Frontier Developments is a British video game developer founded by David Braben in January 1994 and based at the Cambridge Science Park in Cambridge, England.
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21 Facts About Frontier Developments
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Frontier Developments is known for developing amusement park management simulators within multiple franchises owned by other companies which led to the development of the in-house titles Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo, and has produced several games in David Braben's Elite series, including Elite Dangerous.
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Frontier Developments takes its name from the earliest titles in the Elite series with which it was involved, a port of Frontier: Elite II and development of Frontier: First Encounters.
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Frontier Developments describes the original Elite as a "Game by Frontier", in its back catalogue during the company's 2013 sale of shares to the public, with David Braben owning all rights to the game assigned to the company in 2008.
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Between 2005 and 2011, Frontier Developments developed The Outsider, an action-adventure game set in Washington DC that Braben said would advance video game storytelling.
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Frontier Developments had been planning a new Elite sequel, under the working title Elite 4, since 1998.
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Frontier Developments completed a successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of 2012, where the new sequel's name Elite: Dangerous was revealed.
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Frontier Developments has made many other games, including Dog's Life, Thrillville, and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3.
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In 2008, Frontier Developments released LostWinds, a launch title for Nintendo's WiiWare platform.
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In 2012, Frontier Developments released Coaster Crazy, and started to work on Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter, which successfully closed at the start of 2013.
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In 2013, Frontier Developments released Xbox One and Xbox 360 exclusive Zoo Tycoon, published by Microsoft Studios, and launched backers alpha for Elite: Dangerous in December.
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Frontier Developments has recently released Planet Coaster, a construction and management simulation video game similar to the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise.
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Frontier Developments announced that they will begin self-publishing all their future games, starting with Planet Coaster.
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On 6 February 2017 Frontier Developments announced that they had acquired licensing rights from Universal Pictures to be used in their third self-published title, an "enduring movie franchise of global renown".
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On 10 June 2021, Frontier Developments announced Jurassic World Evolution 2 a sequel to their 2018 park builder game would be releasing in late 2021.
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On 10 Mar 2022, Frontier Developments announced they were cancelling all development of their latest version of Elite Dangerous, Odyssey, on consoles.
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On 10 August 2022, Frontier Developments announced David Braben was to step down from the position of CEO and take on a newly established executive role of President and Founder.
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In June 2019, Frontier Developments announced that it would begin publishing games from third-party developers under a new label named Frontier Developments Publishing.
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At Gamescom 2020, Frontier Developments announced that their publishing label would be renamed to "Frontier Developments Foundry", and that it would publish Struggling from Chasing Rats in 2020, and Lemnis Gate from Ratloop Games in 2021.
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On 13 June 2021, Frontier Developments announced Lemnis Gate would be released on 3 August 2021 with an open beta being scheduled for July 2021.
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