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Well done, Internet. Neal Stephenson’s CLANG, which aims to be the first realistic swordfighting game, has reached its Kickstarter $500,000 target with another 15 hours still on the clock. The motion-controlled dueling simulation is expected to launch at the end of the year as a multi-player arena effort, along with a full suite of tools allowing other creators to develop their own games based on the core tech. There’s still time to get on board, so go check out the sweet pitch video.

Thanks, Kotaku.

After the recent launch of a his Kickstarter campaign to fund CLANG, a motion-controlled sword brawler, author Neal Stephenson has spoken of how the he’s been considering creating a video game experience for some 20 years, “some writers spend their whole careers producing only prose, which is a perfectly fine thing to do. But many writers, at one point or another, engage with other media,” he told GI International.

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Dissatisfied with the current portrayal of swordfighting in videogames, renowned fiction writer Neal Stephenson has launched a Kickstarter campaign with the intention of producing the most precise and realistic swordfighting simulation to date.

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