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      CommentAuthornigredo
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2010 edited
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    Neal Stephenson has come with the idea for a story concerning the Mongol invasions, which will be developed in serialised form via apps etc. Imagine the possibilities...

    On Tuesday, May 25, we will be presenting our first product at the SF App Show in San Francisco, California. The Mongoliad is a family of apps for handhelds which enable a new model for publishing, and a new way to tell stories. At the center of the service is a ripping medieval adventure by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Nicole Galland, Mark Teppo, and other great authors, about a time when Europe thought that the Mongol Horde was about to destroy their world, and the exploits of a small band of mystics and warriors as they attempt to turn the tide of history.

    We're also working closely with artists, fight choreographers & other martial artists, programmers, film-makers, game designers, and a bunch of other folks to produce an ongoing stream of nontextual, para-narrative, and extra-narrative stuff which we think brings the story to life in ways that are pleasingly unique, and which can't be done in any single medium.

    Very shortly, once The Mongoliad has developed some mass and momentum, we will be asking fans to join us in creating the rest of the world and telling new stories in it. That's where the real experiment part comes in. We are building some pretty cool tech to make that easy and fun, and we hope lots of you will use it.

    People will be able to get The Mongoliad over the web and via custom clients for mobile devices. We're going to start out with iPad, iPhone, Android, and Kindle apps, and will probably do more in the not too
    distant future.









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    Still waiting for this to go live, haven't seen a start date yet....
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      CommentAuthorbjacques
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2010
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    Looks live now! I read the preview story "Haakon's Fight." Me like.
    • CommentAuthorJigsy Q
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2010
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    If they want historical gaps there's a big one in the early like of Genghis Khan. About an entire decade of his career that's totally unaccounted for.

    As a Mongolian history buff myself I think this is awesome. I'd love to see the Mongols become something more than the stock villains or barbarian cliches of history. They weren't the drooling brutes we think they were.

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