Status update Episode Interlude
It's the final post of 2021! I hope you've had a great time over the holiday.
I've been working on animations, sounds, and music this week.
I've been making longer animations in general for the episode and a higher ratio of SFW (safe for work) animations than I normally do. I really enjoy it!
So far, I have added 18 new songs to the interlude. I might need a few more before I'm done with that.
2022 is soon here, and the year will start big-time.
It's finally time for DIKs on Steam and GOG platforms to continue their adventures! Season 2 will release worldwide (at least everywhere I'm not banned) on January 6, 12:00 AM CET.
I will focus on final preparations for Steam and GOG releases in the upcoming week. Hopefully, the release will be smooth sailing so that game development can continue at full capacity after that.
Something else to look forward to is the patron milestone reward. The patron milestone poll ended today, and bundle number 2 came out on top. I will create every submission in this bundle and post them on Patreon for every patron, starting in January.
Also, in January, I will post another Q&A submissions post where you can ask me anything related to the game and the game development. As usual, it will be a spoiler-free Q&A, and I will answer as many of your questions as possible.
It's almost been a year since the last Q&A and making it an annual activity feels right. Some answers might have changed with time, and I might feel different about some responses today, so repeat questions are welcomed.
Soon, we'll leave 2021 behind, and I, for one, can't wait. 2021 was a year of very mixed emotions for me. But on the positive side of things, I reached some huge milestones this year.
2021 was the year when Season 2 was fully developed.
It was the year when GOG handpicked Acting Lessons and Being a DIK to their selection of games.
And it was the year when 18343 of you guys supported me at once. This is close to double the number of patrons at the end of 2020 (9288 patrons).
I still remember celebrating hitting 1000 patrons and how big that was for me. I would never have been able to imagine this.
Happy new year, DIKs! Thank you for all your support!
I hope that 2022 is better than recent years, in all ways imaginable for all of us.
I look forward to bringing you the start to Season 3 and another year of game development!
Love
Dr PinkCake
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Perhaps the script changed in an incompatible way?") Exception: Couldn't find a place to stop rolling back. Perhaps the script changed in an incompatible way? Darwin-20.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Ren'Py 7.4.10.2178 Being a DIK 0.8.2 Mon Jan 3 09:23:36 2022 [/code]
Happy New Year DPC. I hope you took some time to relax over the holidays. Can't wait to see what 2022 brings to the DIKs.
I'm really looking forward to Dorian's render. DPC, question, since Season 3 is a new binary, are the music tracks going to reset or be carried over? I'm a metal/hard rock guy, but I have to admit, there are some damn good tracks that have really grown on me.
Dr Pink, when u have time pls, contact me in PM, i got some problems sadly with the membership billing...
Happy New Year doc and frens
Been waiting to play S02 till it hits Steam, gonna be awesome!
You're in for a treat, season 2 is fantastic.
Of course I'm not showing off, but I would like to see the main character visit his mother's grave, in my opinion it would be nice and would help to dive into this story a little deeper
and have the option of taking one of the MG's there
Happy New Year Doc
Happy new year everybody (but corona can still s*ck it).
Happy new year Dr. PinkCale thank you for an awesome 2021 year!! 🎉🎉🎆🎇🎆🧨
Всех поздравляю с новым годом! А ДрПинкКейк я желаю в первую очередь здоровья, а что не менее важное, вдохновения. Что бы и дальше радовать нас своими замечательными играми. Желаю что бы следующий год также дал вам больше покровителей
Happy new year everybody! I'm very excited for what 2022 is gonna bring for us DIKs.
Happy DIK year!
Haha this was an awesome update, happy new year doc!!
Planning on any special render to welcome the game going on GOG and season 2 going on Steam?
Thanks for the amazing game and Happy New Year!
Happy NEw Year and Congratulation of this massive success. I will be honest. This is actually my overall GOTY for me because I was surprised how much quality and overall polish this game has given it is "just" a Porn game. Even the writing of these chracters is often much better than any AAA Title that has been coming out in the last year except with maybe Judgement Lost Souls. I am really glad I found this gem this year. And I will happliy support this game for the year onwards.
Awww so sweet 🤗🤗
Happy new year! Looking forward to all the new content you will create 2022 ;) I would wish for a path-guiding document, as of now paths are coming more and more important, it would be neat to have an appendix to the walk trough, what you need as prequesit for each path. :) Cheers and all the best
Happy New Year! Well, no Lily at all
Happy New Year Doc! 2021 Was one of the worst years for me but your AMAZING job in Being A DIK help me a lot to clear my mind from all the bad things and pass a good time playing. I really hope this next year improve and it does automatically when yo know interlude and season 3 are coming.🧡 So Much Love Thanks For All Doc 🖤
I speak for everyone when I say that we're thrilled to see everything you've planned for us in 2022) Happy New Year, DrPinkCake) P. S. As someone who joined this year, I want to thank you for showing me what a truly great story is. Best wishes)
Happy new year everyone :)
Happy new year to you ! I’ve been il a Rollercoaster emotional ride because of you. And i’m thankfull for that !
happy new year doc cant wait for season 3
Nooooooo... DPC, create a extra custom render with Heather. Happy new year guys!
Happy New Year DPC, I can’t wait for nexts updates, I joined your patreon this year after finding Acting Lessons and that game completely changed my perception of a VN and I’m glad, i will follow your work until you say enough, YOU ARE THE BEST DPC, see you next year!!!!
Honestly your writing is absolutely amazing i don't know how you do it but all of your characters act and feel real and are grounded and logical you treat your ladies like real people instead of meat for player's eyes which is awesome. You convey emotions so well not only through dialogue but sometimes purely through your art in their facial expressions and body language without the need to hold the player's hand or tell them outright how people are feeling. You would think this being a AVN i would be more into the nudity but i am so looking forward to more romantic and cute moments to come so i am really excited to hear about more SFW moments to come in the interlude :)
You also happy new year.
Happy New Year Dr. We always supports you.
Can't wait for season 3 you're doing à great job !
Happy new year Doc, and happy new year all my fellow DIK brothers ❤️
Awesome job on BaDiK I eagerly await the next installment and happy new year to you and all the fans
We love you DPC!