Aug 02 2008
RenAi Blogger Released!
Mirrors:
PC Mirror 1 (Thank you Momo)
PC Mirror 2 (Thanks Moy)
Well now the game is officially released! 
I hope everyone enjoys it.
Also, if you do a game review (which I encourage lol), please be sure to trackback to this post so others can take a look. Have fun! 
Game Reviews!
(Attempt to revive game review links part 2!)
1) “…obviously I want to have some self-loving with Impz.”
2) “..on my first run through I got killed by a yaoi paddle.”
3) “..chara who warns you of the evil (?) that lurks next door…”
4) “Also important is Hinano’s immersion in these kinds of games.”
5) “And so begins a truly epic tale of lulz, rabu, lolicon complexes, misunderstood dreams…”
6) “I have only partial regret I told my friends about this. xD”
7) “…I find lolicon gags in these games way, way, way more amusing than I probably should.”
“*Oh wait, just realised “wooden oar” lol.”
9) “Wait, no actual forehead kiss CG? Fixed.”
10) “…a rival for the protagonist. A slick, podcasting co-host, if you will.”
11) “That and the story’s cute and genuine so don’t let the art make you run away.”
12) “…that jerk Calawain throwing you under the trap and buggering off to OTL in the apartment while Impz starts hitting on you. “
13) “I salute Hinano once again for getting this much good music into a free self made game.”
14) “..my stupid mouse hand slipped and I ended up going to the con alone probably dying in a stampede. “
15) “What I would give to stick it in Impz’s pooper.”
16) “am i the only one who’s sort of turned on right now?”
17) “Not only did I lose the loli…I also got sent to a psychiatric clinic!”
18) “..yes I think cosplaying is cool and should be taught in every primary school..”
19) “DARNIT, HINANO, I KNEW YOU WERE A MYSPACE/FACEBOOK/LIVEJOURNAL STALKER…”
20) “If I ran into JP and Hinano I will so get lampooned…”
21) “I would’ve had more fun if I put Chase through a little more suffering…”
22) “I can’t believe I reached the pedophile end before the trap one -_-””
23) “Seriously it felt like playing any other japanese dating sim game but actually understanding what the text says..”
Thank you all you made my weekend 
Tags: renai blogger project
Holy crap! YES!
I can’t wait to check it out, but we gotta finish our pangya game!
time to play!!!! \O/ WOO WOO WOO~
Currently downloading
…CAN’T WAIT TO PLAY!!!
Oh, I also want a walkthrough soon since I pretty much suck at such games.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~
Sweet, a RenAi Blogger jigsaw puzzle!
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Uuu…multiple platforms too! You rock!
Yeah! Finally get to play it… until tomorrow because right now I’m to high on cold medicine.
Whoo! First game of this kind I’ve ever will play.
Haven’t tried it yet (downloading now), but I applaud you for versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I hope the Linux one works for all distros.
WHOO! Currently playing. Love the Miku music lol. THIS IS AWESOME!
Congrats! This is very well made- hopefully, you will plan on making more in the future- I would definitely encourage it. 
w00t w00t.
w00t,awesome !!!
I don’t want to spoil anything but this whole game was SO INFUSED with Hinano experiences that I laughed so much…..the whole time I was like…”Oh I remember her talking about that….oh yeah she ranted about that earlier…. OH HELL YEA FANGIRL RAAAGE…” hahah
I love it. Thanks
(Btw, I tried going for Impz the first time)
Sorry for triple posting, but I’ve already finished the game- will be playing it again shortly. Now I have two downsides- 1. The game’s TOO SHORT!
And 2. Needs MOAR HINANO LOL :twisted:. I love IMPz here though. And the romantic scenes are cute.
DLed and played the game. I find it amusing how many traps Nyachan’s path actually has…particularly the “derail into Hinano’s path” trap, and especially the last “trap”. Is there something you’re trying to say with that?
And talking about the “derail into Hinano’s path” trap….I suddenly have a great deal more respect for JPMeyer-san’s stamina.
YAY! Can’t wait
I am like trying so hard to find the IMPZ sub path. WHERE IS IT!!!
This is queer. I am lusting for myself
Arg, you didn’t explain there would be DEATH in this game!
I’ve never played one of these so I thought saving was just for taking different paths. Now I feel like a noob
[...] moe I can forgive Hinano for anything that I see in the game. Anyway, Hinano finally released the RenAi Blogger game, and I am trying to get all the different routes of the game. Currently, I only finished the [...]
just finish playing the game, and i mean all the game
( which means a lot of saves just to see what would happen if i pick the other choice ^^) my favorite bad ending is Hinanos 1st bad ed 
, and curiously hers is also my favorite good ending 
.
). Then was hinanos in which i laught a lot 
. In 3 was C.J. path and last was jeans path.
In the path part, hatsukos was my favorite ( and my first choice
I really liked the game, tough its kind of sad it was to short, but it was cool non the less
woot. finished the game. was short but fun XD!! lol @ when she called me a
Yay! Can’t wait to try playing it!
[...] Blogger Hinano finished up her RenAi Blogger game today, and I downloaded a copy to give it a try. While it was rather short, I was pretty [...]
Congratulations! Now I’m feeling inspired to do one myself.
Very fun stuff! Each chara is equally likeable. The bad ends are out of this world! Impz’s too.
Thanks for having me beta-test it!
Awesome. I got the pedobear/impz end the first time. I need to play again.
It was ridiculously fun spending a few hours on this, going through the 4 routes and also making sure to check out all the bad ends, especially the Impz disaster end.
Props to ya Hinano. Here’s hoping for a second installment.
Baaawww, wanted to play, but I’m under linux ubuntu 8.04 and I get a null mutex error:
error: Passed a NULL mutex
While running game code:
- script call at line 636 of renpy-6.6.3/common/00library.rpy
- script at line 109 of C:\Maria Programs\renpy-6.6.3-full\renpy-6.6.3\RenAi Blogger/game/script.rpy
- python at line 109 of C:\Maria Programs\renpy-6.6.3-full\renpy-6.6.3\RenAi Blogger/game/script.rpy.
Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
Aborted
Please correct this u__u thank you
I’ve been able to correct the problem by commenting lines 635 and 636 in “common/00libary.rpy”. The problem seems to be coming while loading the “opentingmovie.mpg” who is called by “splashscreen”.
Hope this info helps
I’ll post if I encounter any other problems on the linux version
Hinano’s RenAi Blogger (Which girl is your fav?)…
And so it has come. The game which many have anticipated with baited breath for lo these many months: RenAi Blogger! The anime blogosphere’s chief purveyor of fangirl rage has unleashed her dere dere side with a vengeance! Yes, Hinano, she wh…
DOWNLOADING FOAR TEH LULZ.
Also, thanks for making a mac version of this. I recently bricked my PC.
Gotta download it NOW!
MAC VERSION GET *u* Ypu’re so awesome *glomp* Now i can’t wait fr the download to finish~! xD;
You have no idea, Ascaloth…
December> I’m on a PC not linux, so unfortunately I can’t do any linux testing to check for errors (nor do I understand complex code outside the normal ren’py programming.) Maybe let Tom know on the RenPy forums, it could possibly be a bug with the renpy release.
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right, gonna sit through this in one session.
xD Wow. <3 Well, at least I know it should be really amusing for my friends (To which I think I’m just gonna poke them until they download xD).
But amazingly… there are no picture messages yet.
Wonder when they’ll start flooding in. xD
@JPMeyer,
No, I’m serious. I mean, you’re the guy who’s gonna marry the girl in real life; you gotta respect a guy who’s willing to put up with THAT for the rest of his life. That, or you gotta question his sanity, but let’s look on the bright side here.
*unleashes Donald on Ascaloth*
@Hinano,
Who’s Donald? >_>
It’s kind of awkward playing this since I’ve talked (well, not personally, but still) to CJ, Jen, you, and Impzie (is there even an Impzie path?!).
Everybody! Don’t forget to vote in my poll for your favorite RenAi Blogger girl! Vote vote vote!
and
@Ascaloth
Don’t ask. You are better off remaining ignorant of such things!
There’s kinda of an impzie path… haha, check Nya-chan’s blog up there in the trackback for the walkthrough.
Omedetou! Hope I can get around playing this tomorrow XD It’ll be amusing to see how my officemates and RL friends will react once they see this
Oh, and if I manage to convince my acquaintances to play this, they might be able to do the [involuntary] favor of being the beta testers for Linux XD
Jen> I actually had someone test the Linux version for me (the creator of RenPy) and he said everything was ok..but that was before I added the opening movie (which is where the error appears to be) and before I upgraded to renpy version 6.6.3
Hinano is a yandere?! Lol at School Days theme XD
I’m the last person who should be complaining about peoples anatomy ^^;
Yea I played through it all! It was kind of short but that’s expectable with just one person working on it. I really liked Natsuko’s “arc” seeing as that’s just about my situation with a certain girl right now :/ And yours was full of LULZ, NICE BOAT.
All I can say is, it was cute and I really liked it
well, at last the chance to (virtually) hit on all those cute blogger girls…
I just finished playing through this (got all of the good endings, at least). Kudos on finishing this game up! The best lol line was “I see what you did there.”
woot. Simply! Will Play It.
Hinano> I’m too much of a lazy person to actually submit problems elsewhere, but I’ve finished all the possible endings on the linux version and had no other problems. Great job done!
There’s little I can say beyond adding to the general set of congratulatory comments . . . so I will: good job! Bravo!
How do i unisntall everything??!! PLEASE HELP!!! It says you have to pay after 40 days.
Downloaded it under Vista and initially couldn’t run it, yielding a “StackHash_a34a”. I went to the RenPy site and downloaded a fix but it still didn’t work, probably since this is a new game. Has anyone else running Vista gotten the game to load?
Calaggie> I made the game on vista…are you sure it’s not just you? JP tested it also on his vista laptop
Melissa> RenPy is a free game…..maybe you have a virus?
Hinano > It may very likely be a problem with my computer as I had problems logging into A18 when I first used Vista. That eventually worked with some system tweaking involving DEP settings so I’ll likely have to do the same in this case.
[...] some Choose Your Own Adventure stories and Goosebump books I read ages ago). What I can say is that Hinano’s game is a fun way to spend a couple of hours. It’s really funny, and has a balanced amount of [...]
Can you speak swedish or something? Anyway karamell dansen own just like your game
Listen and learn, do as we do in the caramel dance, dance with us and take a few steps to the left in the caramel dance ooo oaoaoa~ xD
I have a question, do you have any artwork for this that would work as a feature image?
Since I´m using Options, I want to put the review up in the features section and for that to look extremely good I kinda want an image that shows up.
So is there such a image that I can use?
Yeah, I’m running it fine on Vista as well, so it’s likely something to do with your set-up.
Melissa -> It doesn’t install anything as such - the only files are the ones which are in the volume you extracted the game into. Just delete that directory to get rid of it. Also, RenPy is completely free, so it’s not that moaning at you.
Also running it fine on Vista, shouldn’t be any pay messages. It must be another program you recently installed.
Okay, I got to work by having DEP ignore it and just started playing a bit.
omg
the game is awesome! 
even though your art isn’t perfect, it’s still totally lovely and does so well in the game..
motivates me so much to finally get my ass up and finish my own game too…. it also makes me want to make some small silly game too.. hohohoho~ 
manga> umm how about this: http://hinan0.deviantart.com/art/RenAi-Blogger-Promo-Poster-93538744
Miio> noo I can’t
Only Russian English and Japanese XD
おお、完成したんだおめでとう。すごいね
やりたいけど英語よめないからなぁ～ｗ
Just finished all the paths. I really wish there was an Impz path though. xD LOL. I’d support ImpzxChase.
Like I said, the game was a little short, but I had fun! Great job!!
ひでぽん＞残念けどね。でも私まだ日本語ぜんぜん分からなくて時ＫＡＮＯＮをやってました！ｗｗ （なにがおこってるぜんぜん分からなかった）
Mika> XD I had enough time drawing 4 girls I didn’t need a trap route…besides I didn’t wanna make this game longer than it needed to be
I finally got Natsuko’s good end after at least 4 attempts. All the bad ends were worth it though, since I couldn’t stop laughing at some of the random lines.
For some reason, after seeing Impz and Calawain, it’d be nice to see a girl’s side. Actually, it’d just be nice to chase after Impz.
Also, this made me :shock::
“Coincidentally Mitsuwa Marketplace was actually in NJ rather than NYC.”
So they ended up traveling all the way there for leeks?
The interface, torch cursor, and custom textbox look so polished and professional! I was surprised at the opening movie and hearing Miku, which was funny in itself XD.
I can’t wait to see the day when I see artists selling pedobear merchandise at a con…
Anyway, congratulations and thanks so much for this refreshing game! Perfect for the end of summer.
lol why does everyone think Miku sings it…when it’s Kagamine Rin (I even wrote it in the credits
)
actually a trip to Mitsuwa from Manhattan is only like 45 min by bus
I’m on vacation so I haven’t had time to play more than a few minutes, but I am one dead sexy beast in there. Rawr.
[...] Hinano’s game is complete and you should play it. There are a few known “bugs” such as the half-assed backgrounds and the anatomical mistakes, but those are necessary sacrifices for speed (Hinano made this entire game in under four months) and they don’t detract from the quality of the story. Congratulations, Hinano. While Dorian and I muck around without getting anything done, you’ve set a goal for yourself and accomplished it, and your game has more finished art than Miao Diary and didn’t disintegrate like Heart’s Content. Good job. [...]
Well, I have downloaded your game and… it works for me. Now I have to discover Hinano’s path but that’s another story
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I think of all the girls (or routes) that I have played I liked more Natsuko path (both good and bad end) and also it was funny (I was like “That is pedobear?”) :twisted:.
Well, here’s a present by me.
(Click on website).
Wow downloading as I type. The game looks damn sexy.
If DecemberEscape and other people having problems can email the traceback.txt file to pytom@bishoujo.us, I can try to figure out what’s going on. Thanks.
[...] Hinano deserves some major props for completing this project. If there was a donate link or something, I’d be happy to chip in for a sequel. If you’re reading this and you haven’t already played it, go grab it from here. [...]
[...] First off you guys can get it here for free, so that should get you guys going straight away at it. RenAi Blogger [...]
Needed more violence I have covered my faux complaints in a faux review…
It was good first effort though I would have added like an ED theme for each character ending. Oh and I would have put CJ in bloomers.
Good job. Good Game. So where’s the sequel?
I was hoping there would be a NICE BOAT CG
LOL @ [Hinano is JP's fiance] Bad End.
OH MAN, I just found the JP ending! Awesome!
Thanks to your game, I learned NYC is a dangerous place to live with traps and pedobears everywhere.
download done! hopefully i wont forget to go to work XD
After reading every thing i decided im either going to the yaoi padding or the lolicon death or just the lolicon XD mainly because im about the age of natsuko in rl XD
if anyone has a guide to the yaoi paddling ending ill be very very happy and may give you a cookie =3
[...] I jut finished most of Hinano’s recently released Renai Blogger game. Not sure what percent completion I got given the achievements system is so utterly broken [...]
lol hope this is good downloading it right now lol hope there’s more game coming up hehe
Ha wonderful job!”OW FUCK GET ME A PAPER TOWEL I STABBED MYSELF!”Lawl that made my day!
Congrats on the milestone! ^_^
Awesome! I totally loved it. So full of lolz. xD ROFL @ Chase thinking Impz is a model. I’ve gone on jen’s, natsuko’s and CJ’s paths so far and had the good ends. I’ve only met Hinano once (buying the special edition Shugo Chara vol 6 xD), must try and find Hinano’s path. I haven’t really noticed much that it was a tad short since I’ve been quite addicted to try all the paths and different ends. Haha. Need to play it more.
Thanks Hinano. Will write about it as soon as I get my lazy fingers to work and my head going.
I see what you did there
Great job! I love it!
So, I herd u liek mudkipz?
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Finally done with all the endings. (I think)
slowpoke.dll here
Best 30 minutes I’ve had over the weekend.
Momotsuki> Sorry I’m late, thanks so much for the fanart. I’ve been saving them all, maybe I can do a fanart post or something later XD
you gave a lot of laughs for this sick girl. i was laughing all the way! i don’t know how to trackback because i’m a moron, but i made a review…
[...] I picked up Hinano’s Renai Blogger game. She’s been writing about it a lot for the last couple of months and I can’t believe [...]
My review actually talks about moe moe~ Impz.