While working on Hopepunk City, I worked on a scene where you play Crazy Eights with your roommates. This is similar to the Pachisi scene in Date Ariane, or the Roulette scene in Ariane in Paradise. It is an “in game” accurate simulation of the real game. Two thoughts occurred. First, since opening my online store 7 months ago, I
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Thought I’d do something different this year for pride month. I want to show off some of my characters wearing their pride flags, and nothing else. An introduction to pride flags you may be seeing this month.
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As vaccinated places of the world are seeing large declines in Covid-19 cases and deaths, there is this feeling of relief that is coming, changing people’s attitudes. Concerts, sporting events, conventions, schools and parties are all doable again. But some of the sacrifices we made over the last 15 months or so have changed our attitudes on many things to
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In real life, I am packing up and moving 1800 miles, or 2900 kilometers, and that is taking up some time, so I am neglecting this website for now. Hoping for new stuff this summer! I’m noticing a lower demand for the free Date Ariane patch, I will be discontinuing it in early June. At some point, I will offer
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Every now and then I google my games to see if there are reviews or “let’s play” videos. I have already mentioned in the past that I never actually watch them, and don’t care in the slightest if people make fun of my games. One of the first You Tube channels to do a partial “let’s Play” for Ariane in
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Hopepunk City is my next game, and even I admit it is a strange one crossing multiple genres. I have released a demo on my Patreon page. My first post about this game was about the genre of the game. My REAL first post about this game was about art trends in 2020, with the theme “I don’t care if
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Drake needs a rest, use me for your next meme.
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I officially relaunched my Patreon, updating the images and text to reflect the changes since I shut it down in December 2019. It’s like I skipped the pandemic. Patreon is a way to support me and get some stuff you can’t get anywhere. For $1 a month, you will get the “Picture of the Week” a week before it gets
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Starting my second month, I am opening a second store location at https://arianeb.itch.io/ If you are not familiar, itch.io is a website that caters to indie gamers and indie game creators. There are numerous visual novels available from free to premium. I expect that most of my sales will come primarily from my website store, but it makes sense to
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With record cold temps in North America and Europe this week, this 5 year old infographic, is still proving prophetic.
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