Status update Episode 12
While not at full speed, I've been cooking things since episode 11 was wrapped up. Today, I will share the progress that has been made since then and bring you up to speed on the development.
As you know, episode 12 is the final episode of Season 3. After it is completed, I will work on bringing Season 3 to Steam and GOG. During this development cycle, I will work on tasks related to the Steam/GOG release. I have already coded the Steam Season 3 achievements and created all the art for the icons. I may decide to add some more achievements later, and at the moment, there are 45 of them.
Season 4 will be the last season of the game, and it will be a standalone executable. This means that you will export saves from Season 3 and import them in Season 4, which should feel familiar to you by now. As this is important to get right, I started working on the export/import functionality a few weeks ago and brought it up to speed with episode 11. Every new variable that I create in episode 12 will be added to the export functionality later during development. It was a lot of code to write and manage, but most of the heavy lifting was done. I will have to do thorough testing of this later to make sure it works as intended.
To keep PCs up and running, I focused on episode 12 animations and lewd scenes immediately after episode 11 was fully rendered. I have had zero downtime when it comes to rendering. 57 animations have already been rendered, and I have 17 animations in the queue.
Lately, I have been planning the episode in greater detail, mapping it out, and trying to limit it. And I have also been writing a lot. Compared to episode 11, I've written roughly 26%.
In the near future, I will focus on writing and planning and pose more animations to build a bigger queue. Static render work will have to wait for a while.
Also, I have already added the mini-game code I need for episode 12 and updated what needed to be updated for most mini-games. I have some work left with Brawler and Party Planning that I'll see to at a later point in development.
I have written the code for all special renders in the Rewards app. The 2D art assets and the code are all in place, and the same goes for the Mixed renders needed for Pack Quest and similar. There will be two more special render sets in episode 12. Isabella is the last main girl to receive hers in episode 12, and patrons will decide the other Unknown slot in the Rewards app in a poll. I'm not going to talk too much about the rewards in Season 4 at this point, but it could be worth mentioning that this Special render poll might be the last poll of its kind for Being a DIK.
I'm still deciding which polls to use for episode 12. I'll let you know when I've made my decision.
Have a great weekend.
Dr PinkCake
Comments (46)
Haha! After several playthroughs, I now know what happened to Anthony's ear! Very cool DPC... and so easy to overlook. Laughed my ass off. :-D
I was actually wondering this recently! Can you tell me what happened? or if you don't want to spoil it tell me which episode/scene it is?
great work doc
can you change the math test back to the OLD is to damn hard :(
I honestly didn't even try to pass on some of my different branch playthroughs. The puzzles are fun but I sometimes don't feel like thinking that much and just end up getting like a 60% lol
Thanks doc!
I know that there was a post on Steam a few months ago to reassure the people on that side that the game is still going on, but there was no official "Episode 11 is complete" post with the estimated percentage of the season that is done.
Awesome stuff DR PInk. And as hard as it to hear that season 4 is it, it has to be harder on Dr PInk because he's closer with all of the charecters then any of us ever will be, putting that much time into something and know your coming to the end has to be brutal but rewarding. Everyone just enjoy the ride and don't wish for it to go faster then it needs to, savor the feeling because it doesn't come often.
reading the word "last" never hurt more 😥
Same here :-/. Luckily, the game is worth multiple play through. It would be nice, if there would only one executional and a profile management. ^^
I think it's safe to say that we will all miss this story when it wraps up fully. Hell, I started with Season 2 because I'd just seen it so much in Steam that I finally caved. This story's been with us a long time now. But there's a certain satisfaction and anticipation in knowing we'll see a wrap-up to this story. And... hopefully... to see the next that DPC graces us with when the muse strikes again.
Its sad to hear season 4 would be the last one but it also made happy knowing the ending is on the horizon and I hope that I'll be here to witness the grand finale of one of my favorite VN games of all time. Good luck Doc and stay healthy man.
Looks good but curious as to why is the game being split again is it for reasons of distribution limitations for Renpy. I mean really does not matter to me. But also, will there be a version 1 after everything is finished either as one launcher or multiple again just curious. Either way great game regardless looking forward to the next chapter.
I think it's the Ren'py engine just can't handle it at this point.
Awesome thanks for update
After having a suboptimal result in my Sage playthrough in Episode 11 (I swear I didn't know she is was your Mom Jade... and I wish I hadn't shared that video...) I have started a clean Sage run. It's been a reminder of just how big and how good the game is. Thanks for all your ongoing hard work Doc.
I didn't run into that too much, because I had moved to trying to be "exclusive" in many runs for Sage, Jill, Bella, and J/M(also trying to line things up in case J/M do break up and getting to pick which one to stay with). My others playthrough is where I saw a bunch of, "whoops" moments where I regretted more than just one choice.
Thanks for this update !!
"Here we go 🎉! The first status update of EP12 🙌🏻!" Thanks for the fantastic read! Still hoping you'll take a month off for some R&R. You earned it 😁! Looking forward to those Special Render Sets 😋! Bella is #1 BAE 😍!!! With Sage & Lily close 2nd and 3rd 🥰!!! The HYPE never goes away, Doc 😅!!! Always there 🔥!!! Hope everyone continues to have an amazing and awesome week! Catch you all—ON the next one ✌🏻😉!
You are the GOAT!
Awesome! Thank you for the update, Doc!
*applause*
Wow pretty good start 👍 gl with development
Thanks for the news Doc! Have a great weekend. 😉
Thanks for the update. Have a great weekend!
Sounds great Doc! Happy to hear that your PCs are working harder than you. If it was the other way round, I would really be worried xD Joke aside, really impressive and I am looking forward to the first preview (I get it... it will take some time).
Thanks Doc! Will the import page from season 3 to season 4 be only one page just like it was going from Season 2 to season three or will there be more pages for multiple routes and branching?
Once you've imported and got a save in the new exe, you can just delete previous import.
Good stuff DPC. Enjoy your weekend.
Thanks for the update.👍😊
Just don't burn yourself out Doc! Any idea how many episodes you plan for Season 4 to end up being?
Thank you for the update! As we are getting close to the final season of BAD, I have to ask. Have you started thinking about you next game? Or you are not there yet? Some devs have ideas floating in the heads for years. lol
Do you already know, what you are doing in 5+ years from now? ;-)
thanks for the update DPC. And thanks again for the birthday effords. I really appreaciated it
Well, here we go again. Excited as always even with the realization that we'll be here for 12+ months. Thanks a lot
*if this is answered in the Q&A you can ignore me. I haven't had the time to read it yet 🤣 Do you plan to release the game with all 4 seasons fully integrated without exporting and importing stuff after finishing ?
The exporting is due to a limitation with the engine so not much he can do unfortunately
Thank you for the update date.
Thanks for all hard work doc! Can’t wait to see what is going to happen next!
Hello Doc, as I can read, you are back at full throttle on the next episode. Even though I welcome this on one side, I would like to ask you to take things a little more slowly and take it easy for a while. You've just published an incredibly large (and at the same time brilliant) episode. Please take it easier on yourself and maybe take a few more days off. Otherwise, thanks for the great and detailed DevLog. I wish you and everyone else a great weekend and stay healthy.
Insane to think the end is in the horizon now. Have a great weekend Doc!
I’m suffering already knowing episode 4 is the last one 😅
Wow Doc, its really impressive that you already made so much for the next episode, I thought you will take at least some break and not go 200% in effort, i think everybody is appreciative of your efforts hope everything goes well
Sounds great, hype!
Even though it’ll be some time into the future, I can’t believe it’s time for an Episode 12 update!!! 😍
Episode 12, let’s go!!! 😎