Sally is also a love interest?

..I only saw one.
You say the weirdest things. Almost always

Maybe you should pay more attention then

 

[lemonfreak]

I will laugh my arse off if chapter 6 turns out to be everyone's favourite episode

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Wow..I only saw Josy, Maya and Jill. Or Sally is also a love interest?

Josy, Maya, Jill AND Sage.

It's been previously pointed out that Sage is lying on a bed from a fantasy/medieval DAZ asset.

..I only saw one.

Then you haven't been paying attention because we also have these 2 previews showing Sage and Maya in the library.

Since we know that the Nerds play DnG in the library, these 4 previews seem to indicate a game will be played with at least 4 of the 5 LIs.

 

[Zirael Q]

I will laugh my arse off if chapter 6 turns out to be everyone's favourite episode

No such thing exists heh. I forgot which was in which episode already, it's so well done by DPC. But I know I liked something different from each episode then the other ones. The favorite one was obviously Episode 4, meh story (MC whining out of his ass got me triggered), Quinn rooftop, Jade... But for Episode 5, for example, I had a blast as well. The party ruining, Lily, Swyper conversation with Arieth (definitely the funniest shit in the game), punching Tybalt (got tired from using my mouse's scroll button)... Each are good almost equally imo. Hope you are right tho, I sincerely hope this episode turns out to be even better.

It's also time for story to pick up the pace, wanna see Chad stuff and blackmail stuff sorted out already. Maybe we'll have the chance to date girls from Swyper, the MILF one caught my eye (No, not talking about Nicole you silly). We also need the crab problem addressed thoroughly so we can make our inevitable move to Crab City. I made all the necessary preparations, my body is ready
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[murphy88]

I haven't been to the forum in a while, is there any preview of the next chapter? I guess everything points to October, right?

 

[Dashxp4k]

Jill have mementos of her sister. That's why we have this picture. Jill have relatives but there not close.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I haven't been to the forum in a while, is there any preview of the next chapter? I guess everything points to October, right?

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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.

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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.

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[Dashxp4k]

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[SPACE_BOOOOOST]

Bold Prediction Time

So, now we have 4 previews that seem to indicate the possibility of the MC playing a game of DnG with 4 of the 5 LIs and, as much as I don't want that to be the case, I think it might be, and now I'm starting to think that it may indeed be what takes up most of the episode, if not all of it. Here's why.

The episode is titled "Damage Control", and while this title certainly befits a few things like Quinn trying to deal with the fallout from her decision to have the HOTs go to the Prep party (Mona wanting "out", Tommy being pissed at her, her issues with her supplier, etc) and the DIKs having to fix up the mansion as well as deal with the "Cathy Cluck" situation, the title could also refer to the MC's various relationships.

Whether you're pursuing some, none, or all of them, the MC has had a fair bit of involvement with all the LIs up to this point, including the blowout from the M&J situation. So the MC could find himself in a position of "damage control" were he in a situation where all 5 LIs are in a room together, particularly if he's pursuing some or all of the LIs. At this point, the MC probably wouldn't want Sage, Bella, and Jill to know that he had/has a thing with Maya and Josy or let them know about M&J's relationship; or let M&J and Sage know he has a thing with Jill; or let M&J, Bella, and Jill know he has a thing with Sage, etc, etc. In this sense, the MC would have to control the damage that could be done if these LIs start to give the game away and make the others aware of his relationships with them.

We were also told in a previous episode (might have been 3 but can't be sure) that the weather is expected to take a turn for the worst in this upcoming week. So perhaps there is a storm or very heavy rain at a point where all 5 LIs and the Nerds are in the library at the same time but nobody is willing to venture out in the rain, so someone, possibly Jill, suggests they play a game of DnG to pass the time.

So, I think we could be looking at a very lengthy and possibly episode-long game of DnG involving 4 of the 5 LIs or maybe even all them in order to force some relationship drama and have the LIs start to get suspicious of each other and their relationships with the MC.

DPS is completely out of his mind if EP6 mainly takes place during an afternoon, especially after EP5 was like a day and a half and the story DESPERATELY needs time to move the fuck on already. I'm not opposed to having another game of DnG, I love actual DnD in real life. What I AM opposed to is twiddling my thumb in a library for an entire episode that took four months to make while so many far more exciting storylines have been teased in the previous episodes and barely anything has been done to progress them. I understand that after Hell Week the MC probably doesn't even want to look at alcohol right now so maybe let's not get shitfaced for a few days, but playing a tabletop game isn't exactly how I imagined we'd be spending our precious in-game time right after finally earning that DIK jacket.

I really want your prediction to be wrong (and I'm pretty sure you do too) but having most of the previews centered around the library or a fantasy setting doesn't bode well at all. Some differently themed previews better start popping up in the coming weeks or I'm gonna start throwing hands at the screen, damn it.

 

[lemonfreak]

Jesus, this thread is disappearing up it's own arse, I'm out.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

DPS is completely out of his mind if EP6 mainly takes place during an afternoon, especially after EP5 was like a day and a half and the story DESPERATELY needs time to move the fuck on already. I'm not opposed to having another game of DnG, I love actual DnD in real life. What I AM opposed to is twiddling my thumb in a library for an entire episode that took four months to make while so many far more exciting storylines have been teased in the previous episodes and barely anything has been done to progress them. I understand that after Hell Week the MC probably doesn't even want to look at alcohol right now so maybe let's not get shitfaced for a few days, but playing a tabletop game isn't exactly how I imagined we'd be spending our precious in-game time right after finally earning that DIK jacket.

I really want your prediction to be wrong (and I'm pretty sure you do too) but having most of the previews centered around the library or a fantasy setting doesn't bode well at all. Some differently themed previews better start popping up in the coming weeks or I'm gonna start throwing hands at the screen, damn it.

I suppose it's entirely possible that this is some good misdirection by DPC, or just a classic case of reading too much into things because we're so thirsty waiting for the new episode. The ep 5 previews never showed anything of the Prep party and it was the biggest part of the episode, so maybe this isn't the biggest part, but it's hard not to let your mind wander when several previews possibly point towards the same thing and we have DPC talking about "new features" for the gameplay in ep 6.

Obviously hope I'm very much wrong and I would say I'm only about 35-40% percent convinced it will be a long game of DnG, but regardless of its length I'm still not entirely convinced of its usefulness.

Also, we usually get around 6 Patreon previews and we've had 5 already, so we might only have 1 left unless DPC decides to release a couple more than usual since this episode is so much bigger.

 

[flippityflop]

Also, we usually get around 6 Patreon previews and we've had 5 already, so we might only have 1 left unless DPC decides to release a couple more than usual since this episode is so much bigger.

We're already at 6. Quinn's lewd scene preview, but no one posted it.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

We're already at 6. Quinn's lewd scene preview, but no one posted it.

That's a Special Render, not an episode render, and they usually release 3 or 4 of those.

Ep 5 ended up having 7 episode previews and 3 Special Render previews, so we're 2 off the episode previews and 1 off the SR previews for ep 6.