TL;DR: MasterPlan v0.8 Alpha is out, beta branch code is: alphamasterplan. I'm working on it, it's feeling a lot better. Huzzah!
Phew!
It's been quite a few months (over six, I reckon!!!), but finally, here's the first public alpha for MasterPlan v0.8!
I've reworked the program from scratch to get to this point, and while it is indeed still an alpha and is not as full-featured as v0.7 just yet, I believe it is largely improved in fundamentals. MasterPlan has gotten more polished, more visually appealing, and is easier to use and read than ever before.
Thank you very much for your patience so far as I've taken quite a bit of time to get even here - without that patience, I wouldn't have been able to stick with it for all this time. However, I should now be able to push out updates more frequently as it's easier to deploy smaller builds once I get bugfixes and major releases (like this one) out of the way.
Please note that MasterPlan v0.8 is, indeed, alpha software, and so will be unstable or not work quite right sometimes. Please be patient as the kinks are ironed out. MasterPlan v0.8 also currently cannot load v0.7 plans; only v0.8 plans will load for now while I work on attaining feature parity between the two. After this is done, 0.7 plans will load in v0.8, unless the community deems the backwards compatibility unnecessary. Finally, If you want to use MasterPlan v0.8, you are encouraged to do thorough backups of any plans created with it.
To download and try out MasterPlan v0.8 on Steam, all you have to do is right-click on MasterPlan in your library, go to Properties, Betas, and enter the beta access code: "alphamasterplan" (without double-quotes). Click on Check Code, and you'll gain access to the v0.8 alpha branch. This is done so that people aren't surprised by this sudden change while they're trying to use MasterPlan on a daily basis. Please do let me know if things don't work properly, or if you have any questions or feedback.
There's still a ton to reimplement, even just to get MasterPlan to the level of v0.7 in terms of features. However, I believe MasterPlan is a great tool, and am willing to keep on cranking away on it. (It also shouldn't take quite as long to redo things I've already done for v0.7; time is mostly taken improving, not reimplementing.)
Anyway, here's a video showing an overview of the new v0.8 update, because it's kind of a lot for now (I'll document changes in text as we go on):
Hope you all enjoy it, and thank you so much, again, for the support you've given so far. I really do appreciate it! - SolarLune
EDIT: One last thing before I forget, the new version of MasterPlan is built on SDL2. This means that for Linux users who want to run MasterPlan v0.8, you'll need to install libsdl2, libsdl2-image, libsdl2-ttf, and libsdl2-gfx (or their equivalents on your distribution). Thanks!