Just when I thought I was done talking about original and innovative games, No Man’s Sky comes out, which is very different than any game out there. I got the PC version, whose launch was problematic. I got a pretty good gaming rig, and ended up with frame rate problems that plagued many players at launch. After updating drivers, disabling
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With the huge popularity of Pokemon Go, it is inevitable that other “augmented reality” games might happen in the future. I’m a fan of innovative games. Over the years I have seen innovations in games come and go. Some have stuck around a long time, like first person shooters. Others, like games for Kinect, kind of disappeared. Even the Wii
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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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I’ve caught so many Rattata and Zubats in my house, I’m thinking of calling the exterminators. Pokémon Go For those that don’t know, Pokémon Go is a phone based game that requires walking around the neighborhood. Landmarks (public works of art or unique signage) are marked as Pokéstops, where you can get free stuff, and also use lures there to
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Many major ISP in America seems to be talking about hard data caps. It seems to be a rather odd coincidence (meaning that it isn’t one) that this seems to all be happening in many ISPs all at the same time, like it is some coordinated effort or something. The reasons are many but here’s the bottom line: This is
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I’ve been writing about how Internet has been affecting society for a couple of years now. One angle I have not touched on is that it is affecting younger generations way more than older generations. Kids raised on the internet are now in their 20’s and early 30’s and their understanding of the world is radically different than generations before.
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This is the third (or 4th?) look at other games similar to Date Ariane. In fact the creators of all 3 games mentioned Date Ariane as their original inspiration. Of course once you make one game, you try and make something better than your last. My concept of improving was making better pictures and packaging it as a real downloadable
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Linden Lab has done a lot of dumb things over the years, but their latest move is quite possibly the dumbest! So dumb in fact, that I am basically calling it quits on Second Life. Over the last few months, the “Terms Of Service Gestapo” has been banning a lot of long time players, with no explanation, the only reasons
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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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As I reported a few months ago, the 3D graphics community consisted of a friendly rivalry between Poser users and DAZ Studio users, which did not really matter that much until the newest DAZ 3D released content dubbed Genesis 3 was incompatible with Poser and could only be used on DAZ Studio software. In the few months since then much
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