Procedural Content Generation: Elite

Elite

Elite


Developer:	David Braben and Ian Bell
Publisher:	Acornsoft, Firebird
Designer:	David Braben and Ian Bell
Series:	Elite series
Released:	1984
Genre:	Space trading and combat simulator
Modes:	Single player
Platforms:	Widely ported
PCG Types:	Dynamic world generation

Seminal open-ended space trading game.

Ian Bell's Elite home page
Firebird's Elite: A Look Back at the Greatest Game Ever Made
Elite - Wikipedia entry for Elite.
Extract from The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin by Francis Spufford featuring a section describing how Elite uses the Fibonacci sequence for procedural content generation.

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