Hi hi!
No worries about not being able to pledge to my Patreon! It's something I do for people who want early access and the game is meant to come out basically it's entire life here, for free. (Also I realize I fucked up and didn't mention in the post above that access is only $1. Oops)
I don't know if the game will remain free when all is said and done, since it's gonna be a pretty BIG game-- but it won't be much more than most indie games. (So probably not over $20, if even that!) But that will take...years to get to that point. I think art PDF's will probably be locked to Patrons for a while too.
Oh, and I think it's worth mentioning that the "testing" aspect is something that's only available to Patrons-- they are the only ones who get early builds and everywhere else here gets the more finished ones. Regardless, I'm not quite sure when the first update will become available for everyone publicly! I'd like to have a second update made before I put out the first one but uh...tbh without more Patreon support there's only so much I can do XD I don't run a Patreon for no reason-- I run it so I can update all of my billions of projects LOL!
My comics have actually be available on Itch.io for a while now (and even more other places then Tumblr) cuz I'm in the habit of archiving stuff and making sure all my eggs aren't in one basket (also this way people can donate to my comics if they want! so I think it's a win win)
Thanks a ton for your comment and I'm always super pumped that you're interested in the game! I hope you're also looking forward to the Prologue comic btw~ The site is up but there's no pages out publicly yet (next month there will be) so bookmark that if you're interested!