Frontier Developments

Frontier Developments

Type	Private Limited Company
Industry	Video game
Founded	January 1994
Founder(s)	David Braben
Headquarters	Cambridge, UK
Products	Kinectimals LostWinds Series Thrillville Series RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Frontier: Elite II & Frontier: First Encounters Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo & Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Darxide Dog's Life
Employees	~210
Website	Frontier Official Site

Frontier Developments is a video game developer based in Cambridge, England. It is a private limited company and was incorporated in January 1994. The company is still headed by David Braben, in the position of chairman.

Frontier Developments' first game First Encounters was released in 1995 by publisher Gametek and despite excellent press reviews, contained many bugs, which led to poor sales. Gametek subsequently initiated legal action against Frontier Developments, which was settled in 1999. Frontier Developments has been working on a new Elite sequel, under the working title Elite 4, since 1998.

Frontier Developments has made many other games, including Dog's Life, Thrillville, and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. The company also made games for the Wallace and Gromit franchise, and has released Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo, and a tie-in game for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. In 2008, Frontier released LostWinds, a launch title for Nintendo's WiiWare platform. It received critical acclaim, scoring 81% on Metacritic. It was followed up with a sequel in 2009, entitled LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, which scored 86% on Metacritic. In 2010, Frontier developed Kinectimals for Microsoft's Kinect controller on the Xbox 360. In 2011 Kinect Disneyland Adventures and Kinectimals: Now With Bears were developed, along with ports of LostWinds for iOS and Kinectimals for iOS and Windows Phone.

Games developed

• Frontier: First Encounters (1995)
• Darxide (1995)
• V2000 (1998)
• Infestation (2000)
• Darxide EMP (2003)
• Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo (2003)
• RollerCoaster Tycoon (Xbox port) (2003)
• Wacky Worlds and Time Twister expansions to RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (2003)
• Dog's Life (2003)
• RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (2004)
  • Soaked! and Wild! expansions (2005)
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
• Thrillville (2006)
• Thrillville: Off the Rails (2007)
• LostWinds (2008)
• LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias (2009)
• Kinectimals (2010)
  • Kinectimals: Now With Bears (2011)
• The Outsider (unfinished)
• Kinect Disneyland Adventures (2011)
• Coaster Crazy (2012)
• Elite: Dangerous (previously called Elite 4) (2014)

External links

• Official website
• YouTube channel
• Company profile from MobyGames