OT: Interesting article RE: Elite's genesis

[Krsqk]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...064107,00.html

Click it. Yes, it's from October '03, but it was just corrected at the end of July '04.

[Slick]

Indeed, Elite was one of the greatest games I have ever played. For its time, it was the best. There were so many neat aspects of the game. Is there a port over to the PC?

Slick.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Huh. I've tried making a Fibonacci'd galaxy from base 2 and base 4 or Fibonacci^2 but it goes non-random really fast. Which either means I'm way to tired and will notice the problem in the morning or these guys used very small coordinates, or did something more with the Fibonacci numbers. I wouldn't know which.

8,6,4,0,4,4,8,2,0,2,2,4,6,0,6,6,2,8,0,8,
8,6,4,0,4,4,8,2,0,2,2,4,6,0,6,6,2,8,0,8,
8,6,4,0,4,4,8,2,0,2,2,4,6,0,6,6,2,8,0,8,
8,6,4,0,4,4,8,2,0,2,2,4,6,0,6,6,2,8,0,8,
8,6,4,0,4,4,8,2,0,2,2,4,6,0,6,6,2,8,0,8,

Not very semi-random once you hit certain combo's of numbers...Such as an 8 and a 6. That was done by hand, from remembering those numbers as two trouble numbers. Feel free to check the math.

Maybe an array of numbers with each number refering to an index in the array? Anyway, my brain is tired.

[ August 05, 2004, 08:00: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[dogscoff]

Yeah, Elite was and is cool, and yes, it (and its various sequels) made it to the PC in many incarnations.

you can even play it in your browser : http://www.bootlace.co.uk/index.php?...es&type=jelite and I believe there are also ports to various hand-held devices available.

The great shame of Elite was that its creators- Bell and Braben - fell out bitterly over "artistic *cough*financial*cough* differences" and went their seperate ways, and as a result none of the sequels so far have ever really matched up to the original in terms of gameplay: Frontier always felt incomplete , to me, and although I haven't played the others, I've heard similar stories.

However, there are more sequels in the pipeline- two of them, I believe- one from Braben and one from Bell.


Click this link: http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/zat/frontier.htm for a doorway into the Elite community.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

BootLace isn't working for me. Not getting anything.

[dogscoff]

BootLace isn't working for me. Not getting anything.

Hm. Works fine for me. You got java enabled? What browser you using?