As my name suggests I just made this account to comment this,
As an aspiring games developer (who is also 17) you should honestly get a grip, the games $5 man and honestly you could have come up with a better exuse; you don't need to be 18+ to get a job... also creating a sob story like this isn't going to make the creator give it too you. asking for it to be free is one of the most disraspecful thing someone could say; they took there time developing there passion and again "It's 5 bucks bro".
If the game was free the creator would be earing nothing and clearly you want to play the game given your askiung for it to be free, and It getting popular woudlnt do anything for the creatore if it were free. they did a great job on this and $5 is all there realy asking for it, maybe if you did somthing productive with your life instaead of begging for stuff you would have been able to achive somthing like this in your life.
P.S. Womp womp