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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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream (part 4) This is the 4th in a series about the affect of Internet on society. Part 1 was the new mass media, part 2 the new politics and religion, part 3 movies and TV. Today’s topic: social instability brought on by technology. Andrew Niccol is a screenwriter/director who often makes films with the
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There has been a lot of talk lately about Japan’s radically changing society. It started with an article in the Guardian with the viral headline “Why have young people in Japan stop having sex?” The headline was terribly misleading, young people in Japan are having sex. They are just getting married a lot less and having fewer babies. The notion
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One of my post Something’s In The Air projects was to update my web page. After doing Date Ariane, I came up with this idea of showing what Ariane is doing every moment of every day and creating a desktop theme that changes with the time of day. My idea got really elaborate for a while, sometimes changing pictures every
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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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This weekend, I set myself a goal of recreating the first 10 “pages” of Date Ariane in Renpy. I was going to call it my “Proof of Concept”. I only got to page 3 before deciding it is way too freaking hard. I’m not saying there won’t be a Renpy version of the Date Ariane story, I’m saying that the
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After over two years of work, Something’s In The Air is finally done (for now), with version 1.0 now released. You can download it here for Windows, Mac, or Linux. Two years seems like a long time for a fairly short game, but this was a very part time hobby, and I would not have bothered to make it if
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Warning this post contains spoilers for my visual novel Something’s In The Air. It is assumed you have already played it before reading. If you haven’t played it yet, download it and play it first. Go to the local gym where all the hot women tend to be on Saturday Morning There are too many good paths to walk down
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Between all the coverage of Comic Con, and You Tube declaring this week “Geek Week”, there seems to be a lot of interest in all things geek lately. It seems today that geek culture has somehow become mainstream culture. Not sure when or how it started, probably in the early 2000s with the success of the Lord of the Rings
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The opposite of a golden age is a dark age. When it comes to design and visual imagery, I believe we are living in a dark age. The last dark age was the 1970’s. I sometimes like to go to the Plaid Stallions and laugh at what people thought was cool back in the 70’s. From today’s perspective it is
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