Hi.
At first Sandbox Mode seemed like a excellent idea, but then I started to realize that it was not working very well.
The initial intention was only to make a superficial interaction between different characters and offer sex scenes with them. The Allana scene (solo) is an example of this, you can talk about some topics and then have sex in different positions.
The problem is that I was basically cloning the Honey Select and charging $3 for it! I tried to create some story for the scenes so that they made a little more sense, but I always got that bad impression that I was prolonging something uselessly and the fact of that being behind a paywall at Patreon made me even less comfortable to continue working on the game.
See, I'll never do as other developers who drop projects to start working on something that will give more money. But that does not mean that continuing to work on certain aspects of a game indefinitely is always beneficial. Some Sandbox scenes were beginning to distort Alanna's personality and generating scenes that, in my opinion, were not so inspired.
Also, the core of the game was long completed and I've been dragging it for months with updates that would be great as a gift to fans, but which, in my opinion, don't justify getting behind a paywall at Patreon.
Having said all that, I still have plans for House Arrest, but I want to disassociate it completely from my Patreon, I do not think people should continue to help me if their interest was exclusively House Arrest.. Not that I do not like the financial help of people like you, on the contrary, this is extremely important to me, not because I'm going to buy Ferraris as the developers of the Summertime Saga are probably doing
, but because it shows that what I do, at least to about 500 people (my patrons), has some value.
My plans for House Arrest from now on are:
- recreate the entire game in 1080p with "modern" HS graphics
- recreate all animations
- review the writing
- finish the Portuguese translation and possibly add one in French (a player was doing it some time ago)
- add new scenes in the sandbox
- Alanna = niece
Re-creating in 1080p will not be difficult, since I basically have the whole game saved in Honey Select. All I need to do is recreate the scenes with the new character models (the ones I use in sandbox mode, which have different textures) and the lighting mods I currently use.
I intend to do these things when I feel willing to work on them, without deadlines and without putting behind paywalls.
Bye!