Whatever happened with the Eric/Jon colabo Art of War?

I was just thinking of how to steal/borrow elements of Rummikub for some kind of board game involving tiles and pattern recognition/set collection and I remembered briefly seeing vids on the AoW gameplay. I don't remember if it was very tile-y, but I think at one point I was thinking about my Rummikub knock-off  "instead of numbers 1-13, it could be different types of soliders" and that made me think of  AoW.

THEN made me think of crazy ass Kickstarter and how D-Day Dice is at over $90,000 so far. That is fucking madness! In 45 days I think. I think it's gonna be the most raised for a single game yet. It looks cool but I don't know if it looks THAT cool!

 So, in conclusion (going back to my school daze paper-writing skills), maybe you guys can reimagine AoW as a physical casual-friendly game and once it's playtested to all hell, make it through Kickstarter! I don't know if it was even something that could be played in real life, but if it was even close to a "majong wargame" then maybe yalls can make it happen. I'm still gonna brainstorm ripping off Rummikub because that's one of my favorite old school games and I bet those mechanics could be hijacked for something more thematic.