I’m sure you’ve heard of Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sites. It is this team of developers that are making video game history and they’re taking you along for the ride. Roberts Space Industries is the umbrella that envelopes both Cloud Imperium Games - situated in Manchester of all places - and Foundry 42 (Frankfurt). This game’s production is very much like the construction of a spacecraft itself, in that it is being described as “modular”, meaning that sections and versions of the game can be purchased as and when available. Photo: sheer gravity of this project is mind-blowing and the approach itself is worthy of note too. Photo: Glenn only do the current builds feature several planets for the player to visit, all of which are designed to match a true planetary scale-we’re talking vast expanses, towns and cities, all with fleshed out interiors - but the ultimate goal is to create a virtual solar system for players to disappear into for weeks on end. On the other hand, the star of the show is what is being dubbed the “Persistent Universe” this is comprised not only of the massive multiplayer format but upon completion is designed to be the biggest game map ever. The premise of the game is two-fold: on the one hand there is the single-player campaign, entitled Squadron 42, which will consist of both flight-simulation mechanics as well as a boots on the ground, first/third-person shooter experience. Nearly 20 years later, Roberts embarked on the pioneering mission that is Star Citizen, with a nigh-on impossible objective: “I don’t want to build a game.

This game isn’t just massive - it’s positively gargantuan, and it’s not even finished yet…įor those of you completely out in the vacuum of space, Star Citizen is an ongoing PC project headed up by Chris Roberts, the man behind Wing Commander series: a 90s space-flight simulator with dog-fighting gameplay. I have never been so astronomically wrong.

When I first heard the name Star Citizen, I quite foolishly assumed that this was yet another space-bound MMO, like EVE: Online or Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

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