A new
Letter from the Chairman on the Roberts Space Industries celebrates the
latest milestone for
Star Citizen, as the upcoming space combat game has
passed $41 million in crowd-sourced funding (thanks 88fingers). This triggers
the
previously
announced stretch goal of procedural generation technology. Here's
word:
We’ve hit another record-setting crowd funding level: $41 million!
I’m incredibly happy to hit this goal as it green-lights a very important
research project aimed at improving Star Citizen’s long term future. With this
funding, we’ll be looking into procedural generation to help build the universe
out in a greater detail and scope in ways we didn’t think possible when we
started developing the game! We will have some exciting announcements to make
down the line involving some of the talent we’ve been talking to about helping
us with procedural system and planet building.
- Procedural Generation R&D Team – This
stretch goal will allocate funding for Cloud Imperium to develop procedural
generation technology for future iterations of Star Citizen. Advanced
procedural generation will be necessary for creating entire planets worth of
exploration and development content. A special strike team of procedural
generation-oriented developers will be assembled to make this technology a
reality.