Ariane in Paradise 1.98 (2.0 beta 2) Now Available
Added 2024-07-27 11:24:09 +0000 UTC
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. Here's the link:
https://arianeb.itch.io/ariane-in-paradise-demo/patreon-access
Besides the pictures upgrade, I changed scenes when traveling. Instead of scrolling through static pictures, it pans across a background. If Ariane is walking, the game shows her character bouncing a little to indicate movement. This is a recent feature in Renpy, and Daz has a cylindrical camera making infinite loop pans easy.
Day 2 uses this in the long hiking scene with two different backgrounds. Some changes to the two hiking locations were made. There's a new Christine and she lives in a new house.
In the sailing scene when you hide in the cabin from the rain storm, the image moves around a bit. This originally was done with 8 different edits of the same larger than the screen image. Now I just use one image and move it about kind of chaotically to simulate the boat movement during the storm. Very effective, maybe too effective, which is why only that scene is done that way.
Also changes to the casino. I could not find a shirt with lots of buttons, but did find one that can be adjusted to show more skin, so that is replacing the buttons when Ariane loses.
Enjoy!
