This weekend marks the first anniversary of the release of the Renpy version of Date Ariane: The Game. Since its release, it has been downloaded 2.7 million times, which is pretty darn good for an independently produced game. There may be some overlap as multiple versions were released, and people were updating, but in the same time frame I have
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One of my projects for the year was to arrange translations of Date Ariane in at least 4 other languages: French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, and I am happy to say all 4 should be available by the end of the month. Date Ariane Español Spanish is widely spoken throughout the America’s and I kind of sort of speak it.
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New Years is the time to make promises for the new year, which may or may not happen. So here are two projects I am already starting to work on that hopefully will get done sometime this year. Date Ariane International I have had a few requests from volunteers to translate Date Ariane into other languages. Renpy has already translated
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The above picture is the oldest picture from the oldest version of Date Ariane. The modified date is listed as August 6, 2004. As I was finishing the Renpy version of Date Ariane, I decided to dive into my archives and attempt to play the oldest version I could find. It wouldn’t run on any browser, not the way it
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I have gone ahead and released Date Ariane in Renpy. This is like the ultimate edition of the game that has been a dream since I started working on Something’s In The Air. All the favorite moments are here on a format that is faster and smoother than ever before. I have temporarily taken down the online version. My web
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As I stated before, when I first started making Date Ariane my goal was to do something a bit outside the norm, to create a game where sex and not violence is the primary driver of drama. I also had to make it with no budget so compromises in quality are inevitable as well. For both of those reasons, I
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Official walkthroughs One last thing I wanted to do with Date Ariane was create some official walkthroughs. There are a couple of unofficial ones out there designed for Classic Date Ariane, but I decided with the changes I made they are going to be out of date. So I started posting walkthroughs at arianeb.tumblr.com, coming up with 24 that will
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There still may be patches coming in the future, but as far as I can tell everything works the way it is supposed to work, so I am fairly confident I can call it “done”. Time for a much deserved celebratory margarita. You can play or download it here. I have also uploaded a Something’s In The Air version 1.1
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Once I announced that I was done with the graphic update on Date Ariane, the traffic on the website shot up as expected, resulting in many 503 and 404 errors. I know from experience that the best way to alleviate the traffic is to release a downloadable version, but the state of the game was not good enough to do
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I have now finished updating 1155 pictures from Date Ariane. There are 5 pictures from the original game that have not been updated because there really isn’t a need. If you want to see a history of the updates, I documented it on my tumblr blog. The original game had 1278 pictures, the majority of pictures I “cut” were from
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