Felix Atagong's Unfinished Projec

Leilani

Entry 1503

Virtual Date Girls has got a new 100 MB update. The new girl is called Leilani, but the release has been done rather in a hurry, not always a good sign, and several reports at Shark’s Lagoon already mention crashes and bugs. The good news however is that some previous bugs with the Erica character have been solved. Chaotic’s output is rather frantic and I’m pretty sure it will not take a long time before a bug fixing release will see the light of day.

At first sight, I haven’t played the game yet, it seems that the graphics have improved a lot although one can still see that vintage DAZ models have been used. Chaotic has tried to overcome some technical problems by releasing two different browser-dependant downloads: one for Firefox, another one for Internet Explorer. He goes in against the tide with this decision as most modern independent or open-source games nowadays try to be compatible with all current computer systems or browsers. Of course this is Chaotic’s decision but in my opinion this will only multiply the problems instead of diminishing them. Especially later on when extra girls, items and parameters will be added. A future version will probably implement a money parameter to go and buy things at the several shops in the game, for instance.

Leilani has got four endings so far. There were going to be five, but one had to be removed due to technical issues. Downloaders can have a sneak preview as several images in the package aren’t used in the game for the moment but will be implemented in a future release.

It is Chaotic’s ultimate wet dream to have 5 different dates for VDG and he is already thinking of VDG volume two. Chaotic’s method of work is so fast that he will probably get there at the end of this year and by the time that date 5 will have been released most bugs will have disappeared from the other versions.

Unfinished Projects will not make a VDG walkthrough but some hints and tips can be found on Chaotic’s site. Some walkthroughs are floating on the web as well. It is possible that I will post some of these, if the authors give me permission to publish them.

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The make-a-Virtually-Date-Ariane-clone virus has struck another victim as well. Tictac announces The Life of Average Joe, but the project is still on the drawing table, as he (she?) would like to have: ‘ideas for the story, features, scenes, settings, models (anime too)’.

In the game, you control an "Average Joe" character, working at a big international IT company. The game will feature its own currency, profile and a save feature. While it will be point-and-click from a POV perspective, there will be consequences and the game will feature twists and turns as you progress, based on your previous decisions. It will feature many locations, one being the ability to go on vacations and so forth.

I’m not very sure it this program will ever see the light of day as Tictac is still looking for:
a skilled programmer or coder,
a skilled flash artist and
people fluent in French, German, Spanish to make the localised versions.

Feel free to react if you are interested to join the project.

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Virtually Date Girls news (and associated projects) on this blog can be found at: Virtually Date Girls 
Virtually Date Ariane news and walkthroughs can be found at: ArianeB 

Virtually Date Girls 1.1

Entry 1477

Chaotic, the man who gave us Virtually Date Crystal (VDC) made a new click’n point dating simulation called Virtually Date Girls (VDG).

The complete game should give you a choice between three different dates: Erica, Leilani and Kelly, as was the original intention with VDC as well, but for the moment only the Erica character is playable.

Basically this is an ArianeB clone but with slightly sloppier graphics. Like in his Crystal game the facial expressions are not always up to par and Chaotic should have a better eye for details. Somewhere in the game Erica wears a towel and when it accidentally drops down it looks like a hollow plastic tube and not as some cloth. In other places it looks like she is levitating instead of standing, sitting down, etc...

Probably Chaotic is impatient to publish his games but in some cases it is better to wait a little and to try to get everything right. Easier said than done of course, ArianeB is in its fifth generation and there are still some bugs inside.

Chaotic took some advice from the adult games community at Shark’s Lagoon and so VDG has now got a set of build-in parameters that will trigger (or not) different situations. One of the parameters is the inevitable alcohol intake and the gifts you can buy at several shops. You can visit several parts of the town ad infinitum and here the game is somewhat more flexible than ArianeB.

ArianeB uses javascript variables to store its data, VDG stacks them away in cookies, but this hasn’t always been a good idea. The game runs smoothly in Firefox but other browsers have given some undesirable results. ((I might add that it is not always that easy to make your html creations browser friendly, it took ArianeB 4 incarnations before its code was accepted by any other browser than Internet Explorer)

All html pages from VDG carry a code that make it impossible to return to the previous screen. In Chaotic’s previous game, Crystal, gameplay was pretty straightforward and one didn’t need javascript to end the game. Disabling the javascript feature in your browser allowed you to switch in between pages so you didn’t had to start all over again if you made a mistake.

This time it is different as javascript is needed to store (and load) the cookies. But there is still a way to get around the protection if you are playing an offline version loaded on your harddisk. All you have to do is to get rid of the lines that prevent the browser to do a step backwards.

The easiest thing to do is to download an utility that is able to search for a certain string inside a file and to replace it with something else. I found a freeware called Search And Replace at Nodesoft that has the ability to replace all text in between a starting and an ending point. I made it delete everything between string
<script LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" type="text/javascript"> and </script>
and after a few seconds all 429 files that carried that code had been changed. (The only problem with the software is that it needs Microsoft . NET, but modern computers should have this on board.)

I have been asked by several people to make a walkthrough as I did for ArianeB and VD Crystal. I have to admit I am a bit reluctant. No time, no motivation, generally I am a bit tired of the adult sim genre (and just now I found out that ArianeB has been upgraded - again!).

Chaotic didn’t wait and he published some general rules for the game on his site. These help you and if you are really stuck you can always consult the VDG thread on Shark’s Lagoon.

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The Virtually Date Crystal walkthroughs so far:
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (1): Love in an elevator 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (2): Let's have a party 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (3): Steamboat Willie 

The ArianeB 5.7 walkthroughs so far:
The ArianeB 5.7 walkthroughs (1): What's New Pussycat? 
The ArianeB 5.7 walkthroughs (2): Pool Party 

Sorry, no walkthroughs for ArianeB 5.8 yet!

The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (3): Steamboat Willie

Entry 1411

Virtually Date Crystal is an ArianeB clone, made by Chaotic. It can be played online on his site but, just like with the original predecessor, it is preferred to download, unzip and play offline. Some information about the game can be found at my blog entry: Crystal Voyager. As the flowchart / walkthrough presented in that post is (partially) outdated I'm planning to post some walkthroughs.

Here is the final part for version 1.1. If you would like to get around the backspace key protection just disable Javascript in your browser (more info: Virtually Date Crystal 1.1). As there are no parameters in the game (influencing later situations) you don't need scripting. This also means that you can resume the game from a deadlock situation if you remember the name of the previous multiple choice html file.

Playing by the chart takes most of the fun out of the game. But it comes in handy when you want to check if you have found all possibiliities.

Warning: Virtually Date Crystal is an 18+ game containing some virtual nudity and some explicite situations. If your government, religion or mother refuses you to play it you should follow that good advice. I never did and look what has become of me...

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If you are playing the game from your local folder, start it by double-clicking the knock.html file. In the first walkthrough we admired the view from the balcony and followed a gambling, drinking and striptease path. The second walkthrough learned us that party invitations are always hidden in the kitchen. With a little luck they lead to drinking and stripping as well. For the third (and final) overview of the game we will head to the bedroom first, but not for what you think that will happen there. Put on your stepping shoes and walk...

Have you made it to the steamboat? Good, please note that is is entirely different compared to a casino annex hotel. Like the hotel this boat has a bar, like the hotel this boat has a room with a bed. But unlike the hotel this boat has a top deck, were people put on their top hats and play there favourite Titanic scene.

The steamboat path was added for version 1.1 of Virtually Dating Crystal and it shows. It is funny, some dead ends go on for quite a while and Crystal likes to smash you in the face.

Chaotic's next project will probably be called Erica. Until that game is released... bye bye.. till the next time.

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Here are the Crystal v1.1 related posts, so far:
Crystal Voyager 
Virtually Date Crystal 1.1 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (1): Love in an elevator 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (2): Let's have a party 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (3): Steamboat Willie 

Flowcharts created with Diagram Designer.

The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (2): Let's have a party

Entry 1395

Virtually Date Crystal is an ArianeB clone, made by Chaotic. It can be played online on his site but, just like with the original predecessor, it is preferred to download, unzip and play offline. Some information about the game can be found at my blog entry: Crystal Voyager. As the flowchart / walkthrough presented in that post is (partially) outdated I'm planning to post some walkthroughs for the next couple of weeks.

Here is part two for version 1.1. If you would like to get around the backspace key protection just disable Javascript in your browser (more info: Virtually Date Crystal 1.1). As there are no parameters in the game (influencing later situations) you don't need scripting. This also means that you can resume the game from a deadlock situation if you remember the name of the previous multiple choice html file.

Playing by the chart takes most of the fun out of the game. But it comes in handy when you want to check if you have found all possibiliities.

Warning: Virtually Date Crystal is an 18+ game containing some virtual nudity and some explicite situations. If your government, religion or mother refuses you to play it you should follow that good advice. I never did and look what has become of me...

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If you are playing the game from your local folder, start it by double-clicking the knock.html file. In the previous walkthrough we admired the view from the balcony and followed a gambling, drinking and striptease path. This time we head to the kitchen where there is absolutely nothing interesting. The rules of etiquette must have changed over the years as reading the messy amount of post-its, papers and discount coupons at the scrapboard was not done in my days, but anyway, that is what we will do... and guess what? We find an invitation for a party,... and what a party it is!

The party scene breaks down into different locations, situations and scenarios, and I apologise for the somewhat cluttered bottom part of the flowchart.
Pose-off 1 (left side of the chart): Crystal is asked to participate in a pose-off game after the outdoor jacuzzi. It is a dead end street basically although the story continues for a couple of frames. The same ending is triggered by following Crystal somewhere else once too often. Pose-off 1 will end the game rather unsatisfactory.
Pose-off 2 (right side of the chart): The second pose-off game is more daring, contains a strip scene and leads to an empty room with a spare bed. The ending is satisfactory for all parties involved.
To avoid pose-off 1 and 2 you need to zig-zag your way through the chart and the various locations at the party: forget the jacuzzi, forget the pool. enter the bar where everyone is leaving for the pose-off, but don't follow the crowd. Hang out with Rachel to see what happens.

If you stay with Rachel she tries once again to lure you into the pose-off game. However, there is a bug in the game (since version 1.0) and choosing the pose-off will bring you to the pool instead. Basically there are only two options left here and they always start with some pool fun (including a Truth or Dare game), followed - if all goes well - by a photo session. Where have we heard that before? The above chart shows what happens if Rachel is in the tub with the player, but you can ask Rachel to join in as well. Have fun!

Be careful as there are a lot of dead-ends here. If you play it smart you can hace a threesome with Crystal and Rachel, if you play it smarter you have a solo session with Rachel alone. Crystal doesn't want you (the player) to interfere too much, but no guidance from your part will lead her right in the arms of her friend. Normally you should be smart enough to find the endgame by yourself, but since I am in a good mood, I wil give you that as well.

So... did you find all the possible endings? Good boy.

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Here are the Crystal v1.1 related posts, so far:
Crystal Voyager 
Virtually Date Crystal 1.1 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (1): Love in an elevator 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (2): Let's have a party 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (3): Steamboat Willie 

Flowcharts created with Diagram Designer.

The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (1): Love in an elevator

Entry 1387

Virtually Date Crystal is an ArianeB clone, made by Chaotic. It can be played online on his site but, just like with the original predecessor, it is preferred to download, unzip and play offline. Some information about the game can be found at my blog entry: Crystal Voyager. As the flowchart / walkthrough presented in that post is (partially) outdated I'm planning to post some walkthroughs for the next couple of weeks.

Here is part one for version 1.1. If you would like to get around the backspace key protection just disable Javascript in your browser (more info: Virtually Date Crystal 1.1). As there are no parameters in the game (influencing later situations) you don't need scripting. This also means that you can resume the game from a deadlock situation if you remember the name of the previous multiple choice html file.

Playing by the chart takes most of the fun out of the game. But it comes in handy when you want to check if you have found all possibiliities.

Warning: Virtually Date Crystal is an 18+ game containing some virtual nudity and some explicite situations. If your government, religion or mother refuses you to play it you should follow that good advice. I never did and look what has become of me...

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If you are playing the game from your local folder, start it by double-clicking the knock.html file. The introduction is not as difficult as in ArianeB, just shake Crystal's hand, or: if you are in an adventurous mood, kiss her on the cheek. The find something to do link will show the different places in the house. Some will trigger a path that can be further explored, others are dead ends.

This first walkthrough shows, in my opinion, Chaotic's very first attempts in making a dating game. It is still largely based upon the ArianeB simulation and some situations are very familiar indeed. But let's get started, the following flowchart gives you the steps to go to the casino annex hotel. A lot of obvious one-click-only-step-through scenes have been omitted, only situations were (different) decisions are involved are represented here.

Probably you have found out by now that the red boxes represent dead ends, although not all red boxes immediately mean that the game comes to a halt. At startup you can easily go from room to room at Crystal's appartment (but only 3 rooms contain links to carry on with the date). It is possbile to go to the bar at the casino and have a light drinkwithout harming the outcome (just don't go for heavy drinks). You can also play the slots after the roulette. The first time you will loose, the second time you will win.

Of course all dead ends carry their own images and situations. Going from the hotelroom to the east street will lead you to a bar, but Crystal is not into drinking. Going from the hotelroom to the west street will lead you into a strip club, but Crystal is not into stripping, yet...

To go on with the date we must head to the shopping mall were we will buy some clothes and, how original!, some fitting lingerie... Crystal, have you noticed, likes black... Bribing her with clothes and fueling her with drinks will finally lead to a strip show at a nearby bar...

Fuel Crystal with exactly 3 drinks and the game will lead to the strip bar, probably the most difficult part of the game. Making the wrong decision will end the simulation, so I have put the names of the html files in question, as it is possible with version 1.1 to restart the game at any situation. After the strip show (that still goes on a bit) we are finally going to get our reward...

After the strip club Crystal is in a good mood. The end game offers satisfactory scenes in the elevator, in the corridor leading to the room and in the hotelroom itself. See if you can find all possibilities...

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Here are the Crystal v1.1 related posts, so far:
Crystal Voyager 
Virtually Date Crystal 1.1 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (1): Love in an elevator 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (2): Let's have a party 
The Crystal 1.1 Walkthroughs (3): Steamboat Willie 

Flowcharts created with Diagram Designer.

Virtually Date Crystal 1.1

Entry 1368

The ArianeB clone Virtually Date Crystal (VDC) has been updated and version 1.1 can now be downloaded at Rapidshare.

The game is rather a success in adult gaming circles and an unfortunate side effect is that both Chaotic’s websites are (temporarily?) down. I don’t know if he reads this space but there are several providers around that give you gigabytes of web space for less than 2 Euro per month.

Some previous paths (especially the endings) in the gameplay have been altered and a completely new, rather funny and inventive, scenario has been added (HINT: it can be triggered at an early stage of the simulation by going to the bedroom). Beware of that punch in your face!

The intro of the game has been changed (although the old files are still in the download) and the first scene is now ‘knock on the door’ and no longer the ‘catchmatch’ personality test.

Every html page has now got a build-in Javascript preventing the player to use the backspace key on his (or her) keyboard. This enlarges the files with a considerable factor: the opening screen knock.html used to have 444 bytes in version 1.0 and that has now risen to 2357 bytes (multiplied by a factor 5).

More geeky stuff: in total the amount of files has risen with 30% from 781 to 1008, and the volume has been going up from 27.3 MB to 39.9 MB, nearly 50% increase. Not a bad job in a few weeks of time.

The game still is image-map driven, meaning that clicking on a certain area of the image an appropriate link (with a new image, a new situation and new image maps) will open. Virtually Date Crystal 1.1 still uses no Javascript parameters à la ArianeB, so if one disables scripting in the html browser the backspace key trick will work again without harming the gameplay (in Firefox: Tools - Options - Content - Enable Javascript). It’s a dirty trick but it prevents to have to start all over again. Another dirty trick (using the Firefox All-in-One sidebar) is to automatically visualise the source information of the html document in question so that all possible answers (and their relative hml pages) are wide in the open. Shame on me.

The flowchart (aka walkthrough) that I made for the previous version is still valid for most of the scenarios. You can consult it at the previous VDC post: Crystal Voyager.

I am seriously thinking of making more ‘formal’ walkthroughs for the game, (Chaotic had no objections a couple of weeks ago), but as the simulation is still in full transition I think I’d better wait until the releases will have stabilised a bit.

This blog has now got a new category Crystal VD and for once the letters VD are not standing for volunteer decoration, valentine's day or venereal disease, but for virtually date. But one better be careful, you never know nowadays.

TTFN

Your pornographer,
Felix.

Crystal Voyager

Entry 1339

A couple of weeks ago Chaotic placed the following message on the Shark’s Lagoon forum:

Virtually Date Crystal is a game I've made myself and is similar in many aspects to Virtually Date Ariane (ArianeB). This seems to be the place to give it a public test run.

It isn't quite as technical, more a direct maze of events to navigate through. There are five different endings, and if it's popular enough, I'll probably add more content.

The game can be played (or downloaded, update: broken link) at two different locations, but as the server often is overloaded the best thing is to download the package and to play it offline. Just like ArianeB this is an html based point & click adventure. To start the game you need to unzip the package to a directory of your choice, locate the helloworld.htm file (in the VDC folder) and double click it. The browser of your preference will open and show you the catchmatch opening screen.

The introduction offers you 3 different persons to meet and greet but for the moment only the Crystal character works. Before the simulation starts catchmatch does a personality test and if you give a wrong answer the game will not start. I like these useless game introductions; they remember me of that Larry Laffer episode where you actually had to prove that you were old enough to play the game. Which is quite stupid as:

Like many "mature" rated games, Leisure Suit Larry is best experienced (a) if you put yourself in the mind of a 13-year-old, or (b) if you are, in fact, actually a 13-year-old, and the concept of seeing naked boobs still totally blows your mind. (Taken from Classicgaming @ Gamespy.)

The catchmatch introduction shows us the weakest point of this simulation, if you have given the wrong answer all you need to do is press the backspace key until you arrive again at the question, and try another answer. Virtually Date Crystal does not use Javascript triggered parameters that will influence the game later on and the backspace trick can be used throughout the game. This also means that you can start the game on whatever web page you want, if, for instance, you want to skip the introduction quiz, you can just start at knock.htm. No harm done.

Anyway, the Shark’s Lagoon adult gaming community jumped on Crystal as Sir Austin Danger Powers did on Felicity Shagwell and as they came to about the same conclusions as I did I will just copy and paste some of their comments (with thanks to AngryH, Blaman, TheBrain, Bonhomie, Palladium and of course Erana…):

Some great idea here and there, and finally a threesome!

Some impressive graphics (but also some other ones, see below).

Some situations are exactly the same as in ArianeB. Crystal also has its Truth or Dare game, a strip show in a night club, a photo shoot, a Jacuzzi scene...

There are too many run-through screens. They only allow you one click and merely lead to another image.

Some of Crystal's facial expressions are too plastic and the rendering could have been better in places. In some situations the persons seem to be floating or don’t fit with the background.

Decisions early in the game have no impact later on. This is mainly a ‘hit or miss’ game that doesn’t lead to subplots like ArianeB does (in ArianeB drinking, kissing and the choice of lunch all have an impact later on).

An example of this is the casino scene. You can play the roulette but the outcome of the game has been hardcoded in the script. The first time black will always win and whatever colour you choose the second time, it will always loose, what is not realistic, even for casinos owned by the maffia. A small Javascript randomizer would have made this situation much more interesting.

Some bugs are still present in the game and the end scene does not always show the proper image, especially in the downloaded version.

Walkthrough

On the other hand the above comments may sound a bit too harsh. This is a first attempt and comparing Crystal 1.0 with ArianeB 5.5, made by a professional 3D artist who has years of coding in his hands, is not honest either. But this criticism may help Chaotic when he decides to program the other dates in the game. The choice is up to him.

In order to write this post I created a flowchart with the possible paths in the game. You can call it a walkthrough if you want. If you have got, by any chance, Diagram Designer you can visualize the chart by downloading Crystal.zip. Otherwise you can open a very big PNG image (1419 x 2766 pixels) and do with it whatever you want to do with it. Update: new (upgraded) walkthroughs for version 1.1 have been made and will be published on this blog in May 2009.

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If you liked this (adult gaming) post - you might be interested in this one as well: Secret Fantasy Dreams