{"id":15460,"date":"2012-06-13T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15460"},"modified":"2012-06-12T19:46:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T00:46:14","slug":"clang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/clang\/","title":{"rendered":"Clang!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Stephenson wants your money to help him create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/260688528\/clang\" target=\"_blank\">realistic sword fighting game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/260688528\/clang\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi, Neal Stephenson here. My career as an author of science and historical fiction has turned me into a swordsmanship geek. As such, I&#8217;m dissatisfied with how swordfighting is portrayed in existing video games. These could be so much more fun than they are. Time for a revolution.<\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of years, affordable new gear has come on the market that makes it possible to move, and control a swordfighter&#8217;s actions, in a much more intuitive way than pulling a plastic trigger or pounding a key on a keyboard. So it&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2zArYr95MG4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to Tom Kelley for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Stephenson wants your money to help him create a realistic sword fighting game: Hi, Neal Stephenson here. My career as an author of science and historical fiction has turned me into a swordsmanship geek. As such, I&#8217;m dissatisfied with how swordfighting is portrayed in existing video games. These could be so much more fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28,15],"tags":[92,678],"class_list":["post-15460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-media","category-technology","tag-software","tag-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2hpV6-clang","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15462,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions\/15462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}