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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When I was making the “Date Ariane HD” version in 2018, I was upgrading all the pictures to 1500×900 resolution. I decided there were 50 or so “ending” pictures that were rare enough that they could be replaced with something generic. The generic usually consisted of a picture of Ariane putting her hands up as a sign of refusal with
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This whole store thing has been an experiment from the get go, and after a month, I can make some conclusions: I was right, it is not making me rich, but it is covering my expenses, and will continue for now. Good News: The expense of “free” downloads is not very much so I can afford to host free content
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If you bought any of my games the last month and read the credits, you will see a blurb to play a game called Hopepunk City which is my unreleased game I have been working on for a year during the pandemic. I came up with the name over the summer while reading about a genre of fiction called “Hopepunk”
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I have now finished uploading all four games to the store for PC and Mac. I have also finished Android versions of Date Ariane and Ariane in Paradise. The only thing missing is Android version of Something’s In The Air, because the version that I have is the 3rd edition, and I have not upgraded to the 4th edition. I
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After opening a store, I need to put merchandise in it. The most popular game Date Ariane, has not been updated in a few years, so that is what I have been working on the last week or so. The new version, which I am just calling “2021” combines the 6 versions that I used to host into one single
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As someone who watches the trends of the internet, I did not see this one coming. With so many stuck at home with people dependent on the internet for both entertainment and work, it was bound to happen: Bandwidth is a commodity. I did not think it would affect me as I only have maybe 20 GB of files worth
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Sorry, but downloads have been disabled temporarily on this website. It looks like the new internet economy reached me. My file host Mediafire, is now charging me for download bandwidth, and I can’t afford how popular this website is. I need to find a way to host the game files that’s cheap and can support how popular my games are.
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There are stacks and stacks of irony around the drama of Cyberpunk 2077. Click for a rundown of my favorites.
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