Yeah, the game will be released, for sure. I'm friends with people who have worked on it and play-tested it. If anyone understands budget problems and long development times, it's me haha. But yeah, it'll be finished and released.
Shawn covered my own inferences about Scott's involvement. I do know that he was not only very sick, but had a very big personal/family issue during development too. The comments section on Kickstarter for it is a wasteland, there's some really nasty people over there who are just bitter and angry and taking it out there. The game will be released someday, people will either like it or not, and maybe those people will bitch to each other in a circle jerk for a little bit, but then it will be done and this will all fade into obscurity. Such is the nature of some such projects.
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