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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 .
This genre of computer and video game simulates trading and combat in outer space; as exemplified by Elite. They are often arcade-like in mechanics, as opposed to pure space flight simulators . Subcategories
Oolite is a free and open source 3D space trading and combat simulator "in the spirit of" Elite, a similar game published in the 1980s.The name is a contraction of object oriented Elite, because it was written in Objective-C, an object-oriented programming language.
Though specifics vary between versions, in general the player is a trader in a galaxy with a fixed set of other players (either human or computer). The players seek to gain control of resources: usually fuel ore, food, and equipment, and travel through sectors of the galaxy trading them for money or undervalued resources.
The game Elite is widely considered to be the breakthrough game of the genre, [1] [2] [3] and as having successfully melded the "space trading" and flight sim genres. [4] Elite was highly influential upon later games of its type, although it did have some precursors. Games similar to Elite are sometimes called "Elite-clones". [5] [6] [7] [8]
In November 2011 there was a "development kit" released as free DLC which included the game's source code. [535] Elite: 1984 1999 Space trading game: Proprietary: Freeware: Ian Bell, David Braben: In November 1999, developer Ian Bell released on the game's 15th birthday the BBC Micro assembly source code on his website.
All he had were the ship shapes and the procedural generation code for the galaxies. [54] Elite Plus was released for DOS in 1991. Whereas the original Elite (1987) [23] for the PC used CGA graphics, Elite Plus was upgraded to take advantage of EGA, VGA and MCGA. It was coded entirely in assembly language by Chris Sawyer, who later wrote ...
Space Trader is a strategy game for Palm OS and Windows Mobile PDAs.It was released in 2002 by Pieter Spronck, a scientist at Tilburg University, and was inspired by David J. Webb's PalmPilot game SolarWars (which in turn was based on Matt Lee's popular Palm game Dope Wars) and the 1980s classic 3D strategy game Elite (though it does not have Elite's 3D flight mode).