Hello, the game is still in development, I'm not sure where you got your opinion of the discord server is deleted, because it's still very up and working fine for me and everyone else in there. The game has been in development for a long time because we've had incredibly harsh times during covid and the war and a lot of the funding went to people who ended up having to leave the project, and I've been learning how to replace them using my own skillsets which takes an incredibly long time, I do not have the money to personally fund anyone else. I don't have much time to do marketing or keep people updated as frequently so I choose Kickstarter as my way of updating people as and when we have significant progress.
I'm sorry that you feel the way you do, and I appreciate that the silence here is not welcoming. Nothing about the game is a scam and will be released when it's finished:)
And thank you to anyone else who has continued supporting the project, it's mainly my own fault for being new to this and not updating itch.io.