Frontier Developments
| Type | Private Limited Company |
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| 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 |
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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 was released in 1993 to critical and commercial success, and a sequel, First Encounters, followed in 1995. However, the game's publisher, GameTek, released an unfinished version of the game that contained many bugs, which led to poor reviews and sales. Frontier Developments subsequently initiated legal action against GameTek, which was settled in 1999. The company has been working on a new Elite sequel, under the working title Elite 4, since 1998.
Aside from the Elite series, 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.
[edit] Games developed
- Frontier: Elite II
- Frontier: First Encounters
- Darxide
- V2000
- Infestation
- Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo
- Darxide EMP
- RollerCoaster Tycoon (Xbox port)
- Wacky Worlds and Time Twister expansions to RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
- Dog's Life
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Thrillville
- Thrillville: Off the Rails
- LostWinds (WiiWare game)
- LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias (WiiWare game)
- Kinectimals
- The Outsider
- Elite 4 (upcoming game)
- Kinect Disneyland Adventures
- Unannounced roller coaster simulation game
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