David John Braben OBE FREng (born 2 January 1964) is an English video game developer and designer, founder and President of Frontier Developments, and co-creator of the Elite series of space trading video games, first published in 1984.

[5] In 2008, Braben was an investor and non-executive director[6] of Phonetic Arts, a speech generation company led by Paul Taylor.

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[10] Next Generation listed him in their "75 Most Important People in the Games Industry of 1995", chiefly due to the original Elite.

In 1987, Braben published Zarch for the Acorn Archimedes, ported in 1988 as Virus for the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and PC.

Braben is still the CEO and majority shareholder of the company, whose projects since 2000 have included Dog's Life, Kinectimals, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, LostWinds, Planet Coaster, Elite: Dangerous, Jurassic World Evolution, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Zoo Tycoon, Coaster Crazy, and games based on the Wallace & Gromit franchise.

As said in an interview,[14] he was planning to start working on Elite 4 – as a space MMORPG game – as soon as The Outsider went gold.

[27] Braben was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to the UK computer and video games industry.