Neal Stephenson's Swordfighting game: CLANG

[drew einhorn]

http://boingboing.net/2012/06/10/neal-stephenson-kickstarts-rea.html

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Drew Einhorn

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[Steve Smith]

As a one-time fencer, Stephenson Fanboi, Kickstarter follower, and a VR
developer, I was very interested in this project. I didn't check to
see if it was the largest-yet project, but it might be the one with the
highest profile proponent.

Of course, the whole thing suffers from what I remember from my days of
fencing... the overly-exuberent gang of geeks trying to jack up their
testosterone by running around hacking at each other (back in my day it
was the Society for Creative Anachronism) that took the fun out of it.
I'm sure this project is drawing the same crowd (or their grandchildren!)...

It is an ambitious project and will probably be pivotal in first-person
experience interface technology and techniques.

- Steve

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[Steve Smith]

Arwen Hubbard of Santa Fe is seeking $330 for a demonstration project for growing your own Oyster Mushrooms.

Is Arwen in our fold?  She seems likely to be no more than one degree of separation from SF_X...

I'm *in*!

[Roger Critchlow]

Arwen's a friend of Talaya.  Is anyone in New Mexico that far separated from anyone else?

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[Steve Smith]

> Arwen's a friend of Talaya. Is anyone in New Mexico that far
> separated from anyone else?

Virtually everyone I know has a Talaya number of 1 and the rest very
likely a 2, except Talaya with her singular number 0 of course!

I'd love to see the SF_X community push her kickstarter over the top...

- Steve

[Neil]

> Of course, the whole thing suffers from what I remember from my days of
> fencing... the overly-exuberent gang of geeks trying to jack up their
> testosterone by running around hacking at each other (back in my day it
> was the Society for Creative Anachronism) that took the fun out of it.
> I'm sure this project is drawing the same crowd (or their grandchildren!)...

Quite the opposite, actually.

Tony Wolf is the world's leading expert (pretty much) on Bartitsu (the
martial art of Sherlock Holmes), and wrote the canonical book on the
matter.

John Lennox, IIRC, has a school near... Michigan? and is quite
accomplished.

ALso, Kevin Inouye and Guy Windsor, I know from somewhere. I'd have to
look through old email to find where they are, but I know their names
as knowledgable people.

I don't know the others (although I'd take introductions to Valve).

As somebody who's practically had to throw down with the SCA (from a
stage-combat background. You just can't do what they insist on doing.
Don't-squeeze-the-mace, or otherwise) what I know of these guys is
pedigree. They're scholars--and mostly teachers--of classical sword
fighting; not just buckle-swashing.

I'm just miffed because I wanted to write a sword-fighting game... and
because I'm not over there to play with them <G>