Status update Episode 10

I've worked on static renders all week and I've gotten through several scenes. It's been solely story-related scenes and I've been working on Bella, Sage, Josy, Maya, Jill, Quinn, Riona, the DIKs, and more. I've worked plenty on clothes and environments and posed around 230 renders and one SFW animation this week.
I checked the script to see how many written scenes lacked art. I counted 13 written story scenes ranging from short to long left to pose static renders for and three free-roam events that are partially written but without art.
Checking the different branches, there is work left there as well. Out of all branches, I've been busiest with the Others' branch so far. The main girl branches all need more content, which I haven't written yet but have planned.
Comparing my current numbers to episode 9, we get:
- 44% static renders (2237/5037)
- 52% writing
- 49% animations (148/303)

The animations in my render queue are now below 40, and in a few days, the more demanding lewd scenes I mentioned in an earlier status update will be completed. I believe the render speed of the animations will increase shortly after that.
This likely means I have 2-3 more weeks of other work before returning to posing lewd scenes. I will be spending most of this time posing static renders but also doing some writing.

At the moment, it's hard to say how big this episode will be, and it's not necessarily fair to compare it to the biggest episode in the game like I just did.
At least it gives us all a feeling of being close to 50% completed overall, which I also believe it is. Please take the numbers and percentages with a grain of salt.
You can look forward to another preview next week, the first preview of Zoey's special render set and more of the Clone series. 17 girls remain in the Clone series; hopefully, most of your favorite girls are covered with it.

I'll also have the first Rooster post up on Twitter soon. If you don't want to miss it, follow me on Twitter at [twitter.com/DrPinkCake](http://twitter.com/DrPinkCake) or check the announcement channel on my Discord server.

Have a nice weekend
DrPinkCake

Status update Episode 10

I worked on art for one of the free-roam events this week and wrote plenty of dialogue for other scenes.
On top of static renders, there are currently 50 animations in my render queue. So, I focused extra on writing and generally had a good flow.
I've been structuring the episode to get a good flow of events, and it's getting clearer by the day. Many canon story events are in place, and I'm working on ways to fit in the planned branched content. So, there's currently some work with flowcharts to make everything fit.
I plan to spend half of next week writing and the other half making static renders.

**Poll news**
Thanks for voting in last week's survey! It was very helpful and I'm happy most are excited about it. As the survey favored the clone series, I also spent a couple of days producing all art for it. It will be a total of 51 renders for 20 different girls in 4k and full HD versions. Even though the anniversary is in April, I will begin posting the series later in March.
The cosmetic poll for Josy ended today, and the winning option was number 3. It will be featured in episode 10. Thanks for voting!

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 10

**Poll news**
Today I'll start with the poll news.
A cosmetic poll for Josy is ongoing and will end next Friday [here]


Sign up as a +$10 (DIK tier and above) patron to participate.

**Development news**
I had a good flow when writing this week. I spent a long time writing scenes for one of the biggest parts of the episode. Writing some of those scenes made me feel physically and emotionally drained. I also wrote a few other sections and worked on art for two decent-sized scenes.
A couple of days ago, I sat down and decided what the Special Render sets for Sage and Zoey will be for this episode, and I also spent those days completing the art for them.
During Episode 9 development, I remember saying that Josy's and Jill's sets were among the best ones I've created so far, and I have to say that seeing what I made with both Sage's and Zoey's sets for episode 10 takes it up another notch.
To tease the themes of the special render sets, I'd call Zoey's set "Mirror Mirror" and Sage's set "The Queen of Rock".
The sets are rendering now, so I only have the final result of Sage's set in front of me, and I love it. I'll post some previews of both sets during the development cycle.
Some of Sage's renders are, without exaggerating, among the prettiest ones I've produced during my nearly five years as a developer.
Speaking of that...

**5th anniversary**
Checking the calendar, next month marks my 5th anniversary on Patreon, and I wanted to post another special render series for all patrons to celebrate the occasion.
For those of you who are new to my Patreon page... In the past, I've had Patron rewards such as "The beach series" featured on the DIKs' laptop in episode 6, and I've had a wallpaper series and even a Custom Render poll + series. These series are posted for ALL patrons and are usually highly appreciated. If you missed any of them, click the tag "Patron reward" on my page to find them.
This year I have an idea that is a bit more graphic than the previous series, and I wanted to survey to see what you think about this. It's you who should enjoy the series, after all.
My idea for this anniversary series is a "Clone series". It would be a set of lewd renders where the girls are fucked by two identical MCs simultaneously.
It's a series that allows for stuff that the game won't and that I know some of you are into. But I'm frankly unsure how many of you are interested in seeing it - hence the survey.
This is an example of a render from the series; you can find full-resolution versions attached to the post too.


The actual render series I have planned would have \~40 renders in total with a plethora of the most popular girls. The renders would be a mix of vaginal, anal, and oral, with unique environments for every girl. All would be rendered in high quality and posted with 4k and FullHD versions.
Please, tick the box if you're interested in seeing this series for the 5th anniversary or would rather see me create something less graphic. I'll close the survey next week.

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 10

This week I wrote dialogue and posed static renders.
I've estimated that I need to pose \~1000 renders for the scenes I have currently written. I have plenty of scenes left to write on top of that. But, based on the episode 9 render count, I believe the writing is over 50% done at this point.
1449 static renders have been posed, of which 100 are waiting to render. Static renders should be somewhere around 29-36% done.
I will likely work on writing and static renders in the upcoming weeks.
I have only posed a handful of SFW animations these last few weeks, so there is no news in that area. At the moment, I have 60 animations waiting to render. Animations are still hovering around 50% completion.

**Poll news**
The special render poll ended today and the winner is Zoey. She will receive a special render set dedicated to her in episode 10 alongside Sage.
Thank you for voting! That's it for the special render polls for episode 10.
This weekend, a cosmetic poll for Josy will start. Sign up as a +$10 patron to participate.

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 10

This week I wrote and worked on renders for some longer scenes with plenty of characters. Working with many characters always take extra time, and one of the scenes had 150+ renders in it alone which required extra focus. I'm happy with the results, and I created art for shorter scenes after that.

I've also been writing other scenes, continuing to fill the episode shell with the planned content.

PCs are chugging on with the animations without any interruptions. The render queue is still meaty. It's smooth sailing at the moment.

While animations are likely \~50% posed, renders (\~1200 posed) are somewhere between 25-30% complete depending on the final count. Writing is likely near the render percentage; I will focus more on it next week.

I will mainly focus on Isabella's branch early next week. Depending on how well it goes, maybe I'll work on Sage and Others branches too.

I have been working on SFX and music during the last few weeks, here and there. 10 new songs have been added thus far.

Poll news

One week remains in the Special render poll - Unknown girl. Help decide who gets a Special render set in episode 10 here. Sign up as a $10+ patron to participate.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 10

I made art and animations for a longer scene and a lewd scene this week.
After doing that, I saw that my render queues were the biggest I think they have ever been. At the moment, 77 animations are waiting to render. Earlier this week, I even had a couple of hundred static renders in the queue, and they are almost done rendering today.
Thus I decided to focus on writing, which isn't that fun to report on in these weekly updates since I can't say much about it. I have been focusing on writing canon scenes and story for Jill's, Josy's & Maya's, and Others' branches. I have also worked a bit on adding new music.
I will continue to write in the upcoming week, and likely pose more static renders too. I'm approximately 50% done with the lewd scenes of this episode and will likely work on the remaining lewd scenes soon too.

**Poll news**
The cosmetic poll for Isabella ended today, and the winning option that will be featured in episode 10 is option number 4.


Thanks for voting!
Tomorrow, a new poll will start, and it's an anticipated one. It's time to decide who the first unknown girl is in the Rewards app.


Sign up as a $10 patron to participate.

Have a nice weekend!
Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 10

This week I wrote dialogue for several scenes. Lately, I've had a good flow when it comes to writing. I have written long canon scenes and important branching scenes with ease. When glancing over the scenes I haven't written yet for the episode, I'm feeling excited.
When it comes to art, I focused on a couple of lengthier scenes. I also wrote and completely posed the renders and animations for another lewd scene.
For the last few days, I've been writing yet another lewd scene and a large portion of the surrounding bonding moment. I will continue and make the art for it early next week.
Based on what I've planned for the episode regarding lewd content, I'm roughly 45% done with the art posing and writing for them. I don't know how that ties in with the planned total number of animations yet. I know it definitely will be over 200 animations in total. Some of the remaining lewd scenes are shorter and some are longer.
874 static renders have been posed, some of which are in the render queue. 138 animations have been posed (74 completed and 64 waiting to render).

**Q&A**
The Q&A for 2023 is now completed. Here are the links if you missed it:
[Q&A 2023 - Part 1/2](https://www.patreon.com/posts/77669312)
[Q&A 2023 - Part 2/2](https://www.patreon.com/posts/78118223)

**Poll news .**
There is currently an ongoing cosmetic poll for Isabella [here](https://www.patreon.com/posts/77854436). The winning option will be decided by next Friday. Sign up as a DIK tier patron or higher to participate.
Because I've made a good batch of fresh renders this week, I'll post another preview soon. I will continue to work on a scene-by-scene basis, with a mix of writing and creating art, next week.

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

Cosmetic poll for Isabella
Опрос, Бела (28.01.2023)

Status update Episode 10

I started this week by finishing up the new Brawler mini-game. I'm very pleased with the results.
After that, I implemented all mini-games except one in episode 10. There is some work left in this area that I will leave for later on in the development. But it's a huge amount of progress to merge code and art for seven mini-games into episode 10 at this stage.
I continued my week by finishing up animations of a lewd scene. I have posed animations for six complete lewd scenes so far. I also worked on static renders for a couple of other scenes, wrote dialogue, and prepared some characters for scenes I will start posing in the upcoming week.
Now, I will shift focus and work on static renders and writing for a while. The render queue is looking good, with 55 animations waiting to render.62 animations and 622 static renders are completed. We're over 100 posed animations, so that's a milestone for the episode development.

# Poll news

Sage is the Special Render poll winner and will receive a dedicated set in episode 10. This weekend, a cosmetic poll for Isabella will begin. Sign up as a $10 patron to participate.
You can also look forward to a preview and the second part of the Q&A soon.

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 10

I've been coding for the better part of last week, but I also wrote some story and posed art.

Mostly, I've been working on an updated version of Brawler this week, and I need a few more days of work with the remaining art before I am done with it.

It's an ambitious upgrade of this mini-game, which is now taking its third and most likely final form.

Even though it's been remade from scratch, it will feel familiar but improved and expanded upon. I'm very pleased with how it plays.

Here are some screenshots of it.


As you may have noticed, I've been powering on with mini-games lately since I know I have to do a few more for episode 10. I'm trying to get most of it out of the way early, so I can focus on writing and creating art soon.

After Brawler, there's one shorter mini-game and some final work on a scientific mini-game left to do.

I have a healthy animation queue alongside this development. It allows me to focus without being interrupted.

I can also notice how the usual stress I feel about Custom renders being completely gone now that I have removed that tier reward.

I've been able to put an unhealthy amount of hours into coding this week because of this, and I love every second of it.

I will have the first part of the Q&A posted sometime next week. I'm splitting it into two parts, like last year's Q&A.

First, there will be a part about your Being a DIK questions, and after that, a part about game development. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions!

A special render poll is currently ongoing here - where either Maya, Sage, or Isabella will get a set of renders dedicated to them in episode 10. If you want to participate, you have until next Friday.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Figaro879, Ну так, он ведь не (Пи…..бол) с патрона, как большенство других разработчиков. Работает, приносит удовольствие: и бабло иметь: оправданно.

Status update Episode 10

I've been sick for the better part of the week - stupid flu - but I'm almost back to normal now.
I've been writing and working on mini-games during the week, and the PCs are rendering animations as usual.
I have already prepared the backend code for all special renders, 2D art, and gallery. I usually leave this bit until late development, but I wanted to have it done early, making it easy to add collectibles and lewd scenes as I develop the episode.

**Mini-games**
I wanted to talk briefly about mini-games today and likely at another time during this development cycle.With Season 3, I wanted new ones and also to see over the existing ones.
The English mini-game has been fun and challenging, and when I thought about whether I should replace it or not, I decided to keep it. But I have updated the design and functionality for Season 3.


You can now type the words, as I know many of you always have wanted. You also type "cheat" or "quit" for their functionalities, and a simple press of the spacebar will shuffle the letters.
You can type any 6-letter word freely and even use backspace; it feels fast and responsive.
I streamlined the backend code while I was at it to make it easy to add new tests without having to rewrite stuff in the future.
And don't worry; I didn't spoil the actual letters for the episode 10 mini-game with this preview.
On the other hand, the Math class is getting replaced by a new mini-game. I have completed the development of it, and I love what I created.
I don't want to show you the entire thing or spoil the gameplay, but I will tease a subset of it with this image.

On top of these, I have two other completed mini-games, one almost complete mini-game, and two planned ones that I'm working on.

**Walkthrough**
The walkthrough was updated this week, in case you missed it. You can find it
**Q&A**
I have been reading your questions and writing answers to them this week. Given the many questions in the post, I have enough to write the Q&A session. So, if you have more questions, now's the time to enter them. I will remove the post next week and later post my answers for all patrons.

**Polls**
The first poll for Episode 10 will be live this weekend. I figured we start with a bang and do the popular special render poll for the main girls.
Like Josy and Jill got a special render series in Episode 9, this time, it's either Isabella, Maya, or Sage who will receive one in episode 10.
Sign up as a DIK tier ($10) patron or above to participate.

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake

tap04eg, Ну не знаю!! Мне больше нравится когда эпизоды большие! 9 мне безумно понравился: но блин короткий он получился.. хватило на неделю,чтобы всё проиграть, найти бонусы, набить руку, по планирование вечеринки, добавить новых сохранений. Пинк молодец действительно! Ждём, курим, работаем.

Status update Episode 10

Happy New Year!

It's 2023, and time for the first Status update for Episode 10.

I have been focusing on posing and rendering animations. You'll be happy to know that my PCs haven't been idle for a single day since beta testing started in early December.

It's been tricky to keep everything going during release weeks, Christmas and New Year, but I did it. And thus, I've got a nice head start on the animations for episode 10.

I have posed 85 animations, of which 37 are complete.

209 static renders are done, so there is some progress in this area.

I have been writing dialogue and working on the episode layout. My main dialogue files are roughly 5300 lines long. Compared to episode 9, this is roughly 20% of the episode.

I'm still planning the episode, adding events, and creating its structure. I'm aiming for a smaller episode than episode 9, and time will tell if I can do that.

Reaching the 5000 render milestone for a single episode was insane. Episode 9 alone could be compared to the entirety of Acting Lessons. It's been easy to add more and more scenes and renders when the game's cast is this big, and I want the spotlight to shine on as many characters as possible in every episode. But with the Halloween episode done, I can limit myself a bit with this next episode.

I can already tell from the events I've put in the episode layout that plenty of story and lewd scenes are to be had. I have decided on the girls getting lewd scenes in this episode, but I left some wiggle room if I feel something more is needed.

There will be plenty of new mini-games in this episode. I love creating them, and I developed several alongside episode 9 development last year. I have planned a couple of mini-games but have yet to create them. They aren't on the same scale as the party planner mini-game, but I think you will enjoy them even so. I'll likely tease you some of it during development without spoiling too much.

I'm looking forward to this development cycle! Right now, I'm battling a cold. I will rest for a few days and hope it will pass soon.

I'll post a Q&A post where you can submit your questions about development soon.

The walkthrough will be updated soon, too - it's about 95 pages long for Interlude and Episode 9 alone.

You can also look forward to fresh polls for episode 10 in January.

I hope this makes you as excited as I am. Have a nice weekend and a great start to the year!

Dr PinkCake