glad to hear 9.0 is in fulll swing. and rip sandbox mode. i dont mind the changes comeing
honestly dropping the sandbox sounds like a plus most the time its the reason for games dying lol
You can definitely put me into the "learned my lesson" category. Developing another would be asinine.
There is going to still be a limited sandbox in 0.9 and beyond, but it's going to be less about how the game moves forward. I'm still in the imaging and structuring stages so nothing is set in stone.
I am trying to align a few disparate elements. Some players have told me they enjoy the harvesting/selling/etc. part of the game, so I'd like to keep that but make it optional somehow. The story-telling aspect of it requires in-game time to jump forward at points, as many things would realistically require days or weeks to happen. Pregnancies would need months. This is one of the reasons I bit down on the sandbox apple so hard. I wanted things to make sense in a game-time frame of mind.
Then there's all the work I've already put in for the NSFW sandbox content...
At this point, though, the ending has pretty well been set. There really are only some minor different endings because having to do each separate path to an ending was madness with compounded madness interest.
The next update is being worked on in pretty much all my free time. No idea when it will be ready. Nothing is set in stone as to how things will work after 0.8. My hope is to make it seem like a natural switch and do something like an optional sandbox or a menu-driven VN/sandbox amalgamation that will likely drive me even more mad.
Stay tuned!