Chris Roberts, veteran game designer (recently resurrected), has confirmed that his new project, Star Citizen, has raised over 450,000 dollars thanks to the funding provided by crowds (who are probably as eager to see the project as much as I am).

Here's what Roberts said in a press release: "We lost the opportunity to break the first day record, but the race isn't over yet! We currently stand at $455, 590 raised from 4,564 pledges which is pretty impressive considering the outage we've had. Seems everyone wants the RSI Constellation and physical goodies! But we need get this up. Space Sims trumped RPGs in the old days, let's get a little of that inter-genre friendly rivalry back!"

If there's any project out there that I'd like to support it would be this one. I'm gonna do it, I tell ya. There, I did it.

News, via Roberts Space Industries.