I ran a 24 hour alpha test on a Something’s In The Air Demo I was thinking of releasing, and it was good that I did. Feedback was decidedly mixed, so for those that keep asking when will I release it, the answer is, “When it is ready!” and it is not ready. As a novice visual novel author, I
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Catching up with the news on 3D Virtual Worlds, has been getting a little depressing lately. Bottom line: they are all down in traffic. Lets start with some news on the LL/SL front: Linden Lab announced two weeks ago that they bought an interactive fiction company called LittleTextPeople. The small company develops 2D interactive fiction for play on mobile phones
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I promised earlier that I would introduce some characters of the visual novel when I was done doing their story. I finally finished story 4, which is the largest of the 6 stories, and the one I needed to finish to get it out of the way, so I could move to the easier stuff. I am trying to make
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A little bit of departure from my usual stuff. This month marks the 100th anniversary of Arizona as a state, and being someone who lived here most of my life, I’d thought I’d share a little bit of history of the place. Basically, I’m hitting the top 12 highlights, with links to wiki articles for the full story. So where
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As you know I have been spending a lot of time working on my Visual Novel rather than writing in this blog, which is a good thing, because I want to get it done just as much as some of you want to play it. Part of doing this project faster and better involves extensive use of the 3D Content
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I’ve been doing lots of cool stuff for the sequel game Something’s In The Air (SITA), but I don’t want to show it all because that would spoil the game. But a few teaser renders wouldn’t hurt. Back in October 2010, I was showing off sets I built for downtown locations. Those sets will show up in SITA as well,
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It has been about 6 months since I actively started working on the “sequel”, so you are due for an update. The biggest news is that I have settled on a title, which is quite an accomplishment considering that the original Date Ariane Simulator never really had an official title. After toying with “Second Date” (which is the project folder
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I have spent the last 15 years employed in the internet industry. Not with one particular company, but with multiple companies, supporting pretty much every aspect of the web. I did modem support, wireless support, search engine support, DNS support, domain name support, web server configuration, and I have run half a dozen websites, including forum administration, design practices, and
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Time for an update on whats going on with “the sequel” which still does not have a title yet. Actually, I have not been working on it much the last month. I knew this would happen though, because I know how I work. I start by doing something creative which is rewarding but also a lot of work, and after
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After struggling with the intricacies of slider bars, trying to balance between matching the proportions of “classic” Ariane, and what actually looks good, I ultimately decided to just keep it simple. I found a pre-designed V4 head that is close, made a grand total of 8 minor adjustments to get closer, and deemed it “close enough”. The new Ariane is
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