I have gone ahead and released Date Ariane in Renpy. This is like the ultimate edition of the game that has been a dream since I started working on Something’s In The Air. All the favorite moments are here on a format that is faster and smoother than ever before. I have temporarily taken down the online version. My web
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As someone who does a lot of work in Poser for my games and other projects, that means I am involved in the 3D Rendering community, which I have written about before. About 3 years ago the community started getting bigger thanks to Daz3D releasing Daz Studio for free. Until then, the community primarily consisted of users of Poser software,
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As I stated before, when I first started making Date Ariane my goal was to do something a bit outside the norm, to create a game where sex and not violence is the primary driver of drama. I also had to make it with no budget so compromises in quality are inevitable as well. For both of those reasons, I
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For over a decade I have swung on a pendulum between “creative” and “playing” and after three years of mostly being in “creative” mode, I seem to be in a deep “playing” cycle of video games. Hence my lack of blog posts as I generally have little to say while in “playing” mode. One of the games I have been
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? Part 5 (read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) Between national news and recent personal experiences, I believe we are on the verge of one or more technical apocalypse. This could come two possible forms: Either, technology advances to the point that it bypasses the need for humanity, or we grow more
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Why are we craving the past so much these days? This seems especially true in movies, music, and video games. Lets start with movies: Remakes, reimaginings, and of course prequels and sequels seem to be the norm of movies, and the few non-prequels and sequels are based on comic books and novels people are already familiar with. Are there no
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UPDATE: In support of the July 12th Battle For The Net, I am rerunning this post from 3 years ago to remind people what Net Neutrality is really all about. For more info on the protest, go here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/ To write the FCC: https://dearfcc.org/ I am completely baffled at the conservatives here in America’s ability to get the Net Neutrality
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Official walkthroughs One last thing I wanted to do with Date Ariane was create some official walkthroughs. There are a couple of unofficial ones out there designed for Classic Date Ariane, but I decided with the changes I made they are going to be out of date. So I started posting walkthroughs at arianeb.tumblr.com, coming up with 24 that will
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There still may be patches coming in the future, but as far as I can tell everything works the way it is supposed to work, so I am fairly confident I can call it “done”. Time for a much deserved celebratory margarita. You can play or download it here. I have also uploaded a Something’s In The Air version 1.1
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Once I announced that I was done with the graphic update on Date Ariane, the traffic on the website shot up as expected, resulting in many 503 and 404 errors. I know from experience that the best way to alleviate the traffic is to release a downloadable version, but the state of the game was not good enough to do
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