developments ltd. 1994 2013 type public traded as lse fdev industry video game industry founded 28 january 1994 ; 22 years ago 1994 01 28 founder david braben headquarters cambridge england number of locations 2 studios 2016 area served worldwide key people david braben ceo david walsh coo jonny watts cco neil armstrong company secretary products lostwinds rollercoaster tycoon elite planet coaster revenue gb 21.4 million 1 2016 operating income gb 16.3 million 1 2016 net income gb 1.3 million 1 2016 total assets gb 28.4 million 1 2016 total equity gb 22.8 million 1 2016 number of employees 300 2016 website frontier.co.uk frontier developments plc formerly frontier developments ltd. is a british video game developer based in cambridge england founded in january 1994 . the company is headed by david braben as chief executive officer . it has produced several games in the elite series including 2014 s elite dangerous . a second studio frontier developments inc. was opened in halifax nova scotia canada in august 2012 headed by david walsh as its president and closed again in january 2015 . in 2013 the company reincorporated as a public limited company to enter the stock market . contents 1 history 2 games developed 3 references 4 external links history edit frontier developments first game was the 1993 amiga cd32 port of the largely successful frontier elite ii followed by frontier first encounters second sequel to the seminal 1984 game elite by acornsoft . the company 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 . frontier developments had been planning a new elite sequel under the working title elite 4 since 1998 . the company completed a successful kickstarter campaign at the end of 2012 where the new sequel s name elite dangerous was revealed . early access versions of the game have been playable by backers since december 2013 . the full game was released to pc on 16 december 2014 . 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 & 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 . in 2012 frontier released coaster crazy and started to work on elite dangerous kickstarter which successfully closed at the very start of 2013 . in 2013 frontier released xbox one xbox 360 exclusive zoo tycoon published by microsoft studios and launched backers alpha for elite dangerous in december . in 2015 the company released screamride a theme park construction and management simulation game for the xbox 360 and xbox one . the company is currently developing planet coaster a construction and management simulation video game similar to the rollercoaster tycoon franchise . the game is set to be the second major self published franchises from frontier along with the elite series . frontier announced that they will begin self publishing all their future games starting with planet coaster . 2 games developed edit year title publisher s platform s 1995 frontier first encounters gametek ms dos microsoft windows classic mac os linux 1995 darxide sega enterprises sega 32x 1998 v2000 grolier interactive microsoft windows playstation 2000 infestation ubi soft microsoft windows 2003 darxide emp frontier developments pocket pc 2003 wallace & gromit in project zoo bam entertainment microsoft windows xbox playstation 2 gamecube 2003 dog s life sony computer entertainment playstation 2 2003 rollercoaster tycoon 2 wacky worlds infogrames microsoft windows 2003 rollercoaster tycoon 2 time twister atari inc. microsoft windows 2004 rollercoaster tycoon 3 atari inc. microsoft windows os x ios 2005 rollercoaster tycoon 3 soaked atari inc. microsoft windows os x 2005 rollercoaster tycoon 3 wild atari inc. microsoft windows os x 2005 wallace & gromit the curse of the were rabbit konami playstation 2 xbox 2006 thrillville lucasarts playstation 2 xbox playstation portable 2007 thrillville off the rails lucasarts playstation 2 xbox 360 playstation portable nintendo ds wii microsoft windows 2008 lostwinds frontier developments ios wii microsoft windows 2009 lostwinds 2 winter of the melodias frontier developments ios wii microsoft windows 2010 kinectimals microsoft game studios xbox 360 windows phone ios android 2011 kinectimals now with bears microsoft studios xbox 360 windows phone ios android 2011 kinect disneyland adventures microsoft studios xbox 360 2012 coaster crazy frontier developments ios 2013 zoo tycoon microsoft studios xbox 360 xbox one 2013 coaster crazy deluxe frontier developments wii u ios 2014 tales from deep space amazon game studios fire os ios 2014 elite dangerous frontier developments microsoft windows os x playstation 4 xbox one 2015 screamride microsoft studios xbox 360 xbox one 2015 elite dangerous horizons frontier developments microsoft windows xbox one 2016 elite dangerous arena frontier developments microsoft windows xbox one 2016 planet coaster frontier developments microsoft windows references edit a b c d e 2016 full year results . frontier developments . 8 september 2016 . retrieved 24 september 2016 . jarvis matthew 31 march 2016 . frontier cements total independence with self published planet coaster . develop . newbay media . retrieved 24 september 2016 . external links edit official website v t e elite series main series elite frontier elite ii frontier first encounters elite dangerous developers david braben ian bell frontier developments v t e rollercoaster tycoon series main series rollercoaster tycoon 2 3 world handheld 3d 4 mobile related games planet coaster screamride thrillville companies atari inc. chris sawyer productions frontier developments n space retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title frontier developments & oldid 743606205 categories companies based in cambridgevideo game companies of the united kingdomvideo game development companieshidden categories use dmy dates from september 2016official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate 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