So Renpy is out HTML is back in. That is not to say there will never be a Renpy version of Date Ariane, I’m saying the HTML upgrade is a better use of my time right now. I know this contradicts what I said here and here, but plans constantly change. The numbers are in and Date Ariane is still
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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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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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I thought I’d take time out from working on Something’s In The Air, to show some changes to Ariane. If I get around to updating Date Ariane, I will be using these models. So this is more of a preview of the prequel remake, I think. Ariane’s looks have changed once again. This time I changed the shape of her
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As I have mentioned numerous times before, the “sequel” to Date Ariane, known as Something’s In The Air features an updated model of Ariane, that took quite a bit of work to get right. Redoing over 1000 pictures from Date Ariane is out of the question for the foreseeable future (but I’m not saying never). But if I ever got
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I thought I’d post about a common problem in 3D art, and what I have done to solve it. It is called the “crowd problem” and has been a difficulty with all 3D animation. The first 3D animated movie Toy Story solved it by never having any crowd scenes. AntZ, the second 3D animated movie had hundreds of ants doing
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I knew after doing the 7.1 update that I would do one more update to Ariane’s Dating Simulator, or as I am now dubbing it Date Ariane. This update consists of three or four minor changes, mostly updates of the home store and the dress shop. Also the “Date Experience” code shows up at the end of the date. The
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I promised earlier that I would introduce some characters of the visual novel when I was done doing their story. I finally finished story 4, which is the largest of the 6 stories, and the one I needed to finish to get it out of the way, so I could move to the easier stuff. I am trying to make
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A lot of people have the wrong idea about “the sequel”, and it is probably my fault for calling it “the sequel”, so maybe I should take a post to clarify my master plan and set the record straight. I suspect that, like the character update, there will be those that will say “That sounds awesome!”, and others that will
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One of the changes I made to the 7.1 version was to replace the hostess at the strip club with a new model, because the old hostess just can’t cut it anymore. Now after working with a bunch of new models and creating the sequel, it is becoming more and more obvious that Ariane herself needs to be updated. I
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