(b) It has actually been not at all a long time since our last update. It's a dev project. It's proceeding like dev projects do. :)
(c) Erin's got an update coming soon, but she's also ferociously debugging an emulator that is sucking up a lot of her cycles.
(d) We'd be using the term "game" in a much much looser sense than this story is. :) If you haven't already gotten through Microcorruption.com (our first "game" like this), and you're impatient for Starfighter, well, Microcorruption is good too!