I redesigned Something’s In The Air once again to bring it in line with the Date Ariane HD version as well as Rachel Meets Ariane and Ariane in Paradise. All four games now use similar GUI, fonts and 1080p resolution.  The changes are as follows:

High Definition.  The “third edition” is 720p, the “Fourth” is 1080p.  The vast majority of the images were simply enlarged to the new resolution and were not actually re-rendered.  It would take months to re-render and in most cases the difference would not be noticeable.

Different way to select “last date”.  Since the first release, you could go into preferences and select what happened on the last date with Ariane, or you could select that you went on multiple dates.  I took that out of preferences, and put it into the game itself using the system I created for Rachel Meets Ariane.  When you get to a spot where the story varies based on the last date, it will pause and ask you.  The game feels more interactive this way.

It is now possible to reach all 25 endings without digging into settings.  The SITA Walkthrough page in the Wiki has now been changed with these options in mind.

Common GUI.  I’m using a modified default Renpy 7.0 interface, similar to what I am using in the latest version of the other 3 games.  Choices will appear in the middle of the screen, with the question being asked below it.  It is a little counter intuitive at first, but it is easy to figure out after a while.

The upshot is that this is the same pattern I am using in all four games so you can go from game to game and they all look similar.

Reduced music.  In the original game I way overdid the music cues, and in the “third edition” I gave you a way to turn most of it off.  Now I have just removed most of it entirely. The music that syncs with dance routines, video games, and flashbacks are still there, but the distracting story soundtrack has been removed.

Some graphics changes.  When I did the graphics update for Date Ariane, I changed some of the models, specifically Rebecca, the convenience store and Ariane’s SUV. I made new renders of any picture involving those models.

This means that two endings (Ariane and Rebecca and Safety Pullout) have mostly new renders.  I also redid all 24 pictures of Rachel’s Photoshoot as well as most of the png sprites in the game.

Some of the more prominent images of Ariane and Rachel were redone as well. Specifically the Drive-N-Dine pictures on the Ariane path and the downtown pictures on the Rachel path were redone.  162 images have been redone for the 4th edition.

Download the new edition from the Something’s In The Air Downloads page.  For now, this version is not available for Android or in any language but English.