Posts tagged “Neal Stephenson”

While not quite the most-funded failed Kickstarter - that dubious honour belongs to the disastrous Yogventures and the $568,000 that didn't result in a videogame - sword-fighting title CLANG isn't far behind at $526K. Of course, we already knew that the steel-clashing brainchild of author Neal Stephenson was in trouble, having been put "on pause" this time last year when his studio ran out of…

Yikes. It appears that Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson and the CLANG team have a bit of a mess on their hands. And by "a bit," I mean the sort that requires years of clean-up and nearly extinguishes at least seven species of marine life. Here's the skinny: $526,125 in Kickstarter money apparently wasn't enough for the peripheral-dependent savior of swordfighting, so Stephenson and co…

It's looked a little touch and go as to whether Neal Stephenson's crowd-sourced swordfighting game Clang was going to make it. But it has, which means there's one more game added to the list of titles which we hope and pray can ultimately prove those whole Kickstarter thing is a valid model for independent development. At the time of writing, Clang has $520,000 of an…

Bam. Neal Stephenson, the author of science and historical fiction like Snow Crash and The System Of The World, has just announced he's making a game. In fact, he announces he's been researching how to make a game for years, and now he's ready to make it. A sword fighting game, that will address his frustration with how sword fighting has been portrayed and delivered…