So here is another post with some new renders for the next version of the date simulator. These focus on the downtown restaurant. The old restaurant was somewhere downtown but apparently far enough that you had to drive from the restaurant to the downtown town shopping area. I am establishing a sense of geography now.
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I mentioned a few posts ago that I am doing some set design stuff to enhance the current Dating Sim and to set up a sequel. This has been challenging and fun, and I thought I’d show off a few new renders. Today, I am showing off the local neighborhood.
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I’ve started work on a sequel to the Dating Sim. The new one will be of a very different nature, because I have pretty much exhausted all my good ideas that fit in the format of the first game, and now have to come up with some new stuff. More on that later.
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So what is a Visual Novel? Well that depends on what direction you come from. From a static media perspective, the visual novel is a comic book with choices. From a video game perspective, its a graphic adventure game without an inventory to keep track of. They all have text and pictures. Most have choices to make, some tell a linear story (aka Kinetic Visual Novels) without choices. Most are hand drawn graphics. Some have voice over, music, sound effects, some pictures are animated.
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It wasn’t too long after releasing the first version that I discovered I was wrong. A whole genre of “Dating Sims” had risen and declined in the decade before my game. My ignorance can be forgiven since all of this happened in Japan, and nowhere else.
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The easy fix is one new line of code, but I realized he has a point about the post strip club party, and thought of a fun new scenario to add. I then found myself in a common problem with this project which I call the theme vs format conflict.
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Yeah I know, I keep coming back to this game. I need to stop. I have an idea for a new scenario that can only be done online, so I need to stop releasing new downloadable versions. Plus I have other projects I want to start. I keep telling myself this, and yet I keep falling back into tweaking my old project.
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I learned the secret to life from my cat. Find a comfortable spot, and enjoy. I think most everyone can agree with this, the problem is that there is often a misunderstanding of what a “comfortable spot” happens to be. Most people think it is a function of money, and stuff. They are wrong, and that is why most people are miserable.
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From a Second Life perspective, a 3D Internet presents many challenges. The biggest one on the minds of most people is “How do I make money?” Because of the open nature of a 3D internet, any rules regarding permissions and copying simply cannot be enforced. The Second Life economic model will not work. There will be money making opportunities on the 3D internet, but the buying and selling of 3D goods for virtual cash can only be done in a closed off system like Second Life or an individual OS grid.
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I have been following the Open Sim development for a couple of years now. Some of the latest developments have convinced me that if there is ever going to be a 3D internet, it will be based on Open Sim. I say this knowing that Open Sim currently has a rather low population of participants, low enough that one could question the sanity of such a statement. Well here is a brief summary of this conclusion.
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