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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
Frontier had been planning a new Elite sequel, under the working title Elite 4, since 1998. The company completed a successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of 2012, where the new sequel's name Elite: Dangerous was revealed. Early-access versions of the game have been playable by backers since December 2013.
Frontier: Elite II is a space trading and combat simulator video game written by David Braben and published by GameTek and Konami in October 1993 and released on the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS. It is the first sequel to the seminal game Elite from 1984.
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.
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2024 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) The first game with the title, Trade Wars , by Chris Sherrick, was developed in BASIC for the TRS-80 Model II , and soon ported, by Sherrick, to the IBM PC for the Nochange BBS system in 1984. [ 2 ]
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]
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