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Interstellar Marines: trite name, crowd-sourced budget  Zero
Point Software has an ambitious plan: to make an Indie game with
AAA …  It's easy to dismiss Interstellar Marines as an
uninspired entry in a long line of first-person shooters. After
all, it's about marines. In space. Who sometimes use flashlights
to see in dark hallways and presumably fight aliens. However,
moving past that surface impression, it quickly becomes apparent
that this game is something we're not used to: an Indie game
with some major production values, one that's been a labor of
love for its development team for quite some time.  As it turns
out, developer Zero Point Games has managed to accomplish this
feat without the help of a publisher. Instead, the company has
funded the game's development through nothing more than its own
ingenuity, resulting in a business plan that is—for the
moment—an experiment that might very well launch an entirely new
category when it comes to ind