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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.
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.
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.
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.
It is the first sequel to the seminal game Elite from 1984. The game retains the same principal component of Elite, namely open-ended gameplay, and adds realistic physics and an accurately modelled galaxy. Frontier: Elite II had a number of firsts to its name. [2] It was the first game to feature procedurally generated star systems.
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.
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Pages in category "Elite (video game series)" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Frontier: Elite II; Frontier: First Encounters