Date Ariane Remastered Now Available on Steam
I got my first game coming to Steam. Date Ariane Remastered is coming to Steam on June 10th.
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DA Remastered 1.02
Found a couple of bugs in the game, very minor, not game breaking, probably wouldn’t notice unless I pointed them out to you bugs. But I decided to engage my latest update protocol for purchased games, which will no doubt happen in the future.
Read moreDate Ariane Remastered Now Available!
Date Ariane Remastered is finally available. After months of hinting, you can now purchase on the site store or at itch.io for $6. There is a short demo (including the introduction part and the dinners) available for free so you can see how improved the graphics are, see how the avatars work, and try out the new in game paths (walkthroughs)
Read moreProtesting for Equal Rights
I wanted to do something fun for my first post in May, but the Supreme Court pissed me off big time.
Read moreStore Changes in anticipation of new games
Currently, there are four products available in the official Website Store where there used to be five. Because classic Date Ariane is still popular despite it’s imminent replacement, I decided to add it to the Something’s In The Air and Rachel Meets Ariane bundle to create the Date Ariane Classic Trilogy bundle priced at $5 for all three games.
Read moreHistory of Date Ariane Part 3: Switching to Renpy
One of the things holding me back from making a sequel before was website bandwidth. The popularity of the game kept breaking my website and adding an HTML based sequel would just make it worse. My fix up to that point was to release the game as a download that you could play locally, and that was saving my website from complete breakdown.
Read moreAriane in Paradise 1.11
I decided to take a critical look at the images in the game and decided that of the 1080 images in the game, 918 really can’t be improved upon significantly. There are however around 162 images that for one reason or another needed a makeover.
Read moreThe History of Date Ariane part 2: How the 3D Rendered Western Dating Sim genre got started
In the next month or two I will be releasing Date Ariane Remastered to the world. This is a game I’ve been developing on and off for 18 years as a hobby. It started as a silly project I did for fun, but it became the first of a gaming sub genre (3D rendered Dating Sims / Adult Visual Novels) that is still showing amazing growth.
Read moreHistory of Date Ariane Part 1: Old Art vs New Art
The above represents a few images from the beginning of Ariane Date Simulator 4.0 (2007) and Date Ariane Remastered. The Remastered images are 1920×1080 while the original HTML game images were 800×500, so they are shown here to scale.
Read moreThe Date Ariane Remastered Project
This is a slightly updated post I originally posted on Patreon to inform the general public of my plans to update Date Ariane, and to discuss my goals and ideas with this project. If you are interested in following this project, sign up as a $5 patreon, and see its progress. I’ve posted a link in another post for current eligible Patreons to get the base “template” game.
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