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Frontier: Elite II had a number of firsts to its name. [2] It was the first game to feature procedurally generated star systems. These were generated by the game aggregating the mass of material within an early solar system into planets and moons that obey the laws of physics, but which have slightly randomised material distribution in order to ...
Elite is a space trading and combat simulation video game series created by David Braben and Ian Bell in 1984. The Elite series has been revolutionarily innovative, genre defining, and the longest running space sim series in history. [1] [2] The series was met with commercial success, favorable reviews and near-universal acclaim. [3] [4]
Elite Dangerous [a] is an online space flight simulation game developed and published by Frontier Developments.The player commands a spaceship and explores a realistic 1:1 scale, open-world representation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the gameplay being open-ended.
Elite and its sequel Frontier: Elite II were arguably two of the most influential early space games ever made. They dropped the player into an immense sci-fi sandbox with just a tiny ship and a ...
Development was started in 2008 by Tom Morton, also known for his work on GLFrontier, as a remake and homage to Frontier: Elite 2. [8] The game is written in C++ [9] and uses OpenGL for graphical rendering. It uses Lua for scripting support. The development migrated in 2011 to a SourceForge.net repository, and some years later to GitHub.
The Elite series is among the longest-running video game franchises. The first game was followed by the sequels Frontier: Elite II in 1993, [6] and Frontier: First Encounters in 1995, [7] which introduced Newtonian physics, realistic star systems, and seamless freeform planetary landings.
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Ship flying over the terra-formed planet Mars. First Encounters carried over the gameplay features from its immediate predecessor Frontier: Elite II, in that the game is a combination of trading, fighting, espionage, bombing and a variety of other military activities; the combat ratings were also carried over from the previous games.