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DIKs and HOTs!

It's my absolute pleasure to announce that the DLCs

• Being a DIK - Season 3

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• Being a DIK: Season 3 - 4K Resolution Mode (Included with your Being a DIK - Season 3 purchase)

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• Being a DIK: Season 3 - The complete official guide

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are now released on Steam!

Bundles have been updated to include the Season 3 DLCs and offer an additional 5% discount on top of the week-long 10% launch discount!

I hope you will enjoy the new season as much as I did developing it.

Love

Dr PinkCake

How to play Season 3

Here's some information about how Season 3 will work for you on Steam, and how you can continue playing your saved games.

Being a DIK - Season 3 has its own executable file, which means that booting the game up will be a bit different this time around.

After you click the Play button from your Steam library, you get to choose which game to start.

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If you have purchased Season 3, you will see one option for Seasons 1 & 2 and one option for Season 3.

Select the Season you wish to play from there and click "Play".

Exporting a save from Season 2

To continue playing the Season 3 DLC, you need a save file from the end of Episode 8 in Season 2.

At the end of Episode 8 in Season 2, you must save your game in the Save transfer interface that looks like this:

[/img]The save files you save from this interface will be available to you when you boot up Season 3.

Importing a save in Season 3

If you have saved your game correctly in Season 2, your save files will pop up in the "Import" menu in Season 3.

To import a save file from Season 2, first click the "Import" button from the main menu of Being a DIK - Season 3.

Do not confuse the Import button with the Continue button.

The Import button is for importing saves from Season 2, and the Continue button is for continuing a save from within Season 3.

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Your saves from Season 2 should appear after you have clicked Import.

Click the one you wish to continue playing and you're off to enjoy Season 3.

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Note that you can't just jump into Season 3 without having a save file from the end of Season 2, and you need Seasons 1 & 2 to play Season 3.

How to play Season 3 in 4K resolution

Being a DIK: Season 3 - 4K Resolution Mode is an optional DLC included with your Being a DIK - Season 3 purchase that you can download from the "Properties > DLC" tab.

While you get the best benefits of this DLC while playing on a 4K monitor, the art will autoscale and look prettier even on a lower-resolution monitor.

After you have downloaded the DLC from the DLC tab in your Steam library, you can enable the mode from the Settings menu in the game like this:

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When you change resolutions, you must reboot the game.

And then you can enjoy the entire Season 3 in 4K.

Get ready for the release

So, get those save files in order and prepare for the release on September 1, 2026. ːbadik_sageː

Love

Dr PinkCake

DIKs and HOTs, it is time to return to campus for your classes.

The Season 3 development has concluded, and today I can announce that the wait for Season 3 won't be for much longer.

On September 1,

• Being a DIK - Season 3 ($19.99/£17.75/€20.49)

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• Being a DIK: Season 3 - 4K Resolution Mode (Included with your Being a DIK - Season 3 purchase)

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• Being a DIK: Season 3 - The complete official guide ($4.99/£4.59/€5.19)

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will be released on Steam.

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Between August 25 and September 8, I will have a special sale on all my games and DLCs to celebrate the Season 3 release.

And during the release week, the new Season 3 DLCs will be 10% off.

On top of that, there will be bundles for my games and guides, so that you can complete your collection and get 5% extra off.

The DLC is jam-packed with content and will require you to play the game multiple times to experience everything the DLC has to offer.

I've worked relentlessly to bring Season 3 to you, and I've put everything I had into making it as good as I possibly could.

I can't wait to read your reactions to the story! I hope you will enjoy the continuation of the story and have as much fun with it as I had creating it!

Love

Dr PinkCake

Today, I'd like to share some fresh news about Season 3 with you.

Trailer and store page update

The store page has been updated, and it now includes a trailer. Four new screenshots have been added, and the DLC description has been updated. Check it out and see what new information you can find. ;)

The end of the Season 3 development draws nearer with every day that passes. I'm in the midst of developing episode 12, which is the final episode of Season 3.

The overall completion of Season 3 development is around 90%. I'm roughly 60% done with Episode 12 development today.

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4K mode

I've been working in silence this year on a special feature that I'd like to reveal today. Season 3 on Steam will have an optional 4K mode.

Seasons 1 and 2 are both in full HD resolution, and the jump to 4K is a significant leap for the game.

You will still be able to play Season 3 in full HD resolution - it is included as the standard for the Season 3 DLC. The 4K mode will be an optional DLC included with your Season 3 purchase.

After downloading the 4K mode DLC, you can enable it in the game like this.

[/img]The 4K mode includes every render, animation, and GUI element tailored for a 4K experience. Renders haven't been upscaled to achieve this. The art has been rendered and processed at native 4K resolution.

Disk space and requirements

The 4K mode will require a PC with a decent GPU and CPU, and quite a bit of storage space, since the art is pre-rendered.

Currently, the Season 3 size with the 4K DLC is 84 GB, and I estimate the total size won't exceed 100 GB when development is fully complete.

Without downloading the optional 4K mode DLC, Season 3 will be around 25 GB.

This means you need roughly 25 GB of available disk space to play Season 3 at standard settings and 90-100 GB of disk space if you want to play Season 3 in 4K.

Release date

Season 3 will be released sometime during 2026. I will announce a more specific release date when I'm certain that I can keep it. I'm working as hard as possible to bring this DLC to you.

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.

• 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.

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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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