Today marks the 10th anniversary of joining Second Life. I thought about trying to update my avatar, in game, maybe with one of the new mesh avatars, but didn’t. My avatar in Second Life hasn’t changed in 3 years, mostly because I haven’t played much in 3 years. I basically log in at least once a year, sell $72 worth
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This is a continuing series of directors commentaries on the Something’s In The Air game available here. It contains spoilers, and this post is best read after playing the game first. Almost exactly one year ago, I posted the first beta of Something’s In The Air on a couple of websites where I knew I would get constructive feedback and
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One of the things I have on my website is a list of 3D Virtual Worlds that I try to maintain. Although I don’t play them much anymore, I have a few reliable sources I go to keep me up to date. It has been about two years since I added a new program, and that program was Cloud Party.
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Date Ariane 10th Anniversary Part 2 Date Ariane (first released 2004) may not have been the first dating sim to only have a single character, though I don’t know any that predate it, and I wasn’t influenced by any. Date Ariane may not have been the first dating sim done in 3D graphics, thought I don’t know of any that
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So Renpy is out HTML is back in. That is not to say there will never be a Renpy version of Date Ariane, I’m saying the HTML upgrade is a better use of my time right now. I know this contradicts what I said here and here, but plans constantly change. The numbers are in and Date Ariane is still
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I came up with a complicated plan for the Renpy version of Date Ariane, too complicated — like another multi-year project complicated. Sometimes you just have to take a step back and decide what is most important. While many of the ideas I came up with are cool, there are only really two things that I want to actually do:
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream (part 4) This is the 4th in a series about the affect of Internet on society. Part 1 was the new mass media, part 2 the new politics and religion, part 3 movies and TV. Today’s topic: social instability brought on by technology. Andrew Niccol is a screenwriter/director who often makes films with the
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There has been a lot of talk lately about Japan’s radically changing society. It started with an article in the Guardian with the viral headline “Why have young people in Japan stop having sex?” The headline was terribly misleading, young people in Japan are having sex. They are just getting married a lot less and having fewer babies. The notion
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One of my post Something’s In The Air projects was to update my web page. After doing Date Ariane, I came up with this idea of showing what Ariane is doing every moment of every day and creating a desktop theme that changes with the time of day. My idea got really elaborate for a while, sometimes changing pictures every
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Not only is a “port” of Date Ariane to Renpy not happening (see last post), but a “remake” is not in the cards either. As I explained hover text is very difficult to do in Renpy. I have also found that converting the javascript code to Renpy is proving too difficult even with simple menus. The javascript implementation is split
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