Star Citizen Backer Compiles A Decade Of Dev Tools That Promised Faster Development
It’s now been roughly 12 years since development started on Star Citizen. Over the past decade, developer Cloud Imperium Games has promised custom tools that would help speed up development on the multiplayer space simulator, the latest of which is the new mission maker that the studio revealed earlier this month.
Unfortunately, it looks like the tools did nothing to speed up development by any measure as the game remains in seemingly perpetual alpha testing. YouTuber and Star Citizen backer Camural has published a montage of Cloud Imperium Games’ bespoke tools and announcements from the first one, which was unveiled back in 2013, to the Resonate sound tool revealed in the studio’s latest digest.
The aim of the video is to hopefully call the attention of the game’s developers, and with any luck, encourage them to pick up the pace and deliver a game that’s been delayed for nearly a decade.
“I still hope that Star Citizen will be a great success and a fantastic game, but CIG has been using [the line that tools will allow them to deliver content faster] for 10 years now,” Camural said. “Actually, I find tools very interesting, however we never saw a speed up in content creation; not 10 years ago, not five years ago, not today.”
You can check out Camural’s full video below.
