One of the things holding me back from making a sequel before was website bandwidth. The popularity of the game kept breaking my website and adding an HTML based sequel would just make it worse. My fix up to that point was to release the game as a download that you could play locally, and that was saving my website from complete breakdown.
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In the next month or two I will be releasing Date Ariane Remastered to the world. This is a game I’ve been developing on and off for 18 years as a hobby. It started as a silly project I did for fun, but it became the first of a gaming sub genre (3D rendered Dating Sims / Adult Visual Novels) that is still showing amazing growth.
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The above represents a few images from the beginning of Ariane Date Simulator 4.0 (2007) and Date Ariane Remastered. The Remastered images are 1920×1080 while the original HTML game images were 800×500, so they are shown here to scale.
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This is a slightly updated post I originally posted on Patreon to inform the general public of my plans to update Date Ariane, and to discuss my goals and ideas with this project. If you are interested in following this project, sign up as a $5 patreon, and see its progress. I’ve posted a link in another post for current eligible Patreons to get the base “template” game.
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Date Ariane HD, Something’s In The Air, and Rachel Meets Ariane
Together for the price of one game
When I was making the “Date Ariane HD” version in 2018, I was upgrading all the pictures to 1500×900 resolution. I decided there were 50 or so “ending” pictures that were rare enough that they could be replaced with something generic. The generic usually consisted of a picture of Ariane putting her hands up as a sign of refusal with
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After opening a store, I need to put merchandise in it. The most popular game Date Ariane, has not been updated in a few years, so that is what I have been working on the last week or so. The new version, which I am just calling “2021” combines the 6 versions that I used to host into one single
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There is a meme going around where people are comparing themselves in 2009 and today in 2019. I made the above graphic to fit in. The picture on the left came from Date Ariane 6.1 that was released in December 2009. The picture on the right is from Ariane in Paradise released this year. I thought I’d post some of
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It seems that every time I make a new game with new innovations, I want to go back and change my older games to add those same innovations. One of the new innovations in Ariane in Paradise is that you can play as a male or a female. In fact you can switch genders mid stream, though this may cause
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In honor of Renpy version 7 finally being released, I’m releasing Date Ariane, one of the most downloaded Renpy games ever (5.9 million downloads all versions combined), in Renpy 7 and in HD. The images are all 1500×900, originally rendered when I did the graphics update in 2017. Add in the 180px black bottom part and the total resolution is
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