As c3p0 has said above, that just won't work.
I've seen couple of cases with other games on this site where another dev tried to take over.
And it really didn't end well with one of the following;
- The person who wanted to continue it had a very conflicting vision to the game's dev and they couldn't agree on anything
or
- The person took over (dev just left the other person to do as he pleased) yet literally nothing happened. The person who was supposed to continue just gave up cause it was too much work.
Taking over a game like this requires more than just skill.
It requires commitment to time and determination to stick to it (and preferably person doing it as more than just a hobby and going full time).
Folks just trying to take a crack at this in a half-ass way, well. They'll find out just how hard game development really is.
And..... as people have been saying time and time again, this game isn't abandoned.
The dev has stated he's still working on it (abandoned prefix is just this site exclusive thing).