Neal Stephenson's “CLANG” Kickstarter video game officially cancelled

Re:Neal Stephenson's “CLANG” Kickstarter video game official... by drawkbox on Friday September 19, 2014 @07:50PM (#8343103)

Kickstarter just updated their terms so it is possible this triggered that: https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use#section4

"The creator is solely responsible for fulfilling the promises made in their project. If they’re unable to satisfy the terms of this agreement, they may be subject to legal action by backers."

However the CLANG project did make a prototype but it would be nice if projects fail they have to be open sourced or able to be observed or carried forward if possible.

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Re:Neal Stephenson's “CLANG” Kickstarter video game official... by Schweigi on Friday September 19, 2014 @08:53PM (#8343275)

They gave their game as part of the rewards. I wouldn't say that a prototype fulfills this promise.

Perhaps Kickstarter shouldn't allow to give the product people back with money as reward because if the project fails this product reward goes down the drain too. I know like 90% of all projects do that and its kind of what makes Kickstarter but still its not really logical. Or another option would be a rule that backers have no rights at all. This would force the project makers to publish budgets and more details about the project otherwise nobody would back anything.

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