Re-re-post of one of my previous comments:
Read if you do not follow Squawks on Discord or Twitter, and are curious about the status of the game. (Updated information can be found at the end of this long message, in the last paragraph.)
"To everyone wondering, it appears as though the developer goes on extremely extended breaks from the internet. Their Twitter seems to suggest that they're active from February to May every year, and sporadic after that. The last post of 2019 was in September, and then they resumed February of 2020.
I do not believe the game has been forgotten, as it looks as though the developer is currently still writing story for the game. The best I could say would be that the developer simply needed to take a break from updating the game, for a year.
I plan to keep re-posting this comment, to ensure a copy of it stays near the top of the comments, to reduce the amount of 'Is the game dead?' commenters."
Update on that notice: The game has not been forgotten. An update is currently being worked on, but for the time being, all you are going to see are Weekly Progress Reports. Please, do not spam questions regarding whether or not the game will be available to the public; this will still be a public demo, even after updates come out again. The current update is scheduled for late October, but with as much as is being put into it, don't be surprised if it's delayed.