If i were to bet, the death of Flash likely played a large part in nuking the original project. I dont really blame them either, flash is hell to do anything with even when it had support.
New game looks to be built in unity, so as long as unity doesnt drop the ball again. . .
It hasn't been abandoned for 3 years. While they were looking for someone with the know how to help with the port they did a comic and gave us periodic updates on what was going on. Visit the Patreon and Discord some time. The updates were closer to every other month. But they still happened
it was never abandoned, you just had to go look at the patreon to see what work they were doing during that entire time (fyi, actually a decent bit though it took a lot longer then expected to find a good unity dev to get every thing moved over)
