Cleve was a dude who worked (or was contracted by) SirTech back in the Wizardry 7 days. He claims to have worked on Wiz7, and for the sake of argument let's say he did. (Previous to that, his big contributions to gaming was in the C64 era.) He had a falling out with SirTech and started working on Grimoire, which was to be a "Wizardry 8 killer", which gives you some idea of how long this shit's been going on for.
Anyway, if that's all it was, he'd just be another vapourware guy. BUT THERE'S MORE! See, Cleve used to go on Usenet back in the day and regale us with stories about the coming race wars in America, how he once defeated an entire gang of Mexican thugs in the L.A. riots, and how he's actually descended from Neanderthals and hence is like an ubermench to us puny Homo Sapiens. He would tell us tales of his superior bone density, which once allowed him to not only get hit by a car and survive but the car's metal bent around him because he's just that strong, yo. Oh, and how musketballs used to be the size of basketballs and if you got hit with one you'd just explode into red mist. Not him, though, because he's a Neanderthal.
All the while, he'd be talking up Grimoire, announcing it was "95%" completed and would be the greatest game of all-time. Sometime around then, he apparently packed his family up to Australia because he was 100% there was a coming nuclear war, built a fallout shelter, and started selling a computer system designed to be used by other wingnuts with fallout shelters. He has a blog called Vault Co which is technically work safe, but neither brain nor eyeball safe.
In the time since everybody abandoned Usenet, he's put up a dozen or so websites for Grimoire announcing new release dates, then berating everybody who understandably complains that this game is vapourware, then missing his own self-appointed release date, and then quietly taking down the website before rinse-and-repeating the process every couple of years. Hence the MASSIVE HILARITY of a guy putting up a crowdfunding request for a game he's been claiming has been more or less done for literally dozens of years and then setting that request at $250,000.
There's more, but that's the basics. I strongly urge you not to bother with his blog unless you're a connoisseur of internet racist narcissists.
