Меня только одно смущает: Что делала Сейдж в этот момент возле забора Диков, когда ГГ звонил ей ( на что она, сказала что занята, и находиться в другом месте )
Так ведь он знал, ещё когда с ними был. Расти вроде говорил, что код от сейфа, знают только братство! А теперь Только Расти и ГГ! Ник об этом не знал ведь, код как я понял не разу не менялся на момент с Фото.. Ты прав, делать выводы нет смысла! Время покажет.

Being A DIK Season 3 Merry Christmas!





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Post-release update

The release week is over, and it went smoothly, despite some of the bugs that were found. I dare say that this was among the smoothest releases I have experienced.

Thank you all for the overwhelmingly positive response and support. It makes me happy to hear how much you enjoyed the episode. And it feels great to set up the proper start of Season 3.

At the moment, only three lesser bugs have been found since the v0.9.1 release, and unless something bigger shows up, there won't be a v0.9.2 patch. The new bug fixes will be included in the next major version, v0.10.0.

Please, keep reporting bugs and typos if you find them.

There have been many questions regarding the episode 9 walkthrough. I can announce that it will be released in January - after the eligible tiers have access to the update as usual.

What's next for me is a few days off during Christmas and New Year, but other than that, I don't see any interruptions in the game development for the moment.

I am excited to continue the development, and you can look forward to a new development cycle with polls, previews, updates, etc.

In January, there will be the annual Q&A post - yes, it is now an annual event - where you can submit questions about the game development.

Happy Holidays to all of you!

Take care of yourself during the final weeks of 2022, and I'll see you all in January with the first Status update for Episode 10 (I can't believe we're in the double digits with this one).

Love

Dr PinkCake

P.S. 5 lewd scenes already done by DPC

Release date announcement

It is my absolute pleasure to announce the Patreon release dates for:


**Being a DIK - Episode 9: Vixens (v0.9.0)**


* **Huge DIK ($25+) tiers: Friday, December 16th**
* DIK ($10+) tiers: Monday, December 19th
* Mini DIK ($5) tier: Friday, December 30th (Patch only, needs Season 3 base game to play)

Beta testers are currently testing the new version and are working hard to ensure that the release is a smooth experience for every player. And my proofreader is combatting typos in the episode.

There will be a patch with a file size of \~4.95 GB.

And there will be a full version, including the Interlude, with a file size of \~7.26 GB.

If you don't know how to patch your game, I recommend downloading the full version.

There will be clear instructions in the .zip file telling you how to patch your game.

Due to this highly anticipated release, my time to aid with installations and issues will be extremely limited.

Please, join my Discord server to get faster help with any problems during the release.

**Make sure you treat Season 3 as a stand-alone game and don't merge it with Season 1 or Season 2 data.**

Merging the game with Seasons 1 and 2 will corrupt both games.

I will not assist with errors and re-downloads due to faulty patching.

So, please make backup copies of your games before you attempt to patch them.

This is the preliminary changelog for v0.9.0.

**Changelog v0.9.0**
Added Episode 9, which includes:


* **5036** renders
* **303** animations
* 12 2D-art pieces
* 5 2D-art animations
* 30 songs
* 13 sound effects
* Fixed an issue where the setting to only show the close button in the rewards app when hovering caused a traceback error.
* Corrected typos
* Added Rollback Side option to Dialogue tab in Preferences.
* Removed 6 songs due to a band's wishes. Favorite lists are reset as a result.
* Overhauled the main menu music player

Let the countdown begin.

Love

Dr PinkCake

Happy Holidays DIKs!

Upcoming tier changes - 2023

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 is in this post; 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

Status update

There are 19 animations left in the queue. 5 of the remaining animations are more demanding than the rest.

The overall speed feels good. At this rate, **beta testing can start in early December**, usually lasting for a couple of weeks.

**Mid to late December is looking good for a release, but nothing is set in stone until beta testing and proofreading start**.If you want to see a teaser from episode 9,

you can download the attachment of this post.It's nothing too spoilery, and I believe it should give you some excitement for what's to come.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 9

The animation queue is down to 28 animations, and the speed feels the same as last week. My estimation from the previous status update still stands.

Animations between 4-13 seconds have been rendered to completion this week. The remaining animations range between 3-8 seconds. Seven of those animations require approximately 50% more render time than the rest.

I'm focusing on playtesting and polishing, and there is no point in listing everything I'm working on since it's in all areas of the episode.

I find things to fix with every playthrough, be it renders, dialogue, code, GUI, sound/music, etc. The episode quality is improved with every pass I make.

Due to intricate branching, I have yet to see everything I created for the episode, but I'm working my way through everything methodically.

Since I'm aiming for a December release, starting next month, the Mini DIK ($5 tier) won't have the Season 3 base game for the Interlude, and it will be moved to the DIK tier ($10), as mentioned in the past.

Like in the past, the Mini DIK tier will get the patches to upgrade the Interlude to v0.9.0 two weeks after release.

A refresher for all new patrons since the last release is that my release schedule always looks like this:

* Early access (as soon as possible), Huge DIK ($25) tier
* 3 days after early access, DIK ($10) tier
* 2 weeks after the early access, Mini DIK ($5) tier (Patch only. You need the base Season 3 game to upgrade, in this case, the Interlude).

The actual dates will be announced when beta testing starts.

And since I've gotten plenty of DMs about it, the walkthrough is released between releases and after each episode, usually within 1-2 months after release, but never during the release weeks, as I'm preoccupied with community work during that time.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

DPC about the update Time

Every episode progresses the story further. This isn't an open-ended project where content gets slapped on to extend its duration. I'm working toward the end of my pre-planned story, and I do it in big chunks. Every episode is mapped out in advance, I already know the big events of every remaining episode in the game, so they can't be made smaller. One way to make smaller updates would be to split an episode into more updates, but here are the problems with that:

1. More updates mean less content over time; as I have to do more release and after-release work, I get less time for content creation.
2. This would require me to work in chronological order with every episode, which I never do. Releasing the first part before the second or third part would limit my creativity, as everything that is released is set in stone. If I wanted to go back and put in more details or flesh out earlier parts of the episode, I couldn't because it would be released. I would miss out on viewing the episode as a whole, instead of working on smaller parts of this whole - sacrificing the overall quality per episode.
3. The amount of content would be different depending on the branch you'd play; resulting in i.e., that a Sage player would get less content than a Jill player or similar due to branching content.
4. The code isn't structured in a way that allows this, and more game-breaking bugs and unloadable saves would happen, causing more stress for me and frustration for you.

Packaging the updates into a singular, well-thought-out big episode is the concept I've done since episode 1 and will continue to do for the game's duration. Yes, the size has grown with each episode so far, and Halloween is one of the top 3 episodes I have wanted to create for this game since the beginning, so it was extra hard for me to limit my creativity with this one (which you will see come release).

Based on my answer, the question I would like to ask you to reflect on in return is the following:

Do you think it's worth cutting planned content from the game altogether to bring an update faster, i.e. cutting out content for side girls, removing a lot of lewd scenes and romantic interactions, skipping side stories, and just keeping canon story and main girls' stories?

If your answer to this question is yes, we don't share the same mindset.

It's frustrating to wait, but one day, this game will be done, and I won't return to it. I may not even continue developing games after this game; I can't know that for sure; but I'm committed to seeing this one through. When it's complete, I want to know that I did EVERYTHING I planned to do and did it in the way I wanted. If I look back at this game thinking, "players made me rush this game", I would hate myself for letting me get affected, and I would hate the game.

I hope episodes 10-12 are smaller than episode 9, without sacrificing content, and I constantly try to work smarter. But I won't be releasing at a much faster schedule than this. If this bothers you, my recommendation would be to stop supporting me and the game between releases or even altogether. I'd hate to receive donations from patrons who aren't satisfied, and I've always favored transparency and honesty. I will still work on this project even if I have zero patrons. This game is my passion.

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Status update

This week I completed the checklist from last week.

I've added songs and sound effects, fixed GUIs and code, and playtested several branches. I've also processed my dialogue for grammar/typos, parsing 350 pages.

I only have polishing and playtesting left while the remaining animation queue renders. When I polish, I add renders here and there and modify scenes/content/writing/coding to improve everything. As a result, there are currently over 4900 renders for Episode 9.

Comparing the size of the development folders for Episode Interlude (2.51 GB) and Episode 9 (6.78 GB), there is an increase of roughly 4.27 GB for Episode 9 alone. I estimate an additional 100-200 MB size increase for the remaining animations.

The content of the interlude and episode 9 surpass the entire Season 1 of Being a DIK (\~6.2 GB), which is reflected in the increased development times that I know everyone is feeling. I have also significantly increased the render quality of both static renders and animations for episode 9, as you can see from the previews I posted; this impacted render times.

267 animations are completed. The render queue has 36 animations of varied lengths left to render.

I've estimated the remaining render time to be between 4-5 weeks. It will hopefully be faster since one of the remaining lewd scenes is slightly more demanding than the rest of the animations.

I'll keep you updated on this progress weekly until it's done.

I have alerted my testers and proofreader, and they will start work as soon as the animations are completed.

I aim for a December release, but please stay tuned for the actual release date. I will announce it on Patreon/Discord/Twitter after beta testing has started.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Не согласен с базой, ниже!
ГГ, сначала выглядит слабым на характер, быстро сдался после розыгрыша в первом эпизоде! Потом изменился +! Может дать по е…лу +! Язык подтянут, на развод+! Увереный, не эгоист, готов помочь девчонкам +! Может выслушать, развеселить, уважает девушек, не относиться как к мясу! Качества лидерства имеет, пробует новые вещи: с его прошлым, когда был изгоем, это +! Из неопытного подростка превращается в мужика с каждым новым эпизодам! Делает выбор сам +!
Майя - Девчонка, добрая! Решает проблему свою сама, есть собственный план: который рухнул. Доверчивая, довольна умна, просит помощи когда не справляется! Даже здесь можно выбрать помочь ей или нет.
Джози - Стремиться к своей мечте, хочет получит то за чем приехала в колледж! Трудно разобраться в себе: ГГ предпочитает больше чем Майю! Отзывчивая, осторожная: не лицемерная! Может дать по яйцам.
Джилл: Воспитанная, не опытная в отношениях, не знает что делать! Может показать клыки! Очень добрая и наивная! Есть и другая сторона: пример с Тибальтом. Заботливая, не равнодушная: много чего боится. Росла в напряжённой семье, где требуют от неё вложенных надежд! Выглядит, соответсвует себя так, как её воспитывали! Имя Семьи Ройс. Уверен все изменится, благодаря ГГ.
Белладонна: Загадка, раскрывается медленно, без юмора, умная, готова помочь, честна в многих отношениях, боится давать шанс, и иди по желаемому чувству. Прекрасна как человек.
Сейдж: Чувствительная, быстро заводящая, любит контролировать ситуацию: отходит медленно как нормальная девушка! Ищет выход в новых отношениях! Старается быть самостоятельной, ставит свои интересы для пользы сообщества HOT и других! Не замечает подвохи, не глупая ставит учёбу в приоритет.
Квинн, Не ШЛЮХА, трахаеться только с ГГ (Сейдж) любит кайфовать, быть лидерам, и управлять людьми! Имеет свой бизнес, зарабатывать. Довольно хорошое качество! Лжёт ГГ, можно понять её! Первый раз испытывает новые чувства, меняется медленно но в интересном направление.
Итог: все девушки данной игры прописаны идеально, все живые по настоящему, у каждой своя индивидуальность и свой образ.
ГГ прописан тоже хорошо, особенно как мы его начинаем создавать. Из тихого, не знающего, без опытны, парня: создаются свой уникальный ГГ

Where it all began - Chapter 2 Release Date

🔥Where it All Began - Chapter 2: Release Tomorrow

💬 - Ocean:
"Hi.

The beta for Chapter 2 will be released tomorrow (October 31). The game is in testers right now, and I've already tested the game myself over the last three or four days.

The last 18 hours have been spent on the gallery.

Compared to Chapter 1, Chapter 2 has twice as many renders.

See you tomorrow."