I have some important information regarding the future of the Patreon version of Being a DIK.
The best way to go forward with the game is by uploading patches as well as a full game, including all episodes. The old idea of keeping multiple binaries on Patreon will make my workload much bigger since it makes it too different from how the Steam version is being handled.
Patches are still small files and they will enable faster download of new content, which was problem I wanted to s...
2020-02-22 12:18:43 +0000 UTC
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The last two weeks have been about Steam, community management and making patches for the game to fix bugs. It's taken a lot of time, but it finally feels like I've reached a stable state for it and I'm back to developing episode 5.
During these weeks, animations have been rendering on my PCs. I had an issue with a PSU that got blown, but it was fixed in a day's work.
Often when I develop new episodes, I start with writing and posing static renders alongside animations. This updat...
2020-02-21 10:13:52 +0000 UTC
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In the previous polls, Riona won the special render poll for episode 5.
This is the first preview of her series.
2020-02-20 09:45:51 +0000 UTC
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This is a survey for all patrons who support me.
I've been thinking about ways I can add value to the game and something that I can outsource (get help with from an external artist) and add to the game is 2D art.
What I'm asking you in this survey is if you're interested in seeing this kind of art in Being a DIK?
At the moment, you can think of the 2D art as a gallery item, in...
2020-02-17 11:25:39 +0000 UTC
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Game development
What do you use for character modeling and rendering?
The tools I use for game development are DAZ3D for all modeling/rendering, Photoshop/After effects and ffmpeg for post-processing.
Any chance we will ever see a girl with pierced nipples or is it too complicated?
Nipple piercings in animations are complicated, but I must admit I haven't tried it in a long time. I remember giving Rena a nipple piercing, but it was ...
2020-02-16 09:19:31 +0000 UTC
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I'm happy to announce that, after almost 1.5 years of development, the first season of Being a DIK is now live on Steam! If you're interested, get it here.
As you know, I have big plans for this game in the future and what's available today is the lengthy start of a long adventure.
It...
2020-02-14 07:45:56 +0000 UTC
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It's been roughly one year since my last Q&A post, so it's about time to have another one of these.
Ask your questions in the comment section below.
You can ask me about my games, game development, patreon, steam and anything you wish to know.
For Being a DIK, I will keep my answers spoiler-free.
For Acting Lessons, there may be spoilers, for those of you who haven't played it yet.
After 1-2 weeks I will answer the ones I can. If ...
2020-02-07 16:36:15 +0000 UTC
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Time to decide the side girl who gets featured in the special renders of Episode 5.
Camila won the polls for Episode 4 and can't win this time.
Your vote is worth 4 votes in this poll.
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$10 poll
2020-02-07 08:29:10 +0000 UTC
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Time to decide the side girl who gets featured in the special renders of Episode 5.
Camila won the polls for Episode 4 and can't win this time.
Your vote is worth 4 votes in this poll.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
$10 poll
2020-02-07 08:29:09 +0000 UTC
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Time to decide the side girl who gets featured in the special renders of Episode 5.
Camila won the polls for Episode 4 and can't win this time.
Your vote is worth 2 votes in this poll.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
$10 poll
2020-02-07 08:29:07 +0000 UTC
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Time to decide the side girl who gets featured in the special renders of Episode 5.
Camila won the polls for Episode 4 and can't win this time.
Your vote is worth 1 vote in this poll.
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$15 poll
2020-02-07 08:29:06 +0000 UTC
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Ok, it's time for a proper status update to bring you guys up to speed.
Steam news
In one week, Being a DIK: Season 1 launches on Steam. I'm in the middle of preparing the final touches to the public build.
The price of the Steam version will be $13.99. The first week of sale there will be a 10% discount and if you want to pick up Acting Lessons at the same time, there will be a bundle with a 5% discount.
I've worked on making the walkthrough available as DLC content...
2020-02-07 08:05:16 +0000 UTC
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This week, +$30 patrons voted on outfits for Cathy and Camila. These four options won the poll.
Now it's time to decide the winners in this poll. The winning outfits for Cathy and Camila will appear in episode 5.
Your vote in this poll is worth 4 votes.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
$10 poll
2020-02-02 08:37:12 +0000 UTC
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This week, +$30 patrons voted on outfits for Cathy and Camila. These four options won the poll.
Now it's time to decide the winners in this poll. The winning outfits for Cathy and Camila will appear in episode 5.
Your vote in this poll is worth 4 votes.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
$10 poll
2020-02-02 08:37:11 +0000 UTC
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This week, +$30 patrons voted on outfits for Cathy and Camila. These four options won the poll.
Now it's time to decide the winners in this poll. The winning outfits for Cathy and Camila will appear in episode 5.
Your vote in this poll is worth 2 votes.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
$10 poll
2020-02-02 08:37:08 +0000 UTC
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This week, +$30 patrons voted on outfits for Cathy and Camila. These four options won the poll.
Now it's time to decide the winners in this poll. The winning outfits for Cathy and Camila will appear in episode 5.
Your vote in this poll is worth 1 vote.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
$15 poll...
2020-02-02 08:37:06 +0000 UTC
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This poll is used to filter out options for a final poll open for +$10 patrons.
Vote on one of the options that you want to see in Episode 5.
The 2 options for Cathy and the 2 options for Camila with the highest number of votes will progress to the final poll.
This poll ends next Friday.
Cathy
Camila
2020-01-24 13:29:58 +0000 UTC
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This update is meant to communicate what I've been working on since release and what I will do for the next couple of weeks.
First off, thanks a lot to the Patreon & Discord community for reporting bugs and sending me feedback; it's been really helpful.
Season 1 is now available to the +$5 tiers until February 7. After February 7, Season 1 will be available in the $10 tier, due to the Steam release.
Speaking of the Steam release, I've been busy work...
2020-01-24 09:45:52 +0000 UTC
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I hope those of you who got the chance to play the latest update enjoyed it!
I'm terribly sorry about the issues with google drive during the release day.
There was so much download activity on my links that Google froze all my file sharing for one day.
I really wanted to use MEGA only for this, but the file size didn't make this possible.
I did acquire a mediafire account that I will use for uploads in the future, too.
Next release will be below 4GB in size, whi...
2020-01-15 15:28:29 +0000 UTC
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After working hard on the Steam build for Being a DIK: Season 1, I can now announce that the release date on Steam will be Valentine's day, February 14th, for PC and Linux systems.
Go to Steam
Sadly, I have some bad news I must communicate. I had to remove macOS suppo...
2020-01-07 10:03:23 +0000 UTC
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Beta testing and proof reading are ongoing.
The Patreon release dates of Being a DIK: Season 1 will be:
+$25 tiers: January 10
+$10 tiers: January 13
+$5 tiers: January 24
The release date for the Steam version hasn't been set, yet.
I've been working on it and testing DLC builds for the future seasons.
When the Steam version is released, Being a DIK: Season 1 will be available in...
2019-12-30 11:14:09 +0000 UTC
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Phew!
All renders are posed and almost fully produced. I'm polishing the game and playtesting it a lot.
Unless I need to add or remove a few renders, episode 4 will contain:
2528 renders
134 animations
21 new songs
14 new sound effects
The binary will be approximately 6.2-6.3 GB.
The winner of last week's poll was "Maya & Quinn: Mother-daughter time". This special render series will be ...
2019-12-20 10:40:29 +0000 UTC
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The winning series from last week's poll.
2019-12-19 20:29:36 +0000 UTC
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Current versions:
Being a DIK - The complete official guide - Season 1 - Ep 1-4 - v1.0.0
Being a DIK - The complete official guide - Season 2 - Ep 5-8 - v1.0.1
Being a DIK - The complete official guide - Season 3 - Interlude + Ep 9-11 - v0.4.0
The guides will be updated after and between episodes. You can report bugs/typos by commenting on this post or via my Discord server. I don't have time...
2019-12-14 09:12:35 +0000 UTC
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Update news
This week I pushed hard with coding and posing renders.
I'm working on the final free-roam and the events for it. I have ~100-200 more renders left to pose, if everything goes well I will be done with that next week.
Animations are rendering and the queue is decreasing.
I estimate the remaining render time to be ~1.5-2 weeks. This gives me time to polish the game and make sure that I didn't forget to add anything.
I wanted to make thi...
2019-12-13 13:15:57 +0000 UTC
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2019-12-12 13:06:55 +0000 UTC
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There's going to be one more Special renders series for Episode 4 and that's what you're voting on in this poll.
It's going to be a mixed girl on girl special render series.
Vote for the option that sounds most interesting to you. I will only do one of the series (~8 special renders).
The poll ends on Saturday.
Your vote is worth 4 votes in this poll.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
2019-12-10 18:59:16 +0000 UTC
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There's going to be one more Special renders series for Episode 4 and that's what you're voting on in this poll.
It's going to be a mixed girl on girl special render series.
Vote for the option that sounds most interesting to you. I will only do one of the series (~8 special renders).
The poll ends on Saturday.
Your vote is worth 4 votes in this poll.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
2019-12-10 18:59:14 +0000 UTC
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There's going to be one more Special renders series for Episode 4 and that's what you're voting on in this poll.
It's going to be a mixed girl on girl special render series.
Vote for the option that sounds most interesting to you. I will only do one of the series (~8 special renders).
The poll ends on Saturday.
Your vote is worth 2 votes in this poll.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
2019-12-10 18:59:13 +0000 UTC
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There's going to be one more Special renders series for Episode 4 and that's what you're voting on in this poll.
It's going to be a mixed girl on girl special render series.
Vote for the option that sounds most interesting to you. I will only do one of the series (~8 special renders).
The poll ends on Saturday.
Your vote is worth 1 vote in this poll.
Vote in all polls you're eligible for:
2019-12-10 18:59:11 +0000 UTC
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