Pooling even more talent, effort and funds into development of the first-person universe space simulator Star Citizen, Cloud Imperium Games have announced that their newest development office is now open in Frankfurt, Germany. This team will work on both Star Citizen and its single-player Squadron 42 game.
Managed by CIG’s Foundary 42 Ltd. in Manchester, the Frankfurt office is comprised of a number of engineers, artists and designers. At least some of these staff members have purportedly had a role in creating the CryEngine technology, which serves as the foundational framework for Star Citizen. As of launch, there are currently 21 people in the Frankfurt team. They do however expect this number to swell to approximately 50 people by the end of 2015.
Chris Roberts | Co-Founder and Creative Director of Cloud Imperium Games
These are some of the top game developers in this part of the world,” said CIG’s co-founder and creative director. We are extremely pleased to have them on our team and working with CIG in all aspects of creating Star Citizen. Their experience in working on CryEngine will pay huge dividends for us in the very near future. Some of their contributions are already showing up in in our single player game, Squadron 42, and our first person shooter elements.
Brian Chambers | Development Director at the Foundary 42
This is a dream come true for our entire team. It’s exciting to be working on an ambitious project like Star Citizen. Our team is small now but we will be growing quickly and recruiting from all over Europe to come work on the game. We have some very interesting ideas about future technology that I think our fans will like and we look forward to talking about those very soon.
