Howdy y'all~!

I am absolutely delighted to finally share chapter two of L'automne with you. This has been a huge learning experience in a pretty rough year, so thank you all for your patience, and I hope that you truly enjoy it.

There are lists floating around out there of the TOP 10 STRESSORS IN LIFE, and I have had the privilege of getting to soldier through several of them this year. I was let go from my job in January - tech layoffs. In March my father passed from complications of Parkinson's and Dementia. If you have checked out Hearth & Home you might know that I asked for any monetary donations for the game go to The Parkinson's Foundation or The Lewy Body Dementia Association, if you still want to do that, please let me know what you share so I can personally thank you! To top this all off there has been additional strain in other spots of my life & job hunting has been super frustrating!!!!

When I initially started working on L'automne I wanted to try to refrain from setting up the traditional avenues for funding it, mainly because I was able to take care of that aspect on my own. I mean, I had a story I wanted to share so it just seemed to make sense for me to do that. However being out of work for this long has definitely changed my outlook and I have decided to launch both a Patreon and Ko-Fi for L'automne as well as future projects that are published by The Bjakery.

I am honestly humbled by the folks who take the time out of their lives to read my story. Really, thank you all. <3

The TL:DR for those who prefer:

• 2024 has been rough. :(
• Chapter 2 is -complete-!  No future asset update!
• Work on Chapter 3 has begun!  :V
• You can support projects from The Bjakery on Patreon and Ko-Fi ~!
• Come hang out ~Discord!!
• I'm sure I am forgetting others....

Chapter three has been fully written and is being sent for editing as soon as this post goes up! A more reasonable asset list has been created, and talks with the artists have already been happening. While scope creep was a real issue with chapter two, I really want to get the third installment out faster, but still have it feel as polished and impressive. I already have ideas on how to make that happen. 

Hope that you all enjoy the visual updates & hopefully you'll drop into the Discord server and say hey. :)

All my best,   
      -Bjaker