He said during his session, "I want to say hey, you know what: PC games are cool, space games are cool, and I think it's kind of a community. "I plan on bringing that kind of development mentality back into PC gaming and space sims in particular." "In recent years, game designers have stopped innovating and pushing the boundaries of what you can do in this genre," Roberts added. "The PC is still incredibly capable of presenting an experience that doesn't take a back seat to any other platform out there, including consoles," he said in a press statement. Though many game industry veterans have transitioned to mobile or social game development, Roberts says he wants to stick with PC for Star Citizen. Roberts says he wants to capture great things about the open adventuring and entrepreneurship of Privateer and Freelancer but also inject elements of Wing Commander. Star Citizen's gameplay will feature space combat and adventure in a persistent open universe. Players also don't need to be a citizen, if they want to live in a gray area of society. You have to earn it." Player earn citizenship by performing business, military service or civic duty. "Citizenship is very important in this universe. "I'm going to build a universe," said Roberts of Star Citizen. "In today's world where you can be connected and build a world with constant updates, it's a totally different equation."
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Star Citizen will have online and offline elements - players can take part in a single player campaign, and friends can also jump in and be wingmen. He also took control of a real-time prototype that showed off impressive detail in characters, space ships and environments. Roberts showed a highly-detailed trailer that was rendered using the game's engine. The developer was founded in April 2012 with Roberts' business partner and media attorney Ortwin Freyermuth. "It was just a couple years ago when I felt like I had something to say again," he said.Īlready 12 months into production, Star Citizen will release for PC, and is under development at Roberts' new studio Cloud Imperium Games Corporation. The game industry was getting bigger and bigger, and he became disillusioned with how corporate the business had become. Production cycle lengths were also getting longer and longer, and he was "fairly frustrated with that" as well. "I was frustrated with the technology that was available to express the vision I had in my head," he told GDC Online attendees in Austin. Roberts said the game is also funded by private investors. But he is now seeking to crowdfund a new game project that's reminiscent of the space titles he used to produce. He left the game industry not long after selling Digital Anvil ( Starlancer, Freelancer), a studio he helped found after resigning from Origin, to Microsoft in 2000.īurnt out by the game industry, he spent the last decade working as a producer and director on films like The Punisher (2004) and Lord of War. Roberts is best known for creating popular space combat titles during his time at Origin Systems. Industry pioneer Chris Roberts, who created the seminal Wing Commander and Privateer franchises, has returned to game development after a more than decade-long absence to release a new CryEngine 3-powered space sim, Star Citizen, announced at GDC Online on Wednesday.
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