With 14 days to go, Star Citizen currently sits nearly double its target goal of $500,000 and Roberts isn't being shy about sharing his plans for the game.Īfter all, it was the modern era game development where community interactivity is often crucial that helped bring Roberts back into the gold. have taken to crowdsourcing, first on their own site, and more recently, through Kickstarter. It was unveiled weeks ago and is being financed mostly through private investors, although to gauge the true scope of the project through player interested, Roberts and co.
Star Citizen is the ambitious spiritual successor to Wing Commander and is being created independently by a team lead by Chris Roberts, the man responsible for Privateer, Wing Commander, Starlancer and in part, Freelancer. Joining BioWare's free-to-play reboot of Command & Conquer and Piranha Games' reboot of MechWarrior as throwbacks to '90s PC gaming is a spiritual successor of the biggest video game franchises of the era: Star Citizen.
