David Braben

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Braben
Occupation	Founder
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1964(1964-01-02)
Age	60
Birthplace	West Bridgford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

David Braben Biography

David Braben is one of the most popular and richest Founder who was born on January 2, 1964 in West Bridgford, England, United Kingdom. David John Braben OBE (born 2 January 1964) is a British game designer, developer, and co-founder and chief executive officer of Frontier Developments plc, co-creator of the Elite series, a series of space trading computer games that were first released in 1984. He is also co-founder and serves as a trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation which in 2012 introduced a computer with a low cost to support education.

Braben was a student at Buckhurst Hill County High School in Chigwell in Essex. He completed his studies in natural Sciences in Jesus College, Cambridge, which was a specialist in Electrical Science in his final year. In May 1993, he was married to Katharin Dickinson at Cambridge. His wife is currently Wendy Irvin-Braben. He has two sons.

In 2006, Braben was working on an ambitious next-generation game called The Outsider, being developed by Frontier Developments. As said in an interview, he was planning to start working on Elite 4 – as a space MMORPG game – as soon as The Outsider went gold. Braben said explicitly that this title was of a special value to him. The Outsider was abandoned due to removal of publisher support and was never published.

In 2008, Braben was an investor and non-executive director of Phonetic Arts, a speech generation company led by Paul Taylor. Phonetic Arts was acquired by Google in 2010, for an undisclosed sum.

Following Zarch’s success, Braben went on to create his sequel Elite, Frontier, published in 1993. In 1993, he created Frontier Developments, a games development company. The first game was a port of Frontier for the Amiga CD32. Braben remains the CEO and the majority shareholders of the business which’s projects include Dog’s Life, Kinectimals, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, LostWinds, Planet Coaster, Elite: Dangerous, Jurassic World Evolution, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Zoo Tycoon, Coaster Crazy and games inspired by the Wallace Gromit and Wallace Gromit franchise.

David Braben Net Worth

David Braben is one of the richest Founder from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Braben 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Braben is regarded as “one of the most influential computer game programmers of all time” due to his early game development work with his Elite game series during the 1990s and 1980s. Next Generation listed him in their “75 Most Important People in the Games Industry of 1995” mostly because of the original Elite.

Elite was developed by with programmers Ian Bell while both were students in the undergraduate program in Cambridge University. Elite first came out in September 1984. It is considered to be the first game that had 3D hidden lines. The game was released in 1987. Braben released Zarch on an Acorn Archimedes, ported in 1989 as Virus for the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC.

On 5 September 2005, Braben received the Development Legend Award at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards in Cambridge.

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Who is David Braben Dating?

According to our records, David Braben married to Katharin Dickinson. As of December 1, 2023, David Braben’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2013, Braben was co-award winner of Tech Personality of the Year at the UK Tech Awards 2013. In the same year he was awarded an honorary degree by Abertay University.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Founder. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. David Braben celebrates birthday on January 2 of every year.

Braben is the recipient of three honorary doctorates from Abertay University (2013), The Open University (2014) and the University of York (15 July 2015).

What was the first Elite game?

Elite
Release| 20 September 1984
Genre(s)| Space trading and combat simulator
Mode(s)| Single player

Is Elite Dangerous a sequel to Elite?

Elite Dangerous
Series| Elite
Engine| Cobra
Platform(s)| Microsoft Windows Xbox One PlayStation 4

Can you still play the original Elite?

Sure, it might be missing 35 years of refinements and an entire spectrum of colour, but Elite’s 1980s roots still run through its modern counterpart. You can download the old game for free on the Frontier Store. Blast pirates!

How many people work in frontier games?

Based in Cambridge with a growing team of over 560 talented people, Frontier uses its proprietary COBRA game development technology to create innovative genre-leading games, primarily for personal computers and videogame consoles.

What year is Elite 1984 set?

The Original Elite, 1984 – 1992 It’s hard, at this stage, to return to the pre-Elite days of computer gaming in the early 80s.