I officially relaunched my Patreon, updating the images and text to reflect the changes since I shut it down in December 2019. It's like I skipped the pandemic. Patreon is a way to support me and get some stuff you can't get anywhere. For $1 a month, you will get the "Picture of the Week" …
This week's picture comes from the new game Hopepunk City. This is a new character, but uses a model I used before in Something's In The Air as one of the supermodels Rachel worked with in the magazine layout. I like the mostly teal blue look of the picture which is why I picked it …
Starting my second month, I am opening a second store location at https://arianeb.itch.io/ If you are not familiar, itch.io is a website that caters to indie gamers and indie game creators. There are numerous visual novels available from free to premium. I expect that most of my sales will come primarily from my website store, …
With record cold temps in North America and Europe this week, this 5 year old infographic, is still proving prophetic.
When I was making the "Date Ariane HD" version in 2018, I was upgrading all the pictures to 1500x900 resolution. I decided there were 50 or so "ending" pictures that were rare enough that they could be replaced with something generic. The generic usually consisted of a picture of Ariane putting her hands up as …
This whole store thing has been an experiment from the get go, and after a month, I can make some conclusions: I was right, it is not making me rich, but it is covering my expenses, and will continue for now.Good News: The expense of "free" downloads is not very much so I can afford …
If you bought any of my games the last month and read the credits, you will see a blurb to play a game called Hopepunk City which is my unreleased game I have been working on for a year during the pandemic. I came up with the name over the summer while reading about a …
If you still have the Date Ariane HD version, I am releasing a free patch to upgrade your game. The patch is available here, and part of this release is to test how well the store can handle free files. The patch is a 16MB zip file containing all the recent changes to the game. …
Continue reading Free Patch to upgrade Date Ariane HD to 2021 version
I have now finished uploading all four games to the store for PC and Mac. I have also finished Android versions of Date Ariane and Ariane in Paradise. The only thing missing is Android version of Something's In The Air, because the version that I have is the 3rd edition, and I have not upgraded …
After opening a store, I need to put merchandise in it. The most popular game Date Ariane, has not been updated in a few years, so that is what I have been working on the last week or so. The new version, which I am just calling "2021" combines the 6 versions that I used …
