Where I've been and where we're going.

I'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.