I personally dont have any interest in playing the game. What are the issues with the wallet currently? That would be my primary concern, other than who is going to take over the development of the coin and participate in the thread now that the primary developer has passed away.
I'm not sure what the issues are (besides an annoyingly long initial blockchain download/synch), as I haven't had any. As far as I'm concerned, there aren't any issues, just user error. I believe there was a hardfork a few hours after launch and people had issues because they weren't using the most up to date client.
Snailbrain appears to be the primary developer now. I think he was involved from the beginning of the project, but I'm not sure and I don't know how many others are involved. MithrilMan is working on an updated client with additional features. I'm not connected with the project in any way. I just discovered it here on bitcointalk a few weeks ago and took an interest in it. Everything I have written in this thread was gathered from my own research. I was obviously concerned when the news of the primary developer passing away was released. It's a setback, I'm sure, but the project is definitely still moving forward.