Cloud Imperium Games: Spotlight - Frankfurt, DE

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   [Music] when we started here in Frankfort and started building up the team we had a map of kind of how we could assist right this project is huge its ambitious it's never been done really to the scale and the level of detail and size so we needed people that were passionate about what they did regardless of what discipline it was and we started just really kind of putting ourselves out there saying hey we're here in Frankfort who wants to join the Frankfort is a cool place and it really is an international city here in de it's not like we only have job' employees I mean there's definitely this cliche that we all have a German accent in this office alone I believe we have 18 or 19 different nationalities people from all

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   over Europe we do have people from I don't know Italy from the Netherlands and also people from US and UK we have the engine team that's located here we have a large environment our team here we have a global design team of those system designers and level designers ai is driven out of here as well we try to be a bit more precise I guess then others but I think that's just a cliche there was always the joke about our generation that we are too old to explore earth and too young to explore space and star citizen basically gives you the option to explore endless space going out into the unknown without a defined plan can be frustrating and intimidating but it kind of balances out when you see goals being achieved when you see the team actually coming in and

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   going like look what we just built Frankfurt is a nice compromise between basically skyscraper land and a big city but it still has these small-town elements so if you go a bit to the east it feels like you're in a village immediately in like 20 minutes within a few hours I'm in Paris I'm in the Netherlands I'm in Italy cliche but yes public transportation is not bad here we have a lot of very talented people and Frankfurt and having all those highly specialized people achieve a goal like that together is just very rewarding you