FreeGameDev

this is Ed, i've played RE a lot since 1.4 and am excited about BN

is it actually up and running and being actively played yet?

you guys are way ahead of me in terms of developing, I'm really just a player but I've gone to the pages where the game is supposed to be downloaded but can't figure out how? is it just at development stage atm?

You can consider this project a community continuation of RE 1.x. People are actively playing it, we have set up all the necessary infrastructure, there's plenty servers (mostly empty, but we're trying to motivate people to play the game!).

You can download working builds via https://go.blue-nebula.org/releases.