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The text of his final patreon post was as follows:

Hello all,
With a heavy heart, I'm officially pausing development of DreamLink indefinitely.
Over the last few months I have needed to re-evaluate priorities and how much I can invest in the development of this game - life commitments, work, and my balance of risk-return have needed adjusting as I enter a new phase of life.
Having paused payments since September, I will be unpublishing this Patreon page a week from now, and will republish it should things change so that I can dedicate the time needed to do this story service. It's not a goodbye, but it is a hiatus, and I'm going to miss the awesome VN community around here - no doubt it'll bring me back when I'm ready.
I've truly appreciated all of your support so, so much since I embarked on this journey a year ago, and I hope I'll have the chance to see you all again soon.
As always, much love.
Noctus

Nice start to the game and I look forward to seeing the rest of the story unfold. I've added it to my list of game recommendations FYI
https://merigold.tech/wibble/WibbleList.php

Well, that is more of a harem situation. I was talking about sandbox in a generic sense, not specifically about this game. You will likely need to progress with all the girls in this game.

Sandbox usually means that the games gives the player a lot of freedom to decide what to do during gameplay. For example, games with maps that let you decide where you want to go, and depending on your choices, different game events happen. Additionally, many sandbox games contain things like money or some other metric, that requires the player to do tasks to increase their money, so that they can spend it to unlock the next part of the game that they're interested in. The process of building up money or 'favor' points with an npc, etc, is often called grinding.

By contrast, visual novels are more like pick-a-path stories where events happen in a more constrained order, and players choose what to do at various points during the story.

Hi Mr Rooster,

Played Wartribe Academy over the weekend and was very pleasantly surprised. You have an impressive ability to write compelling stories for the various girls, and I loved them. I've added your game to my list of AVN recommendations (https://merigold.tech/wibble/WibbleList.php), and I look forward to seeing the continuation of the game as it unfolds. I wish you every success for the future.