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Subject: Elite 4 Started
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mikewall 23.06.11 - 03:40am
Post production has started AGAIN on Elite 4, it's still early days but Frontier Developments and Elite co creator David Braddon has finally started the next instalment of his space combat/trading sim! Frontier hope to release on most current systems where possible. Back at GDC 2011 Bradden stated it would be a tragedy not to do Elite 4! There also looking at XBL and PSN for a Elite remake. * +
mikewall 23.06.11 - 03:41am
Post production NO Pre production! Sorry * +
mikewall 23.06.11 - 03:42am
GDC 2011: Frontier Developments boss David Braben has told an audience at the Game Developers Conference that Elite 4 is still very much in his thoughts. * +
mikewall 23.06.11 - 03:43am
Yes, he told an attendee who asked him whether it was still on the drawing board at the end of his GDC 25th anniversary post-mortem on Elite. It would be a tragedy for it not to be. * +
mikewall 23.06.11 - 03:45am
Earlier in his presentation, Braben talked about the innocent attitude of early-eighties game developers and how he sees parallels with the current mobile and social platforms. * +
mikewall 23.06.11 - 03:45am
He and partner Ian Bell had simply sat down to make a game because they wanted to do so, he said. People like various app stores have created that feeling again, he explained. * +
mikewall 23.06.11 - 03:46am
It's a long time we haven't had it and I think it's a very good thing. Hopefully some new blood will come into the industry. * +
mikewall 23.06.11 - 03:47am
The rest of the presentation talked over many of the interesting technical and design decisions made during Elite's development - from compression shortcuts based on letter pairings and the Fibonacci sequences to the developers' hilarious decision to redo the radar with virtually no time left before release. * +
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