Frontier: First Encounters

Frontier: First Encounters is a space trading and combat simulator video game developed by Frontier Developments and published by GameTek in 1995 for DOS. The player pilots a spaceship through a universe pursuing trading, combat and other missions.

Frontier: First Encounters
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Developer(s)Frontier Developments
Publisher(s)GameTek
Director(s)David Braben
Writer(s)David Braben
Manda Scott
Composer(s)David Lowe
Platform(s)DOS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Release
Genre(s)Space trading and combat simulator
Mode(s)Single-player

First Encounters was the first game to use procedural texturing to generate the vegetation, snow and other features on the planet surfaces. Mountain ranges, cliffs and alien landscapes and visual effects all contributed to the atmosphere of the game.

The third game in the Elite series, it is the direct sequel to Frontier: Elite II, and was followed by Elite Dangerous in 2014.

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