Status update Episode 5 (Patreon)
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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 update, it's been pretty much all about animations, so far, since I knew I had to work with Steam a lot.
As a result, 72 animations are complete and I have a healthy queue with 23 animations waiting to render.
I've finished the content for Rooster and Swyper for episode 5 and I will continue with posing statics and writing dialogue in the upcoming weeks.
Regarding the Steam release, there are some bad news for germans.
For a, to me, unknown reason several adult games are getting banned on Steam in Germany. I haven't gotten any explanation or information on this from Valve, yet, but it looks like that's it for Germany when it comes to my games on Steam.
If you're a german and you already bought the game on Steam, you will likely not be able to get the future DLC, meaning that Patreon is the only option for you if you want to continue playing Being a DIK.
I obviously wish I could change this, but I'm a nobody when it comes to laws and bans on Steam. I can only express how sorry I am for that this happened and pray that the ban gets reversed.
Tomorrow I'm releasing a patch on Patreon, that will synchronize the bug fixes I did on the Steam version, along with some other important information regarding the Patreon version of Being a DIK.
Just to prepare you, the game will be moving to a patched concept instead of having multiple binaries. I will fill you in with all the information you'll need to know tomorrow and why this is the best direction for me to take with the game on Patreon.
Have a nice weekend!
Dr PinkCake