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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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 uploaded a new dating sim download. You can get it here. It fixes the bugs pointed out in the 6.2 post back in January.
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I made an unusual change to the Date Simulator, it has been on the online version for a while, thought I’d release the changes to the offline version.
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I decided I have done enough tweaking and released Dating Sim 6.0 as a download. I was going to release it as 5.9 and then have 6.0 be the “bug free” version of 5.9, but being bug free is likely an impossibility anyways. Since version 5.0 I have looked over all the “places”, especially the older ones, and I have
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I’ve been tinkering around with the dating simulator again, making some improvements to the backyard activities, especially the swimming activity, which has not been changed much since version 1.0. I’ve had the idea for some time of doing some underwater stuff, and experimented a little with that while making version 5.5. In that instance I created a corner of the pool in Second Life, taking advantage of SL’s full camera control and water effects. (click title to continue…)
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Back with a much anticipated Dating Sim update. I released version 5.0 of the dating simulator a year ago, and thought it would be fun to do an update release. Since the last release I have found a few alternate “hacked” versions to the dating simulator. The general trend of these hacks were to make the game 1) easier, 2)
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