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[Dog Pants]

Not as such, but there are a few forumites who do some modding of the code with the dev's support. They asked if the code would be made open source so they could develop it as a community, but it didn't look promising.

[buzzmong]

You sure development has stopped?

This thread on the offical forum says different and that he's been hired as of mid Feb, and the chap's twitter says his first day on the job was today.

[Dog Pants]

The post by Burningpet was from mid Feb. He said that they looked at hiring a new coder and Xavi just gave up on it. That was the death of the game. Xavi posted a few weeks later saying he was so burnt out on the game that he couldn't even bring himself to talk someone else through the code. It's possible that a few weeks off have given him the break he needed to hire someone in, or he could have just suckered someone in on the promise of a cut of future Steam sales. We'll have to see.