Last Week, at CIG Austin!

Greetings, Citizens! The best news out of Austin is that the team is now almost fully staffed! As you learned on last week’s Wingman’s Hangar, we hired nine new employees and development is going on in earnest now. We spent the past week with Chris Roberts in town getting the production pipeline primed. Chris met with the individual departments and laid out much of his vision for Star Citizen. Writer Dave Haddock also made the trek to Texas to discuss plans for the game’s story and to help work other aspects of the fiction into the game design.

The biggest hiring news is that we’ve brought on three of our department leads: Jason Spangler, Chris Olivia and Rob Irving (programming, art and design, respectively.) All three are Origin veterans: Jason worked on Ultima Online, Chris O. got his start on Wing Commander III and spent the last decade working on films with Robert Rodriguez and Rob Irving’s credits go all the way back to Strike Commander! You’ll be meeting all three in this space in the coming weeks, starting with Chris on Wednesday.

Video production is on a roll, too: Michael Morlan and Sandi Gardiner shot interviews with every CIG employee which will be edited and featured in upcoming news stories. We also entertained our very first member of the press, a reporter traveling all the way from Germany to do a story on Star Citizen! More on that when the article comes out. For now, check out highlights from last week’s Wingman’s Hangar episode:

Seid gegrüßt, Bürger! Die beste Nachricht aus Austin ist, dass das Team jetzt fast vollständig besetzt ist! Wie Sie im Hangar von Wingman's letzte Woche erfahren haben, haben wir neun neue Mitarbeiter eingestellt und die Entwicklung schreitet nun ernsthaft voran. Wir verbrachten die letzte Woche mit Chris Roberts in der Stadt, um die Produktionspipeline vorzubereiten. Chris traf sich mit den einzelnen Abteilungen und legte einen Großteil seiner Vision für Star Citizen dar. Der Schriftsteller Dave Haddock machte auch die Reise nach Texas, um Pläne für die Geschichte des Spiels zu besprechen und andere Aspekte der Fiktion in das Spieldesign einzubeziehen.

Die größte Neuigkeit bei der Einstellung ist, dass wir drei unserer Abteilungsleiter eingestellt haben: Jason Spangler, Chris Olivia und Rob Irving (Programmierung, Kunst und Design). Alle drei sind Origin-Veteranen: Jason arbeitete an Ultima Online, Chris O. begann mit Wing Commander III und verbrachte das letzte Jahrzehnt damit, an Filmen mit Robert Rodriguez zu arbeiten, und Rob Irvings Credits gehen bis auf Strike Commander zurück! Du wirst alle drei in den kommenden Wochen in diesem Raum treffen, beginnend mit Chris am Mittwoch.

Auch die Videoproduktion ist auf dem Vormarsch: Michael Morlan und Sandi Gardiner haben mit jedem CIG-Mitarbeiter Interviews geführt, die bearbeitet und in den kommenden Nachrichten vorgestellt werden. Wir unterhielten auch unser allererstes Mitglied der Presse, einen Reporter, der den ganzen Weg aus Deutschland reiste, um eine Geschichte über Star Citizen zu schreiben! Mehr dazu, wenn der Artikel herauskommt. Fürs Erste schaue dir die Highlights aus der Hangar-Episode von Wingman von letzter Woche an:

Greetings, Citizens! The best news out of Austin is that the team is now almost fully staffed! As you learned on last week’s Wingman’s Hangar, we hired nine new employees and development is going on in earnest now. We spent the past week with Chris Roberts in town getting the production pipeline primed. Chris met with the individual departments and laid out much of his vision for Star Citizen. Writer Dave Haddock also made the trek to Texas to discuss plans for the game’s story and to help work other aspects of the fiction into the game design.

The biggest hiring news is that we’ve brought on three of our department leads: Jason Spangler, Chris Olivia and Rob Irving (programming, art and design, respectively.) All three are Origin veterans: Jason worked on Ultima Online, Chris O. got his start on Wing Commander III and spent the last decade working on films with Robert Rodriguez and Rob Irving’s credits go all the way back to Strike Commander! You’ll be meeting all three in this space in the coming weeks, starting with Chris on Wednesday.

Video production is on a roll, too: Michael Morlan and Sandi Gardiner shot interviews with every CIG employee which will be edited and featured in upcoming news stories. We also entertained our very first member of the press, a reporter traveling all the way from Germany to do a story on Star Citizen! More on that when the article comes out. For now, check out highlights from last week’s Wingman’s Hangar episode: