Take a ship and 100 credits to make money legally or illegally - trade, bounty-hunt, pirate, assassinate your way across the galaxy. That's the pitch line for Elite: Dangerous, the new space sim from David Braben, and it's something gamers will be able to experience for themselves next year. Elite: Dangerous hit its $1.7 million Kickstarter goal last night with just over a day remaining.

Braben, the designer of the game that largely created the space sim genre, the original Elite, said he expects to have work completed on Dangerous by March 2014. Chip in at least $20 by tomorrow night, and you'll receive a digital copy on launch day.

Find Elite: Dangerous on Kickstarter.