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Elite: Dangerous: GDCA Hands Out a Pioneer Award to David Braben
SBFord
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The Game Developer's Choice Awards have been announced, and Dave Braben, CEO of Frontier Developments and Elite: Dangerous, has been named as the recipient of the Pioneer Award for his groundbreaking technology and game design milestones.
Pioneer Award winner David Braben co-developed the seminal 'open world' 3D space trading game Elite with Ian Bell while at university in the early 1980s. The best-selling, startlingly expansive title had revolutionary 3D graphics and let the player make all kinds of intriguing moral decisions as they flew the known universe. Elite saw a number of sequels, including the crowdfunded, currently much buzzed-about Elite: Dangerous, and went on to be a big influence on games in the genre it helped create - from Wing Commander to No Man's Sky and beyond.
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Well deserved! Congrats! I surmise Elite: Dangerous will be the new flagship title in the genre.
Coupled with SC it is a win win. ED for my spacey space adventures and SC for my fun space adventures. Oh and a bit of No Mans Sky thrown into the mix, it is a new golden era of space exploration