 Starship Simulator went to Kickstarter early last week looking to raise enough money in around a month to push the project forward and take it into early access on steam. Just 72 hours later the project had sailed through its initial goal of £65,000 and was charging towards the first of its stretch goals. We featured Starship Simulator on this channel a couple of times before and if you were at our pitcon event last year in Nottingham then you'll have had the opportunity to meet the developers of the game Claire and Dan Gauvié. If you're not familiar already with Starship then our in-depth interview video with Dan Gauvié is linked on screen now but in essence the game is aiming to simulate all the crew roles, systems, environment and experience of serving aboard or commanding a fully realised and simulated Starship exploring a one-to-one recreation of our own Milky Way galaxy. Crew roles will be available from command to science, medical, engineering, tactical and more and regardless of what role you decide to take on the ship it will eventually be playable in solo or multiplayer. Unlike a lot of other Starship based games however multiplayer won't involve other players in their own Starships but rather everyone will be a crew member on the same ship as it seeks out new life forms and new civilisations all procedurally generated. The game which uses the Unreal Engine is actually available to try as a pre-alpha demo on Steam for free and you can already traverse the entire galaxy in real time and indeed in multiplayer and visit any of the billions of star systems and their planets from orbit right now. As at the time of recording the Kickstarter campaign has over 1700 backers and is just a smidgen shy of £126,000. The first of the project's stretch goals is VR support and there are still 24 days to go on the campaign. If you're curious to learn more about Starship Simulator and maybe join the Kickstarter yourself then you'll find everything you need linked in the description below this video. That's it for now, thanks very much for watching, we very much look forward to seeing you next time.