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unofficial ones out there designed for Classic Date Ariane, but I decided with the changes I made they are going to be out of date.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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Today marks the 10th anniversary of joining Second Life. I thought about trying to update my avatar, in game, maybe with one of the new mesh avatars, but didn’t. My avatar in Second Life hasn’t changed in 3 years, mostly because I haven’t played much in 3 years. I basically log in at least once a year, sell $72 worth
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Date Ariane 10th Anniversary Part 2 Date Ariane (first released 2004) may not have been the first dating sim to only have a single character, though I don’t know any that predate it, and I wasn’t influenced by any. Date Ariane may not have been the first dating sim done in 3D graphics, thought I don’t know of any that
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So Renpy is out HTML is back in. That is not to say there will never be a Renpy version of Date Ariane, I’m saying the HTML upgrade is a better use of my time right now. I know this contradicts what I said here and here, but plans constantly change. The numbers are in and Date Ariane is still
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I came up with a complicated plan for the Renpy version of Date Ariane, too complicated — like another multi-year project complicated. Sometimes you just have to take a step back and decide what is most important. While many of the ideas I came up with are cool, there are only really two things that I want to actually do:
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Not only is a “port” of Date Ariane to Renpy not happening (see last post), but a “remake” is not in the cards either. As I explained hover text is very difficult to do in Renpy. I have also found that converting the javascript code to Renpy is proving too difficult even with simple menus. The javascript implementation is split
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