Today, I can announce that the Episode 10 development is complete and the episode is being beta tested. With the completion of Episode 10, Season 3 now stands at ~60% total completion. Currently, Season 3 consists of Episode Interlude, Episodes 9 and 10. Episodes 11 & 12 remain to be developed before Season 3 is complete. Season 3 is roughly 12 GB today, including 12,000 images, 700 animated scenes, and 80 new songs. Season 3 is already comparable to Season 2 in size and content, even when two episodes remain to be developed. Among the improvements you'll discover in Season 3, you'll find an overall higher image and animation quality. I've also developed new exciting mini-games for this season. Thanks for your support and patience while I'm putting all my efforts into developing the best game I can create. Love Dr PinkCake

With Episode 9 completed in December, Season 3 is now 33% complete. Love Dr PinkCake

• Fixed an issue with closing images in fullscreen mode in the Chat app on the old phone.
• Fixed an issue with the Guide button in the Quick menu, causing the quick menu to disappear after using the guide.
• Fixed a bug with Triple Tile that caused multiple entries of new high scores.
• Fixed a bug with the money message that didn't disappear after opening the phone while upgrading the wallet or buying a second painting.
• Added Rollback Side option to Dialogue tab in Preferences.
• Fixed a bug where bios histories were wiped between episodes 1 and 2 for Camila, Quinn, and Riona.
• Fixed a bug with the game not using the Pet Names in the scene gallery.
• Improved the pack quest buttons to remove flickering when skipping.
• Fixed a cosmetic issue with the English test in episode 3 that didn't show the test result as perfect.
• Fixed a bug with Catrin's chat on Swyper in episode 5
• Fixed an issue where the piano keys in episode 5 would remain on the screen if ending the freeroam while playing the piano.
• Fixed an issue with the breakfast scene in episode 8.
• Fixed an issue where the first-floor bathroom used a reference for the second-floor bathroom in the mansion mini-game during Isabella's scene in episode 6.
• Corrected typos.
• Removed six songs due to a band's wishes. The favorite list in the Season 2 Music app is reset as a result.

New DLC to Being a DIK have been released and there are new bundles including the new products in them. There is a 10% launch week discount for the new DLC, and a sale on the first season content as well. I hope you will enjoy the continuation to the story. Yours Dr PinkCake

This upgrade includes major changes, as the game is upgraded to 64-bit now. Overall performance should increase, and you should encounter fewer, if any, crashes from memory errors. Please note, there might be some issues with loading some of your save files with this patch, but hopefully, everything will work without any issues. If you encounter an error when loading a save, try clicking ignore or rollback a few times.

• Upgraded Ren'Py version to 7.4.10
• Prepared Season 1 for the upcoming DLC
• Fixed deprecated functionality and fixed bugs due to the Ren'Py upgrade.
• Updated functionality for viewing special renders in the Rewards app.
• Fixed an issue with the Rewards app, showing an exclamation mark wrongly when reloading saves after finding special renders.
• Fixed a rare bug where the app description would still show after closing the phone.
• Fixed a bug with the new message icon in episode 2.
• Fixed a dialogue issue for Isabella's morning scene in episode 2.
• Fixed a dialogue bug with gender classes episodes 1-2.
• Redesigned the game menus
• Added a button to manually save persistent data in the Save menu; automatic saving still works as before.
• Fixed a bug where opening the vault unlocked vaults from other episodes.
• Fixed a bug where you could buy mini-game-related cheats from Derek when not playing mini-games in episode 1.
• Fixed a rare bug with Brawler that caused four options that resulted in a miss to show at once.
• Fixed a bug with the math tests that displayed the wrong grade when cheating.
• Corrected typos
• Updated the format of the guide. It should be easier to read than before.
• Added a Guide button to the quick menu of the game. You can access the guide using this button or the 'g' key as usual.

Maggot brothers and HOT sisters! Today I can proudly announce that "Being a DIK - Season 2" and "Being a DIK: Season 2 - The complete official guide" are coming to Steam on January 6, 2022! The second season, including episodes 5-8, is packed with:

• Close to 14000 images
• Over 900 animations
• 58 special 2D-art pieces
• 129 new songs
• 54 new Steam achievements to hunt for

Maggot brothers and HOT sisters! Are you ready to continue your adventure at B&R? The second season, including episodes 5-8, with over 12000 images and 800 animated scenes, is on its way. I'm working myself to the bone to pack it with even bigger episodes and more content than the first season had to offer. Check out the store page that just launched and don't forget to follow and wishlist the DLC. As soon as I have more news to share about this upcoming release, you will be the first ones to know. Dr PinkCake

The development of the second season of Being a DIK just hit 75% completion. The second season will be bigger than Season 1 and include four brand new episodes. So far, with one episode left to develop before I can release it on Steam, 566 animated scenes and over 9700 images have been produced for the second season. This means that Season 2 is already bigger than Season 1, so you can expect plenty of content. Before release, there will be a store page for the DLC where you can wishlist the game. I don't have any ETA when the Steam release is. The timeframe depends on how the development of the final episode of the season fares. I have uploaded a patch for Being a DIK - Season 1 to Steam. Here are the patch notes:

• During free roam events, any progress made in phone apps will be saved when saving the game.
• Fixed a bug that caused a conflict between entering save names, pet names and other inputs.
• Any illegal characters typed for your save name will be removed immediately to avoid getting a blank save name.
• Lowered the volume of the intro splash screen and made its sound level controlled by the SFX channel.
• Set the power save option to be disabled by default to favor performance over energy settings.
• Updated the money system backend.
• Replaced the animations for the main girl episode report and updated the design.
• Added a presplash loading image.
• Added a skip 5 pages at the time button for the Save/Load screen.
• Disabled right-clicking the Skip button to skip to the next choice.
• The middle-mouse button now brings up the in-game phone and can be used to close any children menu of the phone.
• The quick menu will be hidden when using the phone and restored when closing the phone.
• The save/load menu will be hidden when using the phone and restored when closing the phone.
• Fixed an issue with autosaving, causing a lag spike during choices during animations.
• To reduce lag, autosaving is now less frequent. There's an option in the Preferences menu to remove Autosaving and thus remove lag spikes.
• Fixed a rare bug with Shuffle.
• Fixed a bug in episode 3 where Quinn's text message would cause an error if you entered and exited Jill's chat first.
• Corrected typos in episodes 1-4

It's been a very weird and possibly dark year for all of us. But even when things are dark in our lives, we should appreciate the things that aren't and find something that keeps us going. For me, creating this game has been a way to get through 2020. It's brought me a lot of joy through all the ups and downs. Thank you all for the support you've shown me since the release of Being a DIK - Season 1! I'm working hard on bringing you the continuation. Cheers to all of you maggot brothers and HOT sisters! Merry Christmas, Happy holidays and have a wonderful new year! Dr PinkCake

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

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

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

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. Due to Apple's new forced notarization policy, a macOS version won't be supported on Steam, for now. Add the game to your watchlist and you'll get a message when it's released. Cheers Dr PinkCake