Like a lot of people this Christmas, I got myself a Kinect controller for my Xbox360. I also picked up a copy of Kinect Sports which is way better than the included demo game Kinect Adventures. In other words, I got myself an exercise regimen for Christmas. I guess that takes care of the new years resolution as well. A
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Yes, I finally finished it to the point it is releasable, and I’m declaring it version 7 because there is so much new stuff. I basically got rid of most of the video game screenshot backgrounds and replaced them with new 3D art renders. There are 291 new pictures, and I have at least 8 more I still want to
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As promised, I am showing some new stuff I’m working on for the dating game. I was hoping to be finished by now but I keep getting distracted by other matters. All I can say is it will be done when it is done. The sequel is likely going to be in Visual Novel format, which means I can do
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So I spent a fair amount of posts devoted to what seems to be a battle of “visions” going on in Second Life. A string of posts starting with this one I wrote a year ago. I have written so many I just decided to create a new sl visions tag. Click to see all the related posts. So here
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So here is another post with some new renders for the next version of the date simulator. These focus on the downtown restaurant. The old restaurant was somewhere downtown but apparently far enough that you had to drive from the restaurant to the downtown town shopping area. I am establishing a sense of geography now.
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I mentioned a few posts ago that I am doing some set design stuff to enhance the current Dating Sim and to set up a sequel. This has been challenging and fun, and I thought I’d show off a few new renders. Today, I am showing off the local neighborhood.
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I’ve started work on a sequel to the Dating Sim. The new one will be of a very different nature, because I have pretty much exhausted all my good ideas that fit in the format of the first game, and now have to come up with some new stuff. More on that later.
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So what is a Visual Novel? Well that depends on what direction you come from. From a static media perspective, the visual novel is a comic book with choices. From a video game perspective, its a graphic adventure game without an inventory to keep track of. They all have text and pictures. Most have choices to make, some tell a linear story (aka Kinetic Visual Novels) without choices. Most are hand drawn graphics. Some have voice over, music, sound effects, some pictures are animated.
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It wasn’t too long after releasing the first version that I discovered I was wrong. A whole genre of “Dating Sims” had risen and declined in the decade before my game. My ignorance can be forgiven since all of this happened in Japan, and nowhere else.
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The easy fix is one new line of code, but I realized he has a point about the post strip club party, and thought of a fun new scenario to add. I then found myself in a common problem with this project which I call the theme vs format conflict.
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