{"id":1319,"date":"2012-11-10T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2012-11-10T19:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:47:15","slug":"elite-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Elite: Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-full1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo full\" title=\"photo-full.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is superb news. The wonderful old BBC Micro game &#8216;Elite&#8217; is hopefully making a comeback. Elite was the first game which allowed the player to make their own decisions what to do, it wasn&#8217;t all laid out. There were missions, like modern games, but they could be ignored and a player could make their way as a trader, pirate or general layabout! Incredibly, the procedural method of writing created a massive universe but held in 22K &#8211; less than most modern emails!<\/p>\n<p>After a few incarnations, which included my favourite, ArcElite for RISCOS, David Braben is out on Kickstarter to create the ultimate Elite, called Elite: Dangerous. This will use the power of modern PCs and the internet (for multi-player and teams) to create a terrific game. Kickstarter is new to the UK, and is for people to pledge money to get a project off the ground. Different levels of pledging gives special privileges linked to the project once it&#8217;s up and running. Once the full amount is raised, the project gets underway with the funds, and not funds are taken until the total amount is raised.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep a widget on my blog keeping track of the total, and this is a video David Braben created explaining more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fce994007179ff0945da3f9c9833aa4e_large.jpg\" alt=\"Fce994007179ff0945da3f9c9833aa4e large\" title=\"fce994007179ff0945da3f9c9833aa4e_large.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAn idea of what the next Elite will look like.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/e6eaf332de1408d2508d2ab6543c27cd_large.jpg\" alt=\"E6eaf332de1408d2508d2ab6543c27cd large\" title=\"e6eaf332de1408d2508d2ab6543c27cd_large.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe original classic BBC Micro version from 1984.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1461411552\/elite-dangerous\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is superb news. The wonderful old BBC Micro game &#8216;Elite&#8217; is hopefully making a comeback. Elite was the first game which allowed the player to make their own decisions what to do, it wasn&#8217;t all laid out. There were missions, like modern games, but they could be ignored and a player could make their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}