industry video game industry founded 2010 founder chris roberts headquarters los angeles california united states area served worldwide key people chris roberts products star citizen divisions cloud imperium games texas llc subsidiaries foundry 42 ltd foundry 42 germany website cloudimperiumgames.com cloud imperium games llc is an american video game company founded by chris roberts and ortwin freyermuth with offices in los angeles california austin texas wilmslow cheshire england and frankfurt germany . 1 history edit the company s origins are traced as far back as the launch of roberts space industries in 2010 . it was founded by chris roberts together with his business partner and long time international media attorney ortwin freyermuth to work on a new game . on october 10 2012 cloud imperium games launched a crowdfunding campaign from the roberts space industries website with the stated goal of raising between two and four million dollars to produce a space sim game for the personal computer in a sandbox vein . it was being built on the cryengine 3 game engine . the game promised to integrate a traditional branching storyline game to be called squadron 42 with a persistent online universe game to be called star citizen . on october 18 2012 at the request of fans a kickstarter campaign was launched to run in conjunction with the roberts space industries website . by november 19 2012 when the combined campaigns concluded they had earned 6 238 563 approximately 4.1 million from the rsi campaign and approximately 2.1 from the kickstarter campaign . this surpassed all stretch goals set for the campaign and broke video game industry crowdfunding records both in funds received and in number of backers . chris roberts had stated that if at least 23 million could be raised over the course of the crowdfunding campaign no outside investors or developers funding would be required . this goal was reached october 18 2013 . as of october 2016 they have raised over 126 million . star citizen edit main article star citizen their first product is star citizen a crowdfunded space simulator mmo which as of the time of writing has gathered over 126 million making it the most successfully crowdfunded game to date . 2 references edit about us cloud imperium games . cloudimperiumgames.com . retrieved 2014 08 29 . star citizen is the most crowdfunded project in history time.com . techland.time.com . 2014 01 22 . retrieved 2014 08 29 . this video game article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cloud imperium games & oldid 743511999 categories video game companies of the united statesvideo game companies established in 2012companies based in los angelesvideo game stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 00 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view