Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

If you don’t know his name, you know his work. David Braben and Ian Bell co-wrote Elite, a classic space sim/space trading game which pioneered, among other things, the concept of infinite gameplay. The universe in the game was generated using an algorithm, which meant you could theoretically play the game for a very long time without it having much of a digital footprint as a piece of software.

Who better to lead the team of Frontier Developments, the group that’s pulling together the impressive LostWinds to appear on Nintendo’s WiiWare download service this year? Check out this video where Braben discusses just how the game is played, and try to use your mind power to ask him if Elite’s NES port, which Bell has said is “the best way to re-experience the feel of 8 bit Elite,” will ever come to Virtual Console. Go on, that’s what I’m doing.