VN Ren'Py Leaving DNA [Ep. 4.3a] [Impious Monk]

[MiltonPowers]

Mom, aunt, cousin, grandmother--you know the drill.

No landlady or roommates?

 

[Rgrmohyh]

Its funny actually that's the dev is active here

 

[Tremonia]

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Well, I'm not drunk this week. Maybe I should be, though. Maybe the weekly developer journals would actually be more interesting to read (and to write) if they were actually drunk journals. "Saturday Night Drinks with Monk." Doesn't that sound like a lot more fun? I could lie and say it would be "Saturday Night Scotch with Monk," but based on what I've been drinking lately it would actually be "Saturday Night Creme Liquors with Monk." Don't look at me like that. Creme Liquors are very masculine. And delicious. A drink can be manly and delicious at the same time. And Key Lime Creme Liqueur Moonshine is both.

Yeah, this was definitely better when I was drunk. Well, maybe next week.

Thank you for your support!

--Monk

 

[Maccabbee]

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Well, I'm not drunk this week. Maybe I should be, though. Maybe the weekly developer journals would actually be more interesting to read (and to write) if they were actually drunk journals. "Saturday Night Drinks with Monk." Doesn't that sound like a lot more fun? I could lie and say it would be "Saturday Night Scotch with Monk," but based on what I've been drinking lately it would actually be "Saturday Night Creme Liquors with Monk." Don't look at me like that. Creme Liquors are very masculine. And delicious. A drink can be manly and delicious at the same time. And Key Lime Creme Liqueur Moonshine is both.

Yeah, this was definitely better when I was drunk. Well, maybe next week.

Thank you for your support!

--Monk

Are we gonna have to stage an intervention here?

 

[Impious Monk]

Special Render: Emmeline

 

[Dessolos]

Emmeline is a goddess that special render is

 

[jadepaladin]

Emmeline is a goddess that special render is

 

[Tremonia]

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Hello my friends.

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Alright guys, working on Episode Five has been a frustrating experience. I've been slogging through a creative quagmire and progress has just been so fucking slow. When I finished almost a year of working on Episode Four I optimistically looked ahead and fantasized about finishing Episode Five in three months. Now it's been six months and I still have so much to do. My render rate is less than half what is was for Episode Four and I still am writing each scene only as I come to it.

I've got to go back to the beginning on this. I've got to become obsessed again. Back then I could push through a 9 or 10 hour day at work and then grind on LDNA until 1, 2, or 3 a.m., and then be up by 6 a.m. to do it again. I did that for almost a year. While those hours might not have been sustainable, the fire that pushed me to keep them is what fueled my creative process.

So this is what's going to happen: I'm going to finish Episode Five in three months. It's July now, I'll finish this by the end of October. That's what going to happen no matter what. Episode Five is not that long. It shouldn't take nine fucking months to finish it, and it certainly shouldn't take a year. If Dr. PinkCake can finish Acting Lessons in a year and a half, I shouldn't need five years to finish Leaving DNA.

Here we go.

--Monk

 

[Porthas]

Impious Monk

 

[BigTTiger]

Awesome dev but don't let your health deteriorate over this either.

 

[Jonmanchu]

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Hello my friends.

Reminder that my page will be depublished by the end of this month. If there's something you want from my back posts, get it now. Also, really important, make sure that you're getting the benefits of the

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Alright guys, working on Episode Five has been a frustrating experience. I've been slogging through a creative quagmire and progress has just been so fucking slow. When I finished almost a year of working on Episode Four I optimistically looked ahead and fantasized about finishing Episode Five in three months. Now it's been six months and I still have so much to do. My render rate is less than half what is was for Episode Four and I still am writing each scene only as I come to it.

I've got to go back to the beginning on this. I've got to become obsessed again. Back then I could push through a 9 or 10 hour day at work and then grind on LDNA until 1, 2, or 3 a.m., and then be up by 6 a.m. to do it again. I did that for almost a year. While those hours might not have been sustainable, the fire that pushed me to keep them is what fueled my creative process.

So this is what's going to happen: I'm going to finish Episode Five in three months. It's July now, I'll finish this by the end of October. That's what going to happen no matter what. Episode Five is not that long. It shouldn't take nine fucking months to finish it, and it certainly shouldn't take a year. If Dr. PinkCake can finish Acting Lessons in a year and a half, I shouldn't need five years to finish Leaving DNA.

Here we go.

--Monk

Competition makes men Better,U chose a fucking beast like DPC as your competition. Good for the industry.Bring it on.Hope u finish it before the end of October.Godspeed

 

[superseveneight]

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Hello my friends.

Reminder that my page will be depublished by the end of this month. If there's something you want from my back posts, get it now. Also, really important, make sure that you're getting the benefits of the

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. Make sure you're getting emails consistent with your tier and that you've got the appropriate tier assigned to you on Discord (I'll have that finalized by tomorrow). if you're not sure how much you've contributed, just shoot me a DM, you won't be bothering me.

Alright guys, working on Episode Five has been a frustrating experience. I've been slogging through a creative quagmire and progress has just been so fucking slow. When I finished almost a year of working on Episode Four I optimistically looked ahead and fantasized about finishing Episode Five in three months. Now it's been six months and I still have so much to do. My render rate is less than half what is was for Episode Four and I still am writing each scene only as I come to it.

I've got to go back to the beginning on this. I've got to become obsessed again. Back then I could push through a 9 or 10 hour day at work and then grind on LDNA until 1, 2, or 3 a.m., and then be up by 6 a.m. to do it again. I did that for almost a year. While those hours might not have been sustainable, the fire that pushed me to keep them is what fueled my creative process.

So this is what's going to happen: I'm going to finish Episode Five in three months. It's July now, I'll finish this by the end of October. That's what going to happen no matter what. Episode Five is not that long. It shouldn't take nine fucking months to finish it, and it certainly shouldn't take a year. If Dr. PinkCake can finish Acting Lessons in a year and a half, I shouldn't need five years to finish Leaving DNA.

Here we go.

--Monk

 

[reahwea]

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Hello my friends.

Reminder that my page will be depublished by the end of this month. If there's something you want from my back posts, get it now. Also, really important, make sure that you're getting the benefits of the

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Alright guys, working on Episode Five has been a frustrating experience. I've been slogging through a creative quagmire and progress has just been so fucking slow. When I finished almost a year of working on Episode Four I optimistically looked ahead and fantasized about finishing Episode Five in three months. Now it's been six months and I still have so much to do. My render rate is less than half what is was for Episode Four and I still am writing each scene only as I come to it.

I've got to go back to the beginning on this. I've got to become obsessed again. Back then I could push through a 9 or 10 hour day at work and then grind on LDNA until 1, 2, or 3 a.m., and then be up by 6 a.m. to do it again. I did that for almost a year. While those hours might not have been sustainable, the fire that pushed me to keep them is what fueled my creative process.

So this is what's going to happen: I'm going to finish Episode Five in three months. It's July now, I'll finish this by the end of October. That's what going to happen no matter what. Episode Five is not that long. It shouldn't take nine fucking months to finish it, and it certainly shouldn't take a year. If Dr. PinkCake can finish Acting Lessons in a year and a half, I shouldn't need five years to finish Leaving DNA.

Here we go.

--Monk

Ngl that sounds kinda shitty, I hope he can find his joy for making this amazing vn.

 

[Impious Monk]

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[bobross42004240]

So I just finished the scene with Malena where MC becomes a complete twat. I've lost all respect for MC. Who writes a character that does an instant 180, becomes a massive hypocrite and wants to protect a serial killer?

Is it even worth continuing after this point?

There are a lot of people that refuse to believe that their relatives are evil but they are in denial from the start. They are so in denial that they may never accept the truth; but that is not the same as someone who knows and understands evil actions from the start. This to me just seems like terrible writing.

Please tell me that I'm wrong.

 

[Tremonia]

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Hey everybody.

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated via Patreon or SubscribeStar over the last three years. It's been astonishing to me that so many people have liked the game enough to donate anything at all, but you guys have been beyond generous and given me far more support than I deserve.

On July 31st I will push the "depublish" button on my Patreon page. I'm not exactly sure what will happen then, but my understanding is it basically freezes and hides everything on my page indefinitely. I think this means that if I ever decide to republish the page then preexisting subscribers would be automatically added back onto the monthly charge cycle at the same tier. For this reason, I strongly encourage you to unsubscribe prior to July 31st.

For SubscribeStar users, it's a little bit different. I have to set the page on vacation mode without depublishing it, and I can't delete it until everyone is unsubbed. So please unsub when you have a moment.

For all who have contributed the minimum amount of $18, your email from me this week will identify your tier in the subject line. If you don't receive an email that means you're not on my list and you need to let me know right away.

Well, I'm sure you are dying to know how my progress was this week after the motivational speech I gave myself last week. I finished 64 new renders this week, which is actually better than it sounds. I lost two nights after my main computer stopped working. I eventually diagnosed a malfunctioning CPU cooler and did replace it myself, although I screwed up the job so I had to hire a pro to fix the CPU pin I bent. The other primary challenge was that this week I worked on a scene montage which took place in four new environments. Sometimes using a new environment can take me a couple of days to set up, test, and tweak, but I was able to work through these ones relatively quickly. I also am fighting my second cold virus of 2025, so with all that I'm happy with 64 renders.

This week I will be working again in the environment I had custom made for Leaving DNA. This is an incredibly difficult environment to work with; super, super heavy and resets its textures every time it gets reloaded, which means I can't use the render queue script to render overnight. I also haven't written 90% of the dialogue for this scene. Or rather, I actually did write this scene three years ago but I threw that out and had to start over. So I remain motivated as I was last weekend, but I am facing some small hurdles at the moment.

Next weekend I will be out-of-town to visit family and will be gone for five days. That's five days I cannot work on the game--again, a small hurdle. As a result I will not be sending out a dev journal next Saturday. The next time you hear from me will be August 9th.

Thank you for your continuing support.

--Monk

 

[gotmy223]

I've got to go back to the beginning on this. I've got to become obsessed again. Back then I could push through a 9 or 10 hour day at work and then grind on LDNA until 1, 2, or 3 a.m., and then be up by 6 a.m. to do it again. I did that for almost a year. While those hours might not have been sustainable, the fire that pushed me to keep them is what fueled my creative process.

So this is what's going to happen: I'm going to finish Episode Five in three months. It's July now, I'll finish this by the end of October. That's what going to happen no matter what. Episode Five is not that long. It shouldn't take nine fucking months to finish it, and it certainly shouldn't take a year. If Dr. PinkCake can finish Acting Lessons in a year and a half, I shouldn't need five years to finish Leaving DNA.

Here we go.

--Monk

Aaaaaand with this post the dev just got himself a new subscriber. Impious Monk will be getting my $5 come August 1.

 

[Bruce F. Lee]

Aaaaaand with this post the dev just got himself a new subscriber. Impious Monk will be getting my $5 come August 1.

He's not taking subscriber money anymore. You can buy it on Steam.

 

[noahsombrero]

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Hey everybody.

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated via Patreon or SubscribeStar over the last three years. It's been astonishing to me that so many people have liked the game enough to donate anything at all, but you guys have been beyond generous and given me far more support than I deserve.

On July 31st I will push the "depublish" button on my Patreon page. I'm not exactly sure what will happen then, but my understanding is it basically freezes and hides everything on my page indefinitely. I think this means that if I ever decide to republish the page then preexisting subscribers would be automatically added back onto the monthly charge cycle at the same tier. For this reason, I strongly encourage you to unsubscribe prior to July 31st.

For SubscribeStar users, it's a little bit different. I have to set the page on vacation mode without depublishing it, and I can't delete it until everyone is unsubbed. So please unsub when you have a moment.

For all who have contributed the minimum amount of $18, your email from me this week will identify your tier in the subject line. If you don't receive an email that means you're not on my list and you need to let me know right away.

Well, I'm sure you are dying to know how my progress was this week after the motivational speech I gave myself last week. I finished 64 new renders this week, which is actually better than it sounds. I lost two nights after my main computer stopped working. I eventually diagnosed a malfunctioning CPU cooler and did replace it myself, although I screwed up the job so I had to hire a pro to fix the CPU pin I bent. The other primary challenge was that this week I worked on a scene montage which took place in four new environments. Sometimes using a new environment can take me a couple of days to set up, test, and tweak, but I was able to work through these ones relatively quickly. I also am fighting my second cold virus of 2025, so with all that I'm happy with 64 renders.

This week I will be working again in the environment I had custom made for Leaving DNA. This is an incredibly difficult environment to work with; super, super heavy and resets its textures every time it gets reloaded, which means I can't use the render queue script to render overnight. I also haven't written 90% of the dialogue for this scene. Or rather, I actually did write this scene three years ago but I threw that out and had to start over. So I remain motivated as I was last weekend, but I am facing some small hurdles at the moment.

Next weekend I will be out-of-town to visit family and will be gone for five days. That's five days I cannot work on the game--again, a small hurdle. As a result I will not be sending out a dev journal next Saturday. The next time you hear from me will be August 9th.

Thank you for your continuing support.

--Monk

It sounds like we might get a 5, but there will not be a 6. I've been hanging around this kind of forum for about 10 years more or less. I can understand how a dev gets burned out by the endless work, day after day, week after week, while having a real job and a real family. I have seen it a lot of times. In the end, it feels to me like devs hope for more than they get out of the experience of creating even a stirling product like this, superlative in every way. You took on DPC? Well, he might be an actual phd of programming or something and able to pump out noodley huge perfect perl scripts. But his story is not even close to yours. That is the way it goes in pornland. The best stuff sometimes does not get recognition. Your forum page count is 61 in 3 years. His is 9000 in 6 years. I have no idea what your income from this project looks like, but that count does not look like you got your investment back of the hours of your life that could have been spent doing other things.

But thanks anyway. You are the champ.

By the way, lthat sex scene with Emmaline is simply the best ever anywhere. Really. Thanks again.

 

[Elduriel]

It sounds like we might get a 5, but there will not be a 6. I've been hanging around this kind of forum for about 10 years more or less. I can understand how a dev gets burned out by the endless work, day after day, week after week, while having a real job and a real family. I have seen it a lot of times. In the end, it feels to me like devs hope for more than they get out of the experience of creating even a stirling product like this, superlative in every way. You took on DPC? Well, he might be an actual phd of programming or something and able to pump out noodley huge perfect perl scripts. But his story is not even close to yours. That is the way it goes in pornland. The best stuff sometimes does not get recognition. Your forum page count is 61 in 3 years. His is 9000 in 6 years. I have no idea what your income from this project looks like, but that count does not look like you got your investment back of the hours of your life that could have been spent doing other things.

But thanks anyway. You are the champ.

By the way, lthat sex scene with Emmaline is simply the best ever anywhere. Really. Thanks again.

supposedly he made the money back he invested in the project iirc. But if we include the time he spent on it, probably not.