My next game, that I still haven’t titled, is a sci-fi date simulator. This is a bit of a contradiction. Date simulators are by their nature, set in a positive or at least neutral environment, while sci-fi, when it is done right, is generally set in a negative environment.
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After a lot of work, I got Something’s In The Air Redux on Steam. You can purchase it at https://store.steampowered.com/app/2531360/Somethings_In_The_Air_Redux/
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Getting a lot of odd sales for discontinued products, so I am cleaning up my store to get rid of old files and products.
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Something’s In The Air Redux version 1.1 is fully voiced, or at least it is as voiced as I plan to make it. As pointed out in a post I wrote last week, I am only focusing on voicing NPC lines relevant to the story.
It is done, tested and ready for release, including for the first time available from the site store.
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For the last few months, I’ve been experimenting with using AI voices to voice my visual novels. I started with Strip Crazy Eights, because it was a short game, and ended up not voicing the actual card game part.
That proved to me that voicing every line of every game was unworkable and unnecessary. It also proved to me it was worth doing.
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Metamodernism is the latest movement in art and philosophy after a century of modernism and postmodernism.
I know, it sounds complicated, and no way am I going to be able to present thorough definitions for all these in a single essay. But here is a general explanation.
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Last week I ran an informal poll to try and decide what hairstyle to use on my next dating sim character. Well the winner of the poll was “The Karla”, but at least a couple of people pointed out that it would be best to take personality into consideration.
Which is why I went with the second place “The Janey” instead.
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I have been experimenting with AI voicing the last few months. It started about 3 months ago when I started experimenting with Eleven Labs AI voicing, and using a free account voiced a part of Rachel Meets Ariane, and posted a video on Reddit here. It was not perfect, but if it is anything like the art and writing AI efforts, it was going to get better.
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Web 2.0 was the world of social media. Its real heyday was in the 2000’s when all the social media platforms cared about was getting an audience. Since the IPO of Facebook in 2012, all the social media platforms care about is making a profit, and these two things are incompatible with each other.
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Considering the rough go the LGBTQ community has had this past year, losing ground on equal rights around the world, I feel it necessary to renew my support with another round of “Nothing but Pride Flags” which I first did a couple of years ago, but there have been some changes.
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