If you have Date Ariane Remastered 1.2 (the screen above says 1.05, if your game is up to date it should say 1.2), I am releasing a patch tentatively labeled 1.3 that voices about half the game as well as make other significant changes.
If you are new to Patreon patches, it involves downloading the zip file and extracting to where your DateArianeRemastered.exe file is located on PC. On...
2023-08-18 20:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I haven't been working much on the new game. My focus is on getting SITAR on Steam (Approved! coming next month!) and doing the voice work for Date Ariane Remastered.
Most of the work on the new game in the last month has been these update posts where I play with Daz Studio, and with new assets and clothing.
2023-08-17 21:00:04 +0000 UTC
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This weeks new set is an outdoor abandoned garden. This is supposed to be a "solarpunk" world so there needs to be some green places.
Also found this completely impractical "Goddess" dress that is too sexy to wear many places, but it is fun to show off.
As far as game planning is going, I'm at th...
2023-08-10 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
As people focus on vacations, July sales on the internet sites tend to be low, so lots of sales. Being still in the planning stages of the next game, I took advantage, so for August pics are going to be me playing with my recent purchases.
The "set" this week is a dirty old corridor. I bought it with p...
2023-08-03 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Plans for August
I have started working on AI voicing Date Ariane Remastered. Like when I voiced SITAR, I am finding things that need changing. I seriously thought about restructuring the game, making it harder, but then decided, I'll save the game difficult tinkering for my next game which is similar to DAR with a different character and setting.
Instea...
Almost to the end of the first month back on Patreon, and haven't done any nudes yet. I have been experimenting with adding jewelry to the character like I did with Ariane, so here are a couple of choices.
I'm going for a "home made" vibe with the jewelry.
2023-07-27 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week I released a mini game which used up all my shareable pictures in one fell swoop, and I have been busy finishing up the voice work on SITAR to make any new pictures.
So, here's a test video I made of Relay in Character Creator 4. There is a process to port Daz characters to CC4, which then can port characters in every major gaming engine. CC4, along with iClone is als...
2023-07-21 00:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Instead of the usual pic of the week, here's a whole game!
The mini-game I announced in last weeks post is done and even fully AI voiced. The purpose of making this is two fold: 1. ) Introduce a new character that will be the main character of my next game. 2.) Tie it to the lore of the Ariane games. This is a sequel to Hopepunk City.
This mini-game does both very quickly. ...
2023-07-13 20:11:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Restarting my weekly pics feature. I may be changing the format from time to time starting with today's post.
For the past couple of years, the weekly pics came from pics I was making for remastered versions of older games. These were easy as poses were already set and sets were already built and lit.
For the first time since I started this in 2004, I am starting over completely from scra...
2023-07-06 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you have Something's In The Air Redux version 1.0 or 1.01, here is the patch to 1.1 I am working on so far.
IT IS NOW COMPLETE!! and in beta pending a thorough play test I am doing now.
Voice work in all paths has been done, and some places I wasn't planning on voicing, like the elemental realms stuff has now been partially voiced, too.
Eleven Labs has a new feature where you can fi...
2023-07-04 16:45:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Restarting the Patreon means I need some new material to post here, so here is an early release of the Something's In The Air Redux Demo 1.1 fully voiced.
So far the 1.01 version of SITAR only has the ending content voiced, so here is a chance to check out the beginning part.
This demo will be released to the public after I finish all the voice work in SITAR later this mo...
2023-07-01 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Restarting the Patreon means I need some new material to post here, so here is an early release of the Something's In The Air Redux Demo 1.1 fully voiced.
So far the 1.01 version of SITAR only has the ending content voiced, so here is a chance to check out the beginning part.
This demo will be released to the public after I finish all the voice work in SITAR later this month.
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2023-07-01 16:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
After taking a couple of months off to finish the Something's In The Air Redux project (which is still not done). I'm back for an attempt to refresh my Patreon, and give me some motivation to make new content.
If you are a subscriber you will be charged on July 1. If you want to leave before that, that's cool.
One of the things I tested during the break was to see if Patre...
2023-06-27 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
More info on my main website:
https://arianeb.com/2023/05/08/date-ariane-remastered-1-2/
Some people are having troubles downloading the "patch", so I am posting it here, too.
2023-05-08 22:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Updated SITAR to 1.01 to fix bugs, included new voicing too
The bugs needed to be patched, but I had already started work on voicing the 3 endings, and didn't want to remove the new voicing, so I left it in as part of the patch. Update to 1.01 file is attached at the bottom.
Patreon Update
Last week after the release of the SITAR game, I menti...
2023-04-27 20:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Something's In The Air Redux is out and available for all. If you are a dater level Patreon you can get it at https://arianeb.itch.io/somethings-in-the-air-redux/patreon-access for free still.
Also the Demo is available for free to anybody.
Kind of a relief this day has finally...
2023-04-20 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I am finally ready to launch Something's In The Air Redux to the public on itch.io. Cost on that website will be the same $6 as Date Ariane Remaster, and at that price you get access to PC, Mac, and Android.
Patreons can download it at https://arianeb.itch.io/somethings-in-the-air-redux/...
2023-04-14 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week's experiment with making a Daz Studio Victoria 8 version of Ariane went OK, but the MRL Gem skin texture just felt off. This week I found a way to apply a Victoria 4 texture to a Victoria 8 body using this script.
Mixing 50% Aurore Head and 50% MRL Gem2 head and Aurore body and applying t...
2023-04-13 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday in my weekly pic post I mentioned working on a Steam Deck version of Date Ariane Remastered, and I was having an issue with seeing what menu item was being pointed to playing with the joystick controls, especially when combined with the help menu highlights.
Found a fix for this by changing the way the game handles hovering over menu choices. Not only does it change the...
2023-04-07 13:19:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Kind of ran out of "game" art, and I've been really busy on several fronts. I got a new "steam deck" and I am working on trying to get Date Ariane Remastered to work properly on it. More on that later.
This weeks pictures are experimental. As I come to finishing up remastering all my current games, ...
2023-04-06 20:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we are, very close to being ready for release!
This new versions of the SITAR beta available at https://arianeb.itch.io/somethings-in-the-air-redux/patreon-access or you can use the attached 86MB patch to update your 0.9 game to 0.99.
Android has been updated as well, but cannot...
2023-04-02 15:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the Demo version of Something's In The Air Redux for PC or Linux. Mac is in a different post because the two are too big for a single post. I am making this post available to all levels for testing.
It will eventually be posted at itch.io as a free demo, and I am making this post available to all levels of patreon. Early next week I'll release SITAR 0.99 to "dater" level pat...
2023-03-31 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the demo version for Mac computers. I have to make two posts because of Patreon not allowing more than 200 MB uploads per post and these are 125 MB and 130 MB files. So here is the Mac version.
It will eventually be posted at itch.io as a free demo, and I am making this post available to all levels of patreon. Early next week I'll release SITAR 0.99 to "dater" level patreons...
2023-03-31 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week I shared AI versions of Rachel, and more than a few pointed out how the Rachel in the Club picture looks so much better in AI than 3D, and I realized they were right.
But it is not because the AI pictures looks more realistic. Realism is not my goal in my art. But beauty is! What the AI version was saying to me was not how unrealistic 3D looks, but how poorly lit the 3D looks. 2023-03-30 21:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post
After doing a few of these AI versions of Ariane, time to give a chance to Rachel. Not going to do different techniques, just jumping to controlnet this time. This one is a little freaky because the AI version looks like someone I know.
While I created an AI diffusion model using 20 or so renders...
2023-03-23 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally got the final ending of the game completed for Something's In The Air Redux. The final ending required some new coding I've never done before, but it worked out the way I hoped.
This new versions of the SITAR beta available at https://arianeb.itch.io/somethings-in-the-air-redux/p...
2023-03-17 21:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Since this is going up the day before, or the day of St. Patty's Day, and Lizards Nightclub is decked out in forest green, it just felt appropriate to title this post this way even though these pictures have nothing to do with the Irish cultural holiday.
Unless Rebecca is Irish. When I built a Rebecca character in Second Life, I gave her the last name of Clarke (Second Life made you pick ...
2023-03-17 00:09:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I was having a discussion on Discord about all the various AI tools out there, and a voice synthesizer AI website called Eleven Labs https://elevenlabs.io/ came up.
So I signed up for a free account and tested it by creating voices for Ariane, Rachel, and Maya. (not entirely satisfied with Maya, or Rachel for that matter, but ...
2023-03-10 22:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to limitations of file sizes on Patreon, and not wanting to put this on itch.io yet. Here is the download of Strip Crazy Eights with VOICE for Mac.
See post for PC for details.
UPDATED! See update notes on PC posting, but here is the latest mac version.
2023-03-10 22:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The recent game update added some new content featuring Wendy and Rebecca. Thought I'd focus on Wendy this week.
The new path involves working as a bartender for a one night temp gig. You are tossed several orders from several sources. If you get all the orders right, and you are playing as a male, Wendy may invite you to her place for another "workout"
2023-03-09 21:59:59 +0000 UTC
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