Hello my friend. No worries, I am son of a Palestine Resitant (my father fought on the Lebanese Civil War in the 70's), so the phrase "giving up" is not on my dictionary
I contacted thousands of publishers, from small to big ones like devolver digital, team17, versus evil, and son on. Even though all of them praised my drive and efforts on making it all alone, none of them wanted to publish my game.
After that refusal I realized that the best thing to do is going alone in this journey. As I commented before, the demo's reception was AMAZING, everyone who played loved it! So I made a good relationship with my fan base (700 different people already downloaded my game's demo in less than 2 months, and each day there are new downloads). And this fan base are really who matters, because they are going to play my game and support me.
Also I have seen that whenever people see my efforts and the progress of my game, they are more willing to help and support me, because they see my work, step by step, and the immense ammount of time I spend on this project.
I don't like the idea of a kickstarter campaign, or early access, because this I decided to release this game into episodes, and seel each episode as a standalone game (which comes with a LOT of content, many missions, maps, weapons, including multiplayer) by a very cheap price just to cover my development costs.
Also after listenning to the player's feedback and ideas, I am polishing and balancing the demo's difficulty a bit and another improvements.
I will revamp this demo and call it Episode 0, and let everyone download and play it for free, but with an option to buy it to support me.
If I get enough people's support on Episode 0, I may release all other upcoming episodes in this fashion, Play for Free, Buy to Support Me.
If not, no problem, I will sell each episode individually.
But I will make this game, Insha Allah (God's Willing), and Never Give Up.
Thanks!