what happened. I thought the creator was axing the game
The dev was going to at the end of version 10 according to the script file (I cba to play through the game again just to double check at the moment and can't be bothered to scroll through patreon,) in short because the dev's English wasn't/isn't very good and the proofreader was having trouble translating it or something along those lines, combined with not meeting their minimum goal on Patreon and issues with the dev having to work and go to school alongside creating the game.
So, the dev was going to cram what they could into the next two updates to end the game to give somewhat of an ending, and immediately start making another game where the story was written in English first, then translated to Spanish (Instead of the way it is/was at the time) to get around the proofreading issues.
I believe the dev got a lot of push-back and encouragement from patrons wanting them to continue working on the project after that announcement.
At the end of version 11 the dev stated that they'd continue making the game to give it an actual ending, the proofreader stepped down due to personal reasons and was replaced (but will still be consulted occasionally) and they changed from an always free update thing to the thing most Patreon groups use where updates are distributed earlier to patrons based on support tier