David Braben - Revision history

Cholmondely: Added OBE

2020-12-23T10:01:27Z

Added OBE

2020-12-23T09:58:25Z

Corrections.

2020-12-22T09:04:37Z

More guff!

2020-12-17T21:48:50Z

Links! De-stubbed.

2020-10-29T09:09:25Z

Added in Links

2020-10-29T09:08:04Z

Added in ED

2016-02-10T23:47:47Z

Minor improvements.

2016-01-18T19:06:33Z

Category not needed.

2016-01-17T19:38:08Z

2007-09-24T15:50:26Z

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	With the development of Frontier, David Braben was able to introduce [[Newtonian modelling]] and a map of the universe in which we actually live (rather than the 8 galaxies of Elite). There were also no references to the non-human races such as the felines and the lobstoids. This has led to all sorts of fun for the people trying to work out a history linking Elite to Frontier (and then to Oolite and then to Elite:Dangerous) - see [[Lore]] & [[History]].		With the development of Frontier, David Braben was able to introduce [[Newtonian modelling]] and a map of the universe in which we actually live (rather than the 8 galaxies of Elite). There were also no references to the non-human races such as the felines and the lobstoids. This has led to all sorts of fun for the people trying to work out a history linking Elite to Frontier (and then to Oolite and then to Elite:Dangerous) - see [[Lore]] & [[History]].
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		+	In 2014 he was created an Officer of the British Empire (OBE).

	=== Trivia ===		=== Trivia ===

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 [[File:Braben.jpg|thumb|right|220px|David Braben, co-author of Elite and owner of Frontier Developments]]
-David Braben is the co-author of [[classic Elite]], along with [[Ian Bell]], and the author of [[Frontier|Frontier: Elite II]] and [[First Encounters|Frontier: First Encounters]]. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, [[Frontier Developments]], which has developed [[Elite:_Dangerous|Elite Dangerous]].
+David Braben is the co-author of [[classic Elite]] (along with [[Ian Bell]]) and the author of [[Frontier|Frontier: Elite II]] and [[First Encounters|Frontier: First Encounters]]. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, [[Frontier Developments]], which has developed [[Elite:_Dangerous|Elite Dangerous]].
 === Trivia ===

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	David Braben is the co-author of [[classic Elite]], along with [[Ian Bell]], and the author of [[Frontier\|Frontier: Elite II]] and [[First Encounters\|Frontier: First Encounters]]. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, [[Frontier Developments]], which has developed [[Elite:_Dangerous\|Elite Dangerous]].		David Braben is the co-author of [[classic Elite]], along with [[Ian Bell]], and the author of [[Frontier\|Frontier: Elite II]] and [[First Encounters\|Frontier: First Encounters]]. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, [[Frontier Developments]], which has developed [[Elite:_Dangerous\|Elite Dangerous]].
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		+	David Braben pushed for more realism against Ian Bell's push for more playability. In Elite they were both constrained by the minute amount of computer memory available in those days. With the development of Frontier, David Braben was able to introduce [[Newtonian modelling]] and replace the 8 galaxies of Elite with a map of the universe in which we actually live. He also removed out the references to the non-human races such as the felines and the lobstoids. This led to all sorts of fun for the people trying to work out a history linking Elite to Frontier (and then to Oolite and then to Elite:Dangerous) - see [[Lore]].

	=== Trivia ===		=== Trivia ===

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	David Braben got his nickname "The Breadbin" in the Elite community thanks to a publicity photograph of himself in his kitchen, in which the breadbin particularly stood out. (The original alt.fan.elite Usenet article that originated the "Breadbin" nickname was started by Rob Pfeifer on June 12th 1999 [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.elite/browse_thread/thread/718e1b44ef41209c/157e2cdf31addeb3?lnk=st&q=breadbin+group%3Aalt.fan.elite&rnum=281#157e2cdf31addeb3] )		David Braben got his nickname "The Breadbin" in the Elite community thanks to a publicity photograph of himself in his kitchen, in which the breadbin particularly stood out. (The original alt.fan.elite Usenet article that originated the "Breadbin" nickname was started by Rob Pfeifer on June 12th 1999 [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.elite/browse_thread/thread/718e1b44ef41209c/157e2cdf31addeb3?lnk=st&q=breadbin+group%3Aalt.fan.elite&rnum=281#157e2cdf31addeb3] )

		+	== Links ==
		+	*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben Wikipedia article]
		+	*There is a 1995 interview with him at the bottom of the page [http://www.jades.org/files/lavestn/ here]
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 [[File:Braben.jpg|thumb|right|220px|David Braben, co-author of Elite and owner of Frontier Developments]]
-David Braben is the co-author of [[classic Elite]], along with [[Ian Bell]], and the author of [[Frontier|Frontier: Elite II]] and [[First Encounters|Frontier: First Encounters]]. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, [[Frontier Developments]], which has developed Elite Dangerous.
+David Braben is the co-author of [[classic Elite]], along with [[Ian Bell]], and the author of [[Frontier|Frontier: Elite II]] and [[First Encounters|Frontier: First Encounters]]. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, [[Frontier Developments]], which has developed [[Elite:_Dangerous|Elite Dangerous]].
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+[[File:Braben.jpg|thumb|right|220px|David Braben, co-author of Elite and owner of Frontier Developments]]
-David Braben is the co-author of [[classic Elite]], along with [[Ian Bell]], and the author of [[Frontier|Frontier: Elite 2]] and [[First Encounters|Frontier: First Encounters]]. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, [[Frontier Developments]].
+David Braben is the co-author of [[classic Elite]], along with [[Ian Bell]], and the author of [[Frontier|Frontier: Elite II]] and [[First Encounters|Frontier: First Encounters]]. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, [[Frontier Developments]].
 === Trivia ===
 David Braben got his nickname "The Breadbin" in the Elite community thanks to a publicity photograph of himself in his kitchen, in which the breadbin particularly stood out. (The original alt.fan.elite Usenet article that originated the "Breadbin" nickname was started by Rob Pfeifer on June 12th 1999 [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.elite/browse_thread/thread/718e1b44ef41209c/157e2cdf31addeb3?lnk=st&q=breadbin+group%3Aalt.fan.elite&rnum=281#157e2cdf31addeb3] )
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