David Braben
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David Braben is the co-author of classic Elite, along with Ian Bell, and the author of Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters. He is currently the head of the Cambridge company he founded, Frontier Developments, which has developed Elite Dangerous.
Trivia
David Braben got his nickname "The Breadbin" in the Elite community thanks to a publicity photograph of himself in his kitchen, in which the breadbin particularly stood out. (The original alt.fan.elite Usenet article that originated the "Breadbin" nickname was started by Rob Pfeifer on June 12th 1999 [1] )
Links
- Wikipedia article
- There is a 1995 interview with him at the bottom of the page here
