At the beginning of the month, I shared early some Halloween pics for social media. Now that we are closer to Halloween, here's more with less costumes.
Doing these multicharacter photoshoots are less pressure filled than ones I do for the games. In a few months people will forget about th...
This week I'm highlighting a few more re-renders I did as I enlarged the pics from 1080p to 1440p.
One of the biggest things I wanted to change was the whole Alice in Wonderland path that I originally did by mixing Poser and Daz Studio renders together. Now that I know how to handle backgrounds in Daz correctly, and know how to get poser characters to work in Daz, Idecided to do what I could to ...
2024-10-18 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Spent the summer on another project of course, and now time to go back to Dating in a World on Fire.
You can get the new version at https://arianeb.itch.io/dating-in-a-world-on-fire/patreon-access
Biggest changes:
1. All pictures are now 1440p so the game looks bigger and better.
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I spent the summer 1. Leaning Daz Studio while remaking Ariane in Paradise, and 2. Thinking and rethinking, and generally overthinking Dating in a World On Fire.
All my rethink plans don't involve abandoning what I've done so far. I still need to start the game with the player character on a date with Relay. But everything else is being rethought.2024-10-11 21:00:00 +0000 UTC
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I know it's early in the month for Halloween images, but it is the right month. These are pictures I'm planning on sharing on social media, closer to the holiday, and I wanted to give Patreon an early glimpse.
Wasn't sure what theme to use this year so I decided on: "Costumes I bought for Ariane in ...
There are now multiple locations to get the Ariane in Paradise Free Demo.
You can play a censored version (no nudity but still may contain inappropriate for work language) at https://arianeb.itch.io/ariane-in-paradise-demo
The free uncensored demo is downloadable on ...
2024-09-29 09:52:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the picture of the bartender at the end of the game still dressed. There's a really dumb bug in the game I discovered that if you are not playing with the bonus on and reach the ending where you talk to the bartender, the bartender inexplicably shows up topless.
I did a stealth patched to all versions to fix it, but the bug was there for a couple of weeks. So if the bartender han...
2024-09-27 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor the rest of the week, Dater Patrons can go to The Ariane in Paradise Demo page and try out the web based demo, and get the Steam key for Ariane in Paradise if you don't already have it.
https://arianeb.itch.io/ariane-in-paradise-demo/patreon-access
I'll be setting the page live to everybody next week, and moving the remaining Steam keys to the main Ariane in Paradise purchas...
To finish the 2.0 project, I got a working Android version for Ariane in Paradise 2.0. To make it more compatible for phones, I shrank the resolution to 1920×1080 and basically used the 1.5 version with 2.0 graphics. Not as good as the PC version — couldn’t include the new special effects like changing clothes or background scrolling on hikes — but the game now works on your phone with the better Daz...
This is the last picture of the game. Ariane back home tired on her couch after a long trip. It is also the first and only image of the "new" Ariane on her "old" home set. The set I use for Ariane's house has a version for Daz Studio, and I used that one, just recoloring the white walls teal. The white couch is not a Daz prop, but I got it working. Made a nude version too, it's not in the game bu...
Even though the game is out, I'm going to do Ariane in Paradise pictures for the rest of the month, and just talk about them.
When I did the Ariane driving the electric scooters, I also did the Ariane and Rachel scooter scenes at the same time so I wouldn't have to swap out the backgrounds.
2024-09-13 21:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I never actually made a "Demo" for Ariane in Paradise. At the time of it's release in 2019, I thought it was so similar to my other games that the other games would serve as a demo of sorts. If you liked Date Ariane and Something's In The Air, you should like Ariane in Paradise too. No need for a demo.
That all changed this month with the releas...
2024-09-08 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostIf you are Dater level Patron I was able to get 50 free keys for the Steam version of Ariane in Paradise and I'm distributing them on the Demo page https://arianeb.itch.io/ariane-in-paradise-demo which hopefully can only be accessed by Dater Patrons. There should be a "Retrieve Key" button on your Ariane in Paradise game.
This is an experiment I am trying. Tell me if it worked.
2024-09-07 09:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This pirate and western themed photoshoot posts features costumes because I had to buy new costumes to make these. Nude versions will be attached. When I made these photoshoots 6 years ago, I already had the costumes in Poser, but for Daz, I had to buy new costumes.
I went with what was on sale, which is why the male player is dressed like an old time bar patron instead of Clint Eastwood.
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2024-09-06 21:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Think I found my last bug, until the next one, so I decided to upload Ariane in Paradise 2.0 to all store fronts.
Version 2.0 is Live for all versions except Android (coming soon)
This summer I needed to improve my Daz Studio skills, and noticed Ariane in Paradise was looking old and dated, so I decided to update all the graphics of Ariane in Paradise to the Daz Engine. The n...
2024-09-05 00:39:09 +0000 UTC View Post 
I am now done with all the picture updates.
Day 3 stuff took longer than I thought it would. I haven't really tested it out fully. But I promised a build by the end of the month and luckily this month is 31 days long. The full 2.0 release took a few days longer. Please report bugs if you find any.
Here's the link to the download: 2024-09-04 06:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the wrap party that is in the game, not a wrap for this project which is mostly done. I promised a release by the end of the month so 1.99 will be made available tomorrow (luckily August has 31 days).
Last weeks ended at the rental place, we start with the drive there.
You meet Flo, a form...
2024-08-30 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the second route into town, the waking path and gymnastics in the street path. The girl on the bike you meet is the Female player character from DiaWoF with blonde hair, the male player character is the nude runner on the beach in day 2.
The scene walking through the grass was kind of bad looking...
Starting the Day 3 paths with the lowest of the hanging fruits. The Hike to the Lake path. It's basically the same as the Day 1 hike to the lake, only Ariane is naked.
You reach this path by not doing any hikes on day 1 or day 2, so continuity errors are easy to hide.
2024-08-16 21:00:04 +0000 UTC
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This week I'm starting a preview of Day 3 pictures. This is a post nature hike with Ariane in her "emergency bikini". I really like the look of her hair and face in this one, so I made it my Instagram avatar.
The hotel set had one bedroom, which I used as the players bedroom, but I had a separate fancy ...
Here's a preview of the Sailing scene in Ariane in Paradise. Because the boat captain Jack and his female partner Lin have a big scene, I decided to make new character models. I recently bought a male model on sale who looks Asian, and I haven't used it anywhere, so new boat captain it is, though his distinctive Asian eyes are hidden behind sunglasses except in this picture.
For Lin, I...
2024-08-02 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 gaming genre was born.
link: A 3 part history of Date Ariane / Date Ariane Remastered ...
2024-07-29 05:50:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Ariane in Paradise with new Daz renders covering day 1 and 2 of the game story.
It's called 1.98 because itch.io makes it easy to load games as you increase the version number. So day 1 completed is 1.97, day 2 is 1.98, day 3 beta is 1.99, and completed will be 2.0
The game is nearly 1 GB because of the 1440p upgrade. H...
2024-07-27 11:24:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I'm focusing on 3 locations you can go to on the island on Day 2. The first is a taco stand. Same set as the original, just HDRI lit, and Ariane wearing different clothes.
There are 3 different versions of this meal. The casual day 2 outfit, the wet hair and swimsuit version, and the nude versi...
This is about the other day 2 morning paths: The Beach and the Coral Reef. Both used some interesting rendering techniques. Above is one of the few beach pictures on a new beach set. It's also the set used for the sunset pictures.
The best way to do beach pictures is with HDRI, which are 360° photos t...
Last November I said I wanted to make a new Christine character in Ariane in Paradise, and made a new one based on the V4 model. Well here I am 9 months later with yet another one. Also living in a radically improved house.
She's your guide through a 3D cave system that was not designed for Poser or Daz Stud...
Last couple of weeks I've spent working on updating the hiking path of Day 2. Here's a few samples from this. Luckily most of the props from the old game work just fine in Daz, though some look old even in Daz, the waterfall in particular which I'll get to.
This is the early morning start with a bright sunny &nbs...
Since most of you have access to Day 1 already, (at least I hope you do, I'm writing from early June), thought I'd share my tentative plans for day 2 and day 3. Thanks to the limitations of Daz props, some things have already had to change.
One thing that is new is better: "wet" and "dry" models. There are tools you can buy to turn any skin into wet skin, but I found a video online explaining it...
2024-06-28 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Focusing on the other two paths this week, here's Tassiana. Like the original, I had to find two similar dresses I could recolor pink. To do this I had to erase the top part of a dress, and put Tassiana in a pink knit jacket.
Rachel's pink "designer" dress is all one dress. The original is a pretty...
Got the original Sailboat working, and to celebrate here is the newly refurbished game part 1.
It's called 1.97 because itch.io makes it easy to load games as you increase the version number. So day 1 completed is 1.97, first half of day 2 is 1.98, full day 2 is 1.99, and completed will be 2.0
The game is nearly 1 GB because of t...
2024-06-14 21:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post