ARMA, historians, hollywood, and video games

[Chris Holloman]

Hey Jonathan,

I am in Logan County. You can google 42202. I could try and modify your plastic sword or I also make wooden wasters... If you look at the ARMA middle TN page on facebook, there is an album with some of my work.

Bro. Chris

[Allen Johnson]

In an ironic and interesting twist of events, I had a phone call this evening with a game producer about collaborating on a sword related game. Hopefully details can be given soon...just as soon as I learn what's covered in the release form.

[James Brazas]

That's very good news, Allen Johnson!

If you're permitted to talk about it, I'm sure we'd all love to hear about that new game!

It would be fantastic to start seeing accurate swordplay in gaming.

Also, I forgot to comment on the list of movies you said your group worked on. That was an impressive list.

[Allen Johnson]

Well that was not me. That was Richard Ryan who did those fights. We just both happen to be in the same organization (SAFD). I had nothing to do with them. I can't say much yet but don't expect anything amazing. This is probably going to be a social media/facebook/smart phone/tablet style game. So the depth will be quite limited. It's also being based on something else, so again, less room for "accuracy".

[Jonathan_Kaplan]

Well hey. That's where the money is these days. And remember, even old fighting games back in the 90s and such aped moves from Bruce Lee, so you don't need much resolution or technology -- or even a lot of frames -- to make recognizable styles...

[Jonathan_Kaplan]

Wow. I just found a game on kickstarter that is most definitely doing this... I posted a new thread about it, but I will post the link I posted there for reference sake.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang

So is anyone here in the Seattle area?

[James Brazas]

That's fantastic news! I definitely support the idea.

I'm nowhere near Seattle, though.

[coryzamparelli]

The only video game that shows some sort of accuracy when it comes to martial techniques would be assassins creed. It's pretty decent on there but everywhere else is pretty inaccurate.

[Jonathan_Kaplan]

Well, the Clang Kickstarter was funded, so hopefully sometime next year, we will actually see a swordfighting video game that blows everything that came before it out of the water!