7.0 worked out pretty good, fewest bugs ever! Because I fixed those bugs, and added practically no new content, this one ought to be even fewer, or hopefully none. The primary focus of the 7.1 release is to set up the sequel, but since the sequel has at least a good year before release, there should be no rush to
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More random notes from around the metaverse… The Vanity Google Ever heard the term “vanity google”? It’s basically where you google your own name and any online monikers you may use, and it is actually a good idea to do every now and then, especially if you are being cyber bullied. I tried googling myself (arianeb) and of course I
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I just discovered that not only have I been on Second Life for 7 years. Ariane Barnes has been around as a virtual character for 10 years. The above picture is rendered from the oldest complete “Ariane” poser file I could find, dated April 30, 2001. Ariane has been an online character for over a decade now. The original concept
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All the stuff I wanted to do for version 7 is finally complete. So I am officially releasing version 7 of Ariane’s Dating Sim. The full release can be downloaded here. If you already have the 7beta version download, all the changes since then can be downloaded as a small patch here. The primary changes made since the beta release:
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Yes, I finally finished it to the point it is releasable, and I’m declaring it version 7 because there is so much new stuff. I basically got rid of most of the video game screenshot backgrounds and replaced them with new 3D art renders. There are 291 new pictures, and I have at least 8 more I still want to
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As promised, I am showing some new stuff I’m working on for the dating game. I was hoping to be finished by now but I keep getting distracted by other matters. All I can say is it will be done when it is done. The sequel is likely going to be in Visual Novel format, which means I can do
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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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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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