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Where I've been and where we're going.
🕑 Added 2019-09-15 07:08:29 +0000 UTCI'm back, which may be surprising enough, but I've also updated Bitch Breaker. Perhaps more surprising is that there's another update on the way. No you haven't been charged anything. I want to give anyone who may have forgotten about this patreon a chance to unpledge if they want to. I'm posting another update on Sept 30th.
it's clear that there's some confusion/interest(which is absolutely expected and, frankly, justified) in why I stopped updating the project for a long period of time. I'll try to answer this briefly.
I started an advanced degree program. It was fairly competitive and took up a significant amount of time. I tried to keep working on BB, and managed to make a number of sizable updates during my first semester, but as the workload increased it became more and more difficult to balance my time between teaching, coursework, home life, and side projects. The agreement I made with my wife when I began working on Bitch Breaker was that if my patreon could make enough to justify the amount of time I was putting into it, I could continue working on the project. This never happened, due in large part to my refusal to market my patreon, withhold content, or offer special benefits to patreon supporters. In the end, I was working most of my waking hours and sleeping very little. Worse, I was beginning to neglect my personal relationships. Eventually, my wife asked that I abandon the project. Without any money coming in, it was difficult to argue with her, but I was nonetheless reluctant to drop the project. I can't stand to leave work unfinished. So, we compromised. I agreed to cut back on the time I was spending on the project. I had been working around 20+ hours a week on Bitch Breaker and I cut that back to around 5. I didn't want to just leave my patreon collecting monthly payments without delivering any content, so I set it to only charge my patrons when I posted an update. After making that change, I decided to stop making small frequent updates(since it would charge my patrons for each of these) and focus on delivering larger updates. I never really stopped working on the project, but for a time my progress was glacial. Then, in late 2017, I lost several members of my immediate family in an accident. The following year my father was diagnosed with a terminal illness. These incidences lead me to temporarily drop most of my projects and focus on my family. I'm back because my degree program wrapped up, and for the first time in a very long time, I have enough time to begin more serious work on the project. I'll try to get as much done as I can over the next few months, and try to get my patreon to start earning enough to justify continued work on the project, but if I can't, the project may become dormant again. Before that happens though, I should have given you guys a pretty decent amount of game.
Comments
Baarogue
Sorry for your losses, man. Resubbed, and looking forward to updates.
Dubsington
Welcome back, glad to see you in my feed again! And sorry for your losses, family always comes first. A game that doesn't make money is a hobby, and a hobby is never a priority over work. Totally get your decisions. I hope things work out better in the future.
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