I understand the effort it takes to make even a 2d snake game from scratch with no art and no knowledge of programming what so ever. That being said i have been programming for years since then and that is something i could make in 5 minutes. Now the reason i am saying this is i want to make sure people read that i have had experience and can't tell me otherwise. A game called star citizen is the worlds most crowd funded game they had a problem with a guy called Derek Smart, he decided that the game couldn't possibly be made to what they said it would be. Since then a lot of people questioned important people leaving and getting fired which in turn made them refund there game packages. Now i'm not saying this is the case here but what i am saying is they still have tons of followers even when it was a team of 6. They kept there backers involved in everything but left the big release things to major events, this is why they have been successful. I have read and understand that the devs would rather work on the game to get it out quicker and working great then be on here telling us whats going on and they only have 9 people working on the game at any given time. But a little advice to the devs would be do a monthly update at the minimum or you may loose quite a bit of followers especially if this game will take a few years to make.