The images are all 1500×900, originally rendered. Add in the 180px black bottom part and the total resolution is 1500×1080. It looks really good blown up on a full sized monitor. The Renpy engine automatically changes the fonts when you change the size so they always look sharp and crisp. I know some questions are going to come up so here are my answers: What versions of the game are available in HD? For now just the English PC, Mac, and Linux versions. The section which used to be called the gallery moved to the main menu and many of the gallery sections have been rewritten to work better in Renpy 7. This includes a new animated credit sequence, and a help sequence that points out the key binds of Renpy better, allowing play via Keyboard, Mouse, or Gamepad. This reduced the number of images, but because foreground requires images in larger png files, it did not reduce the size of the download. How do I download it? You download it from the. When you pick to download the Windows, Mac or Linux versions, you get the HD versions instead. How big is the download? Download size has increased from 180MB to 340MB due to larger images, many of which are in png format instead of jpg. Are you going to release it in other languages? I would love to if I can figure out a way to move the translations to the new version. Are you going to release it in android? The game is already a challenge on android at 200MB, the increase to 350MB would make it unplayable on most android devices, and the smaller screens cannot take advantage of the increased resolution. Is there any new material in this version? Why do some of the walkthroughs not work with the HD version? To make the game a little challenging, there is a rule that if you engage in intimacy too early, like open with a kiss, or try for second base while dancing before eating, then Ariane might reconsider her opinion of you later and change the outcome of the walkthrough. UPDATE: For Mac Users If you use a Mac to play I added an icns file which should replace the generic Renpy icon with a proper Date Ariane icon. If it worked, leave a comment. I have been hesitant to post anything about this, because I have a bad habit of starting something and then bailing on it half way through, but I am far enough along on this project to tell you about it. If you follow me on Facebook and Tumblr, you may have noticed that my latest Ariane pictures look similar and she is dressed the same. After experimenting with the genre with Something In The Air and Rachel and Ariane, I wanted to go back and do a second game like Date Ariane that is a little more chaotic and spontaneous. My original thought was create a new character, but I like Ariane too much so I decided I just need a new setting. Then I saw has already done a couple of them, is free to play if you want to get the idea of where I am going with this. It also helps that over the years I have collected a bunch of tropical themed 3D sets that I have barely even used. The basic premise is this: Ariane follows Rachel to a fictional tropical island, where for Rachel it is a work trip: she is doing photo shoots for the entire week. This leaves Ariane all alone during the daytime hours to find some fun things to do. You are on vacation alone on the same island where you meet Ariane at the hotel pool. You are not playing the same character as Date Ariane and SITA, in fact you can choose to be female if you want, that means you have to meet Ariane all over again. Also, Ariane only has free time during the day, which means that unlike Date Ariane and SITA, both of which primarily take place at night, this game will primarily take place under sun and mostly blue skies. I made it a fictional place, because making it a real place could offend people that live there. A fictional place allows me to, for example, create relaxed nudity laws. It also helps that my collection of exotic island sets include Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Polynesian looking props, so a generic tropical island in an unnamed ocean keeps the anachronisms down. I have no time table of when it will be done. SITA and Rachel and Ariane both took around two years. Use to download or click on the links for the versions in other languages. Remember that due to copyright issues I explained in my , it takes a little work to install the android version. You must download the apk file to a PC or Mac computer first then move the apk to your android phone or tablet, then install it. There are at least 3 methods I know of to do this, though there may be more. The easiest is to 1. There should be a notification saying your phone is charging via USB, tap on that notification and select file transfer. The other two methods involve either a memory card that both your PC and phone can read, or a network drive that both your PC and phone can read. Two possible issues if it does not install: 1. Once it has been installed and working, you can remove the apk file to free up space. Second big news, not only is the graphics update been done on the Spanish PC and Mac versions, but there is now an android version in Spanish. See the instructions above to install. Non-Android updates I accidentally created a bug in the German, French and Portuguese versions when I removed the SITA preview, namely the history of Ariane crashed the game. There are no changes to the English version for PC, Mac, or Linux since the graphics update in July. There will be new versions of these soon. I am releasing a graphics update for some versions of Date Ariane. Currently this is for the English and German PC, Mac, and Linux versions. About 95% of the pictures have been updated, over 1100. Lets start with Ariane. I am using an improved V4 model that corrects the shoulders and makes them look more natural and realistic. You can pretty much tell the difference between the old and the new by simply looking at the shoulders. I also give Ariane some fun expressions that she uses in certain circumstances. Lighting has changed, there are a lot fewer hard shadows. Also reflections on glass and surfaces is more realistic. Since most of Date Ariane takes place at night, windows should reflect the interior light. Different locations use different lighting and rendering. I also created a more realistic look for Rebecca. She no longer is driving the cartoon car I have been using since 2004. Her car actually looks realistic. The convenience store actually sells food now. Because realism is not the ultimate goal, beauty is. Why only 95% of the pictures, why not 100%? I am actually working on a 2. I mostly finished the images for this HD version, and decided to reduce them down to the non-HD size and update the graphics, but the current 1. If you are working on new code, why not incorporate it into the game? Because complex changes to the game will mess up the translated versions. I am trying to figure out a way to fix this, but it is going to take some time. Besides graphics changes, are there any other changes to the game? I eliminated a bug in the English and German versions that under the right circumstances would allow Ariane to drive downtown naked, but there is no code or pictures to support it so it crashed the game. By the way, thanks to translator Thorston Frei, the English and German versions are the same game, the only difference being the window title, the default language settings, and the help page. In both versions, you can go into settings and switch between English and German. Note that some lines in the German version will appear untranslated. I eventually want the French and Portuguese versions to work this way, but for now their code is unchanged. Why are there no graphics updates for the android versions? There will be eventually. Despite my efforts to control jpg compression, the new versions are now bigger in size than before. The android version was already pushing the limits of max size for an app, so I need to do some further size reduction before I can make new android versions. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Many people have been asking me about releasing Date Ariane on the Apple App store for use on iphones and ipads. I have not done so because the Apple App store forbids erotic games like Date Ariane in their store. And yet where there is a demand, there will be someone to fill it. Basically, art under the license is free to use in other projects as long as you disclose the source and disclose that it was used under the CC by 3. Unfortunately, most of the people that are using my art are not crediting me, which makes me sad. A reader of my blog and a good friend both posted me messages about it, so I had to download it. While the images, text, and choices all look very familiar, as far as I can tell this app is a cheap joke app. What do you expect for free? A couple of moves later the date was over for no explicable reason. I think that is the whole joke, no matter what you do the date will end abruptly at some random number of moves into the date. The app is only 41MB big with no extra downloads, a complete implementation of Date Ariane would be at least 150MB, so a lot of corners were cut. Steak dinner is pretty much the only one available, if you get that far. I suspect the dancing at the club promo image displayed above is an impossible goal. If you try this app out, post screenshots of how far you got. The game is only a 39mb download in the app store, but upon opening the game it downloads another 100mb or so of additional images from a 3rd party server to avoid the wrath of Apple. I got her to flash her boobs playing basketball and at the dress shop when I handed her two skirts, but even after a flawless strip club show, she exited the stage prior to taking off her top. This actually breaks the game in many places, like the photo shoot at the scenic vista does not know how to handle the situation with the variable set like that and the app crashes just when things were getting good. But they also made other game breaking changes. The most annoying involves the dinners. All dinners in this game end when you drink wine, so if you want to talk or compliment, you need to do that before you drink. This is a bug that existed for a short while in the Renpy version, until I fixed it. Another bug: Occasionally for no reason after eating a steak dinner, we get the pizza sauce ending. Those are the biggest I found so far, the most annoying part of the app is that there is no save game feature. If you must play Date Ariane on an iPhone, how about the original HTML version? Someone not me is hosting it at datingariane. I had to take mine down a couple of years ago due to devastating web traffic, but this one seems to be on a more stable server. So faithful of a port, that they left my cheating secrets in, which I never shared until now. If you hover over this dot with a mouse, it will show you the current game stats which refresh whenever the page number changes see the first stat in debug mode. This has been replicated in the Renpy version by turning hints on in options. The Konami code works in the Renpy version, too but it makes it impossible to collect achievements when used. Anyways, the real fun stuff in the game happens after dinner, so use the secret links to skip over the intro and dinner. And that is what I found, so far. Just remember: the Renpy version is copyright, meaning the art is NOT free to use in projects, and I hate filling out DMCA requests. Yes there is some art that crosses over, though that will change soon as I am making new versions of all the pictures, see my last blog post. Here are a list of projects I am hopefully going to finish some day. Project 1: Rachel Meets Ariane The Game The story of Rachel Meets Ariane has already been written and shared , however the game will add some variations and display it in a high definition presentation that is a little more aesthetically pleasing. Biggest obstacle right now is that I have yet to finish writing the alternate endings, then I still need to illustrate them. Project 2: Date Ariane HD Basically this involves re-rendering all the images in Date Ariane to size 1500×900 and also correcting lighting and other aesthetic issues along with very low compression. The result should be the best looking version of the game ever, but probably twice as big for download purposes. This will be for PC, Mac, and Linux only as it will be too big for android devices. I was sent a new German translation that works with the latest English version, I will probably release this very soon for German speakers. It also has a feature to switch between German and English. I guess this means will have to do a bunch more videos. Status: I just need to get around to it. So far, all I got is a concept that might involve some sort of adventure with the gaming guild that both Rachel and the Player are involved with. My wordpress blog is now my main site. A few months ago I added a lot of the main content from the old site to this site, accessible by the menus at the top. Want info on Date Ariane? Links to download are there, as well as the international versions, and my other games. Also as a WordPress site, there is a mobile version of this site now. The old site is still available for now at. Once I move everything over here, I will probably drop that site this one is cheaper. Tell me what you think.
