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Braben founded the video game studio Frontier Developments in 1994. Frontier featured many technical advancements and new features on the original Elite, including filled 3D graphics, missions and a complex economy. This time, the player was not confined to orbit but could land on and explore or mine planets.
Pioneer is a free and open source space trading and combat simulator video game inspired by the commercial proprietary Frontier: Elite 2. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is available for Linux , and Microsoft Windows .
Elite's open-ended game model, and revolutionary 3D graphics led to it being ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history. [3] The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite".
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Elite Dangerous is the fourth game in the Elite video game series. It is the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters, [9] released in 1995, becoming the top selling game for Christmas of that Year. By November 2012, Frontier began a Kickstarter campaign for ED due to the inability to secure a publisher.
Frontier Developments plc is a British video game developer [3] founded by David Braben in January 1994 and based at the Cambridge Science Park in Cambridge, England. [4] Frontier develops management simulators Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo, and has produced several games in David Braben's Elite series, including Elite Dangerous.
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.
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