BY JENNA PITCHER: Star Citizen, the massive spaceflight simulator from Wing Commander series creator Chris Roberts breezed past a $75 million fundraising milestone this week, extending the record it set last year as the most successful crowdfunding project ever.

“It's a little surreal. I didn't even think that 10 would be possible,” Roberts told IGN. “I'm always amazed. If you came up to me and said that we would be at $75 million when I started October 2012, I would be absolutely nuts.

“I used to have some arguments internally where the head of marketing was like ‘Well, we'll see if we can do 20 [million]’ and I was like, ‘Ahh, there's no way we're doing 20.’ So, it has been pretty awesome.”

When Roberts first launched the project in October 2012, he hoped to raise between $2 million to $4 million to bring on angel investors to help fund the game. As the game is successfully raising funds independently, the project is liberated from bringing on private investors, allowing the developer to proceed with the game’s production as it sees fit.

“I'm about trying to make the best game possible so I find it quite liberating to be able, in the situation we have now, where we enough money to build this thing to a level where you can only dream of,” he said. “So I feel very lucky and humbled and happy and I'm having a lot of fun making the game.”

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