Elite: Dangerous only has a few hours left and it is closing in on the £1.5 million mark and has already surpassed it’s initial goal of £1.25 million so this will be funded. CEO of Frontier Developments David Braben sends his thanks to all the users who have promoted and pledged to make this game a reality. If all goes according to plan this giant space game will be released March 2014. If you’ve not pledged and would like to you have until 6pm EST on January 4th 2013 to do so, so get to it!
Source Link: Elite: Dangerous on Kickstarter
PRESS RELEASE
Elite: Dangerous Hits Funding Target of £1.25M
Over 21K Backers Bring Classic Space Sim to A New Generation
3rd January 2012. Cambridge, UK: Frontier Developments (“Frontier”) is delighted that its Kickstartercampaign for the ‘Elite: Dangerous’ game has reached its funding target of £1.25M attracting over 21,000 backers.
“Thank you to everyone who helped us reached that total – it’s incredibly heartening and uplifting to see so many people supporting Elite: Dangerous,” said David Braben, CEO of Frontier and co-author of the original Elite. “The help, feedback and ideas given and the enthusiasm shown has been remarkable, vividly illustrating the power of the community which is a force to be reckoned with in today’s connected society. This has made us even more determined than ever to produce a game worthy of such support and engage even further throughout development.”
The Kickstarter project http://kck.st/YN6rVC is still accepting pledges until midnight GMT/7pm EST on Friday 4th January 2013 as the team pushes towards stretch goals of Mac support and increased numbers of playable ships, in response to requests from the community. A PayPal payment option is also available via Frontier’s website elite.frontier.co.uk which will continue to accept contributions after the Kickstarter project closes.
The Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter campaign has generated over 100,000 comments so far on the project’s page, which Frontier believes is a current record for the site.
David Braben will be hosting a Reddit AMA at 5pm GMT/noon EST today
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/15od2s/i_am_david_braben_cocreator_of_elite_creator_of/
Elite: Dangerous is due for release on PC in March 2014.
For further information please contact:
Alison Beasley or Natalie Griffith at Lincoln Beasley PR
T: +44 1608 645756 M: +44 7966 449 130
E: frontier@lincolnbeasley.co.uk
About Frontier
Frontier Developments is an established game development company with 235 talented developers in the UK and Canada who have used Frontier’s own state-of-the-art technology to deliver an outstanding track record of high quality games for publishing partners such as Microsoft, LucasArts, Atari and Sony.
