Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley cancels Kickstarter campaign for Hero’s Song role-playing game

John Smedley, the former head of Sony Online Entertainment, has canceled his Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Hero’s Song, the first game from his new Pixelmage Games studio.

In an update today, Smedley said that funding levels so far indicated that the campaign wasn’t going to hit its ambitious target of raising $800,000. When the campaign was halted 10 hours ago, Hero’s Song had raised $136,849 from 3,037 backers. This was after seven days of fundraising.