Comment by maxshm
2 years ago
What shocked me when I saw Elite for the first time, is the huge number of star systems with their own names, population size and descriptions. I knew there was no way such volume of data in the tiny executable file.
2 years ago
What shocked me when I saw Elite for the first time, is the huge number of star systems with their own names, population size and descriptions. I knew there was no way such volume of data in the tiny executable file.
If you look at the version in C that Ian C Bell did for the trading engine, you can see how all that was procedurally generated. It is fascinating.