Darkwen

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Nov 10, 2020
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I wrote and made renders and animations for the big free-roam event this week, and I have three scenes left that need art before I'm finished with the big things of it. After that, I can write code, test it, work on details, place special renders, add phone content, etc.
But I have also focused on other areas of the episode and have been writing other story scenes this week.
After these few weeks, working on something else for a while will feel good. I mainly wrote scenes for Isabella and Riona but also playtested parts of the episode.
I have posed 3657 renders so far, and next week I will start working on animations to beef up my render queue, which is now down to 13 animations.
Riona will get a cosmetic poll that starts tomorrow. Here is a teaser of the options. The winning option will be featured in episode 10.


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Dr PinkCake
I don't want to get my hopes up to soon but this sounds good. Is it just me or does Rio new hair do look like Quinn minus a shave side wounder what this means?
 

Cabin Fever

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Nov 23, 2018
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I don't want to get my hopes up to soon but this sounds good. Is it just me or does Rio new hair do look like Quinn minus a shave side wounder what this means?
It does. In fact the whole jaw line looks a bit too squarish. It's more lik Quinn's jaw line than Riona's. It looks odd to me.
 

Divitius

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hey Guys.. when i never Played it before.. do i only have to Download season 3 and have all 3 seasons, or do i have to download Season 1 and 2 aswell? =)
 

Acsuka

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hey Guys.. when i never Played it before.. do i only have to Download season 3 and have all 3 seasons, or do i have to download Season 1 and 2 aswell? =)
Seasons 1-2 first. At the end of season 2, you will be warned to save. Start season 3 and load the save of season 2 in the lower left corner of the main screen. Good luck.
 
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DrSoong

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I don't think the money system in game is supposed to be represent US dollars directly. There's no way that lunch with Maya was $125. I mean, of course it's possible to spend $125 eating lunch for two people, but not without a lot of food, some wine, or both. And $250 at the school cafeteria? University is crazy expensive in the US, but not that crazy (not yet, anyway).

Replacing (virtually) all the windows at the mansion, however, could easily cost thousands of dollars. Especially if they are modern, multi-pane windows custom built and fitted, those can easily be a few hundred dollars per window, even if Neil's friend Luis didn't charge him for labor.
I think you will change your mind (at least for the US) after watching .
 

TangerineTango

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Jun 18, 2022
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I wrote and made renders and animations for the big free-roam event this week, and I have three scenes left that need art before I'm finished with the big things of it. After that, I can write code, test it, work on details, place special renders, add phone content, etc.
But I have also focused on other areas of the episode and have been writing other story scenes this week.
After these few weeks, working on something else for a while will feel good. I mainly wrote scenes for Isabella and Riona but also playtested parts of the episode.
I have posed 3657 renders so far, and next week I will start working on animations to beef up my render queue, which is now down to 13 animations.
Riona will get a cosmetic poll that starts tomorrow. Here is a teaser of the options. The winning option will be featured in episode 10.


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Have a nice weekend!


Dr PinkCake
Outfit needs more swiggity swooty, just sayin
 

mpa71

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I wrote and made renders and animations for the big free-roam event this week, and I have three scenes left that need art before I'm finished with the big things of it. After that, I can write code, test it, work on details, place special renders, add phone content, etc.
But I have also focused on other areas of the episode and have been writing other story scenes this week.
After these few weeks, working on something else for a while will feel good. I mainly wrote scenes for Isabella and Riona but also playtested parts of the episode.
I have posed 3657 renders so far, and next week I will start working on animations to beef up my render queue, which is now down to 13 animations.
Riona will get a cosmetic poll that starts tomorrow. Here is a teaser of the options. The winning option will be featured in episode 10.


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Have a nice weekend!


Dr PinkCake
:coffee: Updated BigTable™ with the recent informations.
Beefy!

  • Lasted calculable posed renders gave a 125/weeks avg. Updated one is 218/weeks. +13% target progress.
  • With that new Renders/Weeks we could be at target in just 6 weeks, halved last estimate.
  • For animations, we could estimate about 183 are completed. DPC been hinting longs are being processed.
  • With the big free roam close to finish and long animation getting done, numbers might speeding up.
  • Release could be Early of August (7 months / 33 weeks projection). 67% complete.
    • Target Completion __ Renders: 60% > 73% | Animations: 65%
EP​
Renders​
Animations (min)
Music*
Scenes
Size_GB
Release​
Development Time​
Ratio*
R/W
sA/W
EP1​
130151 (3:29)
—​
7
≈1.1
07 Feb 2019​
— days
—​
—​
—​
EP2​
1709 (+31%)77 (3:36) (+26)
—​
8
≈2.3 (+1.2)
04 May 2019​
087 (2 months, 28 days |≈12 weeks)
155
138​
17.4
EP3​
2289 (+34%)99 (4:42) (+22)
—​
10​
≈4.1 (+1.8)
16 Aug 2019​
105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)
177
153
18.8
EP4​
2532 (+11%)134 (7:57) (+35)
—​
15​
≈6.1 (+2.0)
10 Jan 2020​
148 (4 months, 26 days |≈21 weeks)
142
120
22.6​
EP5​
2456 (-3%)157 (8:35) (+23)
17 (3.4K$)
11​
≈8.0 (+1.9)
29 May 2020​
141 (4 months, 20 days |≈20 weeks)
147
122
25.6​
EP6​
3336 (+35%)162 (8:33) (+5)
24 (4.8K$)
19
≈11.1 (+3.1)
13 Nov 2020​
169 (5 months, 16 days |≈24 weeks)
159
138​
21.2​
EP7​
3723 (+12%)250 (18:14) (+88)
18 (3.6K$)
15​
≈14.5 (+3.4)
23 Apr 2021​
162 (5 months, 11 days |≈23 weeks)
208
161
47.3
EP8​
4158 (+12%)358 (26:21) (+108)
34 (6.8K$)
16​
≈19.5 (+5.0)
19 Nov 2021​
211 (6 months, 28 days |≈30 weeks)
190
138​
52.5
EPI
79436 (4:36)
19 (3.8K$)
2
≈2.6 (new)
4 Mar 2022​
105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)
71
53
17.7
EP9​
5037 (+21%)303 (26:08) (-55)
21 (4.2K$)
18
≈7.3 (+4.7)
16 Dec 2022​
287 (9 months, 12 days |≈41 weeks)
161
123
38.2​
EP10
3657
Target ≈5000
>196
Target ≈300
10 (2.0K$)
in development
161 (5 months, 10 days |≈23 weeks)
Complete Table with the idea of Holy Bacchus† original post — Being a DIK in development since 4 years, 3 months, 19 days (51 months / 224 weeks / 1,569 days / 37,656 hours)
* | Total: 26,467$ — Ratio = (Renders/Weeks + secondsAnimations/Weeks) | Renders/Weeks | secondsAnimations/Weeks

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| Casiope's DIK Walkthrough | AchedCroissant's EP10 Preview Collection | EP10 Rooster Collection | Clone Series Renders
| shazba's Q/A Story Summary | Holy Bacchus 's Story Timeline | DrPinkCake's Q&A Session | RPDL's
 
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Oliver Wendell Homely

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I think you will change your mind (at least for the US) after watching .
Disney World or any theme park in America will cost a family a shit ton of money, no doubt. I took my wife and kids to Disney World for the first time a couple of years ago and couldn't believe how much we spent for about a week there. We didn't even stay at the property, but rented an apartment close by. Insane! I was just saying that Maya and the MC for a quick lunch near campus would not spend $125, unless they walked into the wrong establishment.
 

Geralt From Rivia

Conversation Conqueror
Jun 15, 2022
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I wrote and made renders and animations for the big free-roam event this week, and I have three scenes left that need art before I'm finished with the big things of it. After that, I can write code, test it, work on details, place special renders, add phone content, etc.
But I have also focused on other areas of the episode and have been writing other story scenes this week.
After these few weeks, working on something else for a while will feel good. I mainly wrote scenes for Isabella and Riona but also playtested parts of the episode.
I have posed 3657 renders so far, and next week I will start working on animations to beef up my render queue, which is now down to 13 animations.
Riona will get a cosmetic poll that starts tomorrow. Here is a teaser of the options. The winning option will be featured in episode 10.


Sign up as a DIK tier patron or above to participate.

Have a nice weekend!


Dr PinkCake
Good status update. Three weeks ago, at the beginning of May, DPC announced 3000 posed renders, now there are 3657 of them, this is a very good work rate, 219 per week on average over this period.

A short animation queue, which indicates that the new hardware processes them much faster and will soon catch up with DPC. It seems that at the end of development we won't have to wait a whole month for animations, as in the case of Ep.9

Plus Rio got attention. :love:
 

Taz423

Newbie
Mar 27, 2021
48
38


I wrote and made renders and animations for the big free-roam event this week, and I have three scenes left that need art before I'm finished with the big things of it. After that, I can write code, test it, work on details, place special renders, add phone content, etc.
But I have also focused on other areas of the episode and have been writing other story scenes this week.
After these few weeks, working on something else for a while will feel good. I mainly wrote scenes for Isabella and Riona but also playtested parts of the episode.
I have posed 3657 renders so far, and next week I will start working on animations to beef up my render queue, which is now down to 13 animations.
Riona will get a cosmetic poll that starts tomorrow. Here is a teaser of the options. The winning option will be featured in episode 10.


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Have a nice weekend!


Dr PinkCake
I'm praying this update comes this year, cuz it doesnt look like it yet.
 

TangerineTango

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Jun 18, 2022
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I'm praying this update comes this year, cuz it doesnt look like it yet.
Based on the previous development time of the other episodes and how it's increasing gradually, the likeliest would be somewhere around October. If you were to be optimistic, late September at best. But given how long coding, render times and writing may take, the worst case scenario would be in either November or December. Although, given the narrative implications right now. Releasing this in November would somehow make sense since the Last episode was set on Halloween. Don't take my word for it, I'm just doing mental maths here.
 

KaiserST

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Based on the previous development time of the other episodes and how it's increasing gradually, the likeliest would be somewhere around October. If you were to be optimistic, late September at best. But given how long coding, render times and writing may take, the worst case scenario would be in either November or December. Although, given the narrative implications right now. Releasing this in November would somehow make sense since the Last episode was set on Halloween. Don't take my word for it, I'm just doing mental maths here.
I think you guys are being too pessimist, the new hardware is doing wonders on the renders/animations rendering as the last update has shown.

For me the update is coming late july at best and mid august at worst.
 

Lovetities

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Apr 3, 2020
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I think current updates news kinda indicate that update is halfway done considering big free roam, animations and minigames are mostly out of the way. Either it will release on August or September
 

Darkwen

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Nov 10, 2020
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I think you guys are being too pessimist, the new hardware is doing wonders on the renders/animations rendering as the last update has shown.

For me the update is coming late july at best and mid august at worst.
I agree late July and early to mid August seem very much in play right now
 
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