OnionCuttingNinja

Free March and state of HHR 0.2

Added 2025-02-28 20:24:49 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone,

just wanted to announce that HHR 0.2 will need to bake in the oven a bit longer, so I'll put the page in vacancy mode and pause billing for the month of March (will take effect in about 3 hours from now).

There's 2 reasons why HHR 0.2 is taking longer:

1) It's going to be a bigger-than-usual update.
I put it in my head that I want the sandbox to launch with enough stuff to do, including at minimum 1 sandbox interaction for every single girl that's been introduced so far, and the initial HHR roster is quite a bit larger than the 4 maids TM launched with.
This is a lot of work, not just in terms of writing, scripting and in some cases rendering, but also in terms of planning, deciding at which location which girl is to be found at which time, what interactions, dialogues and activities make the most sense and so on.

There's also some more fundamental stuff I need to make up my mind on, like point systems and currency. I don't want HHR to be too grindy and I don't want to force people to interact with girls they don't like too much, while still progressing the game towards certain plot points, so that still needs some ironing out, too.

Once the 0.2 hurdle is cleared and the sandbox foundation is there, we'll be able to return to a more regular release schedule with 0.3 and beyond, where it'll be approximately monthly releases with simply as many scenes as I can finish for each release, similar to TM (though hopefully with a bit more content per update).

2) I'll be honest: for various reasons, some of them outside my control and some self-inflicted, I've not been in a good headspace for HHR development during February.

Creating wholesome, funny and naughty scenes when you're depressed, frustrated and listless is... challenging, to say the least.

Frankly, for the past few weeks I would've had an easier time making a dark, twisted and melancholic game than HHR...

I'm in the process of climbing out of that hole, but since it slowed down HHR's development in February, I'll pause the billing until HHR 0.2 is close to its release.

Anyway, thanks for sticking around.
The good stuff will arrive eventually, stay tuned!