The lack of communication is unbelievable.
I understand if they have hit difficulties that make the whole project uncertain. Which prevents them from making 'official' announcements in either direction.
But it definetly doesn't explain the TOTAL silence. Even a post, "I'm/We are still here, but cannot really discuss the project at the moment. We will make announcement/update as soon as possible", would be better than this ghost town.
I'd guess the rest of the developers (Hunter) have jumped the ship too, like his partner and there's some sort of legal conflict with them and BFC.
I mean, c'mon, if the thing would be still developed and it's future uncertain, any developer still on the project would be here telling atleast something - "I can confirm it's not dead yet".
Software projects fail now and then, but this is just a failure cascade with the communications.