Star Citizen crosses $5 million in pledged funding
Chris Robert's space sim nears the finish line
The total funding for Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts' proposed Star Citizen titles has crossed the $5 million mark. As of this writing, the total sits at $5,213,894 with $3,432,355 in funding through the Roberts Space Industries site and $1,781,539 through Kickstarter. The funding drive will be ending November 19 at 1pm Central Time.
Chris Roberts and the Cloud Imperium Games team are currently running a livestream of the final 24 hours of the funding drive. The livestream can be found on the Roberts Space Industries website.
Star Citizen is intended as space sim with single and multiplayer modes in a persistent universe. Roberts and team promise players jobs, a sandbox universe to play in, a deep physics engine, and user-generated content. The CryEngine 3-powered game has a tentative release window of 2014.
That is an amazing achievement. The work put into the presentation clearly has paid off - the number of updates has been very cool as well. At least 1 update email a day - i hope they can keep up with regular updates after the fund raising has stopped (don't expect that volume, but so far it's been great being part of the experience).
Posted:6 months ago