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 here.
Q&A
I also posted a Q&A post where you can submit your questions.
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.
Update: Post is removed, thanks for submitting your questions.
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
Comments (31)
You are a great human being. Never forget it. You have influenced my life in a major way, and I love you for it.
Alright! Back to school we go. Thanks for updating the guides.
This game has been like playing a good tv show, but i get to choose what happens, iv been playing way more than i expected to when i originally purchased the game, just to explore all the different paths and outcomes. episode 9 was awesome. i hope you get to feeling better.
This game has a more gripping story than most mainstream games out there lol. Just want to say thanks, I've played 20+ hours of the game and find myself coming back all the time. I am a Sally simp and her growing presence in the narrative is exciting. <3
Episode 9 was phenomenal, can’t wait to see what is in store for episode 10. Lily has quickly become my favorite over the last 2 episodes.
Really? I have more red lights with her than I do Quinn! Quinn is damaged but wants love and is trying to protect herself. Lily seems to know exactly what she wants and girls I’ve known like her tend to mean it. If it were realistic the irony is that the MC needs to not care about wanting her in order to have a chance. The moment MC is obtainable emotionally she’s out.
Get well soon, love the new content.
Hope you recover quickly. I got COVID the week of the episode 9 release and felt my worst the Friday it dropped and that weekend. Thankfully I was pretty much over it after about 5 days and one of the first things I did upon recovery was dive into episode 9. Thanks for the change to the English minigame. I enjoy that kind of game in general, so this just makes it total fun with no interface frustration getting in the way. All the best to you!
Glad you are on the mend. Thanks for the update. Also, as someone else that is doing another full playthrough I was just thinking about how nice it would be to type out the words when I was doing those tests and now it will be so in future installments. Thanks for that.
Take care doc
Is there any way to turn off mini-games ?
start a new game
I would like the fighting mini game to be kind of like the tennis mini game that would be great!
No. Although it would be cool if we could get upgrades to say disarm opponents, or some other advanced fighting mechanisms.
As someone who had quite some fun with the English mini-game, thank you for keeping it.
Nice one DPC
Ok, first I am glad to hear that you are doing better! and I have to tell you how happy I am with the addition of the new typing mechanism in the English class tests! i was playing the game the other day and miss pressed with the mouse letters so many times, that I thought to myself "how cool would that be if I could just type it in" and there you have it, adding it into the game and letting us know haha, your brain and mine are vibing! XD so thank you for that! ,(p.s just make sure that when we type the words in, a word like "cheat" isn't one of the words in the test haha we wouldn't want to activate it by mistake right? haha). I did like the meth tests though some of them were sometimes hard without a cheat *wink* haha so its awesome to hear you are adding something new! in general it is awesome to read the update! keep up the amazing work! have a great weekend DPC!!
The new math mini game doesn't appear at first glance to be very "mathy". I guess we will see how it rolls in ep 10.
Guessing it could be for the Science Class that sounds ahead for MC...perhaps with Nora as the teacher...
I appreciate the change to the English test and the Math test looks interesting. Happy to hear you're feeling better - nice that you can at least have the rendering running even when your feeling poorly.
Glad to hear youre getting better! Awesome stuff as always Take care Doc!
thanks for the letter Pink and get well soon
Hopefully you feel better
Thanks for the update Doc and a good recovery 💪
Looks cool DPC...hope you are on the mend, thanks again for all you do to make Being A DIK so damn awesome....
We're going to be able to type the words in the English tests, yes, I cannot express how happy that makes me. Thank you!
So you have been at it, while having the flu? That's dedication! Just remember to take care of yourself! Looking forward to the Q&A post
Press F to pay respect to the Math mini game
You're a machine Doc. Thanks for the update. Feel better soon, and you have a good weekend as well.
Have a nice weekend as well, does patreon have issuse with discord? im on the server but i cant see any channel
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