Star Citizen has 268-person dev team

MCV Staff 18th June 2014 Development News

Well over 250 developers around the globe are working on Chris Roberts’ prominent Kickstarter success story Star Citizen.

The game has currently raised more than $46m and now has five studios behind it, encompassing a grand total of 268 people.

This was revealed in an interview withVentureBeat, in which the Chris Roberts, creator of Wing Commander and Star Citizen, shared a little more about how the latter is being developed.

"I think at last count [our headcount] was 268, between contractors and in-house," he said. "We have three internal studios – one here in Los Angeles, one in Austin and one in Manchester.

Head over to Develop for more details.

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