Being a DIK News

I'm working daily on the Being a DIK - Season 2 DLC and today I'm happy to announce that it is 50% complete.
Currently, Season 2 has 5793 images and 319 animations. Meaning that Season 2 will be bigger than Season 1, when it's fully developed.

Furthermore, a patch for Being a DIK - Season 1 has been uploaded to Steam.
Here are the patch notes:

• Updated code for affinity and DIK status calculations.
  
• Added an optional text box mode with an opacity slider to the preferences menu. Text legibility is improved by enabling this mode, but you will get centered text and a low opacity black text box when playing the game.
  
• Removed the option Rollback side from preferences, due to redundancy.
  
• Fixed bad variable names, overriding a python library.
  
• Your affinity will now be displayed in conjunction with major choices.
  
• Revamped the episode title and ending overlays for episodes 1-4.
  
• Made cosmetic changes to the episode stat report for episodes 1-4.
  
• Revamped the Reward app.
  
• Revamped the Scenes app.
  
• When unlocking a special render, the character you unlocked a render for will have an exclamation mark in the Rewards app.
  
• Corrected typos
  

Thank you for playing!

Yours,
Dr PinkCake

Today a patch launched for Being a DIK - Season 1.
I don't want to update the game too often since there's a risk that some old saves become incompatible with every patch.
That's sadly how the RenPy engine works with save files. I hope that too many aren't affected by this and if you experience any issue loading an old save, try clicking Ignore or Rollback a few times and see if it pops back into gear.

This patch brings fixes and improvements to the game. The most noteworthy fix is that the Gallery counter, which in some cases made players miss the gallery achievement, has been fixed.

Let me know in the discussion forum if you need any assistance.

On a further note, the development of Season 2 is approximately 25% completed.
A huge thanks for your support!

Best regards
Dr PinkCake

Changelog

• Corrected typos
  
• Fixed a bug with the Bios app where notifications didn't show for new messages.
  
• Fixed a bug that occasionally caused cheating in English mini-games to fail.
  
• Added timers that hide the money and special render banners that pop-up and occasionally didn't disappear during the game.
  
• Added an icon to indicate if a Cluck in Rooster is new.
  
• Fixed a bug where you could repeatedly play guitar in Isabella's home during her free-roam event in Episode 4.
  
• You can now use whitespace (space) in the save names.
  
• Updated the Chat and Swyper apps chat interface.
  
• When you unlock new gallery pictures in Swyper, the main menu of Swyper will show indicators for it.
  
• Changed the backend calculation of unlocked renders. Achievements should unlock for gallery scenes now.
  
• Fixed a bug where a wrong render would show when buying from Derek, during his free-roam event in episode 4.
  

I'm happy to announce that community items such as trading cards, badges etc. are now available!

Cheers
Dr PinkCake

Thank you all for reporting bugs to me. I'm monitoring the threads and trying to fix everything that gets reported. This is a list of bugs that I have fixed since release.
Restart Steam and you should get an update with the latest changes.

• Fixed a bug in episode 1 where the chat with Josy wouldn't trigger a dialogue prompt during the date in certain cases.
  
• Adjusted the difficulty setting for Brawler. It should feel easier to play Brawler on Easy/Normal. Hard difficulty setting will feel slightly easier.
  
• Two animations were added to a lewd scene (episode 4).
  
• Fixed a bug that caused cheating to fail on the English test in episode 4.
  
• Fixed a cosmetic bug with Brawler with text messages after winning a fight multiple times and getting no reward.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash at the Save/Load screen if special characters were used to comment the save.
  
• Corrected typos
  

If you encounter any issues with the game, please try verifying your game cache as the first step. Sometimes your download is corrupt and may be missing files.

Use the following steps to see if your game files are valid or not:
Right-click the game in the library and select properties.
Click Local files > Verify integrity of game cache
Wait until the process is complete and Steam will download any missing files.

Thank you all for your support! And please, continue to report any bugs you find and I will try my utmost to assist you.

Best regards
Dr PinkCake

Hello!

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!

I have big plans for this game in the future and what you can play today is a lengthy start of a long adventure.
It couldn't have been achieved without the support I've received from patrons and fans.
The support I've received during development of this game made it possible for me to start working as a full-time indie developer and that has been a dream come true.

Trading cards and community items will be activated as soon as possible; the artwork is ready to go, all that's missing is a player base on Steam.
I hope that this game will bring you lots of joy!

Please, enjoy this labor of love!

Cheers
Dr PinkCake