Hello surmlej, I just saw your post and I think that to create a community for projects like this, discord is a good option, reddit and I think even itch.io itself is a good option, using patreon can also be a good alternative to kickstarter as your project is 1 year in development, it would be very interesting to bring images and update them little by little to generate more interest in your project (I'm just an indie developer trying to help another)
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Thank you so much! It's very difficult that part of the project because I am very shy, I don't even use social media, I spend time in forums mostly reading about different things but not really contributing... I think being social it's key beneficial because I could be having a youtube channel or something, while I am a graphic designer and I do video editing for living lol.
I understand I'm also a little shy, at least here on the internet, but I started posting about my projects until recently here on itch.io and some game developer communities, but on YouTube you could use it as a devlog in the form of video showing how the development is going and I don't think it's necessary to say so much