It was around the beginning of August 2004 that I posted “Ariane’s Date Simulator” to my web site. Nobody noticed until 2007 when it went viral, and as a result a new (to the west) gaming genre was born. Free Download below!
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Ariane in Paradise is coming to Steam, on May 7th, a link to the page as well as a trailer is in this article.
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Hopepunk City 1.5 is now fully AI voiced and available in all formats at either itch.io or the Site Store.
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I live in that strip of land in the US and Canada where the eclipse will be total. Ariane with her telescope and Rachel with her camera, are excited too!
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You have probably seen pictures on the internet involving gender swapped celebrities and other creepy photo manipulations. These are the result of an app called FaceApp. A Facebook friend and fellow Poser user Dodger started putting in Poser renders in the app to see what happens, and the result is usually a deep dive into the uncanny valley. I started
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As someone who does a lot of work in Poser for my games and other projects, that means I am involved in the 3D Rendering community, which I have written about before. About 3 years ago the community started getting bigger thanks to Daz3D releasing Daz Studio for free. Until then, the community primarily consisted of users of Poser software,
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One of my post Something’s In The Air projects was to update my web page. After doing Date Ariane, I came up with this idea of showing what Ariane is doing every moment of every day and creating a desktop theme that changes with the time of day. My idea got really elaborate for a while, sometimes changing pictures every
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Now that the game is out, I thought I’d write some commentaries on the game, throw some insights into my thinking. I’m doing this as a “Director’s Commentary” like you might have in a DVD if this was a movie. This post will contain spoilers! If you have not played story 1 yet, download the game now and play it
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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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A few months into this project, I upgraded from Poser 7 to Poser 9. One of the new features of Poser 9 was a new skin rendering model called Subsurface Scattering, or SSS. It is a form of Ambient Occlusion. If you don’t understand this stuff, well neither do I. All I know for sure is that it can sometimes
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