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2012
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Check out this awesome Kickstarter project headed up by famed SF authors Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. Their goal is to raise $500K to fund a new interactive sword fighting video game. From Neal’s intro:
In the last couple of years, affordable new gear has come on the market that makes it possible to move, and control a swordfighter’s actions, in a much more intuitive way than pulling a plastic trigger or pounding a key on a keyboard. So it’s time to step back, dump the tired conventions that have grown up around trigger-based sword games, and build something that will enable players to inhabit the mind, body, and world of a real swordfighter.
Sounds like the kind of project WWEnders can appreciate. What do you think? Is it time to pledge?
2 Comments
Love the advertisement because it speaks to you intelligently. If this is their first introduction then they did a masterful job creating a positive impression. 343 Studios should look into it and see if they can spare any resources to help them out. Could lead to a whole new genre.
He definitely made the ad entertaining! This seems like it could be really fun, if they can get the players’ motions accurately translated to the game. I wonder if any current third party controllers are really up to the task. It looks like you could actually learn some basic fencing stances or motions through the game, which seems really cool!
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