ArianeB 7.1 Walkthroughs

Next to the ArianeB walkthroughs I have a small, but nice, hobby project that is called the Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit. It is destined to serve a molecularly small, but dedicated, fraction of the Syd Barrett peer group and is only visited a couple of times per day.

Most of you may have heard from a band called Pink Floyd who have had global success with albums such as The Wall, Wish You Were Here or (The) Dark Side Of The Moon. Some of you may be aware of the fact that the band evolved out of a mid-sixties British rhythm and blues outfit that listened to quite ridiculous names as The Abdabs, The T-Set and even The Meggadeaths, before baptising itself The Pink Floyd Sound at about the same time when psychedelia hit London.

The man who (literally) put Pink Floyd on the charts in 1967 was its band leader Syd Barrett. Six months later he was kicked out of the band and while the rest would grow into mega-stardom, Barrett, a so-called drug victim of the permissive London Underground days, lived a recluse-life in his home-town Cambridge. Not that he was really a poor boy, when he died in 2006, he had a few million pounds on his bank-account thanks to the loyalty of his ex-band-mates.

Iggy the Eskimo

Syd Barrett made a couple of solo albums and the first of them has a photo of his girlfriend who was only known to the outside world as Iggy the Eskimo. Her iconic picture became a psychedelic avatar and can be found on thousands of record and CD sleeves and is repeated on virtually all press articles, magazines and books related to Syd Barrett.

2008 saw the creation of the Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit and soon after Mojo magazine found Iggy back, interviewing her after four decades of silence. Iggy Rose wasn't even aware that her picture had been used for a legendary record sleeve, nor that photographers Storm Thorgerson and Mick Rock have made a small business out of the Syd Barrett & Iggy the Eskimo photo shoot. Every time her picture gets published, their cash register goes ka-ching.

The Iggy Bank

To cut a long story short, Iggy Rose has never seen pounds, shillings or pence for these pictures and even has got problems paying her monthly phone and electricity bill. As Facebook is her connection to the outside world some friends have decided to donate her a laptop and pay for her monthly broadband connection.

Enough rambling, if you would be interested in donating, please visit The Iggy Bank or the Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit for more information. Sorry to have disturbed you and you can all go back to your porn now...

Whoops! We forgot to wish you a Happy New Year, although those looking for a quick and easy way to get ArianeB in the sack will not really care for these wishes. So let's get on with it because some believe this is the final year of our universe.

Ariane Barnes: Aspiring Video Game Star

A spin-off of the ArianeB series are the comics that can be found under the title Ariane Barnes: Aspiring Video Game Star. Thirteen comics have been published so far, mostly with a gentle nod from the gaming to the real world. They range from the amusing to the brilliant and we still have a soft spot for number seven as it is so damn realistic in a funny way.

It took the creator three years to make this new comic and it contains a mild sarcastic stab to those fans who think that the new ArianeB should still look like her previous incarnation.

Something's In The Air

But the best news is about the sequel that has finally found a name: Something's In The Air. You can read all about it at the latest blog post of the ArianeB domain: The sequel has a title.

The new version will have 6 main stories, five that can be played in random order and a sixth that will only be opened when the other 5 have successfully ended. Within the next six months a demo of the first chapter should be published and work on the other chapters will be finalised at a later stage.

So splendid news for us, Ariane-lovers. But something in the six-story-set-up is nagging us and we wouldn't be surprised that only the first demo will be for free and that some additional chapters will turn into a commercial venture.

There's nothing against that, obviously, there have been enough ArianeB clones around that all asked a fair amount of money to be played, while the high-quality original has been free for as long as we can remember.

In the meantime the first adventure of ArianeB can be found at arianeb dot com, playable online or as a download: Go on a virtual date with me, Ariane .

And if you are stuck the blog you are reading now offers nearly 50 different scenarios for the game. Have fun!

How to start the game: Start.
Introduction: Introduction.

It took me some data mining to dig this out but I'm pretty sure I created the very first ArianeB walkthrough on the 16th of September 2007. In an entry from the day before, called Cyberhugging, I had already declared my unconditional love for adult oriented games that probably started in 1986 with Samantha Fox's Strip Poker on an Amstrad machine (that I still have out of sentimental reasons). The game however, that will be tattooed forever in my brain, is Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards that was shown to me by my brother-in-law who used to play the game all day long during his military service. A good thing that the Soviets never found out that the Belgian army computers, used to protect our capitalist borders, were mostly used for harmless fun.

Four years and three million clicks later the ArianeB walkthroughs now encompass about 50 pages. Most of these game solutions haven't been found by me but by the various members and contributors of the Shark's Lagoon forum where the ArianeB thread now counts over 60 pages or 900 posts (one possible scenario was pointed out by the Creator him/her-self and immediately hijacked by this blog).

With ArianeB #1 probably over, finished, ended, buried and death and ArianeB #2 still in embryonic mode it is perhaps appropriate to point out that the aforementioned Shark is a game creator in his own right. That Cyberhugging post of mine mentioned a game by Shark, called Horny Afternoon and this month the fifth episode of this continuous adventure has seen the light of day: Wendy Birthday Party.

Shark's games, programmed in Flash, are deliberately caricatural. They are in shrill contrast with those Daz 3D and Poser (free) characters. Since a couple of years, and more or less triggered by the successful Shark's Lagoon forum, there has been a boom of adult 3D generated html adventures and frankly all the characters and situations look the same. If I have to play a truth or dare scene again, other than in the original ArianeB dating sim obviously, I'm gonna puke.

Shark's creations bring us a breath of fresh air in an overcrowded adult gaming cyberworld and that's what I like about them. Enough said. Why don't you give them a try for a chance? They are free to play... (paying visitors can play games in advance and are treated with some hidden content, often an extra scene).

The Horny Afternoon series (so far)

All games are playable online and can be downloaded (often in better quality) at Rapidshare. Most versions have a hint system that can be activated by typing the right word, highlight or mark the space between the quotes ("like this") to reveal the secret word.

	Horny Afternoon	HA1	A piano lesson turns into all that jazz. Toggle hint: press "TAB" key to highlight next move.
	Another Very Special Horny Afternoon	HA2	Frank, the handy man, repairs some light bulbs in the bath room. Toggle hint: none.
	An Afternoon at the Swimming Pool	HA3	Cloé visits Wendy's house and they revive those lonely nights at the boarding school. Toggle hint: type "cloe" to highlight next move.
	First Time	HA3+	An additional back-door scene for HA3, with Cloé, Wendy and Frank. Toggle hint: none.
	Secret Fantasy Dreams	n/a	In this spin-off Wendy joins Nanny in bed, truth or fantasy? Toggle hint: type "dream" to highlight next move.
	Private Consultation	HA4	Kenny who studies medicine arrives. The girls ask for some free medical advice. Toggle hint: type "nurse" to highlight next move.
	Wendy Birthday Party (Pt. 1)	HA5	Wendy celebrates her 19th birthday with a Roman Empire themed party... Toggle hint: type "gift" to highlight next move.
	Wendy Birthday Party (Pt. 2)	HA5	Wendy's party turns into a Bacchanalian celebration (password protected, revealed at the end of part 1). Toggle hint: type "gift" to highlight next move.

Most episodes have been turned into walkthrough videos by Arnulf, including scenes that have been deleted from the freeware versions of the game, fun to watch but it takes away the gameplay experience. These are hosted on the contradictorily named Rapidshare server so that by the time you have finally downloaded these you could have played them as well.

Have some nice hot and horny holidays!

A couple of weeks ago (see: A New Ariane) it was revealed how Ariane's features were going to be upgraded as the earlier model dated from about a decade ago. The result was a 'new' Ariane who looked a bit like the original's older sister.

Reactions from the fans were mixed although everyone had to agree that the old 3D model was outdated and needed a makeover. The Creator did listen though to our wishes and created yet another incarnation of our favourite cybergirl. ArianeV4 has been modeled 'trying to balance between matching the proportions of “classic” Ariane, and what actually looks good'.

The final result with technical gobbledygook can be found on the official Ariane blog: A Final V4 Ariane and Poser 9 is Out.

The sequel will not only have an entirely new Ariane. Also the gameplay will change considerably as it will be a visual novel, made with the freeware Ren'Py.

Visual novels are quite common in Japan but have never really caught on in the western world because they mostly fiddle around with typical Japanese subjects and fetishes. I have once jokingly described those as stories 'where the only purpose seems to be to put as many tentacles from an alien octopus into the different orifices of a badly drawn under aged hentai girl'. I'm afraid those are only the soft ones as I recently was disgusted by a manga where nude girls were stir-fried alive in a huge wok.

The Ariane sequel, working title Date Night in America, won't have anything of that sick shit. Let's quote the Creator:

First of all, potential dates are women, not girls.
Second, Manga art is out, 3D art is in.
Third, an actual plot, with good guys, bad guys, surprising twists, and humor.
Fourth, a focus on American style modern story telling, inspired by Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Joss Whedon and others.
Fifth, instead of a story that takes weeks to develop your character and your relationships, it all takes place in a single day.
(Taken from: More Info on “The Sequel”.)

Ariane will be one of the many characters in Date Night and most characters can be seen on the official Ariane blog. It's a good read, as all articles are on Life in the Metaverse.

It will take several months before a demo version of Date Night will be published. In the meantime ArianeB can be found at arianeb dot com, playable online or as a download: Go on a virtual date with me, Ariane .

And if you are stuck the blog you are reading now offers nearly 50 different scenarios for the game. Have fun!

How to start the game: Start.
Introduction: Introduction.

A forum post, added by dating sim creator ArianeB, at Shark's Lagoon points towards a scenario that was present in the game since quite a while, but that has never been described before.

When the right conditions have been met it is possible to challenge ArianeB for a basketball shooting contest in the nude. For those fans who have not the guts (nor the time) to seek for the solution by themselves a new walkthrough has been added on this space: Nude Basketball.

At the same time this is an excellent opportunity to lead you to the games of Mr. Shark himself, although most adult game players will already be aware of his website and (excellent) forum. His latest freeware creation is called Desire & Submission 3 and is a BDSM adventure in the typical Lagoon style that I once described as witty, funny and sexually overt without being smutty (or at least, not too much).

Next to some interesting news at the official Ariane blog, that we will copy paste here on a later date, it was also mentioned that a new stealth update has taken place.

A stealth update is an update (obviously) that is released without any record of the change being preserved, in other words, officially this is ArianeB 7.1, but a comparison between a recent and an old version of the same version will show some changes. This August 2011 update has new graphics for the home décor shopping scenario and we are glad to say that the horrible kitschy picture that ArianeB bought before has now been replaced by a neoclassical one, Pompeo Batoni's 1761 depiction of Diana and Cupid.

For the pseudo-philosophers, nitpickers and linguistics among us: a stealth update will lose its secret status when its existence has been revealed, so this stealth update no longer is a stealth one.

Nothing has changed in the code itself, but our walkthrough that deals with this part of the game has now been updated to be in line with the new release: Dress & Home Decor Shopping.

And if you are stuck the blog you are reading now offers nearly 50 different scenarios for the game. Have fun!

How to start the game: Start.
Introduction: Introduction.

The official ArianeB blog asked for comments about the new version of their star at their entry: Ariane gets a makeover, published about a week ago. The first ArianeB simulation used 3D models that were up to par when the game was first devised – already a decade ago - but that have passed their expiration date for quite a while.

Obviously the new characters in the ArianeB sequel are based upon contemporary 3D models. In our last entry, First look at Ariane B2, it was announced that the strip club owner had been upgraded, but the ArianeB creator soon found out that mixing old and new 3D models don't really fit together. In other words: classic ArianeB looks inferior compared with the new characters.

The only option was to upgrade ArianeB. You can read for yourself on the ArianeB blog how this was done and find some prototype pictures as well.

Reactions went more or less along these lines: “Not to say the new version isn’t pretty, but she’s certainly not the Ariane we’ve come to know and love.” (Josh, 2011 08 18.) Others found that the new Ariane character, like in a movie sequel, has been replaced by another actress. A bit like Saavik in a couple of Star Trek movies, first Kirstie Alley, then Robin Curtis.

Useful recommendations were given as well and after a couple of days the creator came with a new prototype:

Making another attempt, adjusting eyes, nose, mouth and cheeks. The parts that still don’t match up simply are not possible even on V4. And, just to put the finishing touch on, I am using classic Ariane’s eyeballs. If eyes are the windows of the soul, then that is the biggest change of all.

And just like we grow accustomed to a new actor who replaces another one in our favourite soap we will get to like ArianeB mark 2 as well. To quote Danny:

In truth, I really can’t wait to play, no matter how Ariane looks. I love the original game, you did a great job on developing it and the title character, so all in all, if the game plays as well as the first, with both the feel of the game, and the great stories, I’ll be sold.

It will take several months before a playable version of Ariane B2 will be published. In the meantime the official version of ArianeB 1 can be found at arianeb dot com, playable online or as a download: Go on a virtual date with me, Ariane .

And if you are stuck the blog you are reading now offers nearly 50 different scenarios for the game. Have fun!

How to start the game: Start.
Introduction: Introduction.

The ArianeB official blog, Ariane's Life in the Metaverse, has published the first glimpse of how the second installment of the dating sim will look like.

Ariane B2 will look slightly different, mainly because she has visited the hairdresser in between versions and has found an opportunity to buy some new clothes. (Probably with the money she received from winning the strip contest: see Strip Club Contest or Strip Club Contest 2.)

This blog will not be a spoiler and if you want to know how and where the second date will start you are hereby invited to read some geeky stuff here: Principal Photography Begins. The metaverse blog also shares the first two pictures (in a staggering 1280 x 720 px format) of the game in development.

All right, one spoiler. Sitting in the bar behind ArianeB (see the above left picture) is the owner of the strip club. She will be one of the dramatis personae in the new game, and of course you have met her briefly in the first ArianeB episode as well, so she might recognise you

It will take several months before a playable version of Ariane B2 will be published. In the meantime the official version of ArianeB 1 can be found at arianeb dot com, playable online or as a download: Go on a virtual date with me, Ariane .

And if you are stuck the blog you are reading now offers nearly 50 different scenarios for the game. Have fun!

How to start the game: Start.
Introduction: Introduction.

The official ArianeB blog has announced a new update in the ArianeB 7.x series: Dating Sim 7.1 Bridge to the Sequel.

Its biggest change, that isn't useful for now, is that the player gets a five digits hexadecimal code at the end of the game that will continue the simulation once the sequel will be finished. This code can already be visualised by playing the game in 'debug' mode, by opening the default2.htm page.

When the sequel will be published - but don't expect this to happen this year (2011) - the game will remember past situations and interact accordingly. If you went to the bistro with ArianeB in part one, she will give you a rendez-vous "at the restaurant we went to last time”, if not, ArianeB will give you directions how to get there. The same goes for Rebecca and the sequel will remember if you already have met her at the lingerie store or not.

ArianeB 7.1 contains several new graphics to be in-line with its sequel:

		The strip club owner has been replaced with a more modern 3D equivalent, apparently she will be one of the new encounters in part 2, but probably (or logically) only if you haven't visited the strip club before with ArianeB or Rebecca in part 1.
		The Carlsberg beer has vanished and has now been replaced by a new brand of beer. That is a pity, I kinda liked these green cans. Well I can always pretend it's a Guinness.
		The amusement park scenario has been (slightly) rewritten. The log ride with its wet ending has been replaced with a ride on the Ferris wheel and a few rounds on the flying swing. ArianeB eats a giant corn dog and gets sick when you arrive home. So the end result of this scenario stays the same.

Several backgrounds have been changed as well and a new cola advertisement can be seen on various images. The woman advertising the soft drink will play a role in ArianeB Part 2 as well, so it is rumoured.

Bug correction (repaired if you have a recent 7.1 download, July 2011 or later)

In one particular situation (see: In Bed with Three) the game halts when you follow ArianeB into her bedroom. This is all due to a typo in the script (the game's author is aware of the bug and has included it into a so-called stealth upgrade, recent downloads will not have the issue).

Open the file text12.htm in Notepad (or any text editor) before playing the game and look for line 179 that reads:
parnet.shower = 1;
change this into
parent.shower = 1;
and don't forget to save. The bug has now been repaired.

At first sight none of the scenarios, except the amusement park one, have changed so all walkthroughs should still be valid. They will all be tested and the 7.1 logo will appear in the upper right corner. Update 2011 07 18: done!

More information about ArianeB 7.1 can be found at the official Arianeb blog: Dating Sim 7.1 Bridge to the Sequel.
The download location of the new update can be found at: Go on a virtual date with me, Ariane.

How to start the game: Start.
Introduction: Introduction.