some bugfixes, some music changeQuick question, has there been any updates since the interlude?
I can kind of see a relationship potential with Riona for a couple reasons:I'm glad Zoey is back. I'm not interested in any of the main girls, so if it wasn't for her, I'd just fuck every side girl I like for the entire game. And with her, at least there's a choice. There are side girls with relationship potential like Quinn and Lily, but it's unclear if anything serious will come of it.
Quinn, Lily, Riona and Nicole (the most likely ones). 5 main girls and Zoey. I think it's too complicated, but I'm all for it.I can kind of see a relationship potential with Riona
You may manage to cow Felice with your linguistical mastery, but I'm not so easily mollified and assure you I can complain about the ending just as loudly.I know you've explained it several times, you go on and on about it like a broken record. There are hours and hours of things to talk about in this game, some great, some less so, but you are so fixated on 3 little words.
What's wrong with him reacting the same?. If I stub my toe, I go, "Fuck!". If I forget my mobile and have to turn the car around and get it, I go, "Fuck!". If a car rear ends me while I'm waiting to turn a corner, I go, "Fuck!" If I go outside the lines in the BaDIK drinking game for the third time in a row, I go, "Fuck!"
See what I mean about the versitility of that one word? Now the mc, like many people, is more dramatic than me, so when he's panicking, he goes, "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." regardless of the severity of the situation. Big. Fucking. Deal. Get the fuck over it. "Fuck!"
Not really a major change, but count me in the camp that approves of any indication DPC is trying to trim the fat from the production process. It's just a shame this couldn't happen before the King got banned.You must be registered to see the links
Every year around this time, I review my Patreon page and make changes to my tiers. This year, I have no changes to any tiers below $75, but I've made a tough decision regarding the $75, $100, and $150 tiers.
If you're not pledging or planning to pledge those tiers, there's no relevant information below.
I have decided to discontinue the monthly Custom render reward starting January 2023. This means that the orders requested in November will be created and posted in December, and that will be the end of this reward.
The changes will be reflected as follows:
DIK Vice President (and above)
- Added: This is an additional support tier for those who would like to contribute extra.
- Rewards from previous tiers
- Removed: Access to recent Custom renders
- Removed: Each month, participate in entering suggestions for custom renders. 4 out of all entries are handpicked and produced for the following month. There's a chance that the produced renders will appear in the game.
- DIK Vice President role on the DrPinkCake Discord server.
To further explain my reasoning behind this decision, creating 12-16 high-quality renders per month has become a considerable task.
Creating new environments for one-time use, buying assets, posing the renders, rendering, and distribution are eating up 7-10% of development time every month.
36 months of custom orders have yielded 513 unique custom renders, meaning I have way more than enough Custom renders to last the remaining Pack Quests of Being a DIK.
Going forward, I want to put that time back into game development.
I hope that those affected understand my reasoning behind this decision.
I understand if any Vice President or DIK President tier 1/2 would now want to lower their pledge unless you feel you still want to contribute extra to the game development.
The final chance to order Custom renders for December isYou must be registered to see the linkst; I'll treat this last order with even more respect than usual. If you're sitting on ideas that are too good not to be made, throw them in there now. Since it's the last time, you may submit more than one request.
Thank you to everyone who has submitted an order in these tiers during these last three years, and I hope you have enjoyed the custom renders.
All the best
Dr PinkCake
Yes.Is Riona getting a pass just because shes not in charge? Or just because she is more fuckable?
I don't see Nicole but like a friends-with-benefits type of situation.Quinn, Lily, Riona and Nicole (the most likely ones). 5 main girls and Zoey. I think it's too complicated, but I'm all for it.
He did put a bit of nuance in that mirror scene of the Interlude though, maybe because he realized he fucked up a little.You may manage to cow Felice with your linguistical mastery, but I'm not so easily mollified and assure you I can complain about the ending just as loudly.
First, because you're wrong. The MC gives no less than 6 fucks in a row in that sequence. That's not the way the word is used to express surprise or relief, which are the responses an MC who ignored Jade *should* have in this situation. That's the response to a Very Bad Situation(tm), which this is nowhere close to being.
Second, because as we inexplicably need to keep saying, the MC's response doesn't change *AT ALL* when he just dumped Jade to date her daughter. You say "fuck" is a versatile word, but that versatility is supposed to be accompanied by a change in tone or emphasis. DPC has already demonstrated he's capable of conveying that sort of nuance in this game so he could have done that here.
Ok, it looks like it’s time to take this to the next level. I didn’t want to do this, but you’ve forced my hand…You may manage to cow Felice with your linguistical mastery, but I'm not so easily mollified and assure you I can complain about the ending just as loudly.
First, because you're wrong. The MC gives no less than 6 fucks in a row in that sequence. That's not the way the word is used to express surprise or relief, which are the responses an MC who ignored Jade *should* have in this situation. That's the response to a Very Bad Situation(tm), which this is nowhere close to being.
Second, because as we inexplicably need to keep saying, the MC's response doesn't change *AT ALL* when he just dumped Jade to date her daughter. You say "fuck" is a versatile word, but that versatility is supposed to be accompanied by a change in tone or emphasis. DPC has already demonstrated he's capable of conveying that sort of nuance in this game so he could have done that here. Instead he thought everyone would be so wowed by his shocking twist [sic] that they wouldn't notice him cutting corners (no doubt to save time for that extra Madame animation). Well fuck that noise: I noticed.
Incidentally, I'm afraid I'm going to have to revoke your fuck license until you can brush up on the basics.
Not really a major change, but count me in the camp that approves of any indication DPC is trying to trim the fat from the production process. It's just a shame this couldn't happen before the King got banned.
Yes.
...Ok, it looks like it’s time to take this to the next level. I didn’t want to do this, but you’ve forced my hand…
These two mc’s exist in alternate timelines. They do not have all the same experiences (although many may overlap), and so they would never gauge their response on an alternate version of themself under different circumstances.
The mc that goes into the meeting having fucked both Jade and Sage, and just finished dumping Jade over text (definitely the cowards way out!) while deciding to choose Sage (debatably the most dangerous combination), is not the same guy who is just friends with Sage and turned down Jade’s highly unprofessional advances from the beginning.
You’re looking at it from the perspective of a person who is confronted with both (or multiple) outcomes, whereas the mc, in the play through where he was unwantedly molested by Jade, never experienced the whole mother/daughter fuckfest.
How? How is he endangering the mission?When the mc walks into the apartment, he has a sense of foreboding, and it is realised in the presentation of the family photos.
The innocent mc has done no wrong, his focus is to help Maya and this meeting is very important, Maya’s problems have been present since the day they met. Suddenly the mc realised the very person he is going to be asking help from is a woman who sexually assaulted him and threatened him when he did not accept her advances. This is very bad news. This could jeopardise the entire meeting. His presence is endangering the mission! “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”
Sheesh, with the bullets he's sweating in your head, you'd think the MC was the one who'd assaulted a student.The fuckboy mc also wants to help Maya, but when he realises who the person he’s looking to get help from is, his “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck” panic is all about himself. He’s about to walk into an ambush. He just dumped this woman, and now he’s gonna ask her for help, all while Sage may innocently disclose that they are a couple now! He is “Fuck. Fuck. Fucked!”
Two different mc’s reacting the same way on completely different tangents because that’s who they are at the time. One who sees the meeting as fucked, the other who sees himself as fucked.
Two unrelated focuses that can acceptably warrant the same response.
Also, at no point am I suggested the mc is just surprised, or relieved. Relief would come if he was presented two doors:
“Behind one of these doors is a woman who you’ve fucked, and you’re fucking her daughter, and you’ve just dumped her! Behind the other door is a woman who sexually assaulted you. Now make your choice!”
When the mc opens the door to find the lesser of two evils, he may be relieved.
But that’s not what this is.
Your expectations are biased because you consider one outcome worse than the other, but the mc only knows the outcome that he’s living, and he panics regardless.
In the mc’s universe, whatever scenario he is living, he’s not weighing up other scenarios, he’s just shitting himself thinking about what’s to come.
And to compound things, no matter the scenario, in all cases, the people he’s hoping for Maya to get help from are Tybalt’s parents. That just makes matters worse.
In all cases, not being there sounds like a good idea. Time to run the the bathroom, where the gravity of the situation sinks in more…
Halloween. <3We have reached the final status update for episode 9.
The render queue is now down to a single digit.
9 animations remain, meaning that private beta testing, with my team of testers, can start within the next 1-2 weeks.
I have started preparing for the release, and the final preview will be posted next week.
It looks like it will be Halloween in December for every DIK and HOT.
Stay tuned for the release date announcement.
Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake
Not exactly overflowing with numbers, but this is probably the best news we could get nonetheless. DPC completed at least 10 animations this week. He maintains his overall average of ~7.7 animations per week since the Interlude launched. More importantly, it also brings the final 9 animations within striking range by next week - at least theoretically. Still no word on additional statics, but that's unlikely to make a difference to the bottom line at this point. Here are the charts:You must be registered to see the links
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Halloween. <3
We finally got there! There are only 3-4 weeks left before the release.You must be registered to see the links
Halloween. <3
I think it also shows that he's making enough money that he doesn't need to bother with custom renders anymore. DPC picked up over 1000 new patrons this month without even releasing episode 9 (from 12000 to 13000). I assume they joined expecting the episode to drop this month.Credit where it's due, canning the customs is a sensible move. They're great for those that get them every month, I'm sure, but clearly in the nice to have category (except for the Quinn ones, which are of course essential).
That he's looking for ways to free up more of his time to focus on the meat of game development is definitely encouraging. It hints at someone who's probably been a tad more bothered by the length of the development cycle this time than his "it takes as long as it takes" comments have sometimes suggested. I hope he goes further and really asks himself some tough questions about time and resources in episode 10, but for now this is a step in the right direction.
ArigonThere was someone in this thread a while ago (I forget who), who said DPC was only going to do 2 more episodes and then quit.
Ok, it looks like it’s time to take this to the next level. I didn’t want to do this, but you’ve forced my hand…
These two mc’s exist in alternate timelines. They do not have all the same experiences (although many may overlap), and so they would never gauge their response on an alternate version of themself under different circumstances.
The mc that goes into the meeting having fucked both Jade and Sage, and just finished dumping Jade over text (definitely the cowards way out!) while deciding to choose Sage (debatably the most dangerous combination), is not the same guy who is just friends with Sage and turned down Jade’s highly unprofessional advances from the beginning.
You’re looking at it from the perspective of a person who is confronted with both (or multiple) outcomes, whereas the mc, in the play through where he was unwantedly molested by Jade, never experienced the whole mother/daughter fuckfest.
When the mc walks into the apartment, he has a sense of foreboding, and it is realised in the presentation of the family photos.
The innocent mc has done no wrong, his focus is to help Maya and this meeting is very important, Maya’s problems have been present since the day they met. Suddenly the mc realised the very person he is going to be asking help from is a woman who sexually assaulted him and threatened him when he did not accept her advances. This is very bad news. This could jeopardise the entire meeting. His presence is endangering the mission! “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”
The fuckboy mc also wants to help Maya, but when he realises who the person he’s looking to get help from is, his “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck” panic is all about himself. He’s about to walk into an ambush. He just dumped this woman, and now he’s gonna ask her for help, all while Sage may innocently disclose that they are a couple now! He is “Fuck. Fuck. Fucked!”
Two different mc’s reacting the same way on completely different tangents because that’s who they are at the time. One who sees the meeting as fucked, the other who sees himself as fucked.
Two unrelated focuses that can acceptably warrant the same response.
Also, at no point am I suggested the mc is just surprised, or relieved. Relief would come if he was presented two doors:
“Behind one of these doors is a woman who you’ve fucked, and you’re fucking her daughter, and you’ve just dumped her! Behind the other door is a woman who sexually assaulted you. Now make your choice!”
When the mc opens the door to find the lesser of two evils, he may be relieved.
But that’s not what this is.
Your expectations are biased because you consider one outcome worse than the other, but the mc only knows the outcome that he’s living, and he panics regardless.
In the mc’s universe, whatever scenario he is living, he’s not weighing up other scenarios, he’s just shitting himself thinking about what’s to come.
And to compound things, no matter the scenario, in all cases, the people he’s hoping for Maya to get help from are Tybalt’s parents. That just makes matters worse.
In all cases, not being there sounds like a good idea. Time to run the the bathroom, where the gravity of the situation sinks in more…