In case you hadn't noticed, the "Blood Source Release Campaign" has pretty much died.  There.  I said it.
    Frightfan passed the job of maintaining the pages to me, and I plan on keeping things the way they are until planetblood shuts down.  The issue now is qBlood.  The qBlood project should have started a lot sooner but it's growing exponentially.  Jason Hall is on our side, and has blessed qBlood.  Infogrammes has been oblivious to Bloods existance, so qBlood continues.
    So what now for the "Blood Source Release Campaign" ?  I think I'm going to slowly start integrating some blood stuff like maps and reviews in.  I'll try my hand at programming a map converter, even though I'm a medicore C coder at this point.
    As far as a geniune source code release goes: I don't think it's going to happen at this point unless someone pays the legal fees to make it happen.  I'll inquire at Infogrammes about the topic, but another alternative IS out there.
    I once thought Duke3d would save Blood, and it still might.  Icculus of Lokigames (Win32-> Linux port team) has mentioned that Duke3d will eventually get a clean (closed source) re-release with the enhanced build engine, featuring 100% bug free sound code.  After learning of this I inquired how far Icculus wanted to take Duke3d.  Of course he wants to put it on Linux, but Infogrammes won't allow that yet.  OpenGL & TCP/IP are on his to-do list.
    What does this have to do with Blood you ask?  Well, if Icculus can persuade Infogrammes into a closed source re-release of Blood, we might be in business!  This is mainly speculative, but I don't want folks to totally lose hope for Blood.
    For the future- I'll try to help qBlood by making a better converter for all the maps, but time is hard to find these days.  All the maps have been converted to quake/quake2/half-life editable format already, but the tile naming convention the converter is lame.  Also the maps have way too many faces.  Alastair has been nice enough to start tinkering with E1M1, and his work looks good thus far.  Screen shots are forthcoming...

QBlood and it's respective forum are now officially hosted by PlanetBlood. 

The QBlood Project

The QBlood Forum

In an show of force unheard of in the PC gaming industry, Monolith Productions' CEO Jason Hall, with the help of a secret terrorist organization known only as "The Cabal", stormed the Infogrames compound in Spokane WA in an effort to gain a much sought after prize - the source code to BLOOD, the FPS shooter that put Monolith on the map.

In a communique to his soldiers, Hall said the injustice that his company's creation has suffered by not having it's source code released is unforgiveable. Not only would he see the BLOOD source code given to Lt. Greg "frightfan" Enright to be released publicly from the internet, but he intends to "punish Infogrames for their insolence in assuming that they own something as ethereal as the power of such a marvelous wonder of gaming as Blood."

The soldiers took the source by force from the nigh-impregnable fortress and are currently thought to be hiding out in the Redmond WA area.

When asked for a reaction, Infogrames spokesman Tom Richardson said:
"We didn't want it anyway. It frightened us, frankly. We are glad to be rid of its evil influence."

On a another note, I found out that Game basement is actually running some tracks from the blood soundtrack in their play list. If anyone is interested in seeing some blood mp3's on the site, let tim know. 

From: "Frightfan"
To: "Timothy Hale"
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 4:01 PM
Subject: How would you like to be me?

> I have precious little time these days and this hobby of mine, The Blood
> Source Release Campaign is going nowhere fast. I have decided to hand over
> the crown. Interested?
> I won't disappear altogether, but I can't accept the responsibilities of
> maintaining this campaign any longer. My website design has caught some eyes
> lately and I am actually making a go of it.
> It's down to 3 people: You, (left out), and (left out). The other two
> have some fantastic websites under their belt already, but I thought it best
> to ask you first - it's yours if you want it.
> Have a look at my HTML sources and see if you can make it work. The other
> two are far too busy with their own hobbies I think to take this on, but if
> it's too much for you I will ask them.
>
> Lemme know.
>
>
> Signing off (youre the first to hear of this)
>
> -Greg "frightfan" Enright

From: "Timothy Hale"
To: "Frightfan"
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: How would you like to be me?

I most humbly accept, as I have a friend who's into html and what not. We wanted to make a very good page about blood for sometime, but now it'll be more or less updating yours. I can dig it, because I'll probably sneak the re-build stuff in their. I know html ok, I know better of what it's capable of.
It's kinda sad to hear that you're giving up hope, but I can't disagree. I'll sign up for at least until March 2002, after that I'll be at home trying to go to college full-time. I'll see how it works out, but for now I'll do everything I can to hook the old game up.

Tim

Frustration
But I needed to take a break from it. The way we've been treated by Infogrames and GTI is so frustrating that I just had to remove myself from it for a while.
But the cause lived on while I was "away". I got 3-4 emails every week from NEW people, showing support for this campaign and telling me what they wanted to see Blood become.

Determination
The folks at Loki have all but finished their Linux-BUILD tools and engine by now, and my team, Tim Hale and Mathieu Olivier, have been diligent in their Win32-BUILD conversion as well.
But both groups express frustration at the fact that no BUILD games have had their sources released. Needless to say, BUILD itself is not exactly going to bring developers in droves, wanting to make their own games from scratch.

Reparation
I have fixed the forum problem. Somehow a little bit of extra code ended up in there. Once it was commented out, the problem was gone.... now for some "bad news".
The forum has been cleaned out, as in "fresh start". All messages have been erased. Thank you to all who've contributed to it, but once in a while this must be done.
If I find that enough people want to see the old messages, I suppose it can be taken care of through a "Message Archive" feature, but I don't see why anyone would care - except for maybe wanting to read Matt Saettler's comments. Let me know , ok?